Privacy

How Junk Filter handles data.

Junk Filter is independently operated by Jean Borremans in Belgium. Contact the person responsible for your data at hello@junk-filter.com. Core brand filtering needs no account. We do not sell personal data or use extension browsing information for advertising.

Local filtering and browser permissions

The extension reads product information on supported marketplace pages to label, fade or hide brands. Filter settings and personal brand lists use browser extension storage; your browser may sync these with your browser profile. Junk Filter does not receive your personal brand lists.

Website access lets the extension recognise supported shopping pages and apply your filters. You can manage this access, or disable or remove the extension, in your browser’s extension settings. The in-extension filter switch controls filtering; it does not disable all network requests.

Product data and service requests

Junk Filter has used product research to supplement its database with Amazon product and brand information. This research is currently inactive.

Existing extension versions may still send service requests containing product details, a visited domain or full URL (including query parameters and fragments), extension version and a random installation identifier. Our service discards these request bodies without reading or storing them. Public brand-list updates and reports you choose to submit are handled separately, as described below.

Previously collected URL records are retained for up to 24 hours, product-research records for up to 30 days, and hashed installation identifiers for up to 180 days of inactivity. These records expire automatically.

Public updates and reports you choose to send

The extension may check once a day for a public brand list or marketplace configuration; you can also request an update in settings. Those requests do not require your visited shopping page or search query. The bundled list works when an update is unavailable.

A brand report you submit includes the brand, local verdict, optionally the product identifier, marketplace and extension version. Written feedback is sent only after you choose to submit it. This includes an uninstall reason and optional explanation submitted through our uninstall page; the page receives the extension version but no installation identifier. We use reports to review classifications and respond to problems, not for advertising. Reports and correspondence are retained while needed to investigate and maintain accurate classifications; you can contact us to request deletion of personal information you included.

Community voting and alternatives

Voting uses a necessary random browser cookie, jf_community_id, lasting up to one year. A one-way hash associates votes with that browser to limit repeat votes. This identifies a browser rather than a person. Votes remain while the community feature needs them; public results show totals. Contact us if you need help accessing or deleting a vote.

When you choose “Find Quality Alternatives,” its link can include the product identifier, title, brand and marketplace. The website uses these to suggest relevant categories. Choosing an alternative can generate an aggregate daily count by category, brand and country. Retailer links may include disclosed affiliate tags; Junk Filter may earn a commission. You choose whether to follow a retailer link.

Cookies and optional advertising measurement

Necessary cookies support community voting and remember your cookie choice. The jf_marketing_consent cookie remembers acceptance or rejection for up to 180 days. You can withdraw a previous choice by clearing the site data for junk-filter.com in your browser. Refusing optional measurement does not affect filtering, downloads or access to the website.

Only after you accept optional measurement, the website records first-party performance events such as page views, browser-store clicks and observed onboarding visits. These events use random browser and session identifiers, the page path without query parameters, a coarse country code, source or campaign labels, browser and device category. We do not store full page URLs, precise location or page contents for this measurement, and first-party analytics events are retained for no more than 180 days. Google Ads and the X Pixel may also measure advertising visits and browser-store clicks, and we use the X Conversion API for those website events. When the extension opens the hosted onboarding page after a new installation, the Meta Pixel can record one PageView and one Subscribe event. A first-party guard prevents refreshes from repeatedly recording the same installation.

X measurement can retain an advertising click identifier (twclid) in a first-party cookie for up to 30 days. Conversion events may share a random event identifier, page address, IP address and browser user agent with an advertising provider. Google, Meta and X may also receive technical information and set their own advertising cookies when their scripts load. Their handling is described in Google’s privacy policy, Meta’s privacy policy and X’s privacy policy.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals keep optional measurement off. Withdrawing consent clears the marketing cookies we can access and reloads the page to stop loaded advertising scripts. Cookies set on third-party domains must be managed through your browser or those providers. Withdrawal stops future measurement; it does not undo data already sent with your consent.

Service providers and legal grounds

Our website is hosted through OpenAI Sites and Cloudflare. Hosting providers necessarily receive network information such as IP address, requested service URL and user agent to deliver and secure requests, to operate the service. Provider infrastructure logs have their own retention policies. Access is limited to operating, securing and supporting the service.

We rely on our legitimate interests in providing a reliable service, preventing abuse and maintaining classifications for necessary operational processing. Optional advertising measurement relies on your consent. We process correspondence you send to handle your request and comply with applicable obligations. Providers may process information outside the EEA; applicable transfer safeguards depend on their service terms and arrangements. Contact us for information about the safeguards relevant to your request.

Your choices and rights

You may request access, correction, erasure or restriction of your personal data, object to processing based on legitimate interests, and request portability where applicable. You can withdraw consent at any time. We may need limited information to locate pseudonymous records or verify a request. You can complain to the Belgian Data Protection Authority.

Questions or requests: hello@junk-filter.com.