Privacy & Security
uRemember.it and the uRemember.it Companion browser extension · last updated 30 October 2026
In short: uRemember.it keeps your notes for you, stores them encrypted, and does not use advertising or tracking. The browser extension only reads a page when you ask it to save it.
What we store
- Your account: your username and a hashed version of your password. We never store the password itself.
- Your notes: the titles, content and additional keywords you save, stored encrypted.
- A search index: what lets us search your notes, including their keywords, without keeping your words in readable form.
On your own device, the website keeps your login cookie, the length of login you chose (so that logging in again keeps it) and, if you dismiss the "Get the extension" line, a note of when you did, so it only comes back after a few days. None of this is sent anywhere else or used for tracking.
How we protect it
Notes are encrypted before they are stored. The service has to decrypt a note to show it to you, so this is encryption at rest, not end-to-end encryption. We use access controls, rate limiting and other safeguards to protect the service, and we keep them up to date.
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What we do not do
- No advertising, no tracking pixels, and we do not sell or share your data.
- No Google Analytics or other third-party analytics. Visits are counted with a self-hosted Umami instance that is cookie-less and anonymous.
- The note editor and icon font are served from uRemember.it itself rather than from third-party CDNs.
Third parties
- Google reCAPTCHA v3 protects login and registration from bots. It loads a script from Google when the page opens, so Google receives your IP address and browser details as described in Google's privacy policy. Your notes are never sent to Google.
- Ko-fi (optional): the "Buy me a coffee" window loads a donation form from Ko-fi only when you click it, and removes it again when you close it. See Ko-fi's privacy policy.
uRemember.it Companion (browser extension)
The Companion lets you save selected text or a whole page to your uRemember.it account from the right-click menu.
- It only reads a page when you ask. The selection or the page content is read in the tab where you chose Absorb knowledge or Absorb entire page. If a whole page is mostly an app (a file manager or dashboard) and almost nothing is left after cleaning it up, everything the page shows is saved instead. It does not read pages in the background and does not collect or keep your browsing history.
- Where the data goes: only to
uremember.it, into your own account, together with a link to the page it came from. Nothing is sent anywhere else, and the extension has no analytics or advertising. - On uremember.it itself the extension adds a small marker to the page (its version number) so the website knows the extension is installed and stops suggesting it. Nothing is read from the page and nothing is sent.
- What it stores on your device: the "Fast absorbing" setting, which stays until you remove the extension. While you are logging in, or while the "Name this knowledge" question is open, it also holds the text you selected (or the page it prepared) and the tab it came from, in your browser's temporary session storage. That is removed as soon as the note is saved or cancelled, and is cleared when you close the browser. You log in on uremember.it itself; the extension never sees your password.
| Permission | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
contextMenus | Adds "Absorb knowledge" and "Absorb entire page" to the right-click menu. |
activeTab, scripting | Reads the selected text or the page's content in the current tab, only after you choose an absorb option, and shows the title prompt and confirmation on that page. |
storage | Remembers the "Fast absorbing" setting, and temporarily the login tab and what you were absorbing while you sign in or name the note. |
Access to uremember.it | Checks that you are logged in and saves the note to your account. |
Keeping and deleting your data
- Your notes are kept until you delete them. You can edit or delete any note at any time in the app; deleting a note also removes its search index entries.
- To close your account and have all its data deleted, contact us (below).
- You can remove the Companion at any time from your browser's extension page. Its only lasting local data is the setting above.
Who we are and changes
uRemember.it is run by SixCentral. For questions about privacy or your data, reach us through sixcentral.net. If this notice changes, the date at the top is updated.