ReadyRank Privacy Policy

**Status: written for v0.9.1 — published at the project homepage:

ReadyRank is a Chrome extension for website owners to audit their own pages.

This draft describes, in plain language, exactly what the extension does and

does not do with data.

1. What ReadyRank does NOT do

• No accounts, no sign-in, no usage tracking or analytics. ReadyRank

contains no telemetry, no third-party scripts, and no remote code.

• **No data is ever uploaded from your computer except public web pages the

website scan fetches** (see §3). Scanned page content, scan results, history

and settings never leave the device.

• No cookies, credentials or form input values are read. Collection walks

visible text elements (p, headings, li, etc.), images, links and metadata

— input/textarea values are not read, and every fetch runs with

credentials: "omit" so no cookies or auth headers are sent.

• No claims about monetization outcomes. ReadyRank reports measurable risk

signals and explicitly does not predict AdSense or any program's approval.

2. Local processing

All analysis runs inside the extension on your machine: deterministic rules are

JSON files bundled in the package, engines are plain JavaScript functions. The

extension never sends page text, URLs, findings or scores to any server the

user does not explicitly ask ReadyRank to fetch (see §3).

MV3 content security policy forbids remote code; there are no obfuscated

scripts and no eval/Function anywhere in the codebase.

3. Network activity — exactly when, and what is fetched

ReadyRank performs zero automatic network calls. The only requests happen

when the user clicks "Scan" / "Scan Website" ("Complete mode" runs the

same requests in resumable chunks), which then issues GET requests, without

cookies or authentication (credentials: "omit"):

• /robots.txt — once per site (10 s timeout, 400 KB cap)
• /ads.txt — once per site (same limits); only presence and the

publisher ID line are parsed

• /sitemap.xml or the sitemap URLs declared in robots.txt — up

to 10 sitemap documents, indexes expanded one level deep

• Same-origin http(s) pages during a user-started site scan — visited in one

dedicated unfocused crawl window the extension opens (a visible window,

not the user's active tab, so hydration is not throttled but focus is never

stolen), exactly as a first-time visitor would see the rendered DOM

(React/Next.js sites serve an empty