Privacy Policy

What Airlift reads

To find the video on a page and make AirPlay work, the extension runs on the pages you open and looks at:

• the video elements on the page — their size, duration, playback state and what kind of source they use;
• the addresses the page’s own player requests for the video stream;
• the names of the HTTP headers that player sets — never their values;
• which video and audio codecs the page uses, and whether the video is DRM-protected;
• the address of the page and of the frames inside it.

All of this is read in order to answer one question: is there a video here that AirPlay cannot reach, and can Airlift help.

Why it asks for access to every site

A video player can be on any website, so the extension has to be able to run anywhere. Safari asks you to grant this — for one site or for all of them — and you can change or revoke it at any time in Safari’s extension settings.

Beyond that access, Airlift requests one permission: browser storage, for its own settings.

What it stores, and where

• Your settings — whether the button is switched on, plus the developer options. These are on/off values and nothing else. They live in the browser’s extension storage on your Mac.
• A snapshot of the current page — what Airlift found on the tab you have open, so the panel can show it. This lives in session storage, which Safari clears when you close the tab or quit the browser.

Nothing else is written anywhere, and none of it is kept beyond your browser.

What it never does

• No servers, no uploads, no telemetry, no crash reporting.
• No account, no login, no device or user identifier.
• No analytics and no advertising, of any kind.
• No header values, no cookies, no authentication tokens — only header names are ever recorded.
• Nothing is sold, rented or shared. There is no third party involved to share it with.

Network activity

When a page assembles video inside the browser, Airlift opens that same stream in a player of its own. That player requests the video from the website’s own servers, exactly as the page’s player would, using the cookies your browser already sends.

So the website you are watching sees a request from your browser, as it would anyway. Nothing is routed through anyone else.

The diagnostic report

The developer panel has a “Copy report” button. It places a technical summary on your clipboard, and only when you press it. Query-string values are stripped from the addresses first, so signed links and tokens are not copied.

The report is not sent anywhere. It is yours, to share or not.

Children

Airlift is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone, at any age.

Changes

If this policy changes, the effective date above changes with it. Anything material will be called out on this page rather than slipped in quietly.

Contact

Questions about this policy: yo.kononov@gmail.com.