Last updated: June 11, 2026
This policy explains what data Text Snip — the desktop application and this website, operated by BlackFlag Studio ("we", "us") — collects, why, and what we do with it. We've tried to keep it readable; if anything is unclear, ask us.
1. The most important part
Text recognition runs locally on your computer. When you snip a region of your screen, the image is processed by the OCR engine built into Windows, on your device. We never receive your screenshots, and we never receive the recognized text — it goes straight to your clipboard.
The only exception: optional online features. If you enable translation or AI features, the captured text (never the image) is sent to the respective service to do that job, only at the moment you use the feature, and is not stored by us.
2. What we collect when you create an account
- Email address — used to sign you in and, if you ask for it, to send password-reset or account emails.
- Name and profile picture — only if you sign in with Google, and only to display them back to you in the app and on this site.
- Plan status — whether your account has Premium, so your features unlock on any device you sign in to.
Accounts and the data above are stored with Supabase, our authentication and database provider, hosted in the European Union (Ireland).
3. What stays on your device
- Your settings and preferences.
- Your clipboard history of snips (if you enable it) — stored locally, never synced to us.
- Your sign-in session token, so you stay logged in between launches.
4. What we don't do
- No analytics or telemetry inside the desktop app.
- No advertising, and no selling or sharing of your data with data brokers.
- No reading of your screen except during the snip rectangle you explicitly draw.
5. Third-party services
- Supabase — account storage and authentication (EU hosting).
- Google — only if you choose "Sign in with Google"; Google shares your name, email and avatar with us as part of sign-in.
- Translation providers — only when you use the translation feature; they receive the captured text to translate it.
- Lemon Squeezy — our payment processor for Premium purchases; payment details are handled entirely by them and never touch our servers.
- Microsoft Clarity — privacy-friendly analytics and heatmaps on this website only (not in the app), so we can see which pages are useful and improve them. Clarity records aggregated, anonymized interaction data.
- Google Fonts — this website loads the Inter typeface from Google's CDN.
6. The app's network connections
The desktop app talks to the internet only for: signing in and refreshing your session, checking your plan status, redeeming promo codes, checking for app updates, and the optional online features described above. Each of these sends the minimum necessary data.
7. Cookies & local storage on this website
This site does not use advertising cookies and never sells your data. Analytics are opt-in: on your first visit a cookie banner asks for your consent, and Microsoft Clarity (privacy-friendly analytics and heatmaps, which may set its own cookies/identifiers to measure aggregated, anonymized behavior) loads only if you choose Accept. Choosing Decline keeps it off; to change your mind, clear this site's storage and the banner returns. When you sign in on the account page, your session is kept in your browser's local storage so you stay logged in — this is strictly necessary and not covered by the banner, and signing out removes it. The desktop app itself contains no analytics or telemetry.
8. Data retention & deleting your account
We keep your account data for as long as your account exists. You can permanently delete your account and all associated data at any time from the Account page — click "Delete account" and confirm with your email address. Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone. You can also email accounts@blackflag.studio and we'll delete it manually, normally within 7 days.
9. Security
Connections to our services use TLS encryption. Passwords are hashed by our authentication provider and are never visible to us. Access to account data inside our systems is restricted by row-level security, so each account can only ever read its own records.
10. Children
Text Snip is not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
11. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy in a meaningful way, we'll update the date at the top and, for significant changes, note it in the app or by email.
12. Contact
BlackFlag Studio — accounts@blackflag.studio