Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2026

    Short version: Pluks collects nothing. All data stays on your device.
    No servers. No accounts. No telemetry. Nothing leaves your machine.
  

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.

How the browser extension works

The Pluks browser extension listens for mouseup events in your browser tabs to detect text selections. When a selection is made, it copies the text using the browser's standard Clipboard API and saves an entry to chrome.storage.local (or browser.storage.local on Firefox). This storage is local to your browser and is never synced or transmitted anywhere.

Permissions explained

storage — used to save your 100-item selection history locally in the browser.
clipboardWrite — used to write selected text to your clipboard.
Content script on all URLs — the extension must run on every page you visit so it can detect text selections. It reads only the text you select; it never reads page content, passwords, form data, or any other information.

Third-party services

Pluks uses no third-party analytics, crash reporting, advertising, or tracking services of any kind, in either the desktop app or the browser extension.

Data storage

All data is stored exclusively on your device:

Desktop app: SQLite database in your local application data folder
Browser extension: chrome.storage.local / browser.storage.local

You can clear all history at any time from within the app or extension.

Open source

Pluks is fully open source under the MIT license. You can inspect every line of code at github.com/darth-pixit/pluck-app.

Changes to this policy

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

Contact

Questions? Open an issue at github.com/darth-pixit/pluck-app/issues.