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Privacy Policy
Last updated: 6 August 2026
PenTrace Reader is a browser extension that makes one specific message board — the PenTrace board at members2.boardhost.com/pentrace — easier to read, by loading whole conversations into a single threaded view.
The short version: the extension collects no personal data, sends nothing to its developer, and has no servers. Everything it stores stays in your browser on your own computer.
The extension can only run on https://members2.boardhost.com/pentrace/*. This is enforced by the browser, not by a promise — it has no ability to read, run on, or communicate with any other website. You can verify this yourself on your browser's extensions page, under the extension's site access setting.
All of the following is stored locally in your own browser. None of it is transmitted anywhere.
The extension makes network requests to one destination: the PenTrace board itself, at members2.boardhost.com. Specifically it requests the board's index pages, its RSS feed, and individual message pages, roughly every ten minutes while your browser is running, plus on demand when you open a thread.
When you post a reply or a new message, it is submitted to the board's own posting form, on the board's own server, exactly as if you had typed it on the site. It is posted under your own board account.
There are no analytics, no telemetry, no error reporting, no advertising, and no developer-operated servers of any kind. No information about you or your reading is sent to the developer, because there is nowhere for it to be sent.
The extension never asks for, receives, stores, or transmits your board password. There is no password field anywhere in it.
When you need to sign in to post, the extension opens Boardhost's own login page in an ordinary browser tab. You sign in there, with Boardhost, and your browser keeps that session as it would for any website. The extension only observes whether the board is treating you as signed in.
Posts on the board often contain images hosted elsewhere — image-sharing sites chosen by whoever wrote the post. When such a post is displayed, your browser loads those images directly from those third-party hosts, which means those hosts can see your IP address. This is exactly what happens when you view the board normally, and it is not something the extension causes or controls. The extension does request those images without a referrer, so the host is not told which thread you were reading.
The extension also does not remove anything the board's own pages already load, including any third-party scripts the board itself uses.
- Remove the extension from your browser's extensions page. Its stored messages, read state and drafts are deleted with it.
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Clear site data for
members2.boardhost.comin your browser settings to remove the read-state mirror and theme preference held under that site.
There is nothing held anywhere else, so there is nothing else to request the deletion of.
The extension is a reading tool for a hobbyist message board and is not directed at children.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at the same address with a new date at the top.
Questions about this policy: pentracereader@gmail.com
PenTrace Reader is an unofficial, independently made tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Boardhost or the administrators of the PenTrace message board. This document plainly describes how the software behaves; it is not legal advice.
Privacy Policy — PenTrace Reader Last updated: 6 August 2026PenTrace Reader is a browser extension that makes one specific message board — the PenTrace board at members2.boardhost.com/pentrace — easier to read, by loading whole conversations into a single threaded view.
The short version: the extension collects no personal data, sends nothing to its developer, and has no servers. Everything it stores stays in your browser on your own computer.
What the extension can access The extension can only run on https://members2.boardhost.com/pentrace/*. This is enforced by the browser, not by a promise — it has no ability to read, run on, or communicate with any other website. You can verify this yourself on your browser's extensions page, under the extension's site access setting.
What is stored, and where All of the following is stored locally in your own browser. None of it is transmitted anywhere.
What Where Why Message text, authors, dates and thread structure from the board Extension storage (IndexedDB) So a conversation opens instantly and each message is downloaded only once Which threads you have read, and up to when Extension storage, mirrored in the board site's own local storage So new replies can be marked, and so this survives reinstalling the extension Unsent drafts of replies you are writing Extension storage So a reply is not lost if your board session expires while you write Light/dark theme preference The board site's local storage So the reader looks the way you left it What is sent, and to whom The extension makes network requests to one destination: the PenTrace board itself, at members2.boardhost.com. Specifically it requests the board's index pages, its RSS feed, and individual message pages, roughly every ten minutes while your browser is running, plus on demand when you open a thread.
When you post a reply or a new message, it is submitted to the board's own posting form, on the board's own server, exactly as if you had typed it on the site. It is posted under your own board account.
There are no analytics, no telemetry, no error reporting, no advertising, and no developer-operated servers of any kind. No information about you or your reading is sent to the developer, because there is nowhere for it to be sent.
Passwords and signing in The extension never asks for, receives, stores, or transmits your board password. There is no password field anywhere in it.
When you need to sign in to post, the extension opens Boardhost's own login page in an ordinary browser tab. You sign in there, with Boardhost, and your browser keeps that session as it would for any website. The extension only observes whether the board is treating you as signed in.
Images posted by other members Posts on the board often contain images hosted elsewhere — image-sharing sites chosen by whoever wrote the post. When such a post is displayed, your browser loads those images directly from those third-party hosts, which means those hosts can see your IP address. This is exactly what happens when you view the board normally, and it is not something the extension causes or controls. The extension does request those images without a referrer, so the host is not told which thread you were reading.
The extension also does not remove anything the board's own pages already load, including any third-party scripts the board itself uses.
Deleting your data Remove the extension from your browser's extensions page. Its stored messages, read state and drafts are deleted with it. Clear site data for members2.boardhost.com in your browser settings to remove the read-state mirror and theme preference held under that site. There is nothing held anywhere else, so there is nothing else to request the deletion of.
Children The extension is a reading tool for a hobbyist message board and is not directed at children.
Changes If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at the same address with a new date at the top.
Contact Questions about this policy: pentracereader@gmail.com
PenTrace Reader is an unofficial, independently made tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Boardhost or the administrators of the PenTrace message board. This document plainly describes how the software behaves; it is not legal advice.