AliExpress Image Search — Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 17, 2026

This Chrome extension ("AliExpress Image Search") is designed with privacy in mind. This policy explains what the extension does with your data and what it does not.

Data the extension handles

• The image you right-clicked. When you select "חפש תמונה זו באליאקספרס" / "Find on AliExpress" from the context menu, the extension reads that single image, converts it to a base64 data URL, and passes it to a newly opened AliExpress tab. This data is used only to submit the image to AliExpress's own image-search feature.
• A short-lived local record. The image data URL is stored briefly in chrome.storage.local solely to transfer it from the background service worker to the AliExpress tab. It is deleted automatically within seconds, as soon as the AliExpress tab reads it or after 60 seconds — whichever comes first.

Data the extension does NOT collect

• The extension has no backend server. No data is ever sent to the extension author.
• The extension does not track browsing history, form entries, cookies, or any activity outside the specific right-click action you initiate.
• The extension does not read the content of pages you visit. It only has access to the image URL of an image you explicitly right-click.
• The extension does not use analytics or any third-party telemetry.

Third parties

• AliExpress (aliexpress.com). When you trigger a search, the image is submitted to AliExpress's image-search feature through their website — exactly as if you had uploaded it manually. AliExpress's own privacy policy applies to how they handle the uploaded image. See aliexpress.com privacy policy.
• Affiliate links. When you use the extension's image-search feature to open an AliExpress tab, product links inside that tab are rewritten to include affiliate tracking parameters. This allows the extension's operator to receive a commission from AliExpress on eligible purchases, at no extra cost to you. This only happens inside tabs opened via this extension — if you navigate to AliExpress in any other tab, no tracking is added. No personal information is shared with the affiliate program — only the fact that a click originated from an extension-opened tab.

Permissions explained

• contextMenus — to add the right-click menu item.
• scripting — to read the image you right-clicked (only that image, only on demand).
• activeTab — grants temporary, one-shot access to the currently active tab only when you invoke the context menu. This is how we read the image you right-clicked. We do not have broad access to all websites.
• storage — to briefly hand the image off from the service worker to the new AliExpress tab.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above will reflect the change. Material changes will be communicated in the extension's listing on the Chrome Web Store.