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A watercolour of an older woman and her daughter walking together along a hillside path above the sea. Five stepping stones lead the way, each carrying a small icon: a link in an email, an AI chat bubble, a form on a website, a file being sent, and an email late at night.

FOR FAMILIES

One small pause, for a parent online.

When a parent who lives far away opens an email. When they use an AI chat. When they type their details into a site nobody recognises. Legacy Tools makes small Chrome extensions a family can install for them.

Not a security setup anyone has to learn. Just one check, before a link opens, before text is pasted, before details are typed in.

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  • Free to use
  • No account needed
  • Install only what you need

WHAT WORRIES YOU

Does any of this sound familiar?

None of it says anything about the person. In a hurry, on a screen you know well, it happens to anyone.

The link is clicked before "is this invoice real?" has finished forming.

A name and a phone number get pasted straight into an AI chat.

An address and a card number are about to go into a site nobody recognises.

A photo or a document goes out carrying more than what is visible in it.

An email gets sent late at night, on impulse.

OUR POSITION

Not blocking. One look first.

Legacy Tools is not a way to watch what a parent does.

It does not declare anything dangerous on its own, and it forbids nothing.

Before sending. Before opening. Before pasting. At that moment, it adds a little more to go on.

The decision stays with the person making it.

START HERE

If you start with three, start with these

There is no need to install all eight. Begin with whichever moment worries you, one at a time.

A Safe Mail Link Check confirmation dialog over an invoice notice, showing the link text next to its destination host and full URL, with the caution “The displayed text differs from the actual destination” and two buttons: Cancel and Allow this time.

Before a link in an email opens

Shows the text of the link next to where it actually goes. It never calls a link dangerous.

Works in Gmail, Outlook on the web and Yahoo! Mail. Other sites can be added in the settings.

Safe Mail Link Check See what it does →
An AI chat composer where a contact name, an email address and a phone number have been replaced with [Name], [Email] and [Phone]. The Safe Privacy Mask popup floats at the top right, reading “Protecting all fields”.

Before text is pasted into an AI

Replaces email addresses, phone numbers and the like with other strings, inside the field itself.

The major AI chats work as soon as it is installed. More terms to hide can be added in the settings.

Safe Privacy Mask See what it does →
The Site Operator Check panel sits beside a shop’s delivery form. Under “This page states who operates it” are the stated company name and address, and the site name as a hint.

Before details go into an unfamiliar site

Shows what the page states about who runs it, together with where it was written and what it said.

It appears only when the toolbar icon is pressed. It makes no judgement about safety.

Site Operator Check See what it does →

ALSO

And for these moments too

Before sending a photo, a PDF or a spreadsheet The moment a file is attached, it shows what the file carries — a photo's location, a document's author and tracked changes — inside the browser. The file itself is never rewritten. Safe Attachment Check Before an email goes out late at night During the night hours you set, sending in Gmail offers three choices instead: back to draft, schedule it, or send anyway. Safe Night Check

The remaining three tools, not listed here, are on the full tool list.

SETUP

The family does the first setup

Nobody has to be asked to learn security settings. The one-time preparation can be done for them.

  1. Add it to Chrome

    Press "Add to Chrome" on the Chrome Web Store. No account, no payment.

  2. Set only what that tool needs

    The terms to hide, the night hours, the mail sites to cover. Just the items that one tool asks for, decided once in its settings.

  3. After that, the same browser as always

    You do not have to sit beside them each time. The check appears in the moment it is needed.

Some tools, Site Operator Check among them, only run when the toolbar icon is pressed. It is worth going through that one together once.

Installing it once does not make anything permanently safe. When the services in use change, or the worry does, go back over the settings.

BOUNDARIES

What these tools do not do

  • They do not monitor how a parent uses the browser
  • They are not built to report browsing or activity back to the family
  • They do not decide whether a site is dangerous
  • They do not prevent every scam or every leak

What they cover is the moment just before a decision: noticing, once.

Detection and display both happen inside each extension. Nothing you type and no file is sent anywhere in order to be checked.

See permissions and data handling per product →
A watercolour diagram of the four boundaries — does not watch, does not judge, does not report, is not a cure-all — around an older woman and her daughter looking at a phone together, with a small lamp on the table reading “notice once”.

WHICH ONE

Which one should I install?

Choose by what worries you, not by the product name.

Worried about email Safe Mail Link Check Worried about ChatGPT and other AI use Safe Privacy Mask Worried about typing into unfamiliar sites Site Operator Check Worried about sending photos, PDFs and spreadsheets Safe Attachment Check Worried about email sent late at night Safe Night Check

There is no need to install all of them.

Pick the one thing you find yourself worrying about. You can add another later, or remove it at any time.

See the tools to install See all Legacy Tools