FBA Dock Privacy Policy

Last updated: 3 November 2026

This policy covers the FBA Dock browser extension. The portside-commerce.com website has its own separate policy.

This Privacy Policy describes how Portside Commerce Ltd (“Portside Commerce,” “we,” “us”) handles information used by the FBA Dock browser extension for Google Chrome (“FBA Dock,” “the extension”).

Portside Commerce Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17214839), with registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ.

FBA Dock is an independent product. It works with files from Amazon and can make order files for systems such as StoreFeeder, but it is not made, endorsed or supported by Amazon, StoreFeeder or any other system it works with.

What the Extension Does

FBA Dock helps a business prepare Amazon FBA inbound shipments, in the browser’s side panel and in its own pages. It plans a restock from Amazon’s reports, makes the upload file for Amazon’s Send to Amazon, records what goes in each box, fills in Amazon’s box file, prints labels, and makes an order file for the user’s own warehouse or order system. The user downloads those files and uploads them themselves.

Everything Happens in Your Browser

FBA Dock runs on the user’s own computer, inside their browser. Portside Commerce does not operate any server for the extension, and the extension does not send any information to Portside Commerce. It contains no analytics, tracking, advertising or crash-reporting code.

The one exception to the extension working only on the user’s computer is Google Drive sync, which is optional and off until the user connects it. It stores a copy in the user’s own Google Drive, as described below. Nothing goes anywhere else.

The extension contains no remotely hosted code. All of its code is included in the package reviewed and distributed by the browser store, and it does not download or execute code from anywhere else.

No Connection to Your Amazon Account

FBA Dock does not connect to the user’s Amazon account. It does not sign in to Seller Central, read its pages, or use Amazon’s APIs. It only reads files the user chooses to give it. Links in the extension to Seller Central simply open those pages in the browser.

Information the Extension Uses

The extension only uses what the user gives it or types into it:

• Amazon’s files: restock and inventory reports, the pack group file and the pack list from Send to Amazon. These hold product and shipment details such as SKUs, product titles, quantities, box sizes and weights, and the town of the Amazon warehouse.
• Shipping labels: carrier label PDFs the user adds. These may show delivery and return addresses.
• Product lists: the user’s SKUs, product names, Amazon SKUs and units per box, from a file they load or typed in.
• Order templates: the columns of the user’s order file. If the user fills in Default details, these can include a company name, a person’s name, an email address, a phone number and a postal address, which then go into the order files the user downloads.
• What the user types: quantities, expiry dates, lot codes, packing details, label counts, and references and notes on saved jobs.
• Example order files: to make a template, the user can give the extension an example order file from their system. Only its column names, separator and date format are saved. Its other values are shown on the page while it’s open and are not saved, unless the user chooses to use one of them as fixed text in the template.

Customer Data

FBA Dock does not ask for or collect personal data about a business’s customers, and Amazon’s shipment files don’t contain any. If a user gives the extension a file holding such data (for example, in a label PDF or in the Notes on a saved job), it is kept in the same way as the rest of their information below, and is never sent to us.

Information Stored on Your Computer

To work, the extension keeps the following in the browser’s own storage for extensions, on the user’s computer:

• The job on screen: Amazon’s file, the plan, packing progress, label counts, downloaded files and shipping labels.
• Product list and templates: the product list, up to 10 earlier versions of it, the order templates and how the columns of a product file were matched.
• History: jobs the user chooses to save, with their files.
• Settings: themes, label sizes, choices such as how pages open, and which sections were left open or closed.
• If Google Drive sync is connected: the email address of the Google account, shown in the panel and used to stay signed in, and the state of the sync. A temporary sign-in token is kept until the browser closes.

None of this is sent to Portside Commerce.

Google Drive Sync (Optional)

If the user chooses Connect Google Drive, they sign in on Google’s own page and the extension can then keep a copy of their FBA Dock data in their own Google Drive, so that their other PCs signed in to the same Google account share it. The extension never sees the user’s Google password.

• Permission asked for: only drive.appdata, which gives access to a hidden folder in the user’s Drive that belongs to FBA Dock. The extension cannot see or change any of the user’s other Drive files. It also reads the account’s email address from Drive, to show which account is connected and to stay signed in.
• What’s copied: the information listed above, including saved jobs, shipping labels and earlier versions of the product list. Label counts, the sign-in token, and some display preferences stay on each PC.
• Who can see it: it stays in the user’s Google account, and goes directly between the user’s browser and Google. It does not pass through Portside Commerce, and we have no access to it. Anyone signed in to FBA Dock on the same Google account shares the same data. Google handles it under its own privacy policy.

Google API Services: FBA Dock’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. The information is used only to provide the sync feature to the user. It is not used for advertising, it is not sold or transferred to anyone, and no human reads it.

Browser Permissions

The extension asks for only the browser permissions it needs:

• Storage and unlimited storage: to keep the information described above on the user’s computer. Saved jobs and their files can add up, so the usual size limit is lifted.
• Side panel: to show FBA Dock in the browser’s side panel.
• Identity: to show Google’s sign-in page, if the user connects Google Drive sync.
• Alarms: to sync regularly and to remove saved jobs older than the user’s Keep saved jobs setting.
• Access to www.googleapis.com: to reach Google Drive for sync. The extension has no access to any website, and does not read the pages the user visits.

How We Share Information

We do not receive any information from the extension, so we have nothing to sell, rent or share. The extension’s only contact with an outside service is with Google, on the user’s own account, if they connect Google Drive sync.

The Chrome Web Store, which distributes the extension, may collect its own information about installs and use under its own privacy policy.

FBA Dock is free during early access. If paid plans are introduced, a payment provider will handle payments, and this policy will be updated before then to say who it is and what it receives.

Limited Use

FBA Dock’s use of information complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. In particular:

• We do not sell or transfer user data to any third party.
• We do not use or transfer user data for any purpose unrelated to FBA Dock’s single purpose, which is preparing Amazon FBA inbound shipments.
• We do not use or transfer user data to determine creditworthiness, or for lending purposes.
• We do not use user data for advertising, personalised or otherwise, and the extension serves no advertising.
• No human at Portside Commerce reads user data, because none of it ever reaches us. The only exception would be anything a user chooses to send us themselves, for example when asking for help.

Data Retention and Deletion

Everything the extension stores stays on the user’s computer until the user removes it.

• In the extension: Reset clears the job on screen. Saved jobs can be deleted on the History page, or removed automatically by the Keep saved jobs setting. With sync connected, these changes reach Google Drive too.
• On the computer: removing (uninstalling) FBA Dock from the browser deletes everything it has stored on that computer.
• In Google Drive: Disconnect stops this PC syncing, but does not delete the copy in Drive, and removing the extension doesn’t either. To delete it, first disconnect FBA Dock on every PC, or it will upload the copy again. Then open Google Drive’s Settings, go to Manage apps, find FBA Dock and choose Delete hidden app data. To withdraw FBA Dock’s access, use the Security or Data & privacy pages of your Google Account.

How We Protect Information

The extension communicates only with Google, only if the user connects sync, over encrypted (HTTPS) connections. Because no information is sent to Portside Commerce, there is no copy of the user’s information held by us that could be exposed. The information on a computer is as safe as that computer and its browser profile, and the copy in Drive is as safe as the Google account.

Children

FBA Dock is a tool for businesses and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age.

Your Rights

Under UK and EU data protection law, you have rights regarding any personal data we hold about you, including rights of access, correction and deletion. FBA Dock does not send us any personal data, so we hold none from the extension. You can delete what the extension has stored at any time, as described above. You may contact us using the details below with any questions.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date above, and, where a change affects how the extension handles information, by telling users within the extension itself.

Contact

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