Effective date 1 January 2025

Thank you for using F U Trials. This policy explains how we collect, use, and share information on our website at futrials.com and in the F U Trials Chrome extension. If you have questions, email privacy@futrials.com.

Who We Are

F U Trials provides a consumer tool that helps you track free trials and avoid surprise subscription charges. We operate the website at futrials.com and the F U Trials Chrome extension. We are based in the United Kingdom and we support users in the United States.

Scope

  • The website at https://futrials.com
  • The F U Trials Chrome extension available through the Chrome Web Store

This policy does not cover third party sites you visit or merchants you transact with. Those services have their own privacy policies.

Information We Collect

Information you provide

  • Email address when you sign up in the side panel onboarding flow
  • Six digit verification code you enter to activate your account

Information we collect automatically

  • Internet Protocol address used once during verification to help prevent abuse
  • Basic device or browser metadata that Chrome provides to extensions such as extension version and notification delivery status

Information the extension stores for you

This data is created on your device and saved using Chrome extension storage.

  • Trials you add manually or that the extension detects automatically. This includes service name, domain, start date, length in days, scheduled reminder times, and the manage or cancel link
  • Domain mappings downloaded to your device so the extension can append your affiliate parameters locally
  • Reminder alarms and local flags that control banners and notifications

Information processed locally by the extension

The extension evaluates the active tab’s URL and page structure to decide whether to add a trial or to append an affiliate parameter. This logic runs on your device. We do not upload your browsing history or page contents to our servers as part of these checks.

Information we receive from others

  • Our email provider processes your email address to send welcome and reminder messages
  • Our affiliate partners and merchants may send us conversion reports that include pseudonymous IDs, dates, and commission amounts. These reports do not include your full payment information

How We Use Information

  • Create and verify your account
  • Detect and track free trials and schedule reminders before they expire
  • Send reminder emails at seven days, three days, and one day before a trial ends
  • Provide domain mapping so affiliate parameters can be appended to partner sites
  • Prevent fraud, protect our services, and honor rate limits
  • Comply with legal obligations

Legal bases

UK and EU Performance of a contract to provide the core service. Legitimate interests for abuse prevention and security. Consent where required by law for marketing emails. We do not send marketing by default.

United States Operational purposes that are reasonably necessary and proportionate to the service you request.

Affiliate Parameters and Cookies

The extension may append a partner specific parameter to the end of a URL when you visit a participating merchant’s domain. This happens at most once per six hours for each partner domain during normal browsing. It is always applied on checkout, sign up, or free trial pages to ensure your affiliate cookie is set.

Appending a parameter may cause the merchant or its affiliate network to set cookies on their domains. Those cookies are controlled by the merchant or network. We do not set third party cookies on their behalf and we do not receive your payment details from them.

You can prevent this behavior by turning off the extension, limiting its site access in Chrome, or uninstalling it.

What We Share and With Whom

We do not sell your personal information. We share information in these limited ways.

  • Service providers that help us run the service such as hosting, email delivery, logging, and fraud prevention
  • Merchants and affiliate networks that receive the appended parameter when you click through to their site. They are independent controllers of their own data
  • Authorities when the law requires it or to enforce our terms and protect our users

We require our providers to use your data only to perform services for us and to safeguard it appropriately.

Data Retention

  • Verification codes are stored for up to ten minutes
  • Trial records and reminder schedules are stored until you delete them or uninstall the extension
  • Account records are kept while your account is active and for a reasonable period after closure to comply with legal obligations and resolve disputes
  • Domain mappings are refreshed at least every twenty four hours and cached locally on your device. The cache is replaced when new data is retrieved

Security

We use encryption in transit, access controls, and least privilege for systems and staff. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure. We work to protect your data but cannot guarantee absolute security.

Where We Process Data and International Transfers

We operate in the United Kingdom and may use providers located in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States. When we transfer personal data internationally we use appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses where required.

Your Choices

  • Uninstall the extension at any time from Chrome to stop processing by the extension
  • In Chrome settings you can limit the extension’s access to specific sites and turn notifications on or off
  • Delete trials from the side panel or request deletion of your account data by contacting us
  • Refuse reminder emails by uninstalling the extension or by contacting us to deactivate your account

Your Rights

UK and EU users

You can request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or portability. You can also object to processing based on legitimate interests. To exercise your rights email privacy@futrials.com. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority. In the United Kingdom the authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

California and other US state users

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share your personal information for cross contextual advertising. If this changes we will provide a Do Not Sell or Share link and honor opt out signals. You can request access or deletion by emailing privacy@futrials.com. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

Children’s Privacy

Our services are for people who are at least sixteen years old. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child provided us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Chrome Web Store Disclosures

The extension uses the following Chrome permissions.

  • storage to save your trials and settings
  • tabs and sidePanel to open the side panel and read the active tab’s URL
  • alarms and notifications to schedule and deliver reminders
  • Host permissions for futrials.com to call our API and for api.ipify.org to retrieve your Internet Protocol address during verification

The extension processes page information only to detect signup or checkout pages and to append affiliate parameters where applicable. It does not collect your passwords or the contents of your forms. It does not upload your browsing history to our servers.

Managing Your Data

Close your account or request deletion

Email privacy@futrials.com from the address you used to sign up. Tell us you want to delete your account and stored data.

Stop the extension on a site

Open Chrome settings for the extension and adjust Site access or turn the extension off.

Uninstall

Right click the extension icon in Chrome and select Remove from Chrome.

Changes to This Policy

We will update this policy when needed to reflect changes to our products or legal requirements. We will post the new policy on this page with a new effective date. If changes are material we will notify you in the extension or by email if we have your email address.

Contact Us

Email privacy@futrials.com. A postal address is available on request for verified rights requests.