Last updated: 8 November 2026
Extension version covered: 1.3.2
Privacy and support contact: digital.arun.09@gmail.com
City Wise Keyword Rank Checker helps you manually check where a website appears in Google Search for a city or map location you select. When you click Search, the extension sends your keyword and selected location to Google. Your recent City Wise searches stay in your Chrome profile. The developer does not receive your search history, selected coordinates, or Google location-cookie backup through the extension.
Search keyword. City Wise uses the keyword you enter to open the Google search you request.
Selected location. City Wise uses the country, city, region, latitude, and longitude relevant to your search. If you enter a full Google Maps URL or Plus Code, the extension processes it locally to obtain coordinates. It saves the resulting coordinates in your recent search entry. It does not save the original pasted Maps URL in that entry.
Recent search activity. The dashboard saves up to 20 submitted searches in your Chrome profile. An entry includes the keyword, location selection, coordinates, precise-location setting, and submission time. This lets you repeat a previous check.
Result-tab information. During a check, the extension uses dashboard and result-tab identifiers to associate each result with the dashboard that opened it. It examines the result tab’s URL to manage the location setting and release it when the tab leaves Google. It does not read Chrome’s general browsing-history database.
Google’s displayed location. The extension reads the location-footer text on the Google results page and displays it beside your requested location. This comparison happens in the result tab. The extension does not upload the footer text to the developer.
The location you select can be any place you want to research. The dashboard does not need your actual GPS location to select a city or use a map pin.
When you start a search, City Wise opens an HTTPS connection to Google Search with your keyword and a location parameter. It also supplies the selected coordinates in an X-Geo header on applicable Google search requests from that result tab. If Google requests browser location and your Chrome site permissions allow it, the tab can provide the coordinates selected for the check.
Your public IP address stays the same. As with an ordinary visit to Google Search, Google can receive your network IP address, applicable Google cookies, and account information associated with your browser session. Google processes that information under the Google Privacy Policy.
Google may save a search location in a cookie named UULE. To help your browser return to its usual location behaviour after a rank check, City Wise temporarily saves the previous state of this location cookie in browser session memory.
When a check ends, City Wise compares the cookie with the locations used for active checks. If it recognizes a cookie that matches a completed test location and is no longer needed by another active check, it restores the previous value or removes the matching cookie if it was created during the check. Unrecognized values and independently changed values that do not match a test location are left in place.
City Wise requests only cookies named UULE for this feature. It does not read Google sign-in cookies, clear all Google cookies, or send the location-cookie backup to the developer.
Closing the dashboard releases the coordinate overrides and location-header rules for its result tabs. Google Search tabs that still show those results are refreshed with the current keyword using an ordinary Google Search URL. Closing an individual result tab also ends that tab’s check.
Google determines the area it displays after the check. That area can depend on your normal browser permissions, network, Google account activity, and any location Google had already saved before you used City Wise.
Recent searches are stored in the dashboard’s local browser storage. New entries replace older ones after the 20-entry limit is reached. To delete all saved City Wise searches, open the dashboard, select History → Clear history, and confirm. Closing the dashboard ends the location check but keeps your recent searches available for reuse.
Temporary session data includes tab identifiers, the selected location, and the information used to restore the UULE cookie. This data is held in browser session memory during the relevant checks. After normal cleanup of the last associated check, the temporary cookie backup is removed.
City Wise does not use Chrome Sync to upload its search history. Clearing City Wise history does not delete Google account activity, Google cookies, or Chrome’s own browsing history. You can manage those separately through Google and Chrome settings.
Debugger. Sets the browser coordinates for the result tab you open through City Wise and observes navigation so the override can end. Chrome displays a debugging notice while the attachment is active. You can select Cancel on that notice to end the attachment.
Declarative request rules. Adds the selected location header to applicable Google Search requests in the extension-created result tab. The temporary rule is removed when the check ends.
Storage. Keeps the temporary tab and location information needed to manage active checks and restore the previous location-cookie state. The dashboard separately uses local storage for recent searches.
Cookies. Reads and restores the Google UULE location cookie as described above.
Google host access. Access to https://www.google.com/* supports search requests and the location-footer comparison. Access to https://google.com/* allows the extension to handle the UULE cookie when Google sets it for the parent domain.
City Wise uses the information described in this policy to provide the search you request, compare locations, restore normal search behaviour, and let you reuse recent checks. The extension has no developer-operated analytics endpoint, advertising tracker, or external ranking-service backend. Its city index is included in the extension package.
The developer does not sell extension user data, use it for advertising, transfer it for purposes unrelated to the extension’s single purpose, or use it to determine creditworthiness or for lending. City Wise’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
This privacy policy is hosted on Google Sites. Visiting this website is separate from running a rank check. Google may process information associated with your visit under its Privacy Policy.
If you email support, the developer receives your email address, message, and any attachments you choose to send. These are used to respond to your request and investigate the issue you report. Please avoid sending passwords, Google account credentials, or screenshots containing unrelated personal information. You may request deletion of your support correspondence by contacting the same email address.
If the extension’s data practices change, this page will be updated with a revised date and a description of the applicable practices.
For privacy questions, support, or requests concerning information you have emailed to the developer, contact digital.arun.09@gmail.com.