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What this covers

This policy covers the A1 Local browser extensions listed below, including A1 Local SEO Checker (formerly A1 Multitool). Website visits and contact forms are covered by our website privacy policy. Shopify apps, WordPress plugins and other developer resources have their own product documentation and policies.

Information processed on your device

When you run a tool, it reads the information needed for that action. Depending on the tool, this can include the active page’s URL, title, rendered content, metadata, styles, links, images, timing data or screenshots. Tab and reading tools also work with tab details and saved reading items.

Checks run in your browser when you use a tool — for A1 Local SEO Checker, when you open its panel, or as you change tabs if you’ve allowed it on all sites. Nothing is scanned from A1 Local’s servers, and page content, reports, screenshots, saved samples, browsing history and settings are not sent to A1 Local.

What stays in browser storage

Extensions use local browser extension storage for the following features. The browser or device’s own backup behaviour is separate from the extension.

A1 Local SEO Checker

Last-used tab, recent colours, the latest typography sample and contrast checker colours. If “Remember checks” is on (the default), the addresses of up to 60 checked pages with the issues found, and the phone and address of up to 40 websites and Google Business Profiles for comparison. Report branding you enter (name, website, email, logo, colour). You can turn remembering off or clear it in the extension’s settings.

Accessibility Quick Audit

Latest audit result, audit settings and supporter state. Reports can include the page URL, title, issue details and short element snippets.

Font Inspector Pro

Recent and saved font samples, settings and supporter state.

A1 Color Picker

Picked colour history and options. Firefox may use a temporary current-tab preview to sample a pixel.

A1 Map Script Inspector

Settings and up to 60 recent scans (page URLs and findings) for comparison and re-export. History can be turned off or cleared in Settings.

Performance Snapshot

Display preferences and supporter state. Timing results remain in the popup session unless copied or exported.

A1 Full Page Capture

Image format, filename, scroll-delay and capture-size preferences.

HTML Validity Checker

Settings and the latest report.

Page Source Plus

Display settings and supporter state; page snapshots are not saved by default.

Image Batch Saver

Image filters, download-folder preferences and supporter state.

Tab Command Palette

Saved workspaces, settings, supporter state, workspace notes and optional local session backups where enabled.

Reader Mode + Local Reading List

Saved page titles, URLs, site names, excerpts, dates, read status and reader settings.

Reverse Image Search Menu

Enabled search engines and menu preferences.

Searches, downloads and external links

Reverse Image Search Menu opens your selected search engine with the image URL or selected text only when you choose a search action. That service receives the search input and handles it under its own privacy policy. A1 Local does not proxy these searches.

Copying reports, exporting files and downloading images or captures happen when you request them. Image downloads contact the image’s source through your browser. Support, store and optional donation links open external websites when clicked; those sites have their own privacy policies. Extension scan data is not attached to those links.

A1 Local SEO Checker makes some requests from your browser when you use its features: the checked website’s own robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap and page headers; up to 50 pages of the same site when you run a site check (read as data; their scripts don’t run); and the addresses linked from the page when you run the broken link checker (links to other websites only if you’ve allowed access to all sites). To show previews it may display the page’s own favicon, social share image and image thumbnails, loaded from the same addresses the website uses without sending a referrer. On a Google Maps business page it reads the Business Profile details already on screen, without clicking, loading more or changing the page. When you make a client report it takes one screenshot of the visible tab. Fix briefs, reports and CSV files are created on your device and only leave it when you copy, download or share them.

Permissions

Permissions depend on the tool. Current-page tools use active-tab access and scripting to inspect or capture a page after your action. Storage saves preferences and local records. Tab tools use tab access; image-saving tools use downloads; the search-menu tool uses context menus. A1 Map Script Inspector can also ask for access to a single site when you choose Deep scan, so it can reload that page and record map-related console errors; this access is optional, requested one site at a time, and can be removed in the extension’s settings. A1 Local SEO Checker shows its results in Chrome’s side panel and uses active-tab access for report screenshots. You can choose to allow it on all sites so the panel follows you between tabs; this is off unless you turn it on, and you can turn it off at any time in its settings. The extensions do not load remote executable code.

Questions and changes

For questions about an extension’s data handling, email extensions@a1local.com.au. Include the product name and version. We will update this page when the covered extensions’ data handling changes.