Privacy Policy

Ambient New Tab browser extension and ambientnewtab.com, made by Rainbase Leads Inc., Brooklyn, New York · Effective September 9, 2026

Ambient New Tab replaces your browser's New Tab page with an animated scene. It is built to run entirely on your computer. The short version: it keeps a few settings on your device, it never collects your browsing history or search terms, it has no analytics, no ads, and no tracking, and we never sell data because we never have it.

What the extension stores on your device

The extension saves a small amount of data in your browser's local extension storage so your choices survive a restart. This stays on your computer and is never sent to us:

• Which theme you chose and your day/night setting.
• Cached thumbnail images of the themes, rendered on your own graphics card for the theme picker.
• Whether you have Pro (see Payments below).
• For the Bitcoin Rocket theme, recent public Bitcoin price points so the chart draws instantly.

Uninstalling the extension deletes all of it.

What the extension never collects

• Your browsing history, the pages you visit, or the contents of other tabs.
• Your search terms. The search box on the New Tab page sends what you type straight to Google, the same as typing in the address bar; it does not pass through us.
• Your name, email, location, or any account information.
• Usage analytics. There is no telemetry of any kind.

Music sync (optional)

"Sync with your music" makes the scene react to audio playing in another tab. It only starts when you click the button, and it asks the browser for permission (tab capture) at that moment. The audio is analysed on your device into a handful of loudness levels (bass, mids, treble, beat) that drive the animation. Nothing is recorded, stored, or transmitted anywhere. Playback continues normally, and sync stops when you stop it, close the tab, or close the browser.

Bitcoin price feed (optional)

The Bitcoin Rocket theme draws a live Bitcoin price chart. When you choose that theme, the extension asks for permission to contact api.exchange.coinbase.com, Coinbase's public market-data service, and then fetches public prices from it. These requests carry no personal information from us; like any web request they reveal your IP address to the server, and Coinbase's privacy policy applies to that service. No other theme makes network requests.

Payments

Pro is sold through ExtensionPay, which uses Stripe for card processing. Checkout happens on extensionpay.com, not inside the extension, and we never see or store your card details. ExtensionPay keeps the email address you give at checkout and your payment status so your purchase can be restored later, and it tells the extension whether you have paid; that yes/no is the only thing the extension stores. The extension includes a small script that runs only on extensionpay.com pages to complete this handshake. ExtensionPay's and Stripe's privacy policies govern their handling of your information.

Permissions, in plain terms

• storage — save your settings on your device.
• offscreen — run the audio analysis for music sync in the background.
• tabCapture (optional, asked only when you click Sync) — hear the tab you are syncing to.
• api.exchange.coinbase.com (optional, asked only when you pick Bitcoin Rocket) — fetch public prices.

This website

ambientnewtab.com is a static page with no accounts, no forms that send us data, and no cookies. "Email me the link" simply opens your own mail app. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits; it sets no cookies, does not fingerprint you, and shows us only aggregate numbers such as page views and country. Our hosting provider (Cloudflare) may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses, for security, as any website host does.

Children

The extension and site are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new effective date. Because the extension collects nothing, changes would only ever describe new optional features.

Contact

Rainbase Leads Inc. · Brooklyn, New York · [email protected]