Last Updated: March 15, 2025
PubMed Navigator ("we", "our", or "this extension") respects your privacy. This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and process the information you provide when using our Chrome extension.
PubMed Navigator collects the following types of information:
Website Content: We process literature information displayed on the PubMed website, including journal names, authors, titles, and DOIs, to display impact factor and quartile information.
User Activity: We store your filtering preferences (such as impact factor thresholds, journal quartile selections) and your saved literature information.
Browsing History: We may process the URLs of PubMed pages you visit to activate extension features on appropriate pages.
All information we collect is used only for the following purposes:
Displaying journal impact factor and quartile information in PubMed search results
Saving your filtering preferences and favorite literature
Providing literature export and management functions
All collected information is stored only in your browser's local storage. We do not upload any data to our servers or share it with any third parties.
Since all data is stored on your local device, data security is primarily provided by your browser. We do not access, transmit, or process data stored on your device.
You can uninstall this extension at any time through your browser's extension management interface, which will delete all local data we store. You can also reset all preferences through the extension's settings.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes when the extension is updated.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at:
Email: jo.sun@hotmail.com