Effective 8 November 2026

Overlook is a Chrome extension that shows your Google Search Console properties on one screen, lets you switch between them quickly, and flags traffic drops. This policy explains what data it accesses, how that data is used, and where it is stored.

Overlook has no servers. Everything it reads from Google is fetched by your own browser and stays on your device. The developer never receives, stores or sees your data.

Data Overlook accesses

• Search Console data, through the Search Console API with the read-only scope webmasters.readonly: the list of properties in your account and your permission level for each, daily search performance (clicks, impressions and average position) for roughly the last six months, and the top three search queries per property for the date range you're viewing.
• Basic Google account information, through the email and profile scopes: your email address, name and profile photo. These are used to show which account is connected and to renew access without asking you to sign in again.
• An access token issued by Google when you connect. It expires after about an hour and is renewed silently while you're signed in to Google.
• The address of Search Console pages you open, and the signed-in account shown there. On search.google.com, the extension reads the page URL to know which property and report you're on, so the switcher can keep you on the same report and list recently opened properties first. It also reads the email address on Search Console's account button, so that when several Google accounts are signed in, links open under the account Overlook is connected to. It does not read anything else on those pages, or on any other website.
• Your preferences: pinned properties, groups, hidden properties, date range, sort order, theme and alert thresholds.

How the data is used

Only to provide the extension's features: showing performance for each property, comparing periods, detecting week-over-week drops, ordering the switcher, and linking to the right Search Console report. Overlook does not use your data for advertising, does not sell it, does not use it to determine creditworthiness or for lending, and does not use or transfer it to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.

Where the data is stored

• Search Console data, account information, preferences and recently opened properties are kept in your browser's local extension storage, on your device. They are not synced or uploaded anywhere.
• The access token is kept in session storage, held in memory and cleared when the browser closes.

Overlook refreshes the cached data about every three hours while your browser is open, so drop alerts stay current.

Network requests

The extension only contacts Google:

• accounts.google.com to sign you in.
• www.googleapis.com to read Search Console data and your basic account information.
• oauth2.googleapis.com to revoke access when you disconnect.