Snap Vanish Privacy Policy

Snap Vanish does not collect, store, sell or share any personal data. Everything it does happens inside your own browser, and nothing is sent to the developer or anyone else.

Camera and microphone

Snap Vanish uses your camera and microphone only on video-calling sites, and only after you have allowed that site to use them.

Camera: each video frame is processed in your browser to create the dust effect, then handed back to the call. Frames are never saved or uploaded by the extension.
Background image: when you click "Capture background", one frame of your empty room is kept in the page's memory so the extension can tell you apart from the room. It is deleted when you close or reload the tab.
Microphone: the extension measures how loud sounds are to detect a finger snap. Audio is never recorded, saved or sent anywhere. You can turn snap detection off in the extension's popup and use a keyboard shortcut instead.

The video your call partners see is sent by the calling service (for example Google Meet or Zoom), under that service's own privacy policy.

What is collected and stored

Snap Vanish collects no personal data. It has no servers, no accounts, no analytics and no ads.

The only thing it stores is your settings, saved in Chrome's local extension storage on your own device:

Setting	What it holds
Enabled	Whether the effect is on
Detect finger snaps	Whether the microphone is used for snap detection
Snap sensitivity	A number from 1 to 10
Show on-screen panel	Whether the control panel appears on call pages

Removing the extension deletes these settings.

Permissions and third parties

Storage: used only to save the settings listed above.
Site access: the extension runs only on supported video-calling sites: Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Whereby, Jitsi Meet, Webex, Discord and Slack. It does not read your messages, contacts, call content or anything else on those pages.
No remote code: all of the extension's code is included in the package. It does not download or run code from the internet.

Snap Vanish does not sell, rent, transfer or share any data with third parties. It does not use data for advertising, credit checks or any purpose other than the snap effect.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date at the top.

Questions about this policy: [email protected]