Webcat — Privacy Policy
01 What Webcat does
Webcat is a toy overlay extension. When your mouse pointer is idle for a while, a pixel cat appears from a screen corner and playfully "grabs" your cursor. That is its only purpose.
The cat is drawn inside a transparent, click-through overlay. It never intercepts your clicks, scrolling, dragging, or text selection, and it never replaces your real mouse cursor. The pages you visit behave exactly as if the extension were not installed.
02 Data we collect
None. Webcat does not collect, store, or transmit any personally identifiable information. It does not read the content of the pages you visit, your form inputs, cookies, or your browsing history.
To detect when your mouse is idle, the content script reads mouse-move coordinates within the current page. These coordinates are used only in the moment, in your browser, to decide when to show the cat — they are never stored and never sent anywhere.
03 Your settings
Your preferences — whether the cat is on, the idle time, the spawn corner, and the chosen color (including a custom hex) — are saved using chrome.storage.sync.
This means your settings are stored by your own browser and, if you are signed into Chrome, synced across your own devices through your Google account. They are not sent to the developer or any third-party server.
04 Permissions
- storage — used only to remember your settings (on/off, idle time, corner, color). Nothing else is stored.
- Host access (<all_urls>) — the cat is a visual overlay that can appear on any page, so the content script runs across sites. It only listens for mouse-move position and draws the cat in its own transparent overlay. It does not read page text, inputs, cookies, or history, and it runs in the top frame only (not inside iframes).
05 Third parties
Because Webcat collects no data, there is nothing to share. It contains no analytics, no trackers, and makes no network requests to external servers. Everything runs locally in your browser.
06 Changes
If this policy changes, the update will ship with a new version of the extension and this page will be kept current. Continued use after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.