Privacy Policy — Optimizely Web QA Helper

Last updated: 8 June 2026

Optimizely Web QA Helper (the “Extension”) is a developer tool for QA-testing Optimizely Web Experimentation campaigns. This policy explains what the Extension does and does not do with your information.

Data we collect

None. The Extension does not collect, store on our servers, transmit, or sell any personal or usage data. We operate no backend servers and use no analytics, tracking, or advertising.

Data the Extension stores on your device

The Extension saves only your own preferences, locally, so it can remember them:

• Per-site settings (test-cookie name, view mode, selected device) are kept in the page’s localStorage for each website you use the Extension on.
• Default settings (the Optimizely snippet variable name and default test-cookie values) are kept via chrome.storage. Chrome may sync this to your own Google account across your signed-in Chrome browsers. This sync is handled entirely by Chrome; the data is never sent to the developer.

The Extension can also set or remove a QA “test cookie” on the site you are testing, but only when you explicitly click the cookie button. This cookie is part of your QA workflow and is not read or transmitted by the developer.

The Extension can display a live log of Optimizely events occurring on the page (campaign decisions, page activations, tracked events) to help you QA experiments. These events are read from the page and shown only inside the Extension’s panel; they are held in memory for the current page and are never collected, stored remotely, or transmitted to the developer or any third party.

Permissions

The Extension requests the minimum permissions needed for its single purpose:

• activeTab / scripting — to show the QA panel in the tab you are viewing, after you click the toolbar icon.
• storage — to remember your default settings.
• debugger — used only for mobile-viewport emulation (resizing the page to real device dimensions via the browser’s DevTools emulation). It is detached when you turn mobile mode off.
• optional host access (per site) — never requested at install. Only when you choose to enable “page-load capture” for a specific site does the Extension request access to that one site, so it can log Optimizely events from the moment the page loads. You can remove any enabled site from the Options page.

Third parties

The Extension shares no data with any third party because it collects no data.

Changes

If this policy changes, the “Last updated” date above will be revised.

Contact

Questions about this policy: muqtadaamiandara@gmail.com