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Privacy

PokerNow Tracker keeps a record of the poker hands you play on PokerNow, on your own computer. This page says what that record holds, where it goes, and what each of the extension’s permissions is for. PokerNow Tracker is not affiliated with PokerNow.

What it stores

• The logs of the games you open. Every line PokerNow’s own game log shows at the table: seats, actions, showdowns, stacks, and the names and PokerNow IDs of the players. Where PokerNow sends it to you, this includes your own hole cards.
• Feedback you haven’t sent yet: the text in ⚙’s feedback box, so it survives the popup closing, and the times of your last few sends, for its limit of one a minute and five a day.
• What you add yourself: which of a player’s IDs are the same person (aliases), notes on hands and players, marks on the hands you have reviewed, 🚩 flags, hand tags and saved spots.
• Your settings: the extension’s (server address, poll interval, side panel or floating), the HUD’s chosen stats, and which database and log folder to use.

Everything shown (stats, charts, reviews) is worked out from those logs on your computer.

Where it is kept

• Built into the extension (the default): in the extension’s own storage in your Chrome profile. Nothing leaves the browser. Removing the extension deletes it.
• With the companion app: in the SQLite file pnt setup created on your computer (pnt where names it), plus a CSV copy of each game in your log folder (~/Downloads/pokernow-logs unless you chose another). Which database and folder you chose is kept in ~/.pnt/config.json. The companion listens only on your own computer (127.0.0.1) and answers only the extension and its own pages.

The extension’s own settings are kept with Chrome’s synced storage, so they follow your Chrome account like any extension’s settings. Nothing else is synced.

What it sends, and to whom

• To PokerNow: requests for the log of a game you have open, or one whose link you pasted to fetch. They go from your browser, with your PokerNow login, exactly as the game page itself would ask.
• To the companion app, if you use it: the same logs, over your own computer’s loopback address.
• To Web3Forms, only when you press Send in ⚙’s feedback box: what you typed there, the email you gave for a reply (if any) and the extension’s version. Web3Forms is a form-to-email service; it forwards the message to the developer’s inbox. No hands, names or settings go with it.
• To anyone else: nothing. No analytics, no crash reports, no accounts, no remote server of ours. The Python the built-in tracker runs (Pyodide) ships inside the extension and loads nothing from the network.

The data is not sold, shared, or used for anything but showing it back to you.

Permissions, and why

Permission	What it is used for
pokernow.com/games/*, pokernow.club/games/*	Read the game log of the table you are at, and recognise game tabs so the side panel can open on them
storage, unlimitedStorage	Settings; and the built-in tracker’s database, which grows with every hand and must not be cleared by the browser to make room
sidePanel	Show the HUD beside the game, not over it
offscreen	Run the built-in tracker’s database in a background worker
127.0.0.1, localhost (optional)	Reach the companion app, only when you choose it in the settings
nativeMessaging (optional)	Let Chrome start the companion app while it runs (pnt connect), only when you choose it
scripting	When the extension is installed or updated, re-attach its own log reader to PokerNow game tabs already open, so they keep recording without a reload. It runs only the extension’s own files, only on those tabs

Deleting it

• Built in: remove the extension, or clear its data in chrome://extensions.
• Companion: delete the database file (pnt where names it) and the log folder.

Questions

Email jaydenle360@gmail.com.