Your data. Clearly explained.
Local privacy controls, optional Pro activation, and useful tools. Here is what each part stores and when it connects to a service.
Overview
Stay Unseen's social-platform privacy protections run in your browser. Pro licensing communicates with Stay Unseen's API at api.stayunseenapp.com. The dashboard and the public status page also request published compatibility information from that API.
The extension does not send your social messages, usernames, passwords, social-media authentication cookies, viewed stories, WhatsApp messages, Threads conversations, Facebook/Messenger content, TikTok viewing history or downloaded media contents to Stay Unseen servers. Supported-site tools can use page data and your existing signed-in session to communicate directly with the social platform.
This policy covers Stay Unseen 2.1.0, the All-in-One Social Suite, and this website. Local processing, licensing, compatibility requests and third-party services are explained separately below.
How page data is used
On Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp Web and Threads, content scripts, page-level hooks and browser network controls identify and suppress supported read-receipt, story/status-view and typing signals. They can inspect request contents in memory, including chat-related fields, to distinguish these signals from normal messages and page loading. TikTok support provides download and follow-status tools; it does not hide profile visits or read receipts.
Mark Seen uses identifiers for the open conversation and the platform's read action to request a receipt when you choose. Follow-status tools read relationship data for the profile you open. Download tools locate media in the page, player or data supplied by the platform. These operations can inspect account identifiers and accessible session/anti-forgery values locally; the extension does not ask you to submit social passwords to Stay Unseen.
Focus mode changes page visibility on supported Instagram, Facebook and Threads feed/reel routes. Screen privacy blurs and locks supported pages on Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp Web and Threads. Neither records your screen or uploads screenshots. The Ghost Pill provides local quick controls and shares preferences between supported tabs in the same browser profile.
Data stored in your browser
Stay Unseen uses local browser extension storage, not browser sync, for these records. Local does not mean that records contain no sensitive information: request endpoints and media URLs can contain platform identifiers.
| Data | Purpose and retention |
|---|---|
| Preferences | Feature switches, saved chat exceptions where present, unread-marker settings, Ghost Pill visibility, pause deadlines, focus mode, screen privacy and queue preferences — until changed or extension data is removed. |
| Activity counters and times | Blocked-signal and download totals, installation time, recent activity and charts. Hourly buckets are pruned on writes to the last 24 hours; daily history keeps up to seven recorded days. Counters and timestamps are not uploaded to Stay Unseen. |
| Diagnostics | Up to 20 recent block records, up to 250 diagnostic log entries and up to 60 module-probe entries per stored list. These can include endpoints, site identifiers, feature names, timestamps, build versions and decision metadata. They are local diagnostics, not a general browsing-history collection. |
| Tool results | Recent download, Mark Seen and follow-check outcomes, timestamps and error states, used to show status in the dashboard and queue. |
Pro licensing and API requests
Lifetime Pro is verified locally and refreshed through api.stayunseenapp.com. Activation, renewal and device release send a purchase identifier and a device/installation identifier so an entitlement can be issued and later released. Signed entitlements expire and refresh so a refunded or revoked purchase stops working. No social account is linked to a licence.
Payments
Purchases are processed by the store provider. Stay Unseen does not receive or store your card details. The store shares a purchase identifier and entitlement status with the Stay Unseen API so the extension can verify your licence.
Cloudflare and server records
Requests to the Stay Unseen API pass through a CDN and are subject to standard server logs (such as IP address, timestamp, endpoint and response status) for security, abuse prevention and reliability. These records are not used to profile your social activity.
Compatibility and local feature health
The status page reads published manual compatibility records. Verification dates are separate from local runtime health and activity counters. The status API receives no local health evidence, no counters and no page data.
Downloads and profile checks
Download tools save supported media you are already viewing to your device. Profile checks read relationship information the platform already exposes on the page you open. Results are kept locally for the dashboard and are not uploaded.
Browser permissions
- Site access — run hooks and on-page tools on supported sites only.
- storage — keep preferences, counters, diagnostics and licence info locally.
- scripting — install hooks and tools on supported sites.
- declarativeNetRequest / webRequest — block matching privacy signals.
- downloads — save media only when you ask.
- alarms — timed pauses and licence renewal.
The extension does not request a general tabs permission or access to websites outside the supported list.
Website, cookies and support
This website serves static pages without advertising cookies or site analytics. Opening Pro checkout loads Gumroad’s checkout overlay; Gumroad processes purchase information and may use its own cookies under its privacy policy. Published compatibility checks request the Stay Unseen API. If you contact support, your message and reply address are used only to answer you.
Security and retention
Local records are kept until you change them or remove the extension. API requests are made over HTTPS. We keep server-side licensing records only as long as needed to honour purchases, prevent abuse and meet legal obligations.
What Stay Unseen does not do
- It does not upload your messages, stories, media or viewing history.
- It does not ask for or store your social passwords.
- It does not sell data or build advertising profiles.
- It does not track you across websites you did not install it for.
Your controls and data removal
Clear the dashboard's local counters and diagnostics at any time, and remove all stored data by uninstalling the extension or clearing its storage from your browser. To release a Pro installation, use "Release this device" in the dashboard.
Children
Stay Unseen is not directed at children and is not intended for use by anyone below the minimum age required to use the supported social platforms in their region.
Changes, contact & affiliation
We will update this page and its date when the policy changes. For privacy questions, email [email protected].
Independent project. Stay Unseen is not affiliated with Meta, TikTok, WhatsApp, Google, Microsoft or Mozilla. Product names are used only to describe compatibility.