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What Clipso Handles

Clipso reads clipboard contents while capture is enabled so it can create searchable clip cards. Depending on what you copy, those cards can include text, links, rich text, images, screenshots, colors, file references, source app names, dates, favorites, folders, and representation types.

Clipso is designed to help you restore and organize clips, not to build advertising profiles or run background analytics on what you copy.

Apple Intelligence Actions

On supported Apple devices, Clipso can offer Apple Intelligence-powered actions for copied text clips, such as summarizing or helping transform text. These actions are optional and happen only when you explicitly choose them.

When you run one of these actions, Clipso may pass the selected clip text to Apple’s system intelligence features so the requested result can be generated. Clipso does not turn AI processing on by default for every clip, and it does not use your clips to train a separate Clipso model.

Availability, processing behavior, and any cloud handling for Apple Intelligence depend on Apple, your device, your region, and your Apple settings.

Purchases, Licensing, and Processors

Paddle.com is Clipso’s Merchant of Record. Paddle collects and processes payment details, billing information, tax information, transaction data, and receipts under Paddle’s own privacy terms. Clipso does not receive or store your full card number.

To fulfill and validate a purchase, Clipso receives and stores the Paddle customer ID, purchase email, transaction and subscription IDs, plan, billing status, renewal or trial date, adjustments, and activation status. Cloudflare hosts the website, Worker, D1 licensing database, R2 downloads, and related security logs. Resend processes the purchase email and activation-code delivery. Apple processes CloudKit data when you enable iCloud sync.

The licensing service stores an activation code, a one-way hash of each device token, a Clipso-generated device identifier and device name, last-seen time, and signed offline lease metadata. Activation abuse protection stores a one-way hash of the connecting IP address for a limited rate-limit window. Clipso does not use this information for advertising or cross-site tracking.

Local Storage and Encryption

Clipso writes clipboard payload files in the user Application Support area and encrypts them before storage using CryptoKit ChaChaPoly. The encryption key is stored in Keychain. Clip metadata and organization data are stored by the app’s local persistence layer.

File and folder clips are handled as references rather than copying large folder contents into app storage. Large clipboard payload limits can also prevent oversized content from being saved.

Optional iCloud Sync

iCloud Sync is off by default. When you enable it, Clipso uses Apple’s CloudKit-backed storage through the system persistence stack. Sync can include existing history, saved folder clips, titles, preview text, source app, dates, favorite state, folder assignment, representation types, folder names, colors, order, and encrypted payload copies.

The payload key is stored in the user’s synchronizable Keychain so Macs signed into the same Apple ID can read synced encrypted payloads. Upload and download timing is managed by macOS and Apple services.

Permissions

Clipboard access is required for Clipso to save and restore clips while the app is running. macOS Accessibility permission is only needed if you want Clipso to paste automatically into the previous app after restoring a clip. Without Accessibility permission, Clipso can still copy the selected clip back to the clipboard.

Apple Intelligence actions are only available on supported Apple devices and depend on the capabilities Apple makes available through the system.

Your Privacy Controls

• Pause capture from the shelf or menu bar.
• Add ignored applications so copied content from those apps is not saved.
• Keep sensitive detection enabled to skip likely passwords, tokens, API keys, one-time codes, private keys, and credential-like text.
• Set history size and large clipboard limits.
• Turn iCloud Sync on or off from Settings.
• Choose whether to run Apple Intelligence actions on individual clips instead of applying AI automatically across your history.

Retention and Deletion

Clipboard History follows the history limit you choose. Clips saved inside custom folders are treated separately from rolling history cleanup. You can clear Clipboard History from Settings, delete individual clips, remove ignored apps, and clean up prepared or synced iCloud payload data.

Purchase, tax, refund, and receipt records are retained by Paddle as required for transaction, accounting, fraud-prevention, and legal purposes. Clipso retains license and billing-state records while needed to provide access, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, and meet legal obligations. Short-lived checkout nonces and rate-limit attempts are regularly deleted. You can remove activated Macs from Account settings.

Your Data Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or receive a copy of personal data, and to complain to a data protection authority. Email support to make a request. We may need to verify your purchase email and may retain records that law or fraud prevention requires.

Cloudflare, Paddle, Resend, and Apple may process information in countries outside yours using the safeguards described in their respective privacy notices.

Contact

If you have a privacy question or need help with deletion, sync cleanup, or permissions, contact support.