Tab Overload Relief

Last updated: April 24, 2026

Tab Overload Relief is a Chrome extension designed to help users manage browser tabs by sleeping inactive tabs, protecting selected sites, and saving local settings. This privacy policy explains what the extension does with your information.

Summary

Tab Overload Relief does not sell your data, does not send your browsing data to external servers, and does not use personal information for advertising. Extension data stays in your browser storage on your device.

What Data the Extension Uses

The extension may access or store the following information locally in your browser:

• Open tab information needed to identify, sort, search, activate, and sleep tabs
• Extension settings such as sleep timers and site rules
• Protected site lists and custom per-site sleep timers
• Saved sessions and task items created by you
• Local usage counters used for in-extension statistics

How Data Is Used

This data is used only to provide the extension's core features, including:

• Automatically sleeping inactive tabs
• Keeping selected sites awake
• Searching, sorting, and cleaning up open tabs
• Saving sessions and task items for later use
• Showing local status and activity information inside the extension

Data Sharing

Tab Overload Relief does not transmit personal data or browsing history to the developer or to third-party servers as part of its core functionality.

Data Sale and Advertising

Tab Overload Relief does not sell user data and does not use user data for targeted advertising, credit decisions, or lending purposes.

Storage

Data created by the extension is stored locally using Chrome extension storage on your device unless Chrome itself provides storage syncing under your browser account settings.

Permissions

• tabs: used to inspect, activate, sort, search, and sleep tabs
• storage: used to save settings, site rules, sessions, and tasks
• contextMenus: used to provide right-click actions
• alarms: used to run the inactivity timer
• scripting: used to show sleep status in tab titles when needed
• <all_urls>: used so extension status indicators can run on normal web pages

Your Choices

You can stop all extension activity at any time by:

• Removing the extension from Chrome
• Clearing the extension's stored data from your browser
• Adjusting or deleting saved sessions, tasks, and site rules inside the extension

Children

Tab Overload Relief is not directed to children and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to This Policy

This policy may be updated from time to time. If the privacy practices for the extension materially change, this page should be updated before those changes are published.

Contact

For privacy questions about Tab Overload Relief, contact: rsi_bs@yahoo.com