The short version
- The PasteBee app collects nothing. It has no network code: it never connects to the internet, has no account, no analytics and no crash reporting. Your clipboard history stays on your Mac.
- This website counts visits and downloads without cookies, and uses Google Analytics. Visitors in the EU, the UK and Switzerland are asked first.
- We don't sell data, show ads or share anything with advertisers.
The PasteBee app
What it stores, and where
PasteBee keeps a history of what you copy so you can paste it again: text, rich text, links, images, file references, colors and code, plus the name of the app you copied from. With screenshot capture turned on, it also adds new screenshots from your screenshot folder. All of it is stored in a database in your user account on your Mac (~/Library/Application Support/Paste.store), and your settings are stored in macOS preferences.
When you search, PasteBee reads the text inside images using Apple's Vision framework. This runs on your Mac; the images and the text are never sent anywhere.
Your history is not encrypted by PasteBee. It's protected the way your other files are: by your Mac's login password and FileVault, if you use it.
What it doesn't store
- Copies that password managers and other apps mark as concealed or temporary (for example from 1Password or Bitwarden).
- Anything copied in an app you've excluded in Settings › Rules.
- Anything copied while recording is paused (⌘T in the panel).
Permissions
Accessibility is used only to paste into the app you're working in, by sending ⌘V, and, while the paste stack is open, to notice when you press ⌘V so it can load the next item. PasteBee doesn't record your typing. Without this permission, PasteBee still copies items and you paste them yourself.
Deleting your data
You can delete single items from the panel (⌘⌫) and set how long history is kept in Settings › General. Pinned items and items in a pinboard are kept until you delete them. To remove everything, quit PasteBee and delete the app, the Paste.store files in ~/Library/Application Support/ and ~/Library/Preferences/com.paste.app.plist.
This website
Visit and download counts
The site runs on Cloudflare. For each page view and each download of PasteBee.dmg, our server records the time, the page, the referring website (only its domain, for example google.com), a campaign tag if the link had one (such as ?ref=reddit), the country, whether the visitor looks like a bot, and a visitor code. The visitor code is a one-way hash of your IP address and browser, mixed with a secret that changes every day, so it can count unique visitors per day but can't identify you or follow you across days. We don't store IP addresses and don't set cookies for this.
Google Analytics
The site also uses Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, to see how people find PasteBee. It sets cookies and sends Google information about your visit, such as the pages you view, your approximate location, your browser and device, and when you click the download link. Advertising features are turned off.
In the EU, the UK and Switzerland, Google Analytics stays off until you click Accept on the cookie banner. Your choice is saved in your browser, and you can change it at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. Elsewhere it's on by default; you can block it with your browser's privacy settings or a content blocker, and the site works the same. See Google's privacy policy for how Google handles this data.
Other services
Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so your browser connects to Google to download them. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, processes your IP address to deliver pages and protect the site, as any web host does. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data about you, and to object to its use. The app's data never leaves your Mac, so you control it fully. The visit counts can't be linked back to you. For Google Analytics, you can decline or withdraw consent at any time with Cookie settings. For anything else, email us at contact@pastebee.app.
Children
PasteBee isn't directed at children and we don't knowingly collect data from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If a future version of the app ever needs to connect to the internet (for example to check for updates), we'll say so here first.
Contact
Questions about privacy: contact@pastebee.app