Last updated: 13 July 2026
Chrome Broom is a browser maintenance and optimisation extension designed to help users manage tabs, clean browser data, monitor performance and use browser recovery and organisation tools.
Your privacy is important. Chrome Broom is designed to perform its functions within the Chrome browser and does not sell user data.
Chrome Broom may process the following information when required to provide features selected or enabled by the user:
Chrome Broom may access information about browser tabs, including:
Page URLs
Page titles
Favicons
Whether a tab is active, pinned, discarded, audible or grouped
Tab age and activity information
Saved, parked, snoozed or snapshot tab information
This information is used only to provide Chrome Broom features such as tab sleeping, duplicate tab detection, tab parking, tab snoozing, snapshots, tab organisation, old tab detection and recovery tools.
Chrome Broom stores information needed to remember the user's choices and operate its features, such as:
Enabled and disabled tools
User preferences and settings
Tab sleeping rules
Scheduled or snoozed tabs
Parked tabs
Saved snapshots or sessions
Maintenance and feature configuration
This information is stored using Chrome's extension storage facilities.
When performance monitoring features are enabled or viewed, Chrome Broom may access system information such as:
CPU information
System memory information
Open and sleeping tab counts
Other browser tab states used by the performance dashboard
This information is used to display performance and browser health information to the user.
Chrome Broom can clear browser data when the user explicitly requests a cleaning or repair action.
Depending on the action selected, this may include browser cache or other supported browsing data. Chrome Broom uses this access only to carry out the cleaning or repair action requested by the user.
Chrome Broom does not use browsing data for advertising, profiling or tracking.
Information accessed by Chrome Broom is used only to provide and operate its browser maintenance, optimisation, tab management, monitoring and recovery features.
Chrome Broom does not use user data to:
Display personalised advertising
Build advertising profiles
Track users across websites
Determine creditworthiness
Sell user data
Provide user data to data brokers
Chrome Broom does not transmit browsing data or other user data to the developer's servers.
Chrome Broom does not sell, rent or share user data with advertisers, data brokers or other third parties.
The extension does not contain advertising or third-party analytics intended to track users.
Settings and feature data required by Chrome Broom are stored using Chrome's extension storage facilities.
Saved information remains available for as long as it is required by the relevant feature or until it is removed by the user, cleared from the extension, or removed when the extension is uninstalled, subject to Chrome's own browser and storage behaviour.
Temporary performance information is used to provide the relevant monitoring features and is not used for advertising or user profiling.
Chrome Broom is designed around user control.
Features can be enabled or disabled by the user, and automatic tools operate only when their relevant options are enabled.
Users can also remove saved information through Chrome Broom's available controls or by uninstalling the extension.
Chrome Broom requests Chrome permissions only where they are needed to provide its features. These permissions may include access to:
Browser tabs and tab groups
The currently active tab
Browser data cleaning functions
Extension storage
Scheduled alarms
System CPU and memory information
Page-level scripting required for specific user-requested tools
These permissions are used only for Chrome Broom's disclosed browser maintenance and optimisation features.
The use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
This privacy policy may be updated if Chrome Broom's features or data practices change.
Any updated version will be published on this page with a revised Last updated date.