Nifty Privacy Policy

Nifty is a clipboard manager for Google Chrome. It keeps a history of the text you copy so you can find it and reuse it later.

To do its job, Nifty captures the text you copy to your clipboard. This happens when you copy on a web page, and, if you leave automatic capture turned on, when you copy from places like the browser address bar, internal Chrome pages, or other applications on your computer.

Because a clipboard is general-purpose, the text Nifty captures can be anything you happen to copy. Depending on what you copy, this may include:

• Website content, such as text and links copied from web pages.
• Personal communications, such as messages or email text.
• Personally identifiable information, such as names, addresses, or email addresses.
• Financial information, such as payment card numbers, if you copy them.
• Authentication information, such as passwords or one-time codes, if you copy them.

Nifty does not single out or specifically search for any of these. It simply stores whatever you copy so that you can reuse it.

Everything Nifty captures is stored only in your browser's local storage, on your own device, using Chrome's storage. It is used for a single purpose: to show you your clipboard history inside the Nifty popup so you can copy items again.

Nifty does not:

• Send your clipboard data, or any other data, to us or to any server.
• Sell your data or share it with third parties.
• Use analytics, tracking, or advertising of any kind.

Nifty makes no network requests to transmit your content. Your clipboard data never leaves your device through Nifty.

You are always in control of what Nifty keeps:

• Automatic capture can be paused at any time from the popup, so Nifty stops recording new copies. Turn it off before copying anything you would rather Nifty not store.
• You can delete any item. Deleted items move to a trash bin.
• Items in the trash can be restored, or removed immediately with Delete Forever. The entire trash can be cleared at once with Empty Trash.
• Items left in the trash are automatically and permanently removed after 30 days.
• The active list holds up to 500 items; older items drop off as new ones are added.

For anything sensitive that you would like gone right away, use Delete Forever or Empty Trash rather than leaving it in the trash.

Active items remain until you delete them or until they age out past the 500-item limit. Deleted items remain in the trash for up to 30 days and are then purged automatically. Once purged or permanently deleted, they are gone from your device.

• Reading the clipboard (clipboardRead): to capture the text you copy so it can be added to your history, including copies made outside the browser.
• Writing to the clipboard (clipboardWrite): so that clicking an item in Nifty copies it back to your system clipboard.
• Storage (storage): to save your history locally so it is available across browsing sessions.
• Offscreen documents (offscreen): to give Nifty's background a context that can read the clipboard, which is how copies from the address bar or other apps are captured.
• Access to websites (host permission): so Nifty can detect the copies you make on any web page.

When you install or remove Nifty, and occasionally when it updates, Nifty may open a page on our website (abdullahhamid.ca). Loading one of those pages is an ordinary website visit and involves the usual information any web server receives, such as your IP address and browser type. These pages do not receive any of your clipboard data or history.

Nifty's handling of user data complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. Nifty only collects and uses your data to provide its single purpose of managing your clipboard. Nifty does not sell your data, does not transfer it to third parties except as required by law, and does not use or transfer it for any purpose unrelated to managing your clipboard, including advertising or assessing creditworthiness.

Nifty stores your clipboard history locally within your Chrome profile and does not transmit it anywhere. Because that history can contain sensitive text you have copied, treat access to your device and browser profile as access to that history, and use Delete Forever or Empty Trash to clear items you no longer want kept.

Nifty is a general-purpose utility and is not directed to children under 13. It does not knowingly collect data from children, and, as described above, it does not collect data from anyone beyond storing copied text locally on the device.

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date. Meaningful changes will also be reflected in Nifty's Chrome Web Store listing.

Questions about this policy or about Nifty can be sent through abdullahhamid.ca/support.

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Nifty is developed by Abdullah Hamid.