Privacy Policy for Fortune Spindle

Last updated: August 22, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how information is handled when you install, access, or use the Fortune Spindle browser extension.

Fortune Spindle is a lightweight entertainment extension that provides a glowing ornate wheel within a browser toolbar popup. Users can spin the wheel to reveal randomly selected fortunes and use lock and reset controls to manage the current result and start a new spin.

Fortune Spindle is designed as a simple, self-contained experience. Its core functionality does not require users to create an account or provide personally identifiable information.

Privacy Summary

Fortune Spindle does not require an account, payment information, or personal profile in order to use its core fortune-spinning features.

Wheel spins, randomly selected fortunes, lock controls, and reset actions are used only to provide the entertainment functionality requested by the user.

Fortune Spindle is not designed to use browsing activity for advertising, behavioral profiling, or cross-site tracking.

1. Scope of This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies specifically to the Fortune Spindle browser extension and the functionality provided directly through its toolbar popup.

It does not govern unrelated websites, browser vendors, operating systems, extension marketplaces, or other third-party services independently used by the user.

2. Core Purpose of Fortune Spindle

The primary purpose of Fortune Spindle is to provide a simple interactive fortune wheel that users can access directly from the browser toolbar.

The extension displays a decorative glowing wheel that can be spun to reveal a randomly selected fortune.

Controls are also provided to lock a result or reset the wheel so that the user can continue interacting with the extension.

3. Information We Require

Fortune Spindle does not require personally identifiable information for its standard functionality.

Users are not required to provide:

4. No Account Required

Fortune Spindle does not require users to create a dedicated account in order to access its standard fortune wheel.

Users do not need to register a username, password, profile, or email address simply to spin the wheel or view a fortune.

5. Toolbar Popup Interface

Fortune Spindle is designed to operate through a compact popup that opens when the user activates the extension from the browser toolbar.

The toolbar popup contains the controls and visual elements required to operate the fortune wheel.

Users can interact with the extension without navigating away from the webpage they are currently viewing.

6. Fortune Wheel Functionality

The main interactive element in Fortune Spindle is a decorative wheel that responds to user-initiated spin actions.

When a spin occurs, the extension determines a result and displays a fortune selected from the available fortune content.

Functional values used during a spin may include:

7. Random Fortune Selection

Fortune Spindle uses a random or pseudo-random selection process to choose a fortune when the user spins the wheel.

Randomization is used purely as part of the entertainment experience.

A fortune result is not intended to represent a factual prediction about the user or provide personalized analysis based on personal information.

8. Fortune Content

Fortunes displayed by the extension are intended for casual entertainment and creative enjoyment.

The extension does not require personal information in order to select or display a fortune.

Fortune results are not generated from a user's browsing history, financial information, private communications, health information, or other sensitive personal data.

9. Lock Control

Fortune Spindle includes a lock control that allows the user to keep a current fortune or wheel state visible.

The lock state is a functional application value used only to control the user interface.

Locking a fortune does not create a personal profile or identify the user.

10. Reset Control

Fortune Spindle also includes a reset control that allows users to clear the current wheel state and begin a new interaction.

Reset functionality may restore the wheel, current fortune, animation, lock state, or related interface values to their initial state.

This functionality is used only to manage the extension's entertainment experience.

11. Temporary Application State

While Fortune Spindle is open, the extension may temporarily maintain information required to operate the wheel correctly.

Temporary application state may include the current wheel angle, selected fortune, animation progress, lock state, and other interface values.

These values are functional application data and are not inherently personally identifiable information.

12. Local Processing

Fortune Spindle is designed so that its primary interface and fortune selection functionality can be performed within the browser extension environment.

Processing associated with the extension may include:

This functionality does not require a remote personal profile to operate.

13. Browser Storage

Depending on the implementation, Fortune Spindle may use browser-provided storage to preserve functional preferences or extension settings.

Local storage, if used, may contain non-sensitive settings such as interface preferences, wheel state, or other values related directly to the extension.

Such information is intended solely to support functionality and is not intended for behavioral advertising or cross-site tracking.

14. Website Content

Fortune Spindle does not require the general content of webpages visited by users in order to provide its core fortune wheel functionality.

The extension is not designed to archive, index, analyze, or create datasets from unrelated webpage text, images, forms, or documents.

15. Browsing History

Fortune Spindle does not require a user's browsing history in order to select a random fortune.

The extension is not designed to maintain a record of websites visited by the user.

Browsing history is not intended to affect wheel results.

16. Search History

Fortune Spindle does not require users' search engine history to provide its core functionality.

Search queries performed on unrelated websites are not necessary for generating or selecting a fortune result.

17. Web Form Information

Fortune Spindle is not designed to collect information entered into forms on unrelated websites.

This includes:

18. Keystrokes

Fortune Spindle is not designed to monitor or record keystrokes entered into unrelated websites.

Keyboard input outside the extension's own interface is unnecessary for the ordinary operation of the fortune wheel.

19. Personal Information

Personally identifiable information is not required for the standard operation of Fortune Spindle.

The extension does not need to know a user's real-world identity to spin the wheel or display fortunes.

20. Sensitive Personal Information

Fortune Spindle is not designed to request or intentionally collect sensitive personal information.

The extension does not require:

21. Passwords and Authentication Credentials

Fortune Spindle does not require passwords, authentication codes, account tokens, private keys, or similar credentials for its standard functionality.

Login credentials entered on third-party websites are unrelated to the extension's purpose.

22. Financial Information

Fortune Spindle does not require payment card numbers, bank account information, transaction credentials, or other financial information in order to spin the wheel.

23. Location Information

Fortune Spindle does not require precise geographic location information for its core functionality.

The extension is not designed to track users' physical movements or create location histories.

24. Private Communications

Fortune Spindle does not require access to private emails, chat conversations, direct messages, or other personal communications.

Such information is unrelated to the extension's fortune wheel functionality.

25. Browser Permissions

Fortune Spindle is intended to use only browser capabilities reasonably necessary to support its disclosed toolbar popup functionality.

Browser permissions, if required by a particular version of the extension, are intended to support features directly related to operating the wheel, maintaining settings, or displaying the extension interface.

Browser permissions are not intended for unrelated surveillance, data brokerage, advertising profiling, or cross-site tracking.

26. Data Minimization

Fortune Spindle follows the principle that a browser extension should process only information reasonably necessary to provide its stated functionality.

Since the extension's purpose is to display and operate a fortune wheel, unrelated personal and browsing information is not required for normal use.

27. Purpose Limitation

Information processed by Fortune Spindle is intended to be used only to provide, maintain, improve, or secure the extension's disclosed functionality.

Functional wheel information is not intended to be repurposed for advertising profiling, credit scoring, employment screening, insurance decisions, or unrelated surveillance.

28. Advertising

Fortune Spindle does not use fortune results, spin actions, or lock and reset activity to create targeted advertising profiles.

The extension is not intended to monitor users across unrelated websites for behavioral advertising or remarketing.

29. Sale of Personal Information

Fortune Spindle does not sell personal information to advertisers, marketing companies, data brokers, or other third parties.

The extension's purpose is to provide an entertainment feature rather than monetize user information.

30. Data Brokerage

Fortune Spindle does not operate as a data broker.

Wheel spins, fortune results, and interface interactions are not intended to be compiled into commercial datasets for sale or resale.

31. User Profiling

Fortune Spindle does not use wheel interactions to build behavioral or demographic profiles of individual users.

A selected fortune is not intended to be analyzed as evidence of a user's personality, health status, political beliefs, financial situation, or other personal characteristics.

32. Cross-Site Tracking

Fortune Spindle is not designed to track individual users across unrelated websites.

Cross-site monitoring is unnecessary for the operation of the toolbar fortune wheel.

33. Cookies

Fortune Spindle does not require advertising cookies to provide its core functionality.

The extension is not intended to place tracking cookies on unrelated websites or use cookies for behavioral advertising.

Websites independently visited by users may use their own cookies, which are controlled by those websites and governed by their respective privacy policies.

34. Analytics

Fortune Spindle does not require personally identifiable analytics data in order to spin the wheel and display a fortune.

Fortune selections are not intended to be combined with unrelated browsing activity to create advertising or behavioral profiles.

If future versions introduce diagnostic or aggregate usage measurement, this Privacy Policy may be updated where appropriate to describe those practices.

35. Data Retention

Fortune Spindle is not designed to maintain a permanent remote archive of every fortune generated for every user.

Temporary information may remain while the extension is open so that the current wheel state can be displayed correctly.

Locally stored preferences, if any, may remain until changed, cleared, or removed through browser controls or extension removal.

36. Data Security

Fortune Spindle is designed to minimize unnecessary handling of user information.

Limiting unnecessary collection and transmission of data helps reduce potential privacy and security risks.

However, no browser extension, operating system, device, network, or electronic environment can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

37. No Continuous Background Monitoring

Fortune Spindle does not need to continuously monitor webpage content or browsing activity in order to provide its core functionality.

The extension is designed around direct interaction with its toolbar popup.

38. No Collection of Login Data

Fortune Spindle does not need to obtain usernames or passwords entered on third-party websites.

Login information is unrelated to the extension's fortune wheel purpose.

39. No Collection of Payment Data

Fortune Spindle does not need access to payment forms, banking information, credit card numbers, or checkout information in order to provide its features.

40. No Collection of Private Messages

Private emails, chat messages, social networking conversations, and direct messages are not required by Fortune Spindle and are not intended to be collected by the extension.

41. No Collection of Health Data

Fortune Spindle does not require health, medical, biometric, or wellness information to generate fortune results.

Fortunes are not intended to constitute health analysis or medical advice.

42. Entertainment Purpose

Fortune Spindle is intended for entertainment and casual creative use.

Fortune results are randomly selected entertainment content and should not be interpreted as guaranteed predictions, professional recommendations, or factual statements about future events.

43. No Professional Advice

Fortune Spindle does not provide professional legal, financial, medical, psychological, employment, insurance, or investment advice.

Users should not rely on a fortune result as a substitute for qualified professional advice or independent judgment.

44. No Monetary Wagering

Fortune Spindle's wheel is intended as a casual entertainment interface.

Its standard fortune-spinning functionality is not intended to require a financial wager, monetary stake, or purchase in order to determine a fortune result.

45. No High-Impact Automated Decisions

Fortune Spindle does not use personal information to make automated decisions affecting users' credit, employment, insurance, housing, eligibility, legal rights, or other similarly significant matters.

Automated processing is limited to ordinary extension operations such as wheel animation, random fortune selection, locking, and resetting.

46. Single Purpose

Fortune Spindle has a clear single purpose: providing a glowing, interactive fortune wheel within a browser toolbar popup.

Features reasonably related to this purpose may include:

47. Third-Party Websites

Fortune Spindle may be installed while users browse third-party websites, but those websites remain independent from the extension.

This Privacy Policy does not govern the privacy practices, analytics systems, cookies, or data processing of unrelated websites.

Users should review the privacy policies of third-party services they choose to use.

48. Browser Platforms

Fortune Spindle operates within a browser environment provided by a third-party browser vendor.

Browser vendors may independently process technical information associated with installation, browser security, updates, crashes, or extension management according to their own policies.

49. Chrome Web Store and Extension Marketplaces

If Fortune Spindle is distributed through the Chrome Web Store or another browser extension marketplace, installation and update processes may be managed by that platform.

Fortune Spindle is intended to comply with applicable extension marketplace requirements concerning disclosed functionality, permissions, and responsible handling of user information.

Browser capabilities should be used only for purposes related to the extension's disclosed functionality.

50. Children's Privacy

Fortune Spindle is a general-purpose entertainment extension and is not designed specifically for the purpose of collecting personal information from children.

The extension does not require children or other users to submit personal information in order to use its standard fortune wheel.

51. International Users

Fortune Spindle may be available to users in different countries or regions.

The extension is designed to minimize unnecessary handling of personal information regardless of where users are located.

Users remain responsible for using the extension in accordance with laws and regulations applicable in their jurisdiction.

52. User Control

Users control when Fortune Spindle is opened and when the wheel is spun.

Users decide whether to lock a fortune, reset the interface, perform another spin, or close the extension.

Users may also disable or uninstall Fortune Spindle through their browser's extension management interface.

53. Clearing Local Settings

If Fortune Spindle stores functional settings locally, users may be able to clear those settings using browser extension controls or other browser data management features.

Clearing extension data may reset saved preferences or interface state to default values.

54. Removing Fortune Spindle

Fortune Spindle can be disabled or removed at any time through the browser's extension management interface.

After removal, the extension will no longer operate within that browser.

55. Changes to Fortune Spindle

Fortune Spindle may evolve over time to improve wheel animation, decorative effects, fortune content, performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, or interface design.

Future features may remain related to the extension's core fortune wheel experience.

If a future release materially changes how user information is accessed, processed, stored, or shared, this Privacy Policy may be updated accordingly.

56. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to Fortune Spindle, technical implementation, browser marketplace requirements, applicable laws, or privacy practices.

When this Privacy Policy is revised, the "Last updated" date displayed at the top of this page will be changed accordingly.

Users are encouraged to review this page periodically if they wish to stay informed about how Fortune Spindle handles information.

57. Legal Requirements

Information may be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order, legal process, or another valid governmental request.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to prevent compliance with applicable legal obligations.

58. Contact

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the privacy practices of Fortune Spindle, please contact the developer using the contact information provided on the extension's official browser store listing or official website.

Please do not include passwords, payment credentials, authentication tokens, government identification numbers, or other unnecessary sensitive information in privacy-related communications.

59. Acceptance of This Privacy Policy

By installing or using Fortune Spindle, you acknowledge that you have had an opportunity to review this Privacy Policy.

If you do not wish to use Fortune Spindle under the practices described in this policy, you may discontinue use and uninstall the extension from your browser.