Talysman for Microsoft Edge Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 21, 2026

This policy applies only to the Talysman extension distributed through Microsoft Edge Add-ons. The Edge extension is a local companion to the Talysman desktop application.

What the Edge extension processes

The extension receives the current focus status, blocking mode, and the domain list configured by the user in the locally installed Talysman desktop application. It converts that configuration into Microsoft Edge block, allow, and redirect rules. When a top-level website navigation is denied, Edge redirects it to a fixed page packaged in the extension stating that Talysman blocked the website. The fixed page does not receive or display the attempted URL.

Microsoft Edge evaluates those rules internally. The extension does not receive, read, or record the URLs a user visits, browsing history, page content, search terms, cookies, form data, or request contents.

Collection, use, and sharing

The extension does not collect or transmit personal information, browsing activity, analytics, telemetry, or advertising data to Talysman or to any third party. It contains no advertising or analytics SDKs and makes no Internet requests.

The extension sends one fixed hello control message to the Talysman native messaging host on the same computer. The local companion responds with the blocking configuration described above. This local communication is used only to provide the extension's disclosed website-blocking function.

Talysman does not sell, broker, share, or disclose Edge extension data, use it for advertising, or permit human access to it.

Local storage, access, and deletion

The extension does not use browser storage. Microsoft Edge stores its dynamic blocking rules locally so they survive a background-worker or browser restart. Rules are replaced when the Talysman configuration changes and are removed automatically when the extension is uninstalled. If the desktop companion disconnects, the last applied rules remain until it reconnects or the user disables or removes the extension.

The Talysman desktop application separately stores the domain list the user configured. Users can view, change, or delete that configuration in the desktop application.

Permissions

• declarativeNetRequest lets Microsoft Edge apply the configured block, allow, and redirect rules without exposing individual requests to the extension.
• nativeMessaging lets the extension exchange blocking state with the locally installed Talysman desktop companion.
• <all_urls> host access lets Edge redirect a denied top-level website navigation to the fixed page packaged in the extension. Edge requires host access for declarative redirect rules. The extension has no content scripts, does not use browsing-history or tab APIs, and is not notified when an individual rule matches.

The host permission is used only by browser-evaluated declarative rules. The extension does not use it to read page content or receive individual browsing requests.

User controls

Users choose whether to install the extension from Microsoft Edge Add-ons and can disable or remove it through Microsoft Edge's standard extension controls. Disabling or removing it stops browser-level blocking. Removing the desktop application removes the native messaging host.

Security

The native messaging registration permits only the official Talysman Edge extension ID to launch the local host. The extension contains all executable code in its reviewed Edge Add-ons package and does not download or execute remote code.

Changes and contact

We will update this page and its date before materially changing the Edge extension's data practices. Questions or privacy requests can be sent to support@talysman.app.