Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 11, 2026
Sunlorb gives your browser a retro-futurist atmosphere. It changes how websites look — nothing else.
The short version
Sunlorb runs entirely on your device.
- We do not collect the pages you visit.
- We do not collect page content, text, or images.
- We do not collect your browsing history.
- We do not collect anything you type.
- We do not sell or share data with advertisers or data brokers.
What we never collect
| Pages you visit | Never collected |
| Page content, text, or images | Never collected |
| Browsing history | Never collected |
| Anything you type | Never collected |
| Search queries | Never collected |
Sunlorb never transmits the address, title, or content of any page you browse — with one exception, and it is entirely yours: if you tap Report in the popup, the site’s address travels with that report, and only while the box for it is ticked. See Site reports below.
Why the extension needs permission to run on all sites
Sunlorb asks for permission to run on all websites because its entire purpose is giving your whole browser one consistent atmosphere by default. Every site still stays under your control — you can exclude a site, soften its intensity, or give it its own skin, and those choices live on your device, are applied by the page itself, and are never reported back to us.
What we deliberately do not use:
- No
tabspermission — we cannot read your list of open tabs. - No
webRequestpermission — we cannot intercept, read, or modify your network traffic in a way that exposes browsing activity.
Running on all sites is not the same as monitoring all sites. Sunlorb changes how pages are painted; it does not watch what you do.
What we store, and where
| Data | Where it lives | Sent to a server? |
|---|---|---|
| Your selected skin and intensity | On your device (chrome.storage.local) | No |
| Per-site on/off preferences, exclusions, intensity and skin choices | On your device | No — and per-site intensity and skin choices are matched inside the page, so the address that goes with them never leaves the page either |
| Your license key and license status | Cached on your device | Only the license check itself |
| Which sites you have already reported | On your device (a host and a date, nothing else) | No — it is how the popup stops asking you twice |
One clarification about the license check: when you enter a license key, Sunlorb sends that key and a random device identifier to our server to confirm your license. It does not send which sites you visit, which skins you use, or anything about your browsing.
One clarification about checkout: when you click Upgrade, Sunlorb opens this site’s checkout page (byzanx.com/products/sunlorb/checkout) in a normal browser tab at your request. That page is a website, not part of the extension, and the extension never fetches it. When the purchase completes, the page hands your new license key back to the extension so the Pro skins unlock automatically.
Site reports — the one thing you can choose to send
Sunlorb adapts itself in depth to a handful of flagship sites, and it will not get all of them right. When a page looks wrong, the popup offers Report next to that site’s name.
Nothing is sent unless you tap it. There is no background check, no automatic report, and no default that reports on your behalf. The button exists so that we can learn a site is broken without watching what you browse — which is the whole reason the rest of this policy can say “never”.
| A report contains | |
|---|---|
| The site’s address | Only if you leave the box ticked. Untick it and we still receive your note, without the address |
| Which skin and intensity you were using | Yes |
| Your note, if you wrote one | Yes |
| Extension version and browser | Yes |
| Page content, text, images or a screenshot | Never. Sunlorb cannot see them, and we do not ask for them |
Reports are kept so we can count which sites come up most often. That count is how we choose which site to adapt next. It is also the only thing we ever count — it is not analytics, because it only exists when somebody decided to send it.
We do not promise to fix a reported site, and we cannot reply to most reports. The popup says so before you send.
Payments and licenses
Payments are processed by Paddle, our payment provider and Merchant of Record. Sunlorb never sees or stores your full card details.
If you buy Sunlorb Pro, we store the minimum needed to verify your entitlement:
- A license record: your license key and its status
- A random device identifier for each device you activate (up to 5)
- The order identifier, and the end date of the updates period that came with it
- The email address the license was sent to
If you stop renewing updates: everything you already own — the skins and workshop recipes you have unlocked — remains unlocked and usable, indefinitely. You simply stop receiving new skins. We never remove something you already have.
Analytics and telemetry
There is none.
Sunlorb contains no analytics, no telemetry, and no crash reporting. We do not measure how often you use it, which skins you choose, how long you keep it enabled, or anything else about your usage. We have deliberately not built this capability — not “off by default”, but absent from the code.
The only network requests Sunlorb makes are:
| Request | When | What is sent |
|---|---|---|
| License check | When you activate a license key, and periodically (a few times a day) to confirm your license is still active | Your license key and a random device identifier |
| Site report | Only when you tap Report in the popup | The site’s address (only if you leave it ticked), your skin and intensity, your note, the extension version and your browser |
Apart from a report you chose to send, nothing else leaves your device. Ever.
Data sharing
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for advertising or marketing purposes.
Three services process data on our behalf, each for one purpose only:
- Paddle — payment processing, VAT calculation and remittance, purchase and renewal status.
- Resend — delivery of the license email containing your license key.
- Cloudflare — hosting of the license server that verifies your key.
No advertising networks, no data brokers, no analytics providers.
Children’s privacy
Sunlorb is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
Your controls
You are always in control:
- Turn it off instantly — one click in the popup restores the page exactly as it was.
- Turn it off per site — exclude any site from the popup or in Options. Sunlorb then never touches that site.
- Soften it on one site — give a single site its own intensity (light / medium / heavy) from the popup. That choice is stored on your device and applied by the page itself; the site’s address is never sent anywhere to be matched.
- Give a site its own skin — bind any skin you have to a single site from the popup. Like every per-site choice, it is stored on your device and matched by the page itself; the site’s address is never sent anywhere.
- Export your settings — available in Options → Privacy. The export contains your preferences only: no license key, no device identifier, no browsing data.
- Deactivate your license — removes the license key and cached license status from your device.
- Uninstall anytime — all local settings are removed. (Uninstalling is not the same as cancelling: cancelling your updates renewal keeps what you own, uninstalling clears local data.)
To request deletion of the license record associated with your email address, email hello@byzanx.com.
Changes to this policy
If we materially change this policy, we will update the date above and notify users in the extension.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Reach us at:
Sunlorb is an independent product and is not affiliated with any website it enhances.