Privacy Policy — Gist Organizer

Last updated: April 11, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how the Gist Organizer Chrome extension ("the Extension") handles information. The Extension is published on the Chrome Web Store under the item ID pnajobjidclpmiicfdalepdmjnpjbdpa.

Summary The Gist Organizer extension does not collect, store, transmit, sell, or share any personal or sensitive user data. It runs entirely in your browser and only interacts with pages on https://gist.github.com/ that you visit yourself.

What the Extension does

Gist Organizer is a purely client-side user-interface enhancement for GitHub Gist. When you load a page on https://gist.github.com/{user}, the Extension:

Restyles the page to display your gists as project tiles and a file-tree based explorer.
Loads a syntax-highlighted code editor (CodeMirror) bundled inside the extension package — no remote scripts are fetched.
Requests gist content from the same gist.github.com origin that you are already viewing, using your existing GitHub session, in order to display and edit files. These requests are first-party requests to GitHub and are subject to GitHub's own Privacy Statement.

The Extension does not inject, load, or communicate with any third-party server, analytics provider, advertising network, or tracking service.

Data collection

The Extension does not collect any of the following categories of data defined by the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy:

Personally identifiable information (name, email, address, phone, ID numbers, etc.)
Health or financial information
Authentication information (passwords, credentials, security tokens)
Personal communications (emails, texts, chat messages)
Location data
Web history or browsing activity
User activity (clicks, mouse position, keystrokes)
Website content other than the gist data that the Extension displays locally in your browser for the sole purpose of rendering the UI

No data of any kind is sent to the developer or to any third party.

Permissions

The Extension declares the minimum permissions needed to function:

host_permissions: ["https://gist.github.com/*"] — required so that the content script can run on GitHub Gist pages and request gist content from the same origin to render the file explorer and editor.

It does not request storage, tabs, cookies, webRequest, identity, <all_urls>, or any other permission.

Local storage

The Extension does not use chrome.storage, localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB, or cookies to persist user data. All state exists only in the memory of the current page and is discarded when the tab is closed.

Remote code

The Extension does not load or execute any remote code. All JavaScript and CSS — including CodeMirror — is bundled inside the extension package that you install from the Chrome Web Store.

Children's privacy

The Extension is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect any information from them (and in fact does not collect information from anyone).

Changes to this policy

If this policy is updated, the new version will be published to this same page and the "Last updated" date above will be revised. Continued use of the Extension after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Extension's data practices, please contact:

Matthew Lynam — mnlynam@gmail.com

You may also open an issue at github.com/mnlynam/gist-organizer-extension/issues.