Privacy
Athenana is a personal tool, running on a server its owner
operates. It has no analytics, no trackers, no advertising, and no third-party
services beyond the ones named below. Nothing is sold, and nothing is given to
third parties.
What the browser extension sends, and where
The extension sends what you save to the server you configure in its
options — nowhere else. There is no Athenana service in
the middle. It authenticates with an API token you generate on your own account
and paste in yourself.
When you click save, it sends:
- the page's address and title;
- the page's description and preview image, if it publishes them;
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a JPEG screenshot of the visible part of the tab — kept for your own
board, and never published;
- the text you had selected, if you used "Save highlight".
It sends these only when you click the toolbar button or choose the context-menu
item. It does not read pages you have not asked it to save, and it does not run
in the background on the sites you visit.
The permissions it asks for, and why
- activeTab, scripting
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Read the title, description and preview image of the tab you are saving, and
photograph it. Granted for that one tab at the moment you act.
- contextMenus
- Add the "Save highlight" item to the right-click menu on selected text.
- storage
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Remember your server address and API token, in your browser's own extension
storage.
- One site, granted when you ask
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Permission to talk to your server. The extension requests the single
address you type into its options; it never asks for access to all sites. If
an install prompt ever says it can read your data on every website, that is a
bug — please report it.
What is shown publicly
Athenana has a front page, and it shows recent
links saved by the person who runs this server. What that
means for what you save:
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The front page shows links and nothing else — a note, an image or a
highlight is never put on it.
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Only that one person's links appear there. If this is not your server,
nothing you save is displayed on the front page at all.
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Any link can be marked private, and then it is never shown anywhere but
in your own account.
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One setting on your account keeps everything you save private,
whatever the individual items say.
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The pictures on that page come from the publisher of the page being linked
to — their own preview image. The
screenshots are never published, because a screenshot is a
photograph of the tab as it was and can catch a page you were signed in to.
What the server stores
The items you save, their tags, and the screenshots and page copies taken when
they were saved. They stay on the server until you delete them. Deleting your
account removes them.
Third parties
Two, both on the server's side rather than the browser's, and both only for
things you have saved:
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Anthropic, to generate tags and read text out of images.
Saved page content is sent for that purpose and is not used to train models.
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Apple, for Sign in with Apple, which is how you sign in. It
tells the server an account identifier and nothing about what you save.
The server also fetches the pages you save, directly, in order to archive and
screenshot them.
Contact
This is one person's project. Questions, and requests to delete an account
and everything in it, go to
support@wyome.com, which reaches a
person rather than a ticket system.
Last updated 21 August 2026.