Privacy Policy — Sand Booking Autofill

👋 Introduction

This extension helps you log in faster and reduces typing friction on the official Telangana Sand Booking website (onlinebooking.sand.telangana.gov.in) — things like remembering your username/password for autofill, fixing a Chrome cursor-focus bug on that site's login form, auto-capitalizing the captcha you type, and making the OTP box easier to see. This page explains, in plain language, exactly what information the extension touches, what it stores, and what (very little) it ever sends anywhere else. 🌱

📥 What information the extension handles

Information	Where it lives	Sent off your device?
🔐 Your saved sand-portal username & password	Chrome's local `storage.local` on your own device	❌ Never sent to us — only auto-typed into the government site's own login form
🚗 Booking preferences (district, stockyard, vehicle number, delivery address, payment channel, timers)	Chrome's local `storage.local`	❌ Stays on your device only
🔑 Extension license key (if you use a paid/licensed version)	Chrome's local `storage.local`	✅ Sent to our license server to confirm it's valid
🆔 A random, anonymous install ID (auto-generated, not linked to your name/identity)	Chrome's local `storage.local`	✅ Sent alongside the license check, only to tell one install apart from another
⏱️ Extension version & the time on your PC	Read at check time	✅ Sent with the license check (standard diagnostic info)

💡 That's the complete list. The only network call this extension ever makes to a server we control is a single, short license-verification message — and it contains just the 5 items marked "✅" above. Nothing else is ever transmitted by this extension.

🚫 What we do not collect

🙅 No OTP codes, captcha text, or booking details are ever sent to us — they only go to the government portal itself, exactly as if you'd typed them yourself.
🙅 No browsing history, no analytics, no ads, no tracking pixels.
🙅 No reading of other websites, emails, files, or tabs — the extension only activates on the official sand-booking site.
🙅 No selling, renting, or sharing of your data with advertisers or third parties. 🚷💰
🙅 No remote-control or "command channel" — an earlier internal version of this codebase had one; it was intentionally removed for this Chrome release.

🔑 Why the extension asks for these permissions

📦 storage ⏰ alarms 👀 webRequest (read-only) 🌐 site access

📦 storage — to remember your saved login & booking preferences locally, so you don't have to re-enter them every visit.
⏰ alarms — to periodically re-check your license in the background, on a timer.
👀 webRequest — used only to observe timing (e.g., "did the login page finish loading yet?") so auto-click timers fire at the right moment. This permission never blocks, modifies, or redirects any request, and nothing observed through it is transmitted anywhere.
🌐 Site access — limited strictly to onlinebooking.sand.telangana.gov.in (to run the autofill/UX fixes) and our own license server address (to verify your license). The extension has no access to any other website you visit.

💾 How your data is stored & protected

🖥️ Everything except the license check stays entirely on your own computer, inside Chrome's built-in extension storage — the same place Chrome itself stores extension settings.
🔒 The one message we do receive (the license check) travels over an encrypted (wss://) connection.
🗑️ Uninstalling the extension removes all of its locally stored data from your browser automatically (this is standard Chrome behavior for every extension).

✅ In short: your password never leaves your computer. It's typed straight into the real government login form, just like you'd type it yourself — we simply automate the typing.

🔗 Sharing & third parties

We do not sell, rent, trade, or share your information with advertisers, data brokers, or any other third party. The license server is operated for the sole purpose of confirming your license is valid — it is not used for advertising, profiling, or any purpose beyond that check. 🤝

👋 What happens when you uninstall

When you remove this extension, Chrome opens a Play Store page in a new tab as a farewell/redirect page. This is just a page navigation — it does not transmit any of your data, and by that point Chrome has already deleted the extension's locally stored settings. 🧹

🧒 Children's privacy

This extension is a productivity tool for an official government booking portal and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

♻️ Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the "Last updated" date at the top of this page will change too. We encourage checking back occasionally if you'd like to stay informed. 📰

🛡️ Privacy Policy

👋 Introduction

📥 What information the extension handles

🚫 What we do not collect

🔑 Why the extension asks for these permissions

💾 How your data is stored & protected

👋 What happens when you uninstall

🧒 Children's privacy

♻️ Changes to this policy

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