Privacy Policy

Orbit CRM — LinkedIn Capture Extension · Last updated: February 8, 2026

        The short version: Orbit runs entirely on your machine. We don't collect, store, or transmit your data to any external server. Your contacts, notes, and relationship data never leave your computer.
    

What Orbit Is

Orbit is a personal CRM (Contact Relationship Manager) that runs locally on your computer. The Chrome extension ("Orbit CRM — LinkedIn 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 person's name (from the page URL and text)
Their headline/job title (from the page text)
Their location (from the page text)
The LinkedIn profile URL

This data is extracted from the page you're already viewing — the extension does not make any additional requests to LinkedIn or any other external service.

Where Your Data Goes

The extracted profile 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, analytics platform, or third-party server
No data is collected by the extension developer
No telemetry, tracking, or usage analytics are collected
No cookies are set or read by the extension

Data Storage

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

The extension does not store any data in Chrome's local storage or cookies. All data goes directly to your local Orbit server.

Permissions Explained

activeTab: Allows the extension to read the current LinkedIn page when you click the extension icon. It cannot read any page you haven't explicitly activated it on.
host_permissions (linkedin.com): Required to run the content script that extracts profile data from LinkedIn pages.
host_permissions (localhost): Required to communicate with your local Orbit server to save/search contacts.

Third-Party Services

The extension itself communicates with zero third-party services. The broader Orbit application (running locally) may optionally connect to:

Google Calendar API (read-only, if you opt in) — to detect relationship signals from your calendar events
Anthropic API (if you provide your own key) — for AI-powered contact enrichment and natural language queries

These are optional features configured by you, using your own API keys. No data flows through any Orbit-operated server.

Open Source

Orbit is open source. You can review every line of code, including the extension, 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 tool with no data collection, significant privacy changes are unlikely.

Contact

Questions about this privacy policy? Reach out to Colton Hess at github.com/colton-hess.