Last updated: July 25, 2026
Mist — Minimal New Tab does not sell personal data. The extension does not send product analytics or telemetry: preferences stay in your browser. The public Mist website uses the limited, cookie-free analytics described below. Weather and favicon requests are sent directly from your browser to the services described below. Feedback uses a developer-operated Netlify function only after you choose to submit.
Local storage
Preferences including theme, shortcuts, groups and name are stored in Chrome extension storage in your browser. Mist does not upload this configuration to the developer. A configuration leaves your device only when you choose to export it.
Review-prompt dates, theme-change counts and choices are also stored locally only to avoid asking for a review too early or too often. They are not sent to an analytics service.
Weather — optional
You can enter a city or postal code, or allow Mist to estimate an approximate city from your IP address. Mist does not request precise browser geolocation. Depending on your choice, weather may contact:
- GeoJS for approximate IP-based location;
- ipapi as an approximate-location fallback;
- Open-Meteo Geocoding for a city or postal code;
- Open-Meteo Weather for current conditions.
These providers receive normal connection information, including your IP address. Mist does not store your IP address. Cached location and weather data are removed when weather is disabled.
Favicons
Shortcut icons are loaded from Google’s public favicon service. Google receives the shortcut domain and normal connection information, including your IP address. Mist does not send the shortcut label, your name or other preferences with the request.
Website analytics
The public website uses Umami to count aggregate page views, visits, referrers, device categories, countries and selected actions such as opening the Chrome Web Store listing. Mist configures this analytics without advertising cookies, cross-site tracking, fingerprinting or a persistent account identifier.
Analytics are used only to understand whether the website is useful and which public pages help visitors. Search text, extension shortcuts, extension preferences, weather locations and feedback content are not included. The private administration dashboard displays aggregate reports and is restricted to allowlisted administrator accounts.
Feedback — optional
Opening the feedback form sends nothing. After you select Send feedback, Mist sends the chosen feedback type, summary, description, optional contact, extension version and browser user-agent to a developer-operated Netlify function. The function creates a private issue in the developer’s GitHub repository.
Mist does not attach your shortcuts, name, theme, search data or weather data to feedback. Netlify and GitHub receive the connection information needed to process the request.
Use and sharing
Data is used only to provide the optional weather, favicon and user-initiated feedback functions and the aggregate website measurement described above. Mist does not use data for advertising, behavioral profiling or sale. The extension itself does not transmit usage telemetry.
Your choices and deletion
Disable weather to remove its cached data. Edit or remove shortcuts from Mist at any time. Uninstalling Mist or clearing its extension data removes locally stored preferences.
To request deletion of submitted feedback or optional contact information, contactaurelien.luxeyy@gmail.com with enough information to identify the message.
Security and contact
All transmissions described in this policy use HTTPS.
For privacy questions or support, visit Mist support or emailaurelien.luxeyy@gmail.com.