Last updated: 2026-08-06

This policy covers the Category Suggestion Assistant for Shopify Chrome extension. It is short because the extension does very little with data: it has no server, no account, and no analytics.

The short version

The extension sends nothing anywhere. There is no backend to send it to. Everything it reads stays in the browser tab it read it from, and everything it records stays in that browser profile until you delete it.

What the extension does

When you are signed in to your own Shopify admin and viewing a product page, the extension can — only when you click a button in its popup — read that page and accept the suggestions Shopify’s own “Shopify Magic” feature is showing for that product (a product category, and product metafields), then click Save. Previewing (“Dry-run”) is the default and changes nothing; applying requires you to tick a separate confirmation first.

It can also work through a list. On a Shopify admin product list page that you have filtered yourself, pressing “Preview these” reads the product links the page is already showing and then moves the tab through those products one at a time, reporting what it found for each and returning you to the list. Nothing is changed until you read the results and press Apply, and Apply then visits only the products the preview reported would change — not the rest of the list. A batch belongs to the tab you started it in: other tabs, including tabs open on a different store, are left alone.

To plan a batch — and only then — the extension may turn the pages of that same filtered list, using the admin’s own Next/Previous controls in the tab in front of you, so a range like “products 51–200” can be found (the admin shows 50 per page). This happens only when you press a button, is capped at 20 pages / 1,000 products, never leaves the filter you set, and puts the list back on the page you were looking at. It reads the product links and nothing else. The extension never browses your store on its own initiative, and never runs when you are not watching.

What it reads

Only Shopify admin pages, and only while you have asked it to run.

On a product page:

• the product’s suggested and current category
• whether metafield suggestions are pending, and the label describing them
• the product’s numeric ID and URL, taken from the address bar
• whether the Save action was confirmed by the admin UI

On a product list page, when you plan or start a batch:

• the product links the list is displaying — including, when you ask for a range or a count, the links on further pages of that same filtered list, reached with the admin’s own pagination as described above. Nothing else on those pages is read.

It does not read any other tab, any other site, or any part of the Shopify admin other than the product and product-list pages described above. It does not read your Shopify password, payment details, customer data, or order data.

What it stores, and where

The extension writes a record of each run — what it observed, what it accepted, and whether the save was confirmed — using the browser’s chrome.storage.local API. Each record also holds a few timings for that product: how long the admin page took to load and how long each step it waited for took. They are there so a run that felt slow can be explained, and so the estimate the popup shows (“about 20 minutes left”) is measured rather than guessed. Alongside the run records it keeps a small, capped log of the extension’s own failures (for example “the save bar would not clear”), and each run notes the page environment it ran in — the browser build, the admin’s language, the window size. These describe the page and the extension, not you. That storage is:

• local to your browser profile. It is not synced to a Google account and not transmitted.
• readable and removable by you. The popup has an “export” button that writes the entire history to a JSON file you choose to save. Removing the extension deletes the storage with it.
• trimmed to a size limit. Browser storage is limited, and filling it would stop a batch part-way through. When a run or batch starts, the oldest run records for that store are deleted until the history fits within a few megabytes; the most recent runs, and every record from the current calendar month, are always kept. The failure log keeps only its most recent entries within a small fixed cap. Export first if you want to keep everything.

These records exist so you can see what was changed, and so you can send them to us if you are taking part in a pilot — which happens only if you export the file and send it yourself.

What it does not do

• It does not act on its own. Every run starts with a button press in the popup; a batch then continues in the tab in front of you until it finishes or you press Stop, and nothing is scheduled, queued for later, or run while you are away.
• No data is transmitted to the developer or to any third party.
• No analytics, telemetry, advertising, or tracking of any kind. The failure log described above never leaves your browser; it exists so you can see (and choose to share, via export) why something went wrong.
• No cookies are set or read by the extension.
• No remote code is loaded or executed. All code ships inside the extension package.
• Nothing is sold, rented, or shared. There is no recipient to share with.

Permissions, and why each is needed

• storage — to keep the run history described above, in your browser only.
• Host access to https://admin.shopify.com/* — the extension has to read and click within the Shopify admin product page to do its one job. This is the narrowest host it can be given; it has no access to any other site.

There is no background service worker: nothing runs when you are not using it.

Your Shopify session

The extension works inside the session you are already signed in to. It never sees, stores, or transmits your Shopify credentials or session cookies, and it does not use the Shopify API.

Children

The extension is a tool for merchants operating a store and is not directed at children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the “Last updated” date above changes with it, and the updated policy is published at the same URL before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about what the extension does: dlatjswo9@gmail.com