Your data stays
on your device.

Effective date: the date Copy-Paste Karo first becomes available on the App Store.   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 (optional, off by default)

Copy-Paste Karo has exactly one feature that uses the internet, and it stays switched off until you turn it on under Settings → Capture → Fetch link previews. With it enabled, opening a link snippet makes the app fetch that page to read its title and preview image (the standard Open Graph tags), then store the image on your device.

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. It only happens for link snippets you open while the setting is on. With the setting off (the default), the app makes no network requests at all.

Information we do not collect

• Your name, email address, phone number or any contact details
• Your location (precise or approximate)
• Your device identifiers (IDFA, advertising ID), unique device IDs or hardware identifiers
• Your contacts, calendar, photos or microphone input
• Your browsing or search history
• Any analytics or telemetry — including crash reports, performance data or usage events
• Cookies, tracking pixels or third-party SDKs of any kind

Apart from the optional link previews described above, the app makes no network requests: no analytics endpoint, no telemetry, and no third-party service it phones home to.

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 nothing, 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

Copy-Paste Karo does not integrate with any third-party services. The libraries used to build the app are listed in Settings → Acknowledgements inside the app; none of them are configured to send data anywhere.

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 data collection will be opt-in. We will not retroactively start collecting data from existing users without their consent.

Contact

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