Vesper records how you spend your time in one Chrome profile, so it can write your day up for you.
Everything Vesper records stays on your own computer. It is never uploaded, and there is nowhere to upload it to — the developer operates no server and can never see any of it.
No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party code of any kind. A day leaves your machine only as a file you choose to save.
Vesper is published by an individual developer, ordinarily resident in Jamaica, contactable at the address at the foot of this page. There is no company, no team and no third party involved.
Only while tracking is switched on, and only in the single Chrome profile it is installed in. This is the complete list:
Every item above exists to make a feature you can see work. Nothing is recorded speculatively, and nothing is kept that no feature reads.
| What is recorded | The feature it makes possible |
|---|---|
| Site, page title, time spent | The day's line items and the written summary — the whole product |
| Search terms | Turning an hour of scattered tabs into one readable line, such as "Research — capacity planning" |
| Typing, reading and idle state | Counting reading and calls as work instead of stopping the clock the moment you stop typing |
| Video call state | Separating meeting time from heads-down time without counting an hour twice |
| Meeting titles and times | Naming a quiet period so you don't have to, and so it need not ask you |
| Notes, answers, what it learns | Correcting the day before you commit it, and not being asked the same question twice |
| Workspace name and work email | Telling your profiles apart, and naming whose timesheet an export is |
When you install Vesper, tracking is off. Nothing is recorded until you open the settings, read a plain description of exactly what will be recorded, and press Start tracking. You can pause it at any moment from the toolbar.
Each of the items above can be switched off individually. When one is off it is never written down in the first place — it is not merely hidden from view. You can also list websites that Vesper must never record; time on those is either counted with no detail kept, or not counted at all, whichever you choose.
In your browser's local extension storage, on your own machine. Vesper uses local storage only and never Chrome's sync storage, so nothing is copied to your Google account or to your other devices.
Detailed activity is compressed after 7 days and deleted after a period you choose, 45 days by default. Delete all data in the settings removes everything immediately. Removing Vesper from chrome://extensions deletes everything it holds.
Optional, off by default, and only if you set it up: if you paste your calendar's private address into the settings, Vesper fetches that calendar directly from your browser so meetings can label themselves. It reads only event titles and their start and end times. It never writes to your calendar, and it sends nothing to anyone — not to the developer, not to anybody.
Leave that empty and nothing ever leaves your browser at all.
Your own exports are the other way data moves, and those are files you save deliberately — a PDF, a spreadsheet or a text file, saved where you choose.
The complete list:
There are no third-party libraries, no analytics service, no advertising network, no crash reporter and no data broker. The extension contains no third-party code. Your data is never sold, never shared and never transferred.
Vesper's use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Both optional connections use a secure (https) address, so anything sent is encrypted in transit. What is stored on your computer is not encrypted — it sits in your browser's own extension storage. Anyone who can use your computer, or who has your Chrome profile, can read it. Vesper is not a vault; it is a notebook that stays on your desk.
No certification, audit, security review or standard is claimed. None has been carried out.
This is personal information — hostnames, page titles and search terms all describe you. It is not anonymous and this policy does not pretend otherwise.
But because it is held on your own computer and the developer never receives it, there is nobody to make a request to. You hold it directly, and every right is a button:
| What you may want | How to do it |
|---|---|
| See everything held about you | Settings → Back up everything, which downloads the complete contents as a readable file |
| Take it elsewhere | The Export screen: a PDF, a spreadsheet (.csv) or a text file (.md), for any week, fortnight or month |
| Correct something | Every line item can be renamed, re-timed or removed on the review screen before it is committed |
| Erase all of it | Settings → Delete all data, or remove the extension |
| Stop the processing | Pause from the toolbar, at any time |
Vesper is free software published by one individual who receives no data from it and no revenue from it. On that footing it does not meet the applicability thresholds of the California Consumer Privacy Act, and the General Data Protection Regulation is not engaged, since Vesper is not offered into the European Union and the developer neither collects nor monitors anything.
Rather than claim compliance with regimes that do not apply — or a certification that does not exist — this policy sets out plainly what is recorded, why, where it stays, and how to remove it. Storing your time log is the very thing you asked Vesper to do, and it is used for nothing else.
If you are subject to rules that require more than this, the honest answer is to ask before installing.
Vesper is a tool for working adults. It is not directed at children, and it is not knowingly made available to anyone under 13.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the previous versions remain visible in the public history of the repository this page is published from.
Questions about this policy, or about Vesper: bkeepersja@gmail.com