Privacy policy
This policy covers the Store Inspector Chrome extension and the orbifetch.com website, operated by Orbifetch (“we”). In short: the extension analyzes pages locally in your browser and does not collect your browsing history or personal data.
Store Inspector and the Shopify theme detector are now provided under our Sellscope brand. Their current policy is at sellscope.app/privacy; the sections about the extension below stay here for existing links.
What the extension does
When you click the Store Inspector icon, the extension reads the page you are on and that store’s public catalog (for example /products.json and its best-selling collection page). It shows the results to you in the popup. The analysis runs entirely on your device.
Data we collect
- Browsing data: none. We do not record, transmit or sell the pages you visit or the stores you inspect.
- License key (Pro users only): when you activate Pro, your license key is sent to our payment provider, Polar (polar.sh), to check that it is valid. This happens at most once a day.
- Purchases: checkout is handled by Polar as merchant of record. Polar processes your name, email and payment details under its own privacy policy. We receive your email and order details to provide support.
Data stored on your device
The extension uses Chrome storage to keep your license key, your daily free-plan counter and the list of stores you choose to track (with the product IDs already seen, so it can detect new ones). This data stays in your browser. It syncs through your Google account only if Chrome Sync is on, and you can delete it by removing the extension.
Permissions
- activeTab & scripting: to read the store page you are viewing, only when you click the extension.
- storage: to save the settings described above.
- alarms & notifications: to check tracked stores periodically and notify you of new products (Pro).
- Optional site access: requested only when you track a store, and only for that store’s website, so the extension can check it for new products in the background.
The website and Tech Lists
- Visit statistics without cookies: we count page views as daily totals per page, referring website, country and device type (mobile or desktop). We store no IP address, cookie or other identifier, and no advertising or third-party analytics run on the site.
Our crawler and the data in technology lists
Once a month we load the public homepage of the top websites by Majestic Million rank and read their public DNS records. From these we record the domain, page title, language, rank and the technologies detected. We don’t collect personal data: no names, email addresses or phone numbers of individuals, and no pages behind logins. Lists describe websites and the organizations that run them.
How to recognize and block it: from October 2026 our crawler identifies itself with the User-Agent OrbifetchBot/1.0 (+https://orbifetch.com/privacy/) and follows robots.txt. To opt out, add User-agent: OrbifetchBot and Disallow: / to your robots.txt.
Website owners: to have your domain removed from future lists, email support@orbifetch.com from an address at that domain. We remove it within 7 days.
Sharing
We do not sell or share personal data. The website only keeps the cookieless visit totals described above; there are no advertising or third-party trackers.
Chrome Web Store user data policy
Our use of information complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Contact
Questions or deletion requests: support@orbifetch.com.