Your data stays
on your device.

Effective date: 23 July 2026.   Publisher: DigiTallyINC.

If that's all you needed, you're done. The rest of this page explains the same thing in detail.

What Copy-Paste Karo stores, and where

When you copy something with Copy-Paste Karo running — or when you tap + to add a snippet manually — the snippet is written to a local SQLite database (pastekaro.db) inside the app's private storage on your device. The same database stores the categories you create, timestamps on each snippet, and which snippets you've pinned or moved to Trash.

Your settings (auto-capture toggle, dark mode, theme, floating-button preference, onboarding completion flag) are stored in your device's local key-value store using AsyncStorage. These are also private to the app.

What	Where it lives	Visible to whom
Snippets, categories, pin state	Local SQLite database on your device	Only Copy-Paste Karo on your device
App settings	Local AsyncStorage on your device	Only Copy-Paste Karo on your device
Latest 80 snippets + theme colours	iOS App Group container group.com.positivafilms.pastekaro	Only Copy-Paste Karo and the Copy-Paste Karo keyboard extension on your device

Nothing in the table above leaves your device.

The iOS keyboard extension

Copy-Paste Karo ships an iOS keyboard extension that lets you paste your saved snippets into any app from inside the keyboard. Two important details:

• The keyboard uses "Allow Full Access" — only to read your saved snippets. iOS gives a custom keyboard reliable access to its shared App Group container only when Full Access is on, and reading the snippets you saved into that on-device container is the keyboard's entire purpose. That is the only thing the permission is used for.
• The keyboard does not record what you type. It contains no networking code and makes no network requests. It does not log your keystrokes, does not read the system clipboard, and sends nothing off your device. It only reads the snippets the main app saved to the shared container, and inserts the one you tap.

In short, "Full Access" here unlocks on-device storage, not the network. The keyboard never goes online. If anything about this is unclear, please contact us.

Clipboard access

Copy-Paste Karo reads from the system clipboard via expo-clipboard only when:

• You open the app and Auto-capture on open is enabled (you can disable this in Settings), or
• You explicitly tap + and choose to paste, or
• You tap a snippet to copy it (which writes to the clipboard).

iOS may show a banner saying "Copy-Paste Karo pasted from [other app]" — that is iOS's standard transparency notice for any app reading the clipboard. It does not mean the data was sent anywhere; it only means we read the clipboard contents to save them locally. We do not poll the clipboard in the background.

Link previews (on by default, can be turned off)

When you save or open a link snippet, the app fetches that page to read its title and preview image (the standard Open Graph tags; for YouTube links, the public video thumbnail), then stores the image on your device. You can turn this off any time under Settings → Capture → Fetch link previews.

That request goes to the website you saved — not to us, because we have no server. It sends a generic identifier for the app and nothing else: no other snippets, and nothing that identifies you. With the setting off, no link-preview requests are made at all.

Anonymous usage analytics

The app collects anonymous usage analytics to help us improve it — counts of things like "app opened" or "snippet saved". This never includes your snippets, titles, filenames, links or any clipboard content, and it is not linked to your identity: there is no account, we never ask who you are, and we do not use it for advertising or tracking. Analytics are processed by PostHog on our behalf. The keyboard extension contains no analytics and never connects to the internet.

In-app purchases (Copy-Paste Karo Pro)

Copy-Paste Karo is free to use. On iPhone it also offers an optional upgrade, Copy-Paste Karo Pro, that unlocks unlimited snippets and all five themes. Purchases are handled by Apple's App Store and managed through RevenueCat, a purchase-infrastructure provider. The Android version is entirely free and contains no purchases — none of the purchase-related data described in this section applies on Android.

To unlock Pro and let you restore it, a small amount of data is sent off the device for this purpose only:

• Your purchase — which product you bought and whether it is active — so the app can unlock Pro and restore it.
• An anonymous identifier — a random ID RevenueCat assigns, together with your device's vendor identifier, to tie the purchase to this install. It is not your name, email or advertising ID, and it is not linked to your real-world identity.

This is used only to provide and restore the purchase. It is not used for advertising, is not shared with data brokers, and is not used to track you across other apps or websites. Payment details such as card numbers are handled entirely by Apple — the app never sees them. RevenueCat's privacy policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy.

Information we do not collect

• Your name, email address, phone number or any contact details
• Your location (precise or approximate)
• Your advertising identifier (IDFA) or any identifier used for advertising or cross-app tracking — the app never requests it (the anonymous identifier used for Pro purchases, described above, is not an advertising identifier and is not used for tracking)
• Your contacts, calendar, photos or microphone input
• Your browsing or search history
• The content of anything you copy or save — snippets, images, files and links never leave your device
• Cookies, tracking pixels, or advertising SDKs of any kind (the third-party SDKs are the purchases SDK and the anonymous-analytics SDK described above — never for ads or tracking)

Apart from link previews, the Pro purchase processing, and the anonymous usage analytics described above, the app makes no network requests.

Children's privacy

Copy-Paste Karo is suitable for all ages and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children or anyone else. Because we collect no personal information, there is nothing for a parent or guardian to opt out of.

Your control over your data

Because every byte of your Copy-Paste Karo data lives on your device:

• Delete a snippet — Swipe-to-delete in History, or open a snippet and tap Delete. Deleted items move to Trash, where you can restore or permanently delete them.
• Empty Trash — Open Trash from Settings, tap Empty Trash.
• Clear everything at once — Settings → Data → Clear all history.
• Wipe completely — Delete the app from your device. iOS removes the database, the App Group container, and all associated settings.

Third-party services

The third-party services Copy-Paste Karo uses are Apple's App Store and RevenueCat (to process and restore the optional Copy-Paste Karo Pro purchase, as described in In-app purchases above) and PostHog (to process the anonymous usage analytics described in Anonymous usage analytics above). No other third-party service receives any data.

This privacy policy page may be served by a static-site provider that records standard web server logs (IP address, requested URL, user agent) for the page itself. That is the only point at which network logs are involved, and they are about the web request to view this page — not about the app.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change this policy — for example, if a future version of the app introduces an optional remote-sync feature — we will update the Effective date at the top and describe the change in the App Store release notes. Material changes that introduce collection of personal information will be opt-in.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about how Copy-Paste Karo handles your data — please reach us via the support page.