WorkZen Privacy Policy

Last updated: 14 October 2026

Publisher: Ecom Swift LLC · support@ecomswiftllc.com

WorkZen is a productivity extension for Google Chrome. This policy describes exactly what the extension does with data. It is written from the implemented code, not from a template.

The short version

WorkZen has no account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking.
Your tasks, notes, time entries and settings stay in your own Chrome profile on your own device.
WorkZen does not read the websites you visit or your browsing history.
The only personal data that can leave your device is the email address used to unlock Premium (typed by you, or the one you enter at our checkout). It is sent to our license server to check your plan.

What WorkZen stores, and where

WorkZen saves the following in chrome.storage.local, inside your Chrome profile on your computer:

Tasks (title, notes, subtasks, due date and time, repeat rule, priority, status, project, tags, estimate)
Projects (name, colour, optional hourly rate)
Focus sessions, time entries, planner time blocks and day templates
Your settings, including optional display name, focus workflows, blocked-site list and schedule
Internal state: the running timer, install time and counters for the 48-hour report and the review request
Your Premium license record (see below)

WorkZen does not sync this data. It is not encrypted by WorkZen beyond the protection your operating system and Chrome profile provide. Anyone with access to your unlocked computer and Chrome profile can read it.

Data that leaves your device

Premium unlock and checks. If you buy Premium and unlock it, WorkZen sends the email you typed, plus the product name workzen, to www.ecomswiftllc.com. The server answers with your plan. WorkZen repeats this check about once a day in the background while a license is stored. If you cancel the monthly plan from inside WorkZen, it sends your email and order number to the same server. Free users send nothing. Automatic unlock: when you click Get Premium, WorkZen remembers that for up to two hours. During that time a small script that runs only on www.ecomswiftllc.com (our own website) watches the checkout email field and, if you are signed in, asks our server whether your session has a WorkZen plan. It keeps the email on your device and WorkZen then checks that email with our license server about once a minute for up to 30 minutes, until your payment shows up, so Premium unlocks without typing. The script does nothing at all when you have not just clicked Get Premium, never reads any other field or page, and never runs on any other site. You can always unlock by typing your purchase email instead. This email is used only to look up your plan and is handled under our privacy practices at ecomswiftllc.com.
Links you click. The Chrome Web Store review page, our pricing page, our website, mail and WhatsApp links open normally in your browser. Those sites run under their own policies. WorkZen sends them nothing from your data. Pricing and contact links carry a short campaign tag such as utm_source=workzen.

WorkZen loads no remote code, fonts, scripts or images. Everything it runs is bundled in the extension.

Features that touch the browser

Right-click "Add to WorkZen as a task". When you select text and choose this menu item, WorkZen saves the selected text and the address of that page into a new task. Nothing is read or saved otherwise.
Website blocker. If you turn the website blocker on or start a timed block, Chrome asks you to let WorkZen access all sites. That is how Chrome lets an extension block sites. WorkZen uses the access only to block and redirect the sites on your own list and to show its own block page. WorkZen never reads page content, and the list and rules stay on your device. You can remove the access at any time in Chrome.
Idle detection. If you track time and step away, WorkZen asks whether to keep or discard the idle time. Chrome tells WorkZen only whether the computer is idle or locked, never what you were doing.
Ambient sounds and the end-of-session chime are generated on your device. Nothing is downloaded or recorded.
Free-plan report every 48 hours. On the free plan, WorkZen can open a tab with a performance report built from your own local data, and a Premium offer. You can turn it off in Settings or from the report itself. Premium users never get it.

Permissions and why they are needed

Permission	Why
`storage`	Saves your tasks, time and settings on your device.
`alarms`	Wakes the extension when a timer ends, a reminder is due, the toolbar countdown ticks, a blocker schedule changes, or the free-plan report is due.
`notifications`	Shows timer, reminder and end-of-day notifications. You can switch every notification off in Settings.
`offscreen`	Plays the end-of-session chime and ambient sounds. Chrome requires an offscreen document for sound from a background worker.
`idle`	Lets the time tracker ask what to do with time you were away.
`contextMenus`	Adds the right-click "Add to WorkZen as a task" item.
`sidePanel`	Lets you keep WorkZen open in Chrome's side panel.
`declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess`	Lets the blocker act on the sites on your block list. It does nothing without the optional site access below.
All sites (optional)	Requested only when you turn the blocker on or start a timed block. Used only to block and redirect the sites on your list. Page content is never read.
`www.ecomswiftllc.com` (content script)	Runs only on our own website, only for up to two hours after you click Get Premium, to unlock Premium automatically after you pay. It does nothing on any other site.

Your controls

Export all your data as JSON, import it again, and export CSV files in Settings.
Delete all your data, or reset WorkZen completely, in Settings. Your Premium license is kept so you do not lose what you paid for. Use "Remove from this device" on the Premium page to forget it.
Uninstalling the extension removes all of its stored data from Chrome.
Turn off notifications, sounds, idle detection, the blocker and the 48-hour report in Settings.

Children

WorkZen is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at the same address and the "last updated" date will change. Any future feature that sends data off your device will be optional and disclosed here and in the store listing before it ships.

Contact

Ecom Swift LLC · support@ecomswiftllc.com