TabHue · Color Your Tabs, Not Just the Icon

Privacy Policy

Last updated August 17, 2026

TabHue is built to need as little of your data as possible. This page explains exactly what the extension reads, what it never touches, and where your settings live.

What TabHue reads

TabHue uses three browser permissions to do its job, and nothing else:

Permission What it's for
tabs Read each open tab's URL — only to figure out its domain, for optional Pro features like auto-coloring by domain and detecting duplicate-site tabs. The page content itself is never read.
tabGroups Chrome's own native tab-grouping feature — this is the actual mechanism TabHue uses to color a tab and give it a label, using Chrome's built-in UI rather than injecting anything into the page.
storage Save your settings — domain rules, the duplicate-auto-color toggle, license status — locally on your device (and via Chrome Sync for Pro users, for rules that follow you across devices).

What TabHue never does

  • Never injects any script into the pages you visit — no content_scripts, no host_permissions
  • Never reads the content of any page — only a tab's URL, and only to extract its domain
  • Never requests access to your browsing history
  • Never sends your tab URLs or browsing activity to any server
  • Never changes your homepage, new tab page, or search engine
  • No analytics, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts

Coloring a tab happens entirely on your device, using Chrome's own tab-group storage. Nothing about your open tabs is ever transmitted anywhere.

Where your settings live

Your preferences — domain color rules, the duplicate-auto-color toggle, license status — are stored with Chrome's built-in chrome.storage.local API. If you're a TabHue Pro user, your domain rules are additionally stored in chrome.storage.sync, which Chrome syncs across your own signed-in devices. That data stays inside your Google account's own sync infrastructure — TabHue has no server, and never sees it.

TabHue Pro & license validation

Purchases are handled entirely by Dodo Payments, our payment processor — TabHue never sees your payment details. After purchase, activating a license sends only the license key you enter to Dodo's validation API, to confirm it's active. No tab data, browsing activity, or other personal information is included in that request.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a meaningful way, the "last updated" date above will change accordingly. Continued use of TabHue after an update means you accept the revised policy.