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 appear sooner.
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.
Clipboard History: Recent copied text, only if you enable Clipboard History.

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.

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 what’s stored, except entries you’ve pinned.

Feedback commands

Send Feedback opens a pre-filled email tohello@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.
tabGroups: Lets the Tab Groups commands create, rename, and organize tab groups.
history: Lets you search recent 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.
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. It only injects Vokto’s own bundled palette code, and no page content leaves your device.
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.