Hidden in My Heart privacy policy

Last updated October 22, 2026

Hidden in My Heart is a Chrome extension that pauses and blurs media on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Reddit after a limit you set, until you recite a Bible verse. This policy explains what it handles. In short: your data stays in your browser, and the developer never receives any of it.

What is stored, and where

Everything below is saved in Chrome's local extension storage on your device. It is not synced and never sent to the developer.

• Your settings, such as limits, accuracy, chosen sites and translation.
• Today's number of videos watched and minutes spent on the supported sites. Only the totals are kept, not which videos or pages.
• Your memorization progress and streaks.
• Any verse wording you paste in yourself.
• If you use the ESV or NIV: your API key and the downloaded text of the 60 memory verses.
• If you use the NIV: a random ID used for API.Bible's fair-use reports (see below).

What the extension reads on websites

On the four supported sites, the extension notices when a video has played for a few seconds and whether the tab is in front, so it can count videos and minutes. It does not read, store or send what you watch, the page content, your browsing history or your messages. It does nothing on any other website.

What leaves your device

With the built-in World English Bible, nothing.

If you choose another translation, the extension asks Chrome for permission and then contacts that publisher's service with your own key:

• ESV: requests go to api.esv.org (Crossway) to fetch the verse text. Crossway's privacy policy applies to those requests.
• NIV: requests go to api.bible (American Bible Society) to fetch the verse text. When NIV text is shown, the extension also sends API.Bible's required fair-use report to fums.api.bible. It contains a random device ID and session ID created by the extension, and nothing that identifies you. API.Bible's privacy policy applies.

The verse text is downloaded again about every 14 days.

What we don't do

• No accounts, analytics, ads or tracking.
• We don't sell or share your data, and we don't use it for anything beyond the extension's purpose.

Deleting your data

Use Reset all progress and streaks in the extension's settings, or remove the extension from Chrome, which deletes everything it stored.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date above will change too. Questions: jackfuhuang@gmail.com.