Privacy

Last updated 1 September 2026

Your screenshots, drawings, clipboard contents, sessions, paths, and files stay local. There are no accounts, sync, analytics, crash uploads, attachments, or background check-ins.

The app contacts HumansAreUseful.ai services only when you explicitly submit feedback, open My Reports, or open More Apps. Before feedback is sent, the app shows the compatibility facts included and discloses that automated agents and service providers may process the report. An email address is optional and requires explicit consent and verification.

What the app stores on your computer

• Sessions — kept for 14 days. Each session holds the original image and every step you drew, so undo and rewind can work. On macOS they live in ~/Library/Application Support/Draw On Clipboard/Sessions; Windows and Linux use the platform's standard per-user application-data folder.
• Preferences — your tool, color, stroke width, language, hotkey, and window choices.
• Diagnostic logs — standard operating-system logs, which age out on their own. They record that things happened; they never contain your image contents or the text you type.

The un-redacted original

This is the part worth being explicit about. When you redact something, every image you export is a flattened render with the hidden pixels genuinely absent. But while the session still exists, the original image is kept inside that session so undo can work.

It never leaves your computer — but it will be copied by any backup that copies the app's data folder. If a capture is sensitive enough that this matters:

• File ▸ Delete Session Now erases that session's saved data immediately, including the original, and stops it being saved further. The window stays open so you can finish and export.
• Settings ▸ Clear All Data removes every saved session and resets preferences. It tells you exactly what will go before you confirm.

What your exports contain

Images you copy, save, share, or drag out are flat renders at full resolution. They carry:

• no embedded thumbnail;
• no leftover metadata from the original capture;
• no hidden trailing bytes past the end of the image data.

That last one is the flaw that famously let “cropped” screenshots be un-cropped in other tools. It is excluded here by construction, and an automated test enforces it on every build.

Files you export are yours. The app never touches them again, and “Clear All Data” does not delete them.

Support and compatibility data

Explicit service requests may include app version, build, distribution, platform and OS version, architecture, locale, and essential capability booleans. They never include screenshots, logs, paths, clipboard contents, session data, or exported files. Anonymous reports receive an opaque local receipt. Report content is retained for 24 months after closure; verified contact data is removed 90 days after the final notice or sooner through the report's contact-management control. See the HumansAreUseful.ai privacy notice for service-provider, security, and deletion details.

Permissions the app may ask for

• Screen capture or recording — only when a platform requires it for a capture initiated from inside the app. Reading an image already on the clipboard needs no such permission.
• File access — only when you choose a file to open or an export destination.

Removing it completely

Remove the application in the normal way for your operating system, then delete its per-user application-data folder. Settings ▸ Clear All Data handles the data portion from inside the app. Files you exported are not app data and are never removed.

This website

drawonclipboard.com is a set of static files. It loads no third-party fonts, scripts, or trackers, and has no analytics. If you choose a language, it stores one first-party cookie containing only that language tag; “Follow browser language” removes it. The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, whose hosting layer may retain ordinary request logs. App support requests use the separately disclosed HumansAreUseful.ai App Services boundary described above.

Changes

If any of the above changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves.