EcoLens

Privacy Policy

Effective September 15, 2026

In plain terms

EcoLens scans one page at a time — the tab you have open when you click the icon. It doesn't watch your browsing.
Your scan history and settings are saved only in your browser, on your device. I never receive them.
The only thing that leaves your device is the domain you're scanning, sent to the Green Web Foundation to check its hosting — nothing else, to no one else.
No accounts, no ads, no analytics, nothing sold. Ever.

1 What EcoLens is

EcoLens is a browser extension that estimates the carbon footprint of the web page you're viewing — its data weight, likely CO₂ emissions, and whether it's served by a renewable-powered host. This policy describes what the extension does with data as a result.

2 What EcoLens looks at, and where it goes

The table below covers every category of information EcoLens touches. "Stored locally" means it is written to your browser's own extension storage and never reaches me or any server I control.

Data	Collected when	Where it goes
Current tab's URL & domain	You open the popup	Stored locally
Page weight (bytes transferred, resource count)	You open the popup, or enable Accurate Mode	Stored locally
Domain being scanned	Every scan	Sent to the Green Web Foundation's public API, to check hosting
Scan history & settings	Ongoing, as you use it	Stored locally
Name, email, location, payment info	Never	Not collected

EcoLens has no backend server of its own. There is nothing for a request to reach except the one third-party API above.

3 The one outside request it makes

To show whether a site runs on renewable energy, EcoLens sends the domain you're scanning — for example example.com, never the full URL or page content — to the Green Web Foundation's Green Web Check API. This happens once per scan, only for sites you actively check. I don't control that service's own data handling; see their site for details.

4 Accurate Mode

Accurate Mode is an optional, off-by-default setting. If you turn it on, EcoLens reloads the page you're scanning and reads real network response sizes for that one page load, to measure data weight more precisely than the browser's built-in Performance API alone. This still runs only for a page you deliberately scan — it does not run in the background, and the measurements are used the same way as in section 2: stored locally, nothing transmitted beyond the Green Web Foundation check.

5 What it doesn't do

It doesn't sell, rent, or share your data with advertisers or data brokers.
It doesn't build a browsing profile, track you across sites, or run analytics inside the extension.
It doesn't use any data to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes.
It doesn't execute code fetched from a remote server — everything EcoLens runs ships inside the extension package itself.

6 Your controls

Open EcoLens's settings page to clear your scan history, clear cached results, or revoke the Accurate Mode permission at any time. Uninstalling the extension removes all locally stored data with it, since it was never stored anywhere else.

7 Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, I'll update the effective date above. Continued use of EcoLens after a change means you accept the revised policy.

8 Contact

Questions about this policy or how EcoLens handles data can be sent to varunrichpeace@gmail.com.