Privacy Policy

Stepless is a browser extension published by Etta Biotechnology Inc., a corporation registered in Delaware, United States, which is the data controller for the purposes of this policy. "We" and "our" below refer to that company.

What the extension does with page content

When you click Scan this page, the extension injects the open-source axe-core engine into the tab you are viewing and analyses the page in place. Results are held in the popup for as long as it is open. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is retained after you close it.

What is stored on your device

• Your company name and client name, if you enter them for report branding. Stored via Chrome's storage.sync, which means Chrome may sync them across your own signed-in browsers.
• Your plan (free or pro).
• A monthly export count, so the free tier limit can be enforced locally.

That is the complete list. Uninstalling the extension removes it.

Website content, and what "reading" means here

To find accessibility failures, the extension necessarily reads the content of the page you scan — its text, images, links, form fields and computed styles. That reading happens inside your browser, in the moment you ask for it. The content is used to produce the findings you see, and then it is gone: it is not sent anywhere, not written to disk, and not retained once you close the popup. We never receive it, so we could not retain it if we wanted to.

Chrome asks us to declare this as handling "website content" even though nothing is transmitted, and we do. We would rather over-declare than have you discover something we glossed over.

What we do not collect

• No analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting.
• No browsing history — the extension sees only the single tab you submit for a scan, and keeps no record of it.
• No URLs, form input, or credentials are stored or transmitted.
• No advertising or tracking identifiers, and no profile of you.
• No account — the extension never asks you to sign in.

Reports you export

Exported reports are generated in your browser and saved to your own computer. They contain the findings and markup snippets from the page you scanned. Where those reports go afterwards is entirely up to you; we never see them.

Permissions, and why each is needed

• activeTab and scripting — to run the accessibility check on the page you explicitly ask to scan. Neither is used until you click the button, and access ends with the scan.
• storage — to remember your branding details and plan.
• downloads — to save the report file you asked for.
• Access to extensionpay.com — used solely to check whether your licence is active, and only if you have upgraded. No information about the pages you visit is sent there.

The extension holds no permission for any website you browse. It can read a page only in the moment you ask it to scan one.

Payments

If you upgrade, payment is handled by our payment provider, who receives only what is needed to process the transaction. We never see or store your card details. The extension records only whether your plan is free or pro.

Third-party code

Stepless bundles axe-core by Deque Systems (Mozilla Public License 2.0), unmodified. It runs locally and makes no network requests.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the updated version will be published here with a new date before the change takes effect.

Contact

Etta Biotechnology Inc., Delaware, United States.
Questions about privacy, or requests about data held on your device: randomnewventures@protonmail.com

We aim to reply within five working days.