Safarian

Privacy Policy

Safarian replaces Chrome's new tab page with a local dashboard for bookmarks, session recovery, history recall, and ongoing journeys.

Last updated: August 16, 2026

Data Used

Safarian uses Chrome extension APIs to read:

When you explicitly use Recall, Safarian provides a limited set of page titles, site domains, URL paths, and visit times from local Chrome history to Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano model. The model runs on your device. Recall can return only references to real history entries and does not create or store new URLs.

By default, when Chrome's on-device model is already available, Smart Recent Tabs automatically provides titles, domains, close times, and limited window-tab titles from up to 18 eligible recoverable web sessions to that model when a new tab opens. Safarian never starts a model download for this automatic action. Gemini returns only references to those real sessions. Fingerprinted group labels and a baseline of eligible session identifiers are cached locally so unchanged sessions are not repeatedly processed and warm-session updates can evaluate only new tabs. You can return to chronological order at any time.

By default, when the on-device model is already available, Continue examines activity from the last 30 days that occurred across multiple days, excluding exact Favorite and Recently Closed URLs. Safarian provides eligible page titles, domains, URL paths, visit counts, active-day counts, and recency to the local model. Gemini can only group references to those real pages. Fingerprinted journey labels, page URLs, and a local baseline of eligible URL activity counts are cached so warm-session updates can evaluate only new or changed activity. Small local attempt records apply cooldowns after empty results, unavailable-model states, or failures so unchanged activity is not repeatedly processed. If there is no strong multi-page journey, the section explains that it is waiting for a stronger signal.

You may explicitly opt in to Gemini Flash for Smart Recent Tabs and Continue by supplying your own Gemini API key and accepting an in-product disclosure. In that mode, the same eligible metadata described above is sent directly by your browser to Google's Gemini API for grouping. Each feature makes at most one automatic full Flash review per Chrome session, subject to a persistent 30-minute minimum interval that prevents rapid extension reloads from creating repeated reviews. Safarian records that non-sensitive refresh claim in Chrome's in-memory session storage, preserves an immutable local snapshot of the full-review groups, compares later activity with the cached baseline, and asks Gemini Nano to patch only new or changed items when Nano is already available. Nano patches are merged into that snapshot so omitted groups are preserved. Warm-session changes do not automatically trigger another cloud request. A deliberate Refresh AI action can request a new full review for either feature. Safarian requests that Google not store each interaction. If a cloud request fails, Safarian falls back to Gemini Nano when it is available. Cloud and on-device results use provider-aware local caches; a fallback result is cached for one hour to avoid repeated failed cloud requests.

Your Gemini API key is stored in Chrome's device-local extension storage so Safarian can continue using it after the extension or browser restarts. Safarian restricts that storage area to trusted extension contexts and never syncs the key. When you enable Flash, Chrome requests optional host access limited to generativelanguage.googleapis.com; selecting Forget key removes that access. Passwordless local storage is a convenience, not an OS-backed secret vault: someone who controls your device or Chrome profile may be able to access it. The key remains until you select Forget key, remove Safarian, or clear its extension data. It is sent only to Google's Gemini API for authentication.

Data Sharing

Safarian does not collect, sell, transmit, or share your bookmarks, browsing history, recently closed tabs, or settings with the developer or any analytics service.

Recall always remains local: it does not send browsing or session data to a cloud AI provider. Smart Recent Tabs and Continue also remain local unless you explicitly enable Gemini Flash with your own key. Chrome may download and manage the Gemini Nano model, but Nano inference runs locally after that download.

When you enable Gemini Flash, the eligible browsing metadata described above is shared directly with Google and is subject to the Gemini API terms and Google's privacy practices. It is not sent to Safarian's developer. You can stop this sharing at any time by selecting On-device or Forget key in Customize.

To display site icons, Safarian may load icons directly from the site's common icon files, such as apple-touch-icon.png, PWA icon files, SVG favicons, or favicon.ico. If direct site icons are unavailable or too small, Safarian may request an icon by domain from geticon.dev, Google favicon URLs, DuckDuckGo favicon URLs, or Chrome's built-in favicon endpoint. Those image requests are made directly by your browser to the icon host and can disclose the site domain needed to fetch the icon.

Background images are loaded only when you choose a remote image URL or request a random image. In those cases, your browser requests that image directly from the image host you selected.

Limited Use

Safarian's use of information received from Chrome APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Contact

For privacy questions, contact the publisher listed on the Chrome Web Store listing.

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