Last updated: July 26, 2026

Overview

Peel is a browser screenshot tool. It captures images of web pages at your request and does nothing else.

Data collection

Peel DOES NOT collect, transmit, sell, or share any personal data. Specifically:

• No in-extension analytics: Peel does not include usage tracking, crash reporting, telemetry, tracking pixels, or analytics code.
• No network requests: Peel never connects to any external server.
• No personal information: Peel does not access your browsing history, bookmarks, cookies, passwords, or any account information.

Chrome Web Store metrics: Google may provide aggregate Chrome Web Store statistics, such as installs, uninstalls, impressions, users, and ratings, through the Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard. These metrics are provided by Google, governed by Google's policies, and not collected by Peel.

How screenshots are handled

When you capture a screenshot, the image is written to chrome.storage.local, which is local browser storage on your device. Peel keeps up to five recent captures locally so the preview page can display, copy, and download them. Older captures are removed automatically. Screenshots are never sent anywhere by Peel.

Each capture is saved with a small amount of information about itself, also locally and also removed when that capture is: the resolved filename, the display's pixel density and color space, whether the capture has a transparent background, and the address of the page it was taken from. The page address is what the PDF export's optional URL stamp prints, and it is never used for anything else or sent anywhere.

How settings are handled

Peel stores your preferences in chrome.storage.sync, including export format and quality, countdown length, capture action and whether to skip the preview, transparent-background and trim defaults, theme, download resolution, color profile, the PDF page size, orientation and stamp defaults, filename pattern, picker display preferences, picker panel position, and your Beautify framing style. Chrome may sync these settings across signed-in browsers according to your Chrome sync settings and Google's policies.

If your filename pattern includes {site}, Peel uses the current page hostname locally to name the screenshot.

Permissions explained

Peel does not request access to websites. It runs on Chrome's activeTab permission, which grants access to a single tab at the moment you invoke Peel, by clicking the toolbar icon, pressing a capture shortcut, or choosing a capture mode in the popup. That access ends when the tab navigates away. Peel cannot read any page before you ask it to, it can never read a tab you have not invoked it on, and it never acts on its own in the background.

Contact

If you have questions about this policy, contact: [email protected].