Privacy

The short version: Clipboard Doctor stores everything on your Mac, and I can't see any of it. No accounts, no telemetry, no tracking.

The app

• Your clipboard history — text and images — is stored only on your Mac, in the app's local storage. It is never uploaded anywhere. There is no server that could receive it.
• Text recognition in screenshots (OCR) runs entirely on your device using Apple's built-in Vision framework. Images are never sent anywhere for OCR.
• Update check: on launch (and when you click "Check for Updates"), the app fetches a small public file (version.json) from my server to see if a newer version exists. This is a plain web request — it contains no personal data, no device ID, and nothing about your clipboard. Like any web request, my server momentarily sees your IP address to answer it.
• Link icons are off by default; if you turn them on (Settings → Features → "Website icons on URL cards"), the link's domain is sent to Google to fetch the icon. Left off, nothing about copied links leaves your Mac.
• Feature requests: if you use "Request a feature", the app sends exactly what you typed (plus the app and macOS version) to my own server in the EU. Adding your email is optional, used only to reply to you, never shared, and deleted if you ask: h@rawag.xyz.

This website

This site uses Umami, a self-hosted, cookieless analytics tool running on my own server in the EU (Hetzner, Finland). It counts page views without cookies or fingerprinting; IP addresses are anonymized by hashing and never stored. No data is shared with anyone. Because no cookies are set and no personal data is collected, no consent banner is required (legal basis: legitimate interest, GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) — measuring whether anyone reads this site, with no PII).

Your rights, and questions

There is almost nothing to exercise rights against — by design. If you ever sent me an email or a feature request with your address and want it deleted, write to h@rawag.xyz and it's gone.

Last updated: 13 June 2026. This page changes only when the app's network behavior changes, and the changelog will say so.