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Tab Search privacy policy

Last updated: September 29, 2026

Tab Search helps you find speech and debate competitors, teams, judges, published tournament records, and rankings while you use Tabroom. It runs only on Tabroom pages. It does not have a developer-operated account, analytics service, advertising service, or data server.

Information used

• The extension reads public result tables on Tabroom pages you visit. It saves matching result rows, including competitor names, schools, events, and results, in Chrome’s local extension storage. It also includes a bundled index of publicly listed competitor and team names, schools, and Tabroom IDs.
• When you search, the extension uses the entered name or school to find a match in its bundled index. If the local competitor index has too few matches, it sends name-search terms to the DebaterSearch API operated by Raymond Xu. Your browser connects directly to that service; Tab Search does not receive the service’s server logs.
• To display a selected competitor, team, or judge, it requests the corresponding Tabroom profile or paradigm using your browser’s existing Tabroom session. The returned page may be cached in Chrome’s local extension storage for up to 24 hours. The extension does not read your Tabroom password or save cookie values.
• To show rankings, it downloads public NPDL Google Sheets, DebateDrills rankings, and National Speech & Debate Association ranking data. Speech rankings are matched locally against the selected person’s name and school.
• It stores panel preferences, locally indexed results, lookup caches, and search cooldown times in Chrome’s local extension storage. It does not sync these records to a developer server.

These third-party requests expose ordinary connection information, such as your IP address, to the relevant service. The DebaterSearch request also includes the search terms described above. Each third party has its own privacy practices.

Your controls

The panel’s Clear index action removes locally indexed result rows. Saved → Clear all cached profiles removes cached competitor, team, and judge pages. Chrome can also remove all extension data when you uninstall Tab Search.

Site reset is optional. It asks for confirmation before deleting Tabroom cookies and site storage and reloading the page; using it will sign you out of Tabroom. It checks the number of Tabroom cookies before and after deletion, but does not save their values. Searches never trigger this reset automatically.

Sharing and limited use

Tab Search uses page and search data only to provide the scouting features described above. It does not sell that data, use it for advertising, or share it with the developer. It sends data to Tabroom and the listed public-data providers only as needed for the requested features. All network requests use HTTPS. No developer or employee can view your locally stored extension data.

Tab Search is an independent tool and is not affiliated with Tabroom, NPDL, DebateDrills, DebaterSearch, or the National Speech & Debate Association.