Our privacy promise
When you use ClarShot for free, we cannot see anything you capture, because nothing ever leaves your browser. This is not a policy decision we could quietly reverse. It is how the product is built:
- Nothing is sent online. The free extension never connects to our servers or anyone else's. Want to check? This guide shows how, in a few minutes.
- No account, ever, for local features. Capture, record, annotate, export. None of it asks who you are.
- No tracking of any kind. We do not count clicks, collect usage statistics, receive error reports or show ads. Not even "anonymous" tracking.
- Your captures live on your device. In your browser's local storage and your Downloads folder. We have no copy, so there is nothing we could lose, leak, sell, or be forced to hand over.
- Minimal permissions. We request only what capture requires, and we publish a plain-language reason for every permission. We never request access to your browsing history, your accounts, or third-party services.
Pro (paid, optional, still local). Pro will add your brand to the screenshots you download or copy when it launches, and later hide more private data before you share. It will run on your device exactly like the free version, with nothing sent online. Your license will be a key your computer checks by itself, without going online, stored only in your browser and never synced anywhere. You will buy it through Paddle, our reseller; the extension itself never learns who you are.
Screen captures are among the most sensitive data that exists: they contain whatever was on your screen. We believe a capture tool has no business seeing any of it. So we built one that can't.
Privacy policy
The promise above is the readable version. The policy below is the full version, written to satisfy the Chrome Web Store, the GDPR and Romanian law. Both say the same thing.
1. Who this policy covers
ClarShot ("ClarShot", "we", "us") is a browser extension for Chromium browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, for taking screenshots (visible area, selected region, full page) and recording your screen (a tab, a window, or your whole screen), with a built-in image editor. It is provided by ROEM NOSIS SRL, a company registered in Romania. This policy covers the extension and this website. It does not cover your browser, your operating system, or any website you capture; each of those is operated by someone else and has its own terms and privacy policy.
2. Our core principle: everything stays local
ClarShot is built local-first. Everything you capture, annotate, and export is processed and stored on your own device, inside your browser. The extension has no user accounts, talks to no server, and does not transmit your captures or your activity anywhere. The only online service we run is the one that emails Pro keys after a purchase (section 11); the extension never contacts it. Chrome Web Store policy requires us to describe how ClarShot handles your data even though that handling happens only on your device. The sections below do exactly that.
3. What data ClarShot handles, and where it is stored
All of the following is stored locally on your device and is never sent to us or to any third party:
| What | Where | Why, and for how long |
|---|---|---|
| The capture you are working on and the annotations you add | Your browser's local database (IndexedDB) and session storage, on your device | So the capture reaches the editor even if the browser restarts the extension's background worker. It is handed to the editor once; leftovers are removed automatically after a few minutes. |
| Your recent images: the last 10 images you saved or copied from the editor, exactly as exported | Your browser's local database (IndexedDB), on your device | So the extension's popup can reopen or copy them again. Only images you chose to save or copy are kept, with any blur already applied; a capture you closed without exporting is not. Kept until the list rolls over, you remove them (one at a time or all at once), or you uninstall. |
| A recording in progress, saved in small pieces as you record | Your browser's local database (IndexedDB), on your device | So a long recording never has to fit in memory. A recording you did not export stays for 7 days, listed in the popup so you can still save it, then its pieces are removed. |
| Interface preferences: your last-used tool, color, capture mode, export format and theme | Your browser's localStorage, on your device | So a repeat use lands where you left off. Kept until you uninstall. |
| Files you export | Your Downloads folder, or your clipboard | Yours, for as long as you keep them. Unaffected by uninstalling. |
An image you paste, drop or pick in the editor is read only at that moment and kept in that editor tab's memory until you close the tab. ClarShot never stores it or sends it anywhere. If you export, the exported image contains it, like any annotation, and is kept in your Recent list like any other export.
Your screenshots and recordings can, of course, contain whatever is on your screen, including personal information, if you choose to capture it. Because ClarShot keeps that content on your device and never sends it anywhere, you remain in control of it. ClarShot does not read the content of your captures for any purpose other than showing, editing, and exporting them for you.
ClarShot does not use the browser's sync storage, so nothing about ClarShot is synced through your Google, Microsoft or other browser account to other devices.
4. What ClarShot does not do
- No accounts or sign-in. You do not create an account, and we hold no profile about you.
- No network transmission of your content. ClarShot makes no network requests. Its fonts and code are bundled inside the extension, so it does not even fetch resources from the internet to run.
- No analytics, telemetry, or tracking. ClarShot contains no analytics or tracking code and does not measure your usage.
- No advertising. There are no ads and no advertising identifiers.
- No selling or transferring of data. We do not sell or transfer your data to third parties; we do not use or transfer it for any purpose unrelated to ClarShot's single purpose of screen capture and recording; and we do not use or transfer it to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes.
- No watermark is added to your captures or recordings.
ClarShot's handling of data is limited to what is necessary for its single purpose, in line with the Chrome Web Store Limited Use requirements.
5. Permissions and why we ask for them
ClarShot requests only the minimum permissions its features need. It requests no access to all your websites and no host permissions.
| Permission | Why ClarShot needs it |
|---|---|
activeTab | To capture the tab you are on, only when you start a capture |
scripting | To run the region-selection overlay and the full-page scroll-and-stitch on the current page, on demand |
tabCapture | To record a tab's video and audio |
offscreen | To run the recording pipeline, which needs a document that the browser's background worker cannot provide |
downloads | To save your exports to your own disk |
storage | To keep your preferences and the temporary capture state described above, on your device |
For window or whole-screen recording, ClarShot uses the browser's built-in screen-sharing chooser. That chooser, and your click in it, is your consent; it does not require any additional permission.
6. How your data is used
ClarShot uses the data above only to provide its features to you, on your device: to take your captures, let you annotate and crop them, add images you paste, drop or pick, record your screen, remember your interface preferences, and export files when you ask it to. Nothing else.
7. Sharing and disclosure
ClarShot does not share your data with anyone, because your data never leaves your device and we never receive it. The only exceptions are the Pro waitlist, a Pro purchase and a gift key we give you, all described in section 11. There are no third-party services embedded in the extension.
One thing to keep in mind. When you export a file, ClarShot saves it where you choose. If that folder syncs to a cloud service (OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox), that service, not ClarShot, may then upload your file according to its own settings and policy. ClarShot itself never uploads anything.
8. Retention and your controls
- A capture handed to the editor is consumed by it; leftovers are removed automatically within minutes.
- The popup's Recent list keeps only the last 10 images you saved or copied. Remove any of them, or all of them, from the popup at any time.
- A recording you did not save (interrupted, or finished but not downloaded) is listed in the popup for 7 days, then removed. You can delete it earlier from the popup.
- If you uninstall ClarShot, the browser removes ClarShot's local storage and preferences. Files you have already exported are yours and are not affected.
- Because ClarShot keeps your captures and activity on your device and holds no copy of them on any server, there is nothing on our side to retain, export, or delete. The exceptions are a Pro waitlist email, if you gave us one, what we receive when you buy Pro, and our note of a gift key we gave you; see sections 11 and 12.
9. Security
Keeping your content on your device removes an entire class of risk: there is no ClarShot account to breach and no ClarShot server holding your captures. Your local captures are stored using your browser's standard storage, protected by your browser and operating system.
To be clear and not overstate this: ClarShot does not add its own encryption on top of the browser's storage. Anyone who can use your device and your browser profile could open ClarShot's local data. Protect your device the way you protect the rest of it, for example with a screen lock and, if appropriate, full-disk encryption.
10. Children
ClarShot is a general-purpose tool and is not directed to children. It does not knowingly collect any information from children. In fact, we collect no information about any user of any age, beyond the Pro waitlist, purchases and gift keys described in section 11.
11. This website, the Pro waitlist and Pro purchases
clarshot.com sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from third parties: fonts, images and video are served from this domain. The site is hosted on Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel's servers handle your IP address to deliver the pages and may keep short-lived technical logs for security; we do not use those logs to identify or track you. If you pick a light or dark theme with the switch in the header, that choice is kept in your browser's local storage on your device and is never sent anywhere.
The Pro waitlist. If you enter your email on the Pro page and submit it, that email is sent to Brevo, our email provider, and kept on a contact list for one purpose: to tell you about the ClarShot Pro launch. Brevo first sends you one confirmation email, and you join the list only if you click its link. After that we write to you once, on launch day, and nothing else. We delete the list, and everything stored with it, within 30 days after the launch-day email. If you unsubscribe earlier, Brevo keeps only your address on a do-not-email list, so that you are not written to again. For this, and only this, we act as the data controller and Brevo as our processor; the lawful basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by writing to us, or by unsubscribing from the launch-day email. Brevo is an EU-based provider; see its privacy policy. It is the only feature on this site that sends anything to a third party, and only when you submit the form; the page loads no code from Brevo.
Buying Pro. Pro is not on sale yet; this part applies from the first sale. Pro is sold by Paddle, our reseller and merchant of record: Paddle.com Inc. in the United States, Paddle.com (Canada) Ltd. in Canada, and Paddle.com Market Limited, 30 Old Bailey, London EC4M 7AU, United Kingdom, everywhere else. You pay in Paddle's checkout, which Paddle runs; your full payment details go to Paddle, never to us, and Paddle handles the payment, the tax and the invoice as an independent controller, under its own privacy notice.
What we receive. After a purchase, Paddle sends our key service the order (order ID, product, amount, discount and a payment summary such as card type and last four digits), and the service looks up, in Paddle, the email address you gave at checkout; in our Paddle account we can also see the order record, including your country. We use only the order ID, the product, the amount, the discount and your email: to send your license key, to help you when you write to us, and to handle a refund; the lawful basis is the contract you entered into.
How your key is sent. Your key is signed by a small service of ours that Vercel runs for us as our processor, in its Frankfurt region: it holds your email only in memory while the key is sent and stores nothing apart from a log entry with the order ID. The key is then emailed to you through Resend, our provider for transactional email, also our processor, which keeps a copy of the email and its delivery log for 30 days. Vercel and Resend are US companies and transfer data under the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (see Resend's privacy policy). We keep no customer database of our own: the record of your order stays in Paddle, which keeps it for as long as tax and accounting law requires.
Gift keys. If we give you a key as a gift, we note your name or email next to its license number, to help you if you lose it or if the key is misused; the lawful basis is our legitimate interest in supporting the keys we give, and we keep the note while the key can be used, or delete it earlier if you ask.
What the key contains. The key contains no name, email or device identifier. Its license number and a short fingerprint of your order ID let us, and only us, match it to your order; it also records how many people it covers, the dates it carries (such as when it was issued and, for some gift keys, its last day), and whether it is a founder or gift key. The extension checks it on your device and never sends it anywhere.
If you email us, we keep the correspondence for as long as it takes to help you.
12. Your rights, GDPR, and Romanian law
ClarShot is provided by ROEM NOSIS SRL, established in Romania. This policy is written in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and Romanian Law no. 190/2018.
For the extension itself, because your captures never leave your device and ClarShot has no accounts, we do not access, receive, or store any personal data about you or your captures: capturing, recording, annotating and exporting involve no processing of personal data on our side. There are three exceptions, all as the controller and exactly as described in section 11: the Pro waitlist, if you join it (the email you give us), a Pro purchase, for which Paddle passes us what we need to deliver your key and support you, and a gift key we give you (your name or email next to its license number).
Under the GDPR you have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection, and data portability. For your captures there is nothing for us to retrieve, correct, or erase, because we never hold them; you manage them on your device, as described in section 8. For the Pro waitlist you can withdraw consent at any time by writing to us or by unsubscribing from the launch-day email, and have your data erased by writing to support@clarshot.com; we remove you from the list, even before the launch-day email is sent. For a Pro purchase, write to the same address: we answer for what we hold, and pass on to Paddle what concerns the payment itself. If you have any question about your data and ClarShot, contact us and we will help.
Right to lodge a complaint. If you consider that your data-protection rights have been infringed, you may lodge a complaint with the Romanian supervisory authority, the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP), B-dul G-ral Gheorghe Magheru nr. 28-30, Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania, www.dataprotection.ro, or with the supervisory authority in your own country of residence.
13. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as ClarShot evolves. When we make a material change, we update the effective date at the top and note the change in the extension's listing. If a future version of ClarShot ever involved sending any data off your device, this policy would describe exactly what, on what legal basis, by whom, and for how long, before that feature handled any data. The core capture and recording features will remain local.
14. Contact
Questions about this policy or about privacy in ClarShot: support@clarshot.com.
Provider: ROEM NOSIS SRL, Str. Tulgheșului 5A, Cluj-Napoca, 400388, jud. Cluj, Romania. Trade Register J2014001371126, fiscal code (CUI) 33063978. See also the Legal page.