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Privacy Policy for Pipes

Last updated: 13 June 2026

Pipes is a Chrome extension that watches GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD pipeline status across the repositories you choose. It is fully client-side and has no backend. There is no Pipes server, and your data never reaches us.

What data Pipes handles

Pipes stores the following on your device, via chrome.storage.local:

• Access tokens: the read-only GitHub / GitLab personal access tokens you add, used to call those providers’ APIs on your behalf.
• Accounts and settings: the hosts you connect, the repositories you watch, and your notification preferences.
• Pipeline snapshots: the latest status Pipes fetched for your watched repositories, cached so the UI is instant and to detect when a status changes.

How your data is stored

All of the above lives in chrome.storage.local on your own machine. It is never synced to other devices, never logged, and never transmitted to us or any third party. There is no Pipes server to send it to.

Where your data is sent

Your token and API requests go only to the Git host you connected them to (GitHub or GitLab, including a self-hosted instance you add). Pipes makes no other network requests: no analytics, no telemetry, no third-party services.

Why the data is needed

• The token authenticates the read-only API calls that fetch your pipeline status.
• Accounts, watched repositories, and settings configure what Pipes watches and how it notifies you.
• Snapshots power the at-a-glance UI and let Pipes notify you the moment a default branch breaks.

Permissions

Tokens are requested as read-only (GitHub fine-grained: Actions + Pull requests read; GitLab read_api). Pipes cannot push, merge, or modify anything in your repositories.

Data retention and deletion

Your data stays on your device until you remove it. You can delete a token or account from the extension’s options at any time, and uninstalling Pipes clears all of its stored data.

Changes to this policy

If Pipes’ data handling ever changes, this page will be updated with a new “last updated” date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: pipes@feedmypixel.com, or open an issue in this repository.