Privacy Policy

Last updated October 17, 2026

Redirect is a Chrome extension that redirects distracting websites to your goals. It is built so that your data stays on your device.

What Redirect stores

Redirect saves the following only in your browser, using Chrome's local extension storage: your rules and their settings, active pauses, your goals, redirect counts per day, and a log of pauses including any reasons you typed. You can export this data to a file and delete it by removing the extension.

What Redirect does not do

Redirect has no account and no ads. It never sends your browsing history, rules, goals or pause reasons to us, and it does not sell or share data.

Usage stats

The extension sends anonymous usage stats, such as "a rule was added" or "a pause started", with the extension version, browser and approximate country, to PostHog (EU) under a random ID. They never include the sites you visit, your rules or anything you type. You can turn them off in Redirect's Settings, under Privacy.

Third party services

To show site icons next to your rules, the extension loads favicons from Google's public favicon service. That request includes the domain of the site, for example youtube.com, so Google can see which domains appear in your rules. No other information is included.

If you allow YouTube channels inside a YouTube rule, Redirect talks to YouTube in two ways. When you search for a channel, it sends your search words to YouTube's search and shows the channel pictures YouTube returns. When you open a video, it asks YouTube's public oEmbed service which channel the video belongs to, sending only that video's ID. No cookies, account or other data are sent.

Payments and license keys

Redirect is free for one site. Redirect Pro and Redirect Lifetime are sold through Polar (polar.sh), which acts as the merchant of record: Polar handles checkout, your payment details, receipts, taxes and subscription management, under its own privacy policy. We receive your email address and order details from Polar, and never see your full card details.

After checkout, Polar emails you a license key and this website hands it to the extension. The extension then sends only that license key, and a label such as "Chrome on Mac", to Polar's license service to unlock unlimited sites, and checks it again about once a day. No browsing history, rules or other data go with it.

Permissions and why they are needed

• storageSaves your rules, pauses, goals, stats and settings inside your browser.
• tabsReads the address of your open tabs so a blocked site can be redirected, including tabs already open when a pause ends.
• alarmsWakes the extension when a pause or schedule ends, so redirects start on time.
• webNavigationNotices page changes inside single page apps like YouTube and Reddit, which do not reload the page.
• declarativeNetRequestLets Chrome redirect blocked sites before they load, using the rules you created.
• Access to all sitesNeeded to redirect any site you choose and to show the small pause timer on a site you paused.

This website

This website uses PostHog, hosted in the EU, to count visits, see which pages and buttons are used, and record anonymous session replays of how the page is scrolled and clicked. Anything typed into a field is masked and never recorded. No cookies are set; PostHog keeps a random visitor ID in your browser's local storage. If you type a goal on the home page, it is saved only in your own browser.

Who runs Redirect

Redirect is made and operated by Monish Meher, trading as Meher Technologies, Nuremberg, Germany. Read more about Redirect and its maker.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email support@heyredirect.com.