Effective October 16, 2026 · Applies to the LayerTake browser extension
In short
LayerTake has no servers and no accounts, and its developer receives none of your data. Private pins stay in your browser. Anything you choose to share goes through Nostr relays, which are independent services you can pick yourself. LayerTake has no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and never sells data.
What LayerTake is
LayerTake lets you leave notes, called pins, on text and images on webpages, and read pins other people have shared. Pins sit in layers: Mine for private pins, Friends and Groups for pins shared with people you choose, and Public for pins anyone can read. Friends, Groups and Public are each off until you turn them on.
Stored only in your browser
Your private pins and replies, including the passage of the page they're attached to and the page's address.
Your settings, saved pins and blocked people.
Your key: a signing key LayerTake creates on your device to identify you on Nostr. It is never sent anywhere. Only its public half, which works like a username, is shared when you use Friends, Groups or Public.
Copies of public profiles and of encrypted messages addressed to you, kept so the panel loads quickly.
This information is kept in the extension's local storage (chrome.storage.local). It is not synced or uploaded. Uninstalling LayerTake deletes it. You can download a backup of your private pins and your key from Settings.
What's shared when you turn on Friends and Groups
Your profile and follows. The name, picture link and short bio you enter, and the list of people you follow, are published to your relays and are public, as they are in any Nostr app.
Pins and replies for Friends or a group. These are encrypted on your device separately for each person who should read them (Nostr NIP-44 and NIP-59). Relays store the encrypted copies. A relay can see which public keys a message is addressed to and roughly when it was sent, but not who sent it, what it says, which page it's on, or which group it belongs to.
Group membership. Group names and member lists travel the same encrypted way and are readable only by the group's members.
What's shared when you turn on Public
Public pins, replies, votes and reports you make are signed with your key and published to your relays. They include your note, the passage you pinned, and the page's address. Anyone can read them.
Page addresses. When the Public layer is on, LayerTake asks your relays for public pins on a page only when you open the LayerTake panel there. The address of that page reaches those relays. A setting called "Check for public pins on every page" changes this to every page you visit. It is off unless you turn it on.
Popular. The Popular view asks relays for recent LayerTake pins in general, without saying which page you're on.
You can delete a public pin from LayerTake. That sends a deletion request to your relays. Most relays honor it, but copies other people or services have already received may remain.
Relays and other third parties
Relays are independent Nostr servers, each with its own policies. LayerTake starts with relay.damus.io, nos.lol and relay.primal.net, and you can change the list in Settings. LayerTake only contacts relays after you turn on Friends and Groups or Public.
When LayerTake shows someone's profile picture, the picture loads from the address its owner chose, so that site can see your IP address and when the picture loaded. LayerTake loads no other outside content and runs no code from outside the extension.
What LayerTake doesn't do
It doesn't read or send the contents of pages you visit. The only page text it uses is the passage you choose to pin.
It doesn't collect analytics, crash reports or usage data.
It doesn't sell, rent or transfer your data, use it for advertising, or use it to decide creditworthiness or for lending.
Its developer runs no servers and receives none of your information.
Your choices
Leave Friends, Groups and Public off to keep everything in your browser.
Delete your own pins at any time from the pin's ··· menu.
Choose which relays to use, or remove them all, in Settings.
Uninstall LayerTake to remove everything it stored in your browser.
Children
LayerTake is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. For questions about this policy or your data, email layertake@proton.me.