Privacy Policy

Effective April 28, 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, your saved palettes, and your favorited swatches 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

ColorCopy does not request Screen Recording, Accessibility, or any other special system permission. It uses Apple’s sandboxed system color picker (NSColorSampler) — the same out-of-process API used by Xcode, Keynote, and Preview — which presents its own loupe UI and returns only the single color you click.

ColorCopy never records video, takes screenshots, or reads anything beyond that single pixel.

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