RaiseSteady Guard privacy

Last updated: 7 November 2026

This page is about RaiseSteady Guard, the free browser extension, with its Windows and Linux program and its Android app, made by RaiseSteady. It is written for parents who install it, and for anyone who checks an extension before a child uses it.

1. Who we are

1.1 Guard is made and published by Nexodyne Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16539459), whose registered office is at 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom ("we", "us"). We run RaiseSteady (raisesteady.com). Guard is free and open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0, so anyone can read the code at github.com/tengotengo23/raisesteady-guard.

1.2 For anything about Guard and privacy, email info@raisesteady.com.

2. What we collect

2.1 Nothing. Guard has no server of ours. It does not send us your child's browsing, search words, time used, name, age or any device identifier, and it has no account or log-in.

2.2 Because we receive nothing, there is nothing for us to store, share, sell or delete.

3. What stays on your device

3.1 So that it can work, Guard keeps these things on the computer or phone where it is installed, and nowhere else:

• the settings a parent chose: the child's age, the PIN (kept as a scrambled value, not readable), times, bedtime, allowed and blocked sites;
• minutes used each day, the names of sites visited (never full addresses), blocked pages, game minutes and the apps that were closed, kept for 30 days;
• the words the child searched for on a search site or YouTube, read from the address of a search result page only (never from the page itself), cut to 100 characters, at most 50 different ones a day, kept for 30 days. A parent can switch this off on the parent page, and then nothing is recorded. The child is told about it in the extension's window;
• the child's "Ask a parent" requests, kept for 7 days.

3.2 This information is readable by the parent only, through the parent page behind the PIN, and on a shared computer by administrators. In the browser it is held in the extension's own storage. The extension talks to the Guard program on the same computer (address 127.0.0.1) and to nothing else of ours.

3.3 To delete it, remove the extension from the browser, and uninstall the Guard program or app. The parent page also lets a parent switch off search recording.

4. Checking pages

4.1 The extension reads the web address of each page, and for the topic filter the search words, the page title and description, the main headings, and YouTube video titles. It compares them with fixed word and site lists built into the extension. This happens inside the browser. It uses no artificial intelligence and sends nothing anywhere.

4.2 The block lists (adult, gambling and filter-bypass sites) are part of the extension. It does not download lists or code from anywhere. Updates arrive only as new versions of the extension through the browser's store.

5. Two connections you can switch off

5.1 Family DNS filter (the Windows, Linux and Android program only; on unless the parent switches it off). The child's browsers look up site names through AdGuard DNS, a free public service. AdGuard sees the site names and your internet address, as any DNS service does. Its own policy is at adguard-dns.io/en/privacy.html. The extension alone does not use it.

5.2 Chosen YouTube videos (with Focus mode on). The new tab page and the YouTube start page show videos from chosen learning channels. To list them, the child's browser fetches each channel's public feed from youtube.com (kept for 6 hours), checks a video's address to leave out Shorts, and loads thumbnails from YouTube's image server. YouTube sees your internet address, as when the child opens youtube.com. No account or key is used.

5.3 Apart from these, the extension and the program do not send information to other networked systems.

6. What the permissions are for

6.1 The extension asks the browser for these permissions, and uses each only for the reason given:

• Storage: its settings, today's time, and the queue for the program on the same computer.
• Blocking rules (declarativeNetRequest): to block listed sites, switch on safe search and YouTube Restricted Mode, and show the time-is-up and bedtime pages.
• Navigation (webNavigation): to remember which site a tab tried to open, so the block page can name it and a parent can allow it.
• Alarms: to count time every 30 seconds, start a new day at midnight and check bedtime.
• Notifications: the 5-minute warning, break and bedtime reminders.
• Idle: to stop counting browsing time when nobody uses the computer.
• All websites: to check each page, count video time, apply redirects and headers, and reach the program on 127.0.0.1.

6.2 Guard does not use the tabs, scripting, cookies or history permissions. It does not read passwords, form entries, messages or cookies.

7. Children

7.1 Guard is a tool for parents to make a child's browser safer. It is installed and set up by a parent. We do not collect personal information from children, or from anyone, through Guard. It is provided as is, without any guarantee, and it does not replace a parent's attention.

8. What this page does not cover

8.1 This page covers only Guard. The RaiseSteady website (raisesteady.com) has its own Privacy Policy at raisesteady.com/nexodyne-privacy-policy, which describes what the website collects and your rights.

8.2 The browser stores (Chrome Web Store, Microsoft Edge Add-ons, Mozilla Add-ons, Google Play) handle the download and updates under their own privacy policies. They may show us overall numbers such as installs. None of this tells us who you are.

9. Changes to this page

9.1 We may update this page if Guard changes. The date at the top shows when it last changed. If a future version ever collected any data, this page would say so first.

10. Contact