Copyable Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 12, 2026

Copyable does not collect, sell or share any personal data. The extension has no analytics, no tracking, no ads and no account. This website counts page visits without cookies, and only if you allow it, as described under "This website" below.

What is stored on your device

Copyable keeps a small amount of data in Chrome's extension storage on your device. It is deleted when you uninstall the extension.

• Unlocked sites: the websites where you turned on "Unlock this site".
• OCR usage count: how many of the free text captures you have used. If Chrome sync is on, Chrome also syncs this one number between browsers signed into your Google account, so they share one free allowance. Nothing else is synced.
• Text language: the language you chose for reading text.
• Translate to: the language you chose for translations, if you changed it.
• License key: only if you buy Pro, your Polar.sh license key and the result of its last check.

Screen captures and text

When you use "Copy text from screen" or right click an image and choose "Copy text from image", Copyable takes a screenshot of the visible part of the current tab and reads the area you chose or the image you clicked. Text recognition runs inside the extension on your own device, using the bundled Tesseract engine and language files. If the area holds a QR code, Copyable reads it on your device too, using the bundled jsQR library. The screenshot, the recognized text and the content of a QR code are never saved or sent anywhere. They are placed on your clipboard and nowhere else, and Copyable never opens a link it finds in a QR code.

If you click "Edit" on the result, the text is shown in a small box on the page so you can correct it and copy it again. It is discarded when you close the box.

Network requests

Copyable makes no network requests during normal use. Unlocking sites and OCR both work offline.

The only exception is Pro licensing, and only if you choose to use it:

• "Buy Pro" opens the Polar.sh checkout page in a new tab. Payment is handled by Polar.sh as merchant of record, under Polar's own privacy policy.
• When you enter a license key, Copyable sends that key to api.polar.sh to confirm it is valid. While Pro is active, it checks the key again at most once a day, only when you capture text after the free allowance is used. Nothing else is sent: no browsing history, no page content and no screenshots. If the key cannot be checked for 14 days, for example because you are offline, Pro captures pause until Copyable can reach Polar again.

Translation

"Translate" in the notice uses the translator built into Chrome. The text is translated on your device and is never sent to Copyable or anyone else. The first time you translate between two languages, Chrome downloads that language pack from Google, the way it downloads its other components. Copyable takes no part in that download and sends no text with it. After that, translating works offline.

Links in the popup, such as this policy, the Chrome Web Store rating page and the Polar customer portal, open in a normal tab only when you click them. When you uninstall Copyable, Chrome opens a feedback page on copyable.procd.cc. Nothing about you or how you used Copyable is added to that address.

This website

copyable.procd.cc asks before it counts your visit. If you choose "Allow", it loads Vercel Web Analytics; if you choose "No thanks", or your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, the counter is never loaded. Your answer is kept in this site's local storage in your browser (not a cookie) for a year, and you can change it at any time with "Privacy choices" at the bottom of every page.

When allowed, Vercel Web Analytics sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. For each page view it records the page, the site that linked to it, and your country, browser, operating system and device type. Visitors are counted with a value derived from the request that changes every day, so a visit cannot be linked to you, to your visits on other days or to other websites. The extension never loads this script.

Links from this website to the Chrome Web Store and to checkout carry a label such as utm_source=website, and the "Buy Pro" buttons in the extension carry utm_source=extension. The label is the same for everyone. It tells us which page or button a visit came from, and says nothing about you.

Permissions

• storage: remembers unlocked sites, the usage count and your license key, and syncs the usage count if Chrome sync is on.
• activeTab: lets Copyable act on the current tab only when you click the toolbar button or press the shortcut.
• scripting: runs the unlock and selection scripts on pages you choose.
• offscreen: runs text recognition and writes to the clipboard in a hidden extension page.
• clipboardWrite: puts the recognized text on your clipboard.
• contextMenus: adds "Copy text from image" to the right click menu on images.
• Site access (optional): requested one site at a time, only when you turn on "Unlock this site". You can remove it at any time from the popup or from Chrome's extension settings.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page and the date above will change.

Contact

For questions about privacy, email support@procd.cc.