Privacy policy

Last updated 10 November 2026

BlinkPause collects nothing. It has no servers, no account, no analytics and no camera access, and it never connects to the internet. Nothing it handles or keeps is sent to us or anyone else.

What it keeps

• Your settings are kept in your browser’s extension storage and synced by your browser’s own account sync, like any extension’s settings.
• Your numbers (blinks and breaks per day, for the last 60 days) stay on this computer, along with the timing it needs to know when the next blink and break are due.
• A few notes to itself, on this computer only: when it was installed, whether you finished the welcome, and whether it has already asked you once for a review.

Pages

With the optional “access to sites” permission, BlinkPause draws its blink on the page you’re looking at, at the moment of a blink, and nowhere else. On that page it checks only whether it is fullscreen, whether a video is playing, and when a key was last pressed (never which key). It reads no page content and keeps or sends nothing.

On video-call pages it notes only that a call is open, to stay quiet.

Browsers keep their own pages (the new tab page, settings, the extension stores and PDFs) to themselves. There, the eye blinks in BlinkPause’s own pop-up under its toolbar button, which closes again by itself. It learns nothing from the page underneath.

When you’re away

The browser tells BlinkPause when your computer is idle or locked, so it waits. It learns nothing else about what you’re doing.

Sounds and the spoken guide

The sounds are made on your computer as they play; nothing is downloaded. The spoken guide uses voices installed on your computer. The words are spoken locally and never leave it.

Notifications

Notifications are used only if you turn on “Remind me in other apps”.

The permissions it asks for

• storage: to keep your settings and numbers.
• alarms: to know when the next blink and break are due.
• idle: to wait while you’re away.
• scripting: to draw the blink on the page you’re looking at.
• contextMenus (menus in Firefox): for pause and blink now in the toolbar’s right-click menu.
• offscreen and tts (Chrome and Edge): to play its soft sounds and speak the guide with a voice on your computer.
• Optional: access to sites, to draw the blink on pages, and notifications, for “Remind me in other apps”.

What it does not do

• It does not use your camera or microphone.
• It does not read your pages, history or bookmarks.
• It does not send anything anywhere, and contains no analytics, ads or trackers.

Removing BlinkPause deletes what it stored on this computer.

Questions? Email hello@blinkpause.com, or see support.