Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2026-10-22

Who we are

TurtleBytes LLC operates turtlebytes.com (the website) and the TurtleBytes Start Chrome extension, which shows your TurtleBytes start page as the new tab page. This policy covers both.

What we collect

• Account information. When you sign in (with email and password, or with a third-party sign-in provider), we store your name, email address and the sign-in details needed to keep your account working.
• Start page content you create. Dials, groups, notes, countdowns, settings and any tile images you upload, plus how often you open each dial (used to sort by most used) and the weather location you pick.
• Website visit data. We use a first-party cookie to recognize a returning browser and count visits, quiz attempts and similar activity. If you use the chat widget, we store your messages, the page you are on and your IP address. For short links, we record each click with the referring site, approximate location (country, region, city), device, browser and operating system, and a visitor identifier. Standard server logs may also record IP addresses.
• Messages you send us. Contact form and newsletter sign-up details (name, email, message).

How we use it

We use this information only to provide and secure the service: to sign you in, show and sync your start page, answer your messages, and understand basic site usage. We do not sell your data and we do not share it for advertising.

Third parties

• Microlink receives the web address of a tile when we generate a page screenshot for it. We keep the resulting image on our servers.
• Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) provides the weather widget. Your browser sends it the place you search for, or the coordinates of the location you pick, to get the forecast. Nothing else is sent.
• Stripe processes donations and payments. Card details go to Stripe and are never stored by us.
• Sign-in providers you choose to use receive the sign-in request and tell us your basic profile (name and email).
• Todizzle (todizzle.life, also run by us) is accessed only if you choose to connect it to your start page.

The TurtleBytes Start extension

The extension stores your sign-in token (or, if you use one instead, your private start page link key) and a cached copy of your start page in Chrome storage on your device. It sends your start page data only to turtlebytes.com. The weather widget asks Open-Meteo for the forecast, as described above. It does not read your browsing history, does not run remote code, and contains no advertising or third-party trackers.

Retention and deletion

We keep your account and start page content until you delete them or ask us to. To delete your account and its data, or to ask what we hold about you, email us at the address below. Removing the extension deletes the data it stored in Chrome on your device.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update the effective date above.

Contact

TurtleBytes LLC, [email protected].