Darkroom privacy policy

Last updated October 5, 2026

Darkroom is a Chrome extension with a small helper app on your computer. It captures the state of a web page when you ask it to, and saves that capture to a folder on your computer. This page says what it collects, where that goes, and what never leaves your machine.

What Darkroom collects

When you capture a page, Darkroom records:

• a screenshot of the page;
• the page's console messages and errors;
• its network requests;
• its DOM and accessibility tree;
• its local and session storage;
• basic environment details (browser version, screen size, URL);
• any note, tags or issue link you add.

Between captures, the extension keeps a short buffer of recent console and network events for each tab. That buffer lives only in your browser's memory, so a capture can include what happened just before you clicked.

Where it goes

Only to your own computer. The extension hands each capture to the Darkroom helper app over Chrome's native messaging. The helper saves it in the matching project's .captures folder, or in your Darkroom Inbox. Darkroom has no server that receives captures, no account, and no analytics. It never sells, shares or transfers your data.

If you use Claude Code with Darkroom, Claude reads captures through a local MCP server that runs on your computer. When you ask Claude about a capture, the parts it reads are sent to Anthropic as part of your Claude conversation, under your own Claude account and Anthropic's terms. This is the same as pasting them into the conversation yourself.

Redaction

Before anything is written to disk, the helper app redacts secrets it recognises: tokens, API keys, cookie values, authorization headers and similar values. They are replaced with a marker naming the rule that matched ([REDACTED:<rule>]). Password field values are never recorded, even with redaction turned off. You can turn redaction off for a project you own. The Inbox always redacts.

Network use

The helper app checks darkroom.michaelkandy.com for signed updates, at most once an hour. That request carries only the helper's version, operating system and processor type. As with any web request, the server sees your IP address. This is the only network connection Darkroom makes.

Your control

• Turn recording off from the toolbar icon's menu, or exclude a site.
• Captures are ordinary files in folders you choose. Move or delete them as you like.
• Remove the extension from chrome://extensions, and uninstall the helper app from your system's app settings. Neither touches your captures.

Contact

Questions or problems: use the Support tab on Darkroom's Chrome Web Store listing.