Privacy Policy

This is a free, non-commercial Chrome extension that replaces your new-tab page with wallpapers from Makoto Shinkai's films. It is an unofficial fan project and is not affiliated with Makoto Shinkai or CoMix Wave Films.

What the extension stores (locally)

Saved with Chrome's storage on your device:

• Settings: brightness, wallpaper blur, the clock's glass blur, clock format, which films to show, and which widgets are visible (and where you've placed them).
• Widget content: your quick notes, to-do items, today's calendar events (your own entries, plus any Google Calendar events synced in if you're signed in), focus-timer length, and weather preferences (the city you pick, °C/°F, and the last forecast reading). All of it stays on your device.
• Shortcuts: shortcuts you pin, and which “most visited” sites you've hidden.
• Cached wallpapers: streamed wallpapers (see below) are cached on your device the first time they're shown, so they keep working offline afterward.
• Apps grid order: saved with Chrome Sync so it follows your Chrome profile (this uses Google's built-in sync; it is not sent to the developer).
• Google account info (only if you sign in): your email, display name, and profile picture, used to show a greeting and avatar. Signing in also grants read-only access to your Google Calendar, used automatically to show today's real events in the calendar widget; nothing is ever written to your calendar, and no calendar data is sent to the developer. OAuth access tokens are not stored on disk; they are requested only when needed and discarded.

You can clear all of this at any time by removing the extension.

Permissions and why they're used

• storage: save the settings and shortcuts above.
• unlimitedStorage: lets the extension cache wallpapers you've viewed without being capped by the browser's default storage quota.
• topSites: fill empty shortcut tiles with your most-visited sites (read on your device; not transmitted).
• search: send searches from the search box to your own default search engine. The query is not seen by the developer.
• identity / identity.email: optional Google sign-in to personalize the greeting and avatar.
• bookmarks (optional): only requested if you use the "Import from bookmarks" feature in Settings. Used only to read your bookmark folders; no bookmark data is ever sent anywhere.
• host access to googleapis.com: to read your basic Google profile (email, name, picture) after you sign in.
• Google Calendar, read-only (only if you sign in): shows today's real events in the calendar widget. Nothing is ever added, changed, or deleted on your calendar, and no calendar data is sent to the developer.

Third parties your browser contacts

• shinkai-skies.com: most wallpapers are streamed from the developer's own site rather than bundled in the extension, so the tab can offer the full, growing collection without a large download. A wallpaper is fetched the first time it's shown and cached on your device afterward, so it works offline from then on. No data about you is sent with these requests, and no special browser permission is needed for it (as of v1.4.6).
• Google: for optional sign-in (your profile info, plus read-only access to today's Calendar events) and for shortcut favicons (google.com/s2/favicons).
• DuckDuckGo: a fallback source for shortcut favicons (icons.duckduckgo.com).
• Open-Meteo: only when you turn on the Weather widget. Your browser asks open-meteo.com (its geocoding and forecast APIs) for the weather at your approximate location (derived from your device's time zone, or a city you type in), with no account, key, or sign-in.

To show a shortcut icon, your browser requests it from Google or DuckDuckGo, so those services receive the domain of the site. The Weather widget works the same way: the request goes from your browser straight to Open-Meteo. The developer does not receive any of this. The ambient sounds are generated in your browser and use no network at all.

Contact

For questions or requests, use the feedback form.