Privacy Policy

Orbit CRM — LinkedIn Contact Capture Extension · Last updated: March 3, 2026

What Orbit Is

Orbit is a personal CRM (Contact Relationship Manager) that runs locally on your computer. The Chrome extension ("Orbit CRM — LinkedIn Contact Capture") helps you save contact information from LinkedIn profiles into your local Orbit database.

What Data the Extension Accesses

When you click the extension on a LinkedIn profile page, it reads the following information from the page you are already viewing:

• Name — extracted from the profile URL and page text
• Job title — parsed from the profile headline
• Company — parsed from the headline or experience section
• Profile photo URL — the LinkedIn-hosted avatar image URL
• LinkedIn profile URL — the canonical URL of the profile
• Location — if displayed on the profile

When used on a LinkedIn feed or post page, the extension can also read:

• Post author name and post content (text only)
• Post date if available

This data is extracted from the page you are already viewing in your browser. The extension does not make any additional requests to LinkedIn, does not access your LinkedIn credentials, and does not scrape or crawl LinkedIn pages in the background.

Where Your Data Goes

All extracted data is sent only to your local Orbit server running on localhost:8080 on your own machine. Specifically:

• No data is sent to any cloud service, remote server, or third-party platform
• No data is collected by the extension developer
• No telemetry, usage analytics, or crash reports are collected
• No cookies are set or read by the extension
• No advertising identifiers or tracking pixels are used

Data Storage

All contact data is stored in a SQLite database file on your local machine. You own this file completely — you can back it up, inspect it, delete it, or move it at any time.

The extension itself does not store any data in Chrome's local storage, sync storage, or cookies. All data flows directly from the LinkedIn page to your local Orbit server and nowhere else.

Permissions Explained

The extension requests only the minimum permissions necessary to function:

• activeTab: Allows the extension to read the current tab when you click the extension icon. It cannot read any page you have not explicitly activated it on, and it cannot read tabs in the background.
• host_permissions (linkedin.com): Required to inject the content script that extracts profile data from LinkedIn pages you are viewing. The extension only runs on linkedin.com pages.
• host_permissions (localhost:8080): Required to communicate with your local Orbit CRM server to save and search contacts. This connection never leaves your machine.

Third-Party Services

The extension communicates with exactly zero third-party services. All network communication occurs between the extension and your local machine (localhost:8080).

The broader Orbit CRM application (which runs locally and is separate from this extension) may optionally connect to third-party APIs if you explicitly configure them with your own API keys. These optional integrations are not part of the extension and are documented separately.

No Analytics or Tracking

This extension contains:

• No Google Analytics or any analytics service
• No crash reporting tools
• No A/B testing frameworks
• No remote configuration services
• No external JavaScript loading

Open Source

Orbit is open source. You can review every line of the extension code to verify these privacy claims at github.com/colton-hess/orbit.

Children's Privacy

Orbit is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new "Last updated" date. Since Orbit is a local-only tool with no data collection, significant privacy changes are unlikely.

Contact

Questions about this privacy policy? Reach out:

• GitHub: github.com/colton-hess
• Email: colton@rhythmicly.com