Chrome Extension

Privacy Policy — Image Inspector SEO

Last updated: 16 July 2026

Image Inspector SEO is a Chrome extension built by Faiz Azizan (drfaizazizan.com) for auditing image SEO/performance issues on web pages. This policy explains exactly what the extension does — and does not do — with data.

Short version No data is collected, stored, or sold. Everything runs in your browser. The only outbound requests are to the image URLs already on the page you scan, and to Google Lens if you explicitly right-click and choose that option.

1. What the extension does

When you click Scan page, the extension reads the images (<img> elements, CSS background-image, inline <svg>) on the currently active browser tab and displays SEO/performance details about them — alt text, dimensions, file size, format, and related flags — inside a Chrome side panel that only you can see.

2. Data collection

The extension does not collect, store, transmit, or sell any personal data, browsing history, or page content to the developer or to any third party. There is no analytics, tracking, or telemetry code in this extension.

3. Network requests the extension makes

The extension makes exactly two kinds of outbound network requests, both a direct consequence of actions you take:

Image size lookup. When the browser's built-in Performance API cannot report a file size for a cross-origin image (common for CDN-hosted images without a Timing-Allow-Origin header), the extension sends a HEAD (or, if unsupported, GET) request directly to that image's own URL to read its file size. This request goes only to the host that already served the image to your browser as part of loading the page — never to the developer's servers or any third party. The response (byte size, content type) is used only to render figures inside your own side panel and is not stored or sent anywhere else.
Reverse image search. If you right-click an image and choose "Search with Google Images (SEO)", the extension opens a new tab pointed at lens.google.com/uploadbyurl with that image's URL. This only happens on your explicit click. Google's own privacy policy governs that page.

4. Local storage

The extension does not use chrome.storage or any persistent storage. Scan results exist only in the side panel's memory for the current session and are cleared when the panel closes or a new scan is run.

5. Permissions

sidePanel — to display the audit results interface.
activeTab — to run a scan only on the tab you're currently viewing, only when you click Scan.
scripting — to inject the page-reading script when you click Scan.
contextMenus — to add the right-click "Search with Google Images (SEO)" menu item.
host_permissions (<all_urls>) — to allow the extension to function on any site you choose to audit, and to enable the image-size HEAD/GET request described in section 3 above.

6. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above will change and the new version will be posted at this same URL.

7. Contact

Faiz Azizan — drfaizazizan.com