Privacy Policy

Effective April 17, 2026

The short version: We don’t have servers. We don’t have accounts. We don’t collect your colors, your clipboard, or your identity. ColorCopy reads a single pixel when you click it, writes the result to your clipboard, and that’s the end of it.

1. What we collect

Nothing. ColorCopy doesn’t have a backend. We don’t use analytics, telemetry, crash reporters, or tracking of any kind. We don’t know your name, your email, or that you’re using the app at all.

2. Your colors and clipboard

When you pick a color, ColorCopy reads the pixel you clicked using Apple’s native NSColorSampler. The color is formatted according to your preferences and written to your Mac’s clipboard. Recent colors (up to the last 8) are stored locally on your Mac in UserDefaults. Nothing is transmitted anywhere.

3. Settings and preferences

Your app preferences (color format, hotkey, sound, language, etc.) are saved locally on your Mac via macOS’s standard UserDefaults. They stay on your device.

4. Permissions

macOS requires Screen Recording permission for any app that reads pixel colors from other apps. This is a system-level rule Apple applies to every color picker — not something ColorCopy chose. The first time you pick a color, macOS will prompt you.

ColorCopy never records video, takes screenshots, or reads anything beyond the single pixel you clicked.

5. Network connections

ColorCopy connects to the internet for only one reason: handling optional in-app purchases through Apple’s StoreKit. Apple manages the transaction end-to-end; we only receive confirmation that a purchase was made.

6. The Mac App Store

When you download or purchase through the Mac App Store, Apple processes your payment and provides us with aggregated, anonymized sales data. Apple’s handling of your data is governed by the Apple Privacy Policy.

7. Third parties

That’s the whole list. We don’t share anything with anyone else, because we don’t collect anything in the first place.

8. Children

ColorCopy isn’t directed at children under 13 and doesn’t knowingly collect data from anyone — minor or adult — since we don’t collect data at all.

9. Changes

If we ever change how the app handles data, we’ll update this page and the “Effective” date above. Given the design of the app, we don’t expect that to happen often.

10. Contact

A Beautiful Site, LLC