cpMan Privacy Policy
cpMan is built to be private. The short version: cpMan does not collect, transmit, or sell any of your data. Everything it stores stays on your Mac.
What cpMan stores
- Your clipboard history — the text and images you copy — is saved locally on your Mac, inside the app’s sandbox container.
- For images, cpMan can extract text using on-device OCR so you can search them. This text is stored locally alongside the image.
- Your settings (themes, hotkey, history limits, ignore list) are stored locally in standard macOS preferences.
What cpMan does NOT do
- No accounts, sign-in, or subscriptions.
- No network access of any kind. cpMan does not contact any server, and your clipboard never leaves your device.
- No analytics, tracking, advertising, telemetry, or crash reporting.
- No third-party SDKs that collect data.
On-device processing
Optical character recognition (OCR) runs entirely on your Mac using Apple’s Vision framework. Images and their recognized text are never uploaded anywhere.
Permissions
cpMan requests Accessibility permission only if you enable the optional “Auto-paste” feature, and only to send a single ⌘V keystroke into your active app after you explicitly choose an item. cpMan does not read, log, or monitor keystrokes from other apps, and it respects macOS Secure Event Input — it will not act while a password field is focused. If you leave Auto-paste off, cpMan requests no special permissions at all.
Data control
You are always in control: delete any item from the history, clear the entire history, or use Private Mode to pause recording. Use the ignore list to keep chosen apps (such as password managers) from ever being recorded. Uninstalling the app removes its locally stored data.
Privacy
We are fully committed to protecting your privacy. cpMan does not collect, monitor, or transmit personal data from any user.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Reach us through the Support page.