Last updated: 18 September 2026
The short version
roloNotes has no server. No backend, no account, no sign-up. Nothing you write is ever sent to the developer, to an analytics service, or to any third party, because there is nowhere for it to be sent. Your notes stay in your own browser, or in your own Google Drive, and nobody else can read them.
Two requests do leave your machine, and both are worth naming rather than glossing over. If you connect the Google Sheet, roloNotes talks to Google's own APIs — with your token, to your file. And when a list shows profile photos, the images load from LinkedIn's image server, exactly as they do when you browse LinkedIn; roloNotes keeps a link, never a copy, and sends no referrer with the request. Neither goes anywhere that belongs to the developer, because nothing does.
What the extension handles
- The notes and tags you write. Whatever you type into the panel.
- The name and headline shown on the LinkedIn profile you are looking at. These are read from the page you already have open, so you do not have to type them, and they are saved alongside your note. Nothing else on the page is read, and no page is visited that you did not open yourself.
- The profile's web address, which is how a note is matched to a person.
- A link to the person's profile photo, so that lists of people show a face rather than a pair of initials. This is a link to LinkedIn's own image server, not a copy of the picture — no image file is ever downloaded, stored or sent anywhere. The link is read from the page you are looking at, kept on your own machine, and one copy is saved alongside the note so a second device has something to show.
- The person's current employer, read from the same page, so lists can be sorted and searched by company.
- Two dates: when roloNotes last looked at their profile, and when something about it last changed.
- Your settings: which of the two storage options you chose, and the id of your notes spreadsheet if you use one.
That is everything. The extension does not read your LinkedIn messages, connections, feed or account details, and it does not run on any site other than linkedin.com.
Updating people you have already saved
There is one feature that visits a page you did not open: Update from LinkedIn, on the full page, which refreshes the photo and employer of people you select.
Somebody's new job is only knowable from their profile, so roloNotes opens each selected profile in a background tab, reads it, and closes it again. It is deliberately restrained: one profile at a time, a pause between each, a limit of twenty-five per run, and a Stop button. It only ever runs when you press the button — there is no schedule and no background job — and nothing about those pages is sent anywhere. It is your browser reading your own contacts' pages, the same pages you could open yourself.
Where it is stored
You choose, on the extension's settings page, and you can switch at any time.
Chrome's synced storage (the default). The data sits in your browser profile. If you have Chrome Sync switched on, Chrome copies it between your own signed-in devices through Google, the same way it syncs your bookmarks. That transfer is Google's, under your own account, and is covered by Google's privacy policy. If Chrome Sync is off, the data never leaves the machine you typed it on. Chrome encrypts synced data on Google's servers with keys Google holds; set a sync passphrase in Chrome's settings if you want it end-to-end encrypted with a key only you have.
A Google Sheet in your own Drive (optional). If you connect it, the extension creates one spreadsheet in your Drive and reads and writes your notes there. The file is yours. It is in your Drive, under your account, and you can open, edit, share or delete it like any other file.
The Google permission it asks for
Only one scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file. That is Google's per-file scope, and it grants access to files the extension itself created — nothing else in your Drive is visible to it, ever.
Sign-in is handled by Chrome, not by this extension. Chrome holds the access token and refreshes it. The extension never sees your password and never receives a refresh token. Pressing Disconnect on the settings page revokes the token with Google and forgets it.
roloNotes' use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
What is never done
- Your data is never sold, rented or shared with anyone.
- It is never used for advertising, profiling, or training any model.
- It is never transferred to the developer or to any third party. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting and no tracking of any kind.
- No code is downloaded and run at runtime. Everything that executes ships inside the published package as plain, unminified JavaScript — if you want to check any of this, the extension's own folder on your machine holds every line that runs.
- There is no analytics service, no error reporting service, and no third-party code of any kind in the extension.
Keeping it, and getting rid of it
Your notes stay until you delete them. There is no retention period, because there is no copy on anybody's server that could expire.
- One person: open their profile and press Delete in the panel.
- Everything, from Chrome storage: uninstall the extension. Chrome deletes its storage with it, on every device where it was synced.
- Everything, from a Google Sheet: delete the spreadsheet in your Drive. Uninstalling the extension does not remove it, because the file belongs to you and not to the extension.
- Revoke the Google permission at any time, whether or not the extension is still installed, at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions.
There is an Export as CSV button on the settings page if you want a copy before you go.
Children
roloNotes is a tool for professional note-taking and is not directed at children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the new version appears at this address. Material changes will be noted in the extension's store listing.
Contact
Questions about this policy: xanguera@gmail.com
Not affiliated with LinkedIn
roloNotes is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to LinkedIn or Microsoft.