# Data Retention Policy

> Offers tools for defining and enforcing data retention policies, allowing users to establish guidelines for how long certain types of browsing data should be retained before deletion.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/data-retention-policy](https://chrome-stats.com/d/data-retention-policy)

## Overview

- **ID:** `data-retention-policy`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tarik
- **Category:** privacy-security,alerts-updates
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-21
- **First published:** 2024-04-20
- **Size:** 25 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/data-retention-policy/)

## Description

Providing governance and compliance features for managing data retention policies, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and organizational standards.

## Rankings

- #133,053 — Overall
- #54 — policy
- #85 — data entry

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `browsingData`
- `notifications`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/data-retention-policy)