DropCove

Privacy policy

Last updated November 15, 2026

DropCove is a Mac app made by Kristoff (“I”, “me”). This policy covers the app, the website at dropcoveapp.com, and buying DropCove Pro. Draft: to be reviewed before launch.

The app

DropCove collects no personal data. Everything it does happens on your Mac.

  • Files you drop are processed on your Mac with Apple’s frameworks. Text recognition (OCR) runs on-device. Your original files are never modified or uploaded.
  • What you copy is examined on your Mac to decide whether to show the clipboard lens. It is never sent anywhere. Secrets and tokens it detects are never written to disk, logs or history.
  • Clipboard history is stored only on your Mac, in the app’s Application Support folder. “Clear history” in Settings deletes it.
  • The app has no account, no telemetry, no analytics and no crash reporting.
  • The only network request the app makes is the update check. Once a day, and 60 seconds after launch, it downloads an update feed from downloads.dropcoveapp.com and, if you choose to update, the new version. Like any web request, this reveals your IP address and the app version (in the request’s user agent) to the host, Cloudflare. It does not send a system profile.
  • Your license key is verified offline on your Mac. Buy Pro and Restore purchase only open this website in your browser.

The website

dropcoveapp.com is hosted on Cloudflare and uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies, without fingerprinting and without collecting personal data. Cloudflare processes request data, such as IP addresses, to serve and protect the site. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy. The site sets no cookies.

When you click Download, the site counts the download before sending you to the file. For each download it records only the time, your country (from Cloudflare, not your IP address), the name of the site that linked you here (not the full address), a campaign tag if the link had one (such as ?ref=reddit), whether the browser looks like Mac, Windows, a phone or a bot, and nothing else: no IP address, no cookie, no identifier. These counts are kept for 90 days.

Buying DropCove Pro

Purchases are handled by Lemon Squeezy, the merchant of record, which processes your payment, billing details and email address under its own privacy policy. I never see your card details.

After a purchase, Lemon Squeezy sends me your order details. I use your email address and order ID to create your license key and email it to you, to answer support requests, and to handle refunds. Your email address is part of the license key itself, so it is visible to anyone you share the key with. I do not use it for marketing and do not sell or share it.

Email

If you email me, I keep the conversation to answer you and do not share it.

Your rights

You can ask me what data I hold about you (in practice, an order record and any emails), and ask me to correct or delete it, at hello@dropcoveapp.com. Order records that tax law requires are kept by Lemon Squeezy for as long as the law requires.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.