The short version

No Vokto servers: No account, no telemetry, and no Vokto server for your data to land on.
Browser storage only: Everything stays in the browser’s own storage. Only your settings can sync, and only through Chrome Sync if you’ve turned it on.
Opt-in clipboard: Clipboard History stays off until you switch it on.

What we receive

Nothing reaches us, because there’s nothing to reach. Vokto runs no servers — no backend, no account system, no telemetry pipeline, no analytics endpoint.

So we never see what you type into the palette, the pages you search, the commands you run, or your clipboard, history, and bookmarks.

What the browser stores

Vokto stores everything through the browser’s own APIs. The one distinction worth knowing is local storage versus Chrome Sync.

Local-only storage

chrome.storage.local stays on your device — Chrome never syncs it. Vokto keeps these here:

Frecency and usage ranking: Used to make commands you use often, and emoji and symbols you pick, appear sooner.
Learned search picks: Short queries you’ve typed (up to 32 characters) and the result you picked for each, so that result comes first the next time you type the same thing. Never recorded in incognito windows or for clipboard entries, typed web addresses or web searches. “Reset Search Ranking” clears these picks along with the usage ranking.
Rating prompt counters: How many commands have run successfully and whether you’ve answered the rating row, so Vokto knows when to ask for a rating once. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Muted domains: Domains you have chosen to mute.
Per-site settings: Appearance and accessibility modes you turn on for specific sites.
Snoozed tabs: The address, title and wake time of each tab you snooze, kept until it reopens or you cancel the snooze.
Saved tab sessions: The titles and addresses of the tabs in each session you save, until you delete it. Incognito windows are never saved.
Custom tab names: Names you give tabs with Rename Tab. Removed when the tab closes.
Hint counter: How many times you’ve used a scope such as t: or h:, so the search bar can stop showing tips once you know them.
Clipboard History: Recent copied text, only if you enable Clipboard History.

One more thing lives only in memory: which tabs Pause Media paused, as Chrome’s internal tab numbers, so Resume Media knows where to play again. It sits in chrome.storage.session, which Chrome clears when you quit, and Vokto forgets a tab sooner once you resume it, close it or play it again.

Settings that can sync

chrome.storage.sync holds settings only. With Chrome Sync on, Chrome carries these through your own Google account so they follow you to another device — that’s Chrome’s sync, not a Vokto server, and we never see it.

Appearance: Your light/dark/auto mode.
Animation: Your selected palette animation style.
Privacy toggles: Whether Clipboard History is enabled.
Translate language: The language the Translate commands translate into.

Opt-in features

Clipboard History

Clipboard History is off by default. Turn it on and Vokto keeps up to 100 recent copies in chrome.storage.local. It records only copies you make yourself and skips password fields. Switching it off stops new captures; the Clear Clipboard History command deletes everything stored.

Feedback commands

Send Feedback opens a pre-filled email to hello@vokto.app in your mail app. So we can reproduce problems, the draft includes the page’s URL, the Vokto version, and your browser and operating system. Nothing sends on its own — your mail client shows the whole draft, page URL and all, and you decide what to keep before hitting send. Email usopens the same blank message without attaching the page URL.

Why permissions are requested

Vokto asks for broad permissions because it’s a command palette for the whole web — each one powers a visible command or the palette itself.

storage: Saves local data and settings through Chrome’s storage APIs.
tabs: Lets the palette find, switch, and act on open tabs, including the ones playing sound.
tabGroups: Lets the Tab Groups commands create, rename, and organize tab groups.
history: Lets you search your browsing history from the palette.
bookmarks: Lets you search saved bookmarks from the palette.
readingList: Lets you add pages to, and open pages from, Chrome’s built-in Reading List. The list stays in Chrome and syncs through your Google account — Vokto never sends it anywhere.
sessions: Lets you reopen recently closed tabs and open a tab that’s already open on another of your signed-in devices. This data comes from Chrome and is never sent anywhere by Vokto.
downloads: Lets commands you run save files to your Downloads folder, and lets you search your recent downloads (dl:), show one in its folder or retry it. Your download list stays in Chrome; Vokto doesn’t store it or send it anywhere.
browsingData: Lets commands you run clear cookies or site data.
alarms: Lets commands you run schedule browser reminders.
favicon: Shows site icons next to tab, history, and bookmark results. Vokto reads them from Chrome’s on-device favicon cache and hands them to the palette itself. Nothing is fetched from the network or a third party, and the site you’re on can’t see which icons the palette shows.
activeTab: Lets the Screenshot command capture the tab you summoned Vokto on. Granted only when you press the shortcut or click the toolbar icon, and only for that tab.
scripting: Adds the palette to a tab the first time you open it there, including tabs that were already open when you installed or updated Vokto. When you run Pause Media or Resume Media, it also adds a small Vokto script to the tab you’re on and the tabs playing sound, which only pauses or resumes their video and audio. It only injects Vokto’s own bundled code, and no page content leaves your device.
search: Lets “Search the Web for ‘…’”, “Convert with Your Search Engine” (for a typed amount like “100 usd in eur”) and Ctrl+Enter hand your typed text to Chrome’s own default search engine, in the tab you’re on. Chrome runs the search exactly as if you’d typed it in the address bar; Vokto picks no engine and sends nothing itself.
https://*/* and http://*/*: Lets Vokto render the palette on websites and read page links while the palette is active.

Your controls

Want everything gone? Uninstall the extension and the browser clears the data it stored for it.

You can also clear things piecemeal inside Vokto — the Clear Clipboard History and Site Settings commands.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the dates and version above change with it.

Questions or concerns? Email hello@vokto.app.