Press Pass by StayTech - Privacy policy

Effective: July 16, 2026. Last updated: October 3, 2026.

Information processed

Press Pass reads the current article URL and headline locally after a toolbar click. Article-page buttons read page-level metadata on user-approved publisher sites. The headline identifies the article on the local share page. Press Pass does not read account credentials, collect browsing history, run analytics, or send information to StayTech.

Storage and sharing

On Mac, clicking Share instead… invokes the browser’s Web Share API with only the original publisher article URL. You choose the receiving action, such as Open in News when present. On iPhone and iPad, Press Pass provides instructions for Safari’s own Share menu. The operating system controls available targets; Press Pass cannot list or select them or verify article opening. Cancellation performs no other action. The receiving action handles the URL under its own policy.

Temporary share requests are held only in memory behind opaque tokens, expire after one minute, and are consumed once by the intended share page. Pending requests also expire if the browser restarts the extension background process. The share page forgets its request on expiry or closure. On Apple devices, Press Pass uses local extension storage only to remember the Apple News country you explicitly choose and whether you opt in to automatic opening. These preferences stay on this device and are not synced. No article URL, headline, lookup result or history is saved. Windows, Linux and Android stay inactive and do not read the country or perform lookups. No persistent article log or result database is created. Website access is removable in browser settings. There are no web searches, search-engine lookup providers, API keys or source badges. The retired lookup feature and its saved credentials are never accessed. Updates remove its provider access.

On supported MSN pages, a toolbar click may fetch bounded public original-source metadata from Microsoft with credentials omitted. If the original source cannot be resolved, Press Pass does not silently share MSN as the publisher. Microsoft processes that request under its own policy. MSN metadata recovery is never automatic.

On Mac, iPhone and iPad, choosing your Apple News country saves that preference and enables automatic lookup on permitted article pages and the article’s toolbar guide. Press Pass checks Apple’s URL index at news-assets.apple.com once per article and country; ordinary page updates do not repeat it. You can retry explicitly with Check again. Press Pass hashes the canonical article URL locally and requests the index configuration and one numbered bucket; it does not send the article URL or headline in clear text. Apple receives the request and normal network information, such as your IP address, under its own policy. Requests omit cookies, credentials and referrers, reject redirects, and have time and response-size limits. Only an exact hash match with an unambiguous article ID for the selected country is accepted. If no index link is found, Press Pass may check the same-origin HTTPS public post endpoint advertised by the article, requiring its exact canonical URL, post ID and published state. This publisher request also omits credentials and referrers and rejects redirects. Tapping Open article in Apple News opens only the genuine article ID using the route from Apple’s own preview. Apple controls access. Links expire after one minute and are cleared when the page or access changes. Your country choice survives browser background restarts. Open the country control and choose Off to forget it and stop automatic lookup, or remove website access in your browser. Before a country is chosen, no automatic lookup runs. Article results remain only in memory and expire after one minute; expired results can be checked again with Find. The index is undocumented, coverage is incomplete, and links can become unavailable; Safari Share help remains available.

Limited Use

Press Pass uses browser data only for local article detection, user-enabled article lookup and user-selected sharing described here. StayTech does not sell data, use it for advertising, creditworthiness or model training, or provide it to data brokers. Its use of Chrome API information follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including Limited Use requirements.

Your choices and support

No Press Pass account or helper is required. Remove site access in your browser to stop automatic detection. Desktop toolbar sharing works without ongoing website access. Index lookup requires browser access to news-assets.apple.com; page buttons also require access to the article site. Sharing requires Safari on iPhone/iPad or a compatible browser on macOS; if unavailable, Press Pass explains the limitation. The share action and Apple News availability depend on your system, region, publisher and subscription.

Public support and privacy URLs and a reachable support contact must be provided by the owner before store submission. This local document does not provide a placeholder contact or claim a hosted service.

Automatically open in Apple News is a separate setting, off by default. If you opt in, Press Pass attempts to open only a fresh verified match for the article in the active tab of the focused browser window. It does not open background articles or automatically use the share fallback. The browser may require confirmation; a handoff request does not prove News opened. The manual Open article link remains available. Disable the checkbox to remove the automatic-opening preference. Country Off also prevents automatic opening by stopping lookup. No additional network requests or persistent article history are introduced.