The short version: your data lives in your browser, on your computer. There is no account, no cloud, no analytics, no tracking, and nothing is ever sold. The extension never connects to LinkedIn — the browser itself enforces that.
What Sourcer's Desk stores — locally only
Everything you create in the extension is saved in your browser's local extension storage on your own computer:
- Your projects, clients, and candidate cards (names, titles, companies, public profile links, notes, statuses)
- Your saved searches and search templates
- Email formats and domains looked up for companies you research
- Your settings
None of this is transmitted to us or to any server. We could not read it if we wanted to — there is no "us" on the wire. Uninstalling the extension deletes it all (export a JSON backup first if you want to keep your work; backups are ordinary files saved to your computer).
What leaves your machine, and why
The extension talks to a small, fixed list of services — each for one specific job. This list is enforced by the browser: the extension cannot contact any site not declared in its manifest.
| Service | What is sent | Why |
|---|---|---|
www.google.com / www.bing.com |
The searches you run | These are your own searches, opened in your browser. On the results page you are viewing, the extension reads that page to show its capture buttons. |
cloudflare-dns.com |
A company's domain name | A standard DNS query to check whether the domain can receive email. |
autocomplete.clearbit.com |
A company's name | To find the company's website domain. |
www.signalhire.com / www.email-format.com |
A company's name or domain | To read those sites' publicly published email-format pages for that company. |
That's the complete list. No candidate names, notes, lists, or selected text are ever sent anywhere. Company names and domains are the only things transmitted, and only when you click a lookup.
The extension never connects to, reads, automates, or runs on linkedin.com — for any
purpose. linkedin.com appears nowhere in the extension's permissions, and
Chrome therefore blocks the extension from touching it. This is enforced by the browser, not
merely promised — anyone can verify it by opening the extension's manifest.json.
You view profiles yourself, logged in as yourself, exactly as you would without the extension.
The right-click "Send selection" feature
When you highlight text on any page and choose Send selection to Sourcer's Desk, Chrome hands the extension only the text you selected. That text is parsed on your machine to fill in a candidate's employer and title, and is never transmitted to any server. If parsing fails, the extension may save the received text as a small file in your Downloads folder so you can see exactly what was received — that file stays on your computer.
Browser permissions, in plain English
| Permission | Used for |
|---|---|
storage | Saving your projects and settings locally |
tabs | Opening your searches, and reusing one side window for profile viewing |
contextMenus | The right-click "Send selection" menu item |
notifications | Confirmation pop-ups telling you what a send did |
downloads | Saving your CSV exports, JSON backups, and the diagnostic file described above — to your computer only |
What we don't do
- No accounts, no sign-in, no cloud sync
- No analytics, telemetry, or usage tracking of any kind
- No advertising, no data brokers, no selling or sharing of data — there is no data to sell
- No remote code: everything the extension runs ships inside the extension package
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with an updated effective date. Questions: glenn.quinting@gmail.com.