Only the ticker leaves.
Privacy Policy · Effective July 19, 2026
The short version: TickerPop collects no personal data, no browsing
history, and no page content. The only thing that ever leaves your browser is the ticker symbol
you explicitly highlight, sent directly to public data sources — plus anonymous, opt-out
feature-usage counts that never include symbols or pages. There are no accounts and no servers
that store anything about you.
Single purpose
TickerPop's single purpose is to display financial information for a ticker symbol the user
explicitly highlights on a web page (or types into the extension's own watchlist).
What data is processed, and where it goes
- Highlighted ticker symbols (e.g. "NVDA", "ASML.AS") and the matched company
name are sent from your browser directly to Yahoo Finance (quotes, charts,
fundamentals) and Google News RSS (headlines). These requests are subject to those
services' own privacy policies. Because they are made by your browser itself, they carry
the same cookies as visiting yahoo.com or news.google.com would — we never see them.
No other part of the page is read or transmitted.
- Watchlist, alert thresholds, and settings are stored in Chrome's built-in
storage.sync, controlled by your own Google account's Chrome sync. We never
see them.
- Snoozed and disabled sites. If you snooze or disable TickerPop on a site, that
site's hostname is stored with your settings so we can stay out of the way there. Like
everything else, it never leaves your browser.
- A static status file is fetched from this website (a service-health banner and the
welcome page on install). The request carries no personal data and nothing about what you
looked up.
- Nothing else. No page content, no URLs you visit, no browsing history, no
keystrokes, no personal identifiers.
Anonymous usage statistics
To understand which features help (and to notice quickly when a data source breaks),
TickerPop sends anonymous feature-usage events to PostHog and Mixpanel (US cloud, the same events to both): things like
"a card was opened for NVDA", "the Analysts tab was viewed", or "an error was shown", tied
to a random install identifier and the extension version. Since v2.3 this includes the
looked-up ticker symbol (a public market identifier) and anonymous diagnostics —
load-time buckets and crash reports that reference only the extension's own code.
- Never sent: the pages you visit, page content, your watchlist as a list, alert
thresholds, or anything you type. Event names and properties are allow-listed in code.
- Opt out any time: Settings → Privacy → untick "Share anonymous usage stats".
Nothing is sent after that.
What we do NOT do
- No accounts, sign-ups, or authentication of any kind.
- No ad networks, tracking pixels, or fingerprinting — the anonymous usage counts above
are the only telemetry, and they have an off switch.
- No servers that store your data — there is no database with anything about you in it.
- No selling, sharing, or monetization of data, ever.
- No AI processing of page content.
Permissions explained
- Access to websites — needed to detect when you highlight a ticker on the page
you're reading. The detection runs locally; only a highlighted symbol matching a strict
ticker pattern (≤16 characters) is ever used.
- storage — your watchlist and settings.
- alarms — periodic price checks (every 5–30 minutes, configurable) for alerts you set.
- notifications — showing those price alerts and earnings-day reminders.
- contextMenus — the right-click "Look up ‹selected text›" action. Only the text you
selected is used.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted at this URL with an updated
effective date. Material changes will be noted in the extension's changelog.
Contact
Questions or concerns? Reach us through the
support tab on the Chrome Web Store listing.