plainware

Privacy policy

Plainware extensions work on your own device and don’t collect data about you. There are no analytics, ads or trackers. The only things that leave your browser are a Pro licence key check with our payment provider, and, only when you start it, the requests for the Pro dead-link check in Plainware Tabs.

Last updated 8 November 2026.

This policy covers the Plainware browser extensions (Plainware PDF, Plainware Focus, Plainware Recorder and Plainware Tabs) and this website.

Who we are

Plainware is run by Krishna Kant Kumar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. You can reach us at kkrishnakant20@gmail.com.

Your files and data

What you work on stays on your computer. We never receive it, and we never see it. Here is what each extension keeps and where.

  • Plainware PDF. PDFs you open are read and changed inside your browser. When you’re done, the extension doesn’t keep a copy. The one exception is a form you haven’t finished in Fill and sign: it’s saved as a draft in your browser, so you don’t lose your work, until you download or discard it. Signatures you choose to remember are kept in the browser too.
  • Plainware Focus. Your block lists, schedules, time limits, timer settings and time history stay in Chrome’s extension storage on your device. Plainware Focus doesn’t send the sites you visit or the time you spend anywhere (its block page can be opened by any website, so a website can tell the extension is installed, but it learns nothing about you), and it doesn’t ask for the permission that reads your browsing history. It looks only at addresses on the sites you listed and gave it access to. It works in an Incognito window only if you turn on “Allow in Incognito” for it yourself, and time spent in Incognito isn’t saved in your history.
  • Plainware Recorder. Recordings are stored on your device, in Chrome’s private file storage for the extension, while you record and until you delete them. You save a copy as a file where you choose, through the Library’s Save to computer or Save as, and saving a copy doesn’t remove it from the Library. The microphone and camera are used only while you record or set them up, and you grant Chrome’s permission on the extension’s own check page. Nothing is uploaded. It doesn’t run in Incognito windows.
  • Plainware Tabs. Snapshots and saved sessions, made from the addresses, titles and tab groups of your open tabs, are stored on your device in the extension’s storage. If you turn on backup files, they are written to your Downloads folder (or, with Pro, a folder you choose), and are your files from then on. Saved sessions and backup files hold the addresses and titles of your tabs, so keep them as private as the tabs themselves. Backup files can optionally be encrypted with a passphrase (Pro), which stays on your device, and we can’t recover it. Plainware Tabs doesn’t capture Incognito windows.

What’s stored in your browser

The extensions use Chrome’s extension storage, the browser’s own database (IndexedDB) and, for Plainware Recorder, the extension’s private file storage to keep:

  • your settings;
  • the things above that belong to each extension: signatures and form drafts (PDF), lists and history (Focus), recordings (Recorder), snapshots and sessions (Tabs);
  • your Plainware Pro licence key and whether it’s active.

This stays on your computer, in that browser profile, and isn’t synced to your Google account. We can’t see it. You can delete saved items inside each extension. Removing an extension deletes everything it stored, including recordings and tab snapshots you haven’t saved or backed up as files.

What leaves your device

Only these, and only when they apply:

  • Checking a Pro licence key (all extensions). When you enter a key, the extension sends it to Dodo Payments with an activation name, such as “Plainware PDF · Chrome”, to confirm it’s valid. After that it re-checks the key at most every 30 days when you’re online. Nothing about your files, recordings, tabs, block lists or how you use the tools is sent.
  • Opening a PDF from a web address (Plainware PDF). If you ask Plainware PDF to open a PDF from a website, your browser fetches that PDF from that website, just as Chrome would if you opened it yourself.
  • The dead-link check (Plainware Tabs, Pro). When you start a check, the extension requests only the links you asked it to check, from your computer and without cookies, as if you had opened them. The default check asks only whether each site answers, and like opening a link yourself it follows redirects. If you tick the optional deeper check, Chrome asks for access to read sites’ status codes, and the extension removes that access when the check ends; it follows a redirect only to a public address. Links to your own network, such as localhost, are never requested. Nothing else about your tabs or bookmarks is sent.

No analytics, ads or tracking

The extensions contain no analytics, advertising or tracking code, and they don’t load code from the internet. We don’t build profiles, and we don’t sell, rent or share data.

When you buy Plainware Pro

Payments are handled by Dodo Payments, our Merchant of Record. Dodo Payments collects your payment details, billing address and email address to take the payment, work out tax, prevent fraud and send your receipt and licence key, under its own privacy policy.

Dodo Payments shares with us the order details we need to support you: your name, email address, country, what you bought and your licence key’s status. We never see your full card or bank details. We use these details only to help you, handle refunds and keep the records that tax and accounting law require, and we keep them only as long as that law requires.

When you email us

If you write to us, we receive your email address and whatever you include. We use it only to answer you, and we never add you to a mailing list.

This website

This website sets no cookies and has no analytics or ads. Two things to know:

  • The fonts are served from our own site, so loading a page makes no request to any third party.
  • The hosting provider that serves these pages may keep standard server logs, such as IP address and browser type, for security and reliability.

Children

The extensions don’t collect personal data from anyone. We don’t knowingly receive personal data from children; if a child has bought Plainware Pro or emailed us, a parent can ask us to delete those details.

Your rights

You can ask what order details we hold about you, ask us to correct them, or ask us to delete them where the law allows. We may have to keep purchase records for tax. Write to kkrishnakant20@gmail.com. For payment data held by Dodo Payments, you can also contact Dodo Payments directly.

Chrome Web Store

Plainware’s use of information follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. The extensions don’t collect user data.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. We won’t start collecting data in the extensions without saying so clearly first.

Contact

kkrishnakant20@gmail.com
Krishna Kant Kumar
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India