The short version
Touch Grass collects nothing. It has no account, no sign-in, no analytics and no tracking. It makes no network requests of its own. Nothing it stores ever leaves the computer it is installed on.
What Touch Grass stores
All of the following is kept in Chrome's local extension storage, on the device, and is readable only by the extension:
- Your settings - whether Shorts are hidden, the hours YouTube is allowed, and the daily minute limit.
- A hashed passcode, if you set one. The passcode is stored as a salted hash, not as text, so it cannot be read back out of storage.
- Today's viewing total - the number of seconds of YouTube watched today, so the daily limit can be enforced. It is reset each day and no history is kept.
If you install the configuration profile or browser policy, your settings come from that policy instead. That is managed by your operating system, not by us, and is likewise never transmitted anywhere.
What Touch Grass does not do
- It does not collect, transmit, sell or share any data.
- It does not record which videos are watched, which pages are visited, or any search terms.
- It contains no analytics, no telemetry, no advertising and no third-party code of any kind.
- It makes no network requests. The extension has no server, and there is nowhere for data to go.
Permissions
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host_permissionsfor*://*.youtube.com/*- needed to detect Shorts URLs, hide Shorts in the page, and tell whether a video is actually playing so time counts only while your child is watching. The extension has no access to any other site. -
declarativeNetRequest- used to redirect Shorts URLs and to block YouTube when a limit is reached. The rules are static and ship with the extension. It cannot read or modify any other network traffic. -
storage- used for the three items listed above, locally.
Children
Touch Grass is designed to be installed by a parent on a child's computer. It collects no personal information from anyone, children included.
Removing your data
Uninstalling the extension removes everything it has stored. If a configuration profile or browser policy was installed, remove that separately through your operating system.
Changes
Any change to this policy will be published on this page, with the date above updated.