Inbox Hours
Privacy policy
Short version: your email never leaves your browser. Inbox Hours does not collect, store or send it.
Inbox Hours for Gmail™ (“Inbox Hours”, “we”) is a Chrome extension published by Muneeb Rafi that hides the Gmail inbox list outside the delivery times you choose. This policy explains what the extension handles.
What happens with your email
Inbox Hours runs only on https://mail.google.com. To decide whether a message is from a VIP sender or contains a VIP keyword, it looks at the sender address, sender name and subject/preview text Gmail already shows on the page. That check happens in memory in your browser at the moment the page is displayed. The extension does not store, copy, log or transmit email content, addresses or metadata, and it does not use the Gmail API or ask for access to your Google account.
Data stored on your device
The extension saves the following with Chrome’s storage API, on your device only:
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Your settings: delivery times, open window, active days, Check now limit, VIP senders and keywords you type, theme | To work the way you set it up |
| Daily counters: focus minutes, minutes the inbox rested, number of checks. Kept for 60 days | To show your weekly quiet time |
| A random install ID and, if you buy Pro, your license key and its status | To unlock and re-check Pro |
Removing the extension deletes all of it.
Data sent to our server (Pro only)
If you enter a Pro license key, the extension sends only the license key and the random install ID to our license server (a Cloudflare Worker) about once a day. The server asks our payment provider, Whop, whether the key belongs to an active membership, may save the install ID on that membership to limit one key to 3 browsers, and replies with the plan status. No email, browsing data or settings are sent. Cloudflare processes the request’s IP address to deliver it; we do not log or store IP addresses.
Payments
Purchases are handled entirely by Whop on its own website. We never see your card details. Whop’s privacy policy covers what you give them.
What we don’t do
We don’t sell or share data. We don’t use analytics, advertising or tracking. We don’t use data for creditworthiness or lending. We don’t load remote code.
The use of information received from Google APIs would adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements, although Inbox Hours does not use any Google APIs.
Children
Inbox Hours is not directed to children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes we will update the date above, and note material changes in the release notes.