Privacy Policy

01 Overview

Vantload Downloader — Browser Companion is a Chrome extension that hands downloads and videos from your browser to the Vantload Downloader desktop app on your own Windows PC. It has one job: catch a URL, and pass it to an app already running on your computer. It is not a service, has no backend, and no server operated by the developer is involved anywhere in that path.

02 What the extension can see

The extension looks at the following, and only to do its one job:

• Download URLs — when Chrome starts a download, the extension reads that download's URL and suggested filename so it can offer it to Vantload Downloader.
• Video elements on the page you're watching — the content script checks the page's <video> elements (their size and whether they are playing) to decide where to show the "Download this video" button. To avoid covering the site's own controls it also notes where the page's other buttons are on screen, and on feed pages it looks at the links in the post that is playing to find that post's address. All of this is worked out on your computer and none of it is kept or sent anywhere.
• The video's address, when you click the button — only then is the address of the video or its page handed to the desktop app. It does not read page text, form fields, passwords, or messages.

03 What it stores

The extension keeps exactly one value in chrome.storage.local: whether you've switched it on or off from the popup. That's the entire contents of its storage — no history of downloads, no browsing activity, no video URLs are retained after they're handed off.

04 Why each permission exists

05 What it never does

06 The desktop app

The extension only works together with the Vantload Downloader desktop app, so for completeness here is what the app does with your data:

• It stores locally, on your PC only: your download list (file names, addresses, progress) and a couple of settings such as theme. These live in your Windows user profile (%APPDATA%\VantloadDownloader) and are never uploaded. Deleting that folder removes them.
• It connects to the sites you choose to download from. When you download a file or video, your computer contacts that site directly — the same as your browser would. For videos it uses the open-source tools yt-dlp and ffmpeg, which are bundled with the app and run on your computer.
• It has no accounts, no analytics and no telemetry, and it does not phone home. It does not check for updates in the background.
• It can start with Windows and stay in the system tray so it can catch downloads from your browser. You can turn this off in Options, and uninstalling removes it.

07 Third parties

None. The extension does not integrate any third-party SDK, analytics library, or remote API, and it talks to nothing except the Vantload Downloader desktop app on your computer. The desktop app bundles the open-source tools yt-dlp and ffmpeg, which run locally; they connect only to the sites you ask them to download from.

08 Children's privacy

Vantload Downloader — Browser Companion is a general-purpose utility not directed at children, and it does not knowingly collect data from anyone, of any age — see Overview above.

09 Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date at the top of this page will change with it. Since this extension has no account system or mailing list, this page is the single source of truth — check back here if you want the current version.

10 Contact

Questions about this extension or this policy: zasghar991@gmail.com