Privacy Policy

AccessLens (Chrome and Firefox extension) · Last updated 2 October 2026

What the extension does with your files

When you open a .mdb or .accdb file, it is read and parsed entirely inside your own browser tab, on your own machine. The file is never uploaded, copied off your device, or transmitted in any form. When you close the tab, nothing about it is retained.

Why this is verifiable rather than a promise

AccessLens declares no permissions in its manifest — no network permission, no host permissions, no storage permission, no content scripts, no external connectivity of any kind. The extension therefore has no technical means of transmitting data, independent of any assurance given here.

• The permissions list on its Chrome Web Store listing is empty.
• Its release build is checked automatically for network APIs and remote code; the check fails the build if any are present.
• The extension behaves identically with your network connection disabled.

Passwords

If you open an encrypted database, you are prompted for its password. That password is used in memory to decrypt the file locally and is never stored, cached, or transmitted.

What is kept on your device

AccessLens keeps two small settings in the browser's local storage for the extension, on your device only:

• If you activate AccessLens Pro: your licence key (with a checksum of it) and the time you activated it, so Pro stays switched on. The key is checked offline against a list built into the extension and is never sent anywhere.
• Whether it has already asked you to rate it, so it does not ask again.

Neither contains anything from your database files. Removing the extension deletes both.

Third parties

The extension has none. No analytics provider, no error-reporting service, no advertising network, no content delivery network. This website loads no third-party scripts, fonts or trackers either.

AccessLens Pro licences are sold through Payhip (payhip.com). If you buy one, Payhip handles the payment and your purchase details under its own privacy policy. The extension never sends anything to Payhip or anyone else; its "Get Pro" and "Rate it" buttons only open those websites in a new tab when you click them.

Data sharing and sale

No data is collected, so none is sold, shared, transferred, or used for any purpose — including advertising, credit assessment, lending, or any purpose unrelated to the extension's single function of viewing Access database files you explicitly open.

Children

The extension collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If a future version ever needed a permission, that change would be disclosed on the Chrome Web Store listing before it could be installed, and this page would be updated with the date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to the developer email listed on the Chrome Web Store listing.