Copy Clipper
Privacy Policy
Effective date: 2026-06-10
Copy Clipper is a Chrome browser extension that lets you save links, pages, text selections, images, and page snapshots into projects you can search, tag, pin, and export. This page explains what Copy Clipper does with the information it touches.
The short version. Everything Copy Clipper saves stays on your device. There is no Copy Clipper server, no account system, and no network traffic from the extension itself.
1. What Copy Clipper stores
Each note you save is written to your browser's local extension storage
(chrome.storage.local). Each note contains:
- The note value — a page URL, the text you selected, a link target, an image data URL, or a typed quick note.
- The source URL and the page title the note was captured from.
- The project it belongs to and any tags you add.
- A timestamp, pinned flag, and (when soft-deleted) a deletion timestamp.
Projects, the active project, and your in-extension preferences are stored alongside. Trash is automatically purged after 30 days.
2. What Copy Clipper does not do
- No analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting.
- No network requests of any kind from Copy Clipper itself.
- No tracking pixels, advertising IDs, or fingerprinting.
- No selling, sharing, or transferring of user data to third parties.
- No remote code — all JavaScript is bundled inside the extension package.
3. Permissions and why they exist
| Permission | How it is used |
|---|---|
contextMenus |
Adds right-click "Add to Copy Clipper" menu entries for pages, selections, links, and images. |
storage |
Persists your notes, projects, and preferences in
chrome.storage.local. |
activeTab |
Used only when you invoke a save action — reads the active
tab's URL and title (and, for snapshots, calls
chrome.tabs.captureVisibleTab). |
scripting |
Runs a tiny one-shot script in the active tab when you press
Save selection, to return window.getSelection().toString().
Also registers the opt-in hover content script (see below). |
sidePanel |
Opens Copy Clipper as a Chrome side panel alongside the page you are reading. |
favicon |
Renders the favicon next to each saved note via Chrome's built-in
_favicon endpoint. No outbound network calls are made by the
extension itself. |
<all_urls> (optional) |
Requested only if you enable Hover quick-capture in
Settings. You can revoke it any time from Settings or
chrome://extensions. |
4. Hover quick-capture
Hover quick-capture is off by default. If you enable it, Copy Clipper registers a content script that listens for text selections and link hovers to surface a small "Save" button in a shadow DOM. The content script does not read pages otherwise, does not send any data over the network, and does not modify page content.
5. Your data, your control
- Export in the popup or side panel downloads your notes as JSON, CSV, or ZIP.
- Import restores from a JSON backup.
- Trash lets you restore or permanently delete soft-deleted notes.
- Clear all, or removing the extension, deletes everything Copy Clipper stored.
6. Children's privacy
Copy Clipper is a general-audience productivity tool. It does not knowingly collect any data from anyone — including children — because it does not collect any data at all.
7. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this URL with an updated effective date.
8. Contact
Questions or issues: vineet@bytescare.com or GitHub issues.