Local library content
The desktop app stores your saved items, captures, notes, metadata, thumbnails, imported files, media files, and local file paths in your Favoritism library on your device.
Privacy
Favoritism privacy policy.
This policy explains how Favoritism handles data for the website, desktop app, and browser extension. Last updated August 31, 2026.
What Favoritism is for
Favoritism is a local-first web library for saving and organizing web content you choose to keep. The desktop app stores and organizes your library on your device, and the browser extension exists to save or capture selected web content into that library.
Data the desktop app handles
Account and license status
When you sign in or use paid features, the desktop app may contact Favoritism services to check account identity, license status, subscription state, quotas, and download eligibility.
AI and enrichment requests
When you use AI-assisted features, the desktop app sends only the selected item content, schema details, and evidence needed for that extraction or enrichment request.
Updates and download metadata
The desktop app may request app update metadata, release information, and short-lived download access from Favoritism services. If you install Favoritism from Microsoft Store, app updates are handled by Microsoft Store.
YouTube account data
When you connect YouTube, the desktop app requests read-only access to your YouTube account. It may retrieve your channel ID and name, playlists you can access, playlist membership, and video metadata such as titles, descriptions, thumbnails, duration, privacy, embeddability, and made-for-kids status.
Data the browser extension handles
Pages and URLs you choose to save
When you save a page, post, PDF, image, video, or supported saved-items surface, the extension reads the URL, title, visible page metadata, selected page content, and the media needed to create the item in your Favoritism library.
HTTP/S website access
The extension requests access to HTTP/S websites because its core purpose is to save and capture content from arbitrary web pages you choose, without asking for a new site permission on every domain. It does not request non-web scheme access for generic saves.
Browser captures
When you choose a screenshot or recording action, the extension captures only the viewport, selected area, or full page you asked it to capture. Recordings continue until you stop them or the capture flow ends.
Authenticated saved content
For site-backed saves that need your logged-in browser session, the extension may read cookies or build authentication-related request headers for that site. This is used only for the save you selected. For YouTube, ordinary videos and playlists use Google OAuth and the official YouTube API; only an explicitly confirmed bulk Watch Later import uses the signed-in YouTube tab because Watch Later is unavailable through that API.
AI extraction evidence
When an AI-assisted Web type or Article save is used, Favoritism sends a compact page sample, schema details, and relevant evidence to the Favoritism AI service so it can suggest or fill structured fields.
Optional semantic search
Semantic search is off for new libraries until you confirm setup. Preparing saves sends relevant text and reduced, metadata-free image previews through Favoritism’s cloud AI services. Searching by meaning sends the query for cloud encoding. Raw PDF files are not uploaded; bounded extracted text and locally rendered previews may be used.
Basic includes search indexing. Pro adds AI-generated descriptions under the same consent, including future saves after an upgrade. Existing saves are prepared only when explicitly selected, including the optional whole-library snapshot in setup. You can pause both preparation queues or turn the feature off in Settings → Search. Already-started requests may finish. Your saved library is not deleted.
Search indexes, descriptions and preparation progress are stored locally. Favoritism’s gateway retains operational metadata such as account/device identifiers, task, status, timing and usage/cost, not submitted text, images, queries or model responses. It forwards content to OpenRouter and the configured model provider, whose own processing and retention policies apply. Favoritism’s local-storage and gateway retention promises do not describe those third-party systems.
See OpenRouter’s data collection and provider privacy guidance. Keyword search continues offline; new uncached semantic queries need an internet connection. Delete search data separately in Search settings without deleting your saves.
How extension data is used
Extension data is used to provide and improve the single purpose of saving and capturing user-selected web content into Favoritism. This includes creating library items, downloading selected media when requested, filling structured fields, showing import status, and retaining an import backup if the desktop app is not reachable.
Cookies and authentication-related headers are used only for the specific logged-in save, continuation request, media recovery, or download that needs the current browser session. When a cookie jar is sent to the desktop app for a download, it is used for that immediate download flow and is not written into the archived import payload.
Where data is shared
Favoritism desktop app
Extension saves are handed to the Favoritism desktop app through the local bridge. The desktop app imports the item into your local library.
Favoritism service
Account, licensing, download, update, and AI-gateway requests are handled by Favoritism services. AI requests include the evidence needed for the requested extraction task.
Model provider for AI features
AI extraction requests may be sent by the Favoritism AI service to its configured model provider. Favoritism uses that provider only to provide the requested AI extraction or enrichment feature.
No sale or advertising use
Favoritism does not sell extension data, does not use it for advertising, and does not transfer it to data brokers.
Storage and retention
Saved items and captures are stored in your Favoritism desktop library on your device. The extension also uses Chrome local storage for preferences, recent save context, progress state, and recovery state needed to complete user-requested saves. Favoritism service logs are used for authentication, billing, licensing, security, debugging, quota enforcement, and reliability.
Google OAuth refresh tokens are stored only in your operating system's secure credential store. Access tokens are kept in native app memory and are not stored in your library or browser settings. YouTube API metadata in your local library is marked for refresh every 30 days; Favoritism refreshes expired metadata while your account is connected and clears API-derived details that are unavailable or cannot be refreshed. Raw YouTube import payloads are not retained in import archives.
Google and YouTube data
Favoritism's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google account data is used only to import, display, refresh, and organize the YouTube content you ask Favoritism to save. It is not used for advertising, profiling, or training generalized AI models.
Connecting YouTube grants the read-only scope. Favoritism cannot use that authorization to add, edit, or remove YouTube videos or playlist items. Disconnecting asks Google to revoke the authorization and deletes the local credential. You can also revoke Favoritism from your Google Account's third-party access controls.
Bulk Watch Later import is different: YouTube does not expose Watch Later through its official API. If you explicitly choose that feature, the browser extension enumerates video IDs using the private session of the signed-in YouTube tab. The extension and desktop app disclose this before collection and import. YouTube cookies and authentication headers are not included in the data sent to Favoritism.
Website analytics and cookies
Favoritism may use Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics on the website to understand page visits, plan-selection patterns, and whether checkout flows are working. Analytics runs only after you accept optional analytics cookies.
Website analytics events do not include your library content, saved items, account IDs, email addresses, payment details, Clerk identifiers, or Stripe identifiers. You can reject analytics or reopen cookie preferences from the website footer.
Desktop app updates
Favoritism for Windows is the desktop app, whether you install it from Microsoft Store or another Favoritism download. It stores your library on your device and may contact Favoritism services for account sign-in, license status, AI features, and download access where applicable. If you install it from Microsoft Store, app updates are handled by Microsoft Store.
Your controls
You choose when to save, capture, or run a bulk save. You can stop recordings from the popup or on-page recording controls, disable extension settings that change save behavior, delete items from your local Favoritism library, remove local library files from your device, sign out of Favoritism services, uninstall the browser extension, and uninstall the desktop app.
In YouTube Connection settings, you can disconnect at any time to revoke access and remove the stored OAuth credential. Your locally saved library items remain under your control and can be deleted in Favoritism.
Chrome Web Store limited use disclosure
Favoritism uses information received from Chrome extension APIs only to provide or improve the extension's single purpose: saving and capturing user-selected web content into Favoritism. Favoritism's use of that information complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Contact
For privacy questions or support requests, email support@favoritism.app.