Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2026

    Short version: The text you copy never leaves your device. We do
    collect anonymous usage stats and crash reports to help us improve Pluks — you
    can opt out in the desktop app's Preferences, or by enabling "Do Not Track"
    on this website.
  

What Pluks collects

Nothing. Pluks does not collect, transmit, or share any personal data, usage data, or any other information about you or your activity.

How the desktop app works

The Pluks desktop app monitors mouse activity locally on your device to detect when you select text. When a text selection is detected, it simulates a copy operation and saves the result to a local SQLite database stored in your application data folder. This database never leaves your computer.

Passwords stay out of history. On macOS, before every capture, Pluks asks Accessibility for the role of the focused element. If it's AXSecureTextField — the role used by every standard password input on macOS, including Safari logins, the system unlock prompt, and password managers — Pluks does not simulate a copy, does not read the clipboard, and stores nothing in history. On both macOS and Windows, content that a password manager flags with the standard concealed-clipboard conventions (org.nspasteboard.ConcealedType, ExcludeClipboardContentFromMonitorProcessing, CanIncludeInClipboardHistory=0) is never read or stored. Equivalent focused-field detection for Windows (via UI Automation) is planned; until it ships, the concealed-clipboard convention is the Windows safeguard.

Analytics & error reporting

Pluks uses two services to collect anonymous, opt-out telemetry: PostHog for usage analytics and Sentry for error and crash reports. Both are sent against an anonymous UUID generated locally on first run — there is no account, no email, no device fingerprint.

What we send

Event counts: panel opens, history clicks, smart-paste use, search use, downloads.
Coarse properties: app version, OS and major version (e.g. macOS 14, Windows 11), locale, screen size.
Bucketed selection length (e.g. 11-100, 101-1000) — never the value.
Error type, stack trace, and a hash of the error message.

What we never send

The text you copy or select — ever, anywhere.
The websites you visit, page titles, page content, or hostnames.
Your name, email, IP-derived location finer than country, or any device identifier.
Tokens, passwords, file paths, or anything that pattern-matches a secret.

How to opt out

Desktop app: click the ⚙ in the panel titlebar → toggle "Send anonymous usage stats" and "Send crash reports".
Website: enable "Do Not Track" in your browser, or append ?opt_out=1 to any pluks.app URL once.

Data storage

All data is stored exclusively on your device — a SQLite database in your local application data folder. You can clear all history at any time from within the app.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at pluks.app/privacy.html with a revised date.

Contact

Questions? Email us at parth.dixit@alumni.iitd.ac.in, or use the feedback button on this page.