Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 27, 2026 · Applies to the “CareerLine for LinkedIn” Chrome extension

The short version: CareerLine has no server, no accounts, and no analytics. Everything it does — reading the profile you have open, drawing the visualization, storing your own profile and settings — happens locally in your browser. We never receive, collect, transmit, sell, or share any of your data.

What the extension processes, and where

The profile you are viewing. When you open the panel on a LinkedIn profile, the extension reads that profile’s public career data (name, roles, employers, education, dates, logos) inside your browser, using your own LinkedIn session. This data is used only to draw the visualization on your screen and, if you choose, to render a share image. It is never sent anywhere.
Your own profile. If you use “Compare with me”, you can save your own career data. It is stored only on your device.
Settings and usage counter. Your theme, comparison settings, and the free plan’s daily view counter are stored only on your device.

Local storage

The extension uses Chrome’s local extension storage (chrome.storage.local) with three keys: myProfile (your saved profile), settings (display preferences), and quota (the daily view counter). This data never leaves your device, is not synced, and is removed when you uninstall the extension. You can also clear your saved profile at any time from the extension’s settings page.

Network requests the extension makes

www.linkedin.com — reading the career data of the profile you have open, in your own session, exactly as your browser does when you scroll the page yourself.
media.licdn.com — loading the company/school logos and profile pictures shown in the visualization.
extensionpay.com — only for the optional Premium purchase: checking purchase status and opening the payment page. Payment itself is handled by Stripe on Stripe’s pages; CareerLine never sees or stores your payment details. ExtensionPay/Stripe process your email address for the receipt and license, under their own privacy policies.

What we never do

No data is transmitted to the developer or any third party.
No analytics, telemetry, tracking pixels, or crash reporting.
No selling, renting, or sharing of user data — there is nothing to sell.
No use of data for advertising, creditworthiness, or any purpose other than drawing the visualization you asked for.

Share images and links

Share images are rendered locally on your device. A share link encodes the visualization data after the # in the URL, which browsers do not send to any server; the link only becomes visible to others if you yourself send it to them.

Permissions, in plain words

storage — save your profile, settings, and daily counter locally.
activeTab + declarativeContent — open the panel when you click the toolbar icon, and only enable it on linkedin.com.
Host access to linkedin.com and media.licdn.com — read the open profile and load its images, as described above.

Changes and contact

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be published at this address with an updated effective date. Questions: wchccy@gmail.com.

CareerLine is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by LinkedIn Corporation.