The extension talks to Pellet, on your computer. Nothing else unless you set it up.
Effective 8 October 2026 · Pellet - Web Clipper 2.0.0 (called “Pellet - Browser Extension” before 2.0)
Pellet - Web Clipper, the Pellet browser extension, clips web pages into notes and creates tasks in the Pellet desktop app, which runs on your own computer. This page says exactly what the extension reads, why, and where it goes. For the Pellet app itself, see the main privacy page.
The short version
The extension has no servers of its own. It sends what you save to your own Pellet app, over your computer's local address (127.0.0.1). The one exception is the optional Interpreter, off by default: if you add an AI provider with your own key and run a template's prompts, the page content the template names goes to that provider. Nothing is collected by us, sold, or shared. There is no analytics, tracking or advertising in it.
What it reads, and when
Only in response to something you do: opening the clipper (popup, side panel or the panel in the page), a right-click item or shortcut, turning on the highlighter or reader view, or clicking the Pellet button in an open email.
- The page you are on, when you open the clipper: its title and address, the details in its markup (author, date, description, image, structured data), the text you selected, and its main content, turned into Markdown on your computer to fill in your template. Reader view reads the same page to show it as a clean article.
- YouTube transcripts, on a YouTube video, when you open reader view or a template uses the transcript: read from YouTube's own transcript on that page.
- Highlights you make with the highlighter, kept so they show again on that page and can go into a clip.
- The captured page's images, only if you turn on Save images into the vault (off by default). Each image is downloaded from the server that hosts it, the same request the page makes to show it, and saved into your vault.
- An open email's subject and sender (Gmail only), when you click the extension's Pellet button in that email, so it becomes a task with a link back to the message.
- Your extension settings: the port of your Pellet app, an optional API token, your templates and property types, reader and highlighter choices, task defaults, and — only if you add them — AI provider names, addresses and API keys. A clip history (date, page address and title, where the note was saved) feeds the Activity chart in the settings.
It does not read your inbox, your browsing history, what you type, your passwords, or any page you have not acted on.
Where it goes
- Tasks and notes go only to your own Pellet app through its local API, at 127.0.0.1 or localhost on a port you choose. That request never leaves your computer.
- Settings, templates, highlights and the clip history are kept in your browser's local extension storage on your device. They leave it only if you export them to a file, and “Export all settings” leaves your Pellet API token out.
- Interpreter (optional, off by default). When you run a template's prompts, the extension sends one request to the AI provider you set up (for example Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter, or a local Ollama), with your own API key. It holds the prompts and the “context” your template or settings name — by default a cleaned copy of the page. That provider's own terms apply. Nothing goes to an AI provider unless you added one and run a prompt (or turned on auto-run for templates with prompts).
- Apart from Pellet and the Interpreter, the extension's requests are: image downloads for a page you clip, only with image saving on; the page itself when you open it in the extension's own reader page (used when reader view can't run inside a page), fetched with your cookies for that site and shown only to you; and, on YouTube, YouTube's own transcript data for that video. Nothing about you is sent with them beyond what your browser sends when it shows those pages.
- The libraries it bundles to turn pages into Markdown — Mozilla Readability, Turndown and its GFM plugin — run on your computer and send nothing anywhere. No code is loaded from the internet.
Sharing and sale
None. We do not receive, collect, store, sell or share any data from the extension. Apart from Interpreter requests you send to an AI provider of your own choosing, everything it handles stays between your browser and the Pellet app on your computer.
Keeping and deleting
Tasks and notes the extension creates are ordinary files in your Pellet vault; you control them and can delete them at any time. The extension's settings, templates, highlights and clip history stay in your browser until you change or delete them (highlights can be deleted on the highlights page) or remove the extension, which deletes them all.
Permissions
| Permission | What it is used for |
|---|---|
| storage | Save your settings, templates, highlights and clip history on your own device. |
| activeTab | Read the page you are on when you open the clipper or use a right-click item or shortcut. |
| scripting | Read the page's content, details and selection for a clip, run your template's selectors on it, and show the highlighter and reader view where you turn them on. |
| contextMenus | Add the right-click items: save the page, copy it, reader view, highlighter, add to highlights, open the clipper in the page or the side panel, create a Pellet task. |
| notifications | Show a short confirmation or error after you create something from the right-click menu or Gmail. |
| sidePanel | Show the clipper in the browser's side panel when you choose that. |
| clipboardWrite | Copy a clipped note to the clipboard when you choose “Copy to clipboard”. |
| 127.0.0.1 and localhost | Talk to the Pellet app on your own computer. |
| mail.google.com | Add the ✓ Pellet button inside an email you have open. |
| All sites (optional) | Never granted by default. Asked for only when you turn on “Save images into the vault” (to download a clipped page's images), run the Interpreter (only your AI provider's address is asked for), want saved highlights drawn as a page loads, or open a page in the extension's own reader page. Declining keeps images as web links; highlights then appear when you open the clipper or highlighter. |
Chrome Web Store user data policy
The use of information received from Chrome APIs by Pellet - Web Clipper adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is published here with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: help@getpellet.app.