Chrome Extension

Traffic and Sales Analytics — Privacy Policy

This policy covers the Chrome extension DV Shipping — Traffic and Sales Analytics. It is separate from the privacy policy of the dvshipping.com website.

Last updated: 3 August 2026

The short version

The extension never reads your browsing history, your open tabs or the content of pages you visit. It only ever looks at one store at a time — the tab you opened it on, or the domain you type.

It works in two modes. Without an account, nothing at all reaches DV Shipping. With an account, DV Shipping receives your sign-in and the domains you look up — that is how credits are counted. Both are explained in full below.

Mode 1 — without an account (default)

You can install and use the extension without signing in. When the popup opens it takes the domain of the tab you are on and looks up the free part right away. That means it requests these public endpoints from that store, and nothing else:

Public catalogue — /products.json, requested directly from the store being analysed. This is a public endpoint Shopify stores expose by default; it returns product names and prices.
Store currency — /cart.js, also public, so prices are shown in the currency that store actually charges in.
Original Shopify domain — the store's home page, read only far enough to find the .myshopify.com address it was built on. Requested only when the catalogue confirmed the store runs on Shopify.

In this mode no request is made to DV Shipping and we receive nothing — not even the fact that you installed the extension. Sales, revenue and ad-spend figures are calculated inside your own browser.

Mode 2 — with a DV Spy account (optional)

Two panels come from DV Shipping's own systems and require an account: “Traffic” (visits, ranking, engagement, countries and traffic sources) and “Where it advertises” (our advertising database). It is the same account as spy.dvshipping.com. If you create one or sign in, the following happens:

Your e-mail and password are sent once, over HTTPS, to verify who you are. The password is never stored by the extension and never sent again.
The extension keeps an access token on your device. It is not your password and can be revoked without changing it.
Each time you load one of those panels, the extension sends the domain you are analysing together with the token. Neither panel loads on its own — each needs a separate click, because each one spends credits.
To produce the traffic figures, our server passes that domain to a third-party measurement provider. The provider receives the domain only — never your identity, your account or anything about you.

What DV Shipping records when you have an account

Your account details (name, e-mail, plan), and a log of which domains you looked up, when, and how many credits it cost. That record is what makes the credit balance work and lets you see your own usage.

When an account is created we also store the IP address it was created from, for one reason only: the free trial is limited to one per network, and without it the trial can be restarted endlessly with new e-mail addresses. It is not used to locate you and is never combined with anything else.

It is tied to your account and is not sold, rented or shared with third parties, and it is not used for advertising or to train any model.

What is stored on your device

One thing only: your access token, and only if you signed in. It lives in the browser's extension storage, and uninstalling the extension deletes it. The model settings you type — conversion rate, share of paid traffic, CPC, currency — are not saved anywhere; they last until you close the popup.

Why each permission is needed

activeTab / tabs — to read the domain of the tab you are on, so it can be analysed without you typing it. Only the domain is read — never the page, its content or its history.
storage — to keep your settings and, if you sign in, your access token.
Access to websites — to request the public /products.json, /cart.js and home page of the store being analysed. Used only for that one domain, never for pages you happen to browse.

The extension has no background process and does not observe network traffic, downloads or activity in your other tabs.

What is never collected

Browsing history, open tabs or page content
Passwords, payment details or documents
Cookies, form data or anything you type on other websites
Your physical location — no GPS, no geolocation API, no lookup of where the sign-up IP is
Device identifiers, fingerprinting or behavioural analytics

Deleting your data

Signing out of the extension revokes the token immediately. To delete the account and its lookup history, write to the address below and we remove it.

Accuracy

Traffic, revenue and advertising figures are estimates and may be materially wrong. Product names and prices come from the store's own public endpoint and reflect what that store publishes. Use the numbers as an indication, not as fact.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. Material changes are also reflected in the extension's Chrome Web Store listing.

Contact

contact@dvshipping.com

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