Privacy Policy — Commute Times with Traffic

Last updated: 2 November 2026

Commute Times with Traffic is a browser extension that displays live traffic travel times for the routes you save, and suggests when to leave in order to avoid heavy traffic. This page explains exactly what the extension stores, what it sends, and to whom. In short: your data stays between your browser and the routing provider you choose (Google Maps, TomTom or Mapbox), and nothing is sent to the developer.

What the extension stores

The following is saved in your own browser storage and is not accessible to the developer:

Your routes — the labels you choose and the Point A / Point B values you enter, which may be addresses, place names or coordinates.
Your API keys — the Google Maps, TomTom and/or Mapbox key you supply so the extension can request traffic data. They are your own keys, for your own accounts.
Call counters — how many requests the extension made per provider per day, shown in Settings and used to enforce the daily limit you set.
Your preferences — traffic badge mode, background refresh interval, and best-time-to-leave settings.
Cached results — the most recent travel times, distances and traffic estimates, so the extension can display something instantly when opened.

Preferences and routes may sync through Chrome's own sync storage, which means they follow your signed-in Chrome profile across your devices. That syncing is performed by Chrome, not by the developer.

What the extension sends, and to whom

To get travel times, the extension sends your saved routes to the traffic service you choose in Settings. It uses your own API key, and nothing passes through the developer.

The service can be any one of these:

Google Distance Matrix API — maps.googleapis.com (Google's Privacy Policy)
TomTom Routing API — api.tomtom.com (TomTom's Privacy Policy)
Mapbox Directions API — api.mapbox.com (Mapbox's Privacy Policy)

Who receives your data: your main service, and your fallback service only if you set one up and the main one fails. No other third party receives it.

Location: only when you press the locate button does the extension read your device's approximate coordinates. They are compared on your device with the coordinates of your saved routes to work out which route is nearest to you. If a saved route uses a text address instead of coordinates, your coordinates are sent to your selected routing provider as the starting point of a single route measurement for that route. Your location is never stored, never logged, and never sent anywhere else.

No developer-operated server exists. The developer cannot see your routes, your location or your API key.

What the extension does not do

No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, advertising or tracking of any kind.
No reading of the web pages you visit. The extension has no content scripts and does not collect browsing history or page content.
No selling, renting or transferring of user data to third parties.
No collection of health, financial, personal communications or account authentication data.
No remote code. All logic ships inside the extension package.

Your control

Remove any saved route at any time in the extension's settings.
Export a backup of your routes and preferences, or import one, from the settings page.
Removing the extension deletes the data it stored locally.

Children

The extension is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this address with a new "last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to the developer email address listed on the extension's Chrome Web Store listing page.