Effective date: 1 September 2026
Cyclop Notch has no account, no telemetry, and no analytics. It does not collect, transmit, or sell any personal data. Everything the app reads stays on your Mac.
There is exactly one outgoing connection, described below, and it carries no information about you.
Clipboard. The Clipboard tab keeps a short history of what you have copied, so you can paste something again after copying something else. This history lives in the app's memory only. It is never written to disk, and it disappears when the app quits.
Items that a password manager marks as concealed (the standard
org.nspasteboard.ConcealedType marker) are never added to the history at
all.
Screenshots. When you copy a screenshot to the clipboard, the app can save it as a file so the Shelf can keep it. These files are written to a folder named Cyclop inside your Pictures folder. They belong to you: the app never deletes them automatically, and never sends them anywhere. You can open that folder or empty it from the app's settings at any time.
Calendar. The Calendar tab shows your next few events and a button to join a meeting link. It reads your calendar through the system Calendar framework and asks for permission the first time you open that tab. If you never open it, the app never requests calendar access and never reads anything.
Music players. The Media tab shows what Apple Music or Spotify is currently playing and lets you control playback. macOS asks for your permission the first time. The app only reads the current track's title, artist, album, position and artwork, and only sends playback commands. It does not read your library, your playlists, or your listening history.
Files you add to the Shelf. The Shelf remembers where the files you dropped in are located, so it can show them again later. It stores that location on your Mac. The files themselves are not copied, moved, or read beyond what is needed to draw a thumbnail.
Notes, snippets, and teleprompter text. What you type is stored in the app's own folder on your Mac and nowhere else.
Translation. The Translate tab uses the translation engine built into macOS, which runs on your machine.
One thing, and only when Spotify is playing: the app downloads the album artwork image from the https address that Spotify itself provides, so it can show the cover. That request contains no identifier, no account information, and nothing about you — it is an ordinary image download.
Apart from that, Cyclop Notch opens no network connections. It does not check for updates, does not report crashes, and does not contact any server operated by us, because there is no such server.
The app asks for a permission only at the moment a feature needs it, and only for that feature: