Pocket Paste is a clipboard manager, an app that, by nature, sees what you copy. That's why this policy states where data goes: history is local by default, and optional features disclose the service they use.
Purpose of the application
Pocket Paste is a macOS desktop application whose purpose is to help you save, search, and reuse copied text, links, images, and files. It also expands reusable keyboard shortcuts into longer text, so you can paste repeated information faster.
The app
What the app stores
- Clipboard history and snippets are stored locally on your device, in your macOS user Library folder. When you enable iCloud Sync, selected data is also synchronized through Apple's CloudKit under your iCloud account.
- Settings (preferences, hotkeys, exclusion lists) are stored locally.
Sensitive-content protection
- The app attempts to skip content copied while macOS Secure Input is active.
- It also skips known password manager apps and supported sensitive-data patterns.
- Content from any app you exclude in Settings.
Network activity
The app contains no third-party analytics or advertising SDK. Its limited network calls are:
- Trial registration: once per installation, sends a one-way hash of the Mac hardware identifier, Mac model, chip family, RAM capacity, macOS version, app version, and the request IP address/country to our own licensing service. We use this to calculate the seven-day trial, understand supported hardware, and detect repeated trial installations. It never includes clipboard content, raw hardware serial numbers, file names, or file paths.
- License activation/validation: sends your license key, the same hashed device identifier and hardware fields to our licensing service. The service records the request IP address/country and last validation time to enforce purchased device limits, handle unbinding, prevent abuse, and provide license support. Never clipboard content.
- Update checks (if enabled): fetches release metadata; sends no personal data.
- iCloud Sync (if enabled): synchronizes the data you select through Apple's CloudKit using your iCloud account. Pocket Paste does not operate this server.
- Google Translate (when you request a translation with the Google engine): sends the text you chose to translate to Google's translation service and receives the translated result. Apple Translate remains available as another engine.
This website
- Waitlist / contact emails: if you submit your email, we use it only to send the update you asked for. We don't sell or share it, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.
- Purchases are processed by our merchant of record (payment provider), who handles payment details under their own privacy policy. We receive your email address and order metadata to deliver and support your license, never your card number.
- Cookies/analytics: this site sets no tracking cookies.
Data retention & deletion
Local clipboard data is deleted when you clear it or uninstall the app. Data already synchronized to iCloud is managed through your iCloud account and the app's Sync controls. Trial/device telemetry and order records are kept as long as reasonably needed to prevent repeated trials, enforce and support licenses, and meet legal obligations. To request access to or deletion of information we hold, email us; we may retain the minimum fraud-prevention or transaction record required by law.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date above will be updated. Material changes will be noted in the changelog.
Contact
Pocket Paste - support@pocketpaste.app