Privacy Policy

What Color Namer collects

When you first install Color Namer, a random anonymous identifier (UUID) is generated and stored locally in your browser using chrome.storage.local. This identifier is never linked to your name, email, Google account, or any other personal information.

When you submit a color name, the following is sent to our database:

• The color you were shown (a hex value)
• The name you typed
• Your anonymous identifier
• Your browser's language setting
• Your color vision type, if you chose to share it (e.g. normal, red-green, blue-yellow)

How it's used

Submissions are used solely to aggregate color-naming statistics — to show you and other users how people around the world name the same colors. The anonymous identifier is used only to avoid counting the same person's response twice for a given color. Color vision type data is collected to help us understand how people with different vision types perceive and name colors.

Third-party services

Color Namer makes requests to the following external services:

• Supabase — stores submitted color names and aggregated statistics. Data is hosted on Supabase's infrastructure. See Supabase's privacy policy.
• Datamuse API — used to spell-check color names you type (English only). Only the word being typed is sent. No identifying information is included.
• MyMemory — used as a fallback to translate UI text for non-English users when on-device translation is unavailable. Only short UI strings are sent, never your submitted color names.

What we don't do

• We do not sell or share your data with third parties
• We do not track your browsing history or activity outside this extension
• We do not require an account or any personal information
• We do not use cookies

Data retention

Submitted color names are retained indefinitely to build the aggregate dataset. Because submissions are anonymous, we have no way to identify or delete a specific person's responses after submission.

Contact

For questions or concerns, open an issue on GitHub.