Privacy

Little Eye does not collect your clipboard. Everything is decoded locally on your Mac or iPhone — the app reads the system pasteboard (NSPasteboard on macOS, UIPasteboard on iOS), parses what it finds, and shows you the result. Nothing leaves your device unless you turn on one of the optional network detectors described below.

Optional network detectors

A handful of detectors can enrich what they find by reaching out to the network — resolving a hostname's DNS records, fetching a URL you copied, looking up an ISBN, or running a WHOIS query on a domain. These are the only features that ever send anything off your device, they act only on values you can already see in the panel, and each is gated behind an explicit setting you control.

Updates and licence activation

The macOS app can check for and download new versions over the network. These update checks are anonymous — they send no licence, no device identifier, and nothing that identifies you; the app simply asks our server what the latest version is and, if you choose, downloads it. When you activate a licence, the app sends us one small record — your licence id, a random identifier generated on your Mac, and the app and macOS version — so we can tell when a single licence is being used on an implausible number of machines. This is licence-misuse detection, not tracking: the identifier is random (not tied to your hardware), we store no IP address and no location, and activation is best-effort, so using Little Eye offline is unaffected. Offline licence verification is unchanged — the app still checks your key entirely on-device.

Privacy Mode

Privacy Mode is a one-click kill-switch that blocks all detector network traffic while it's on — every lookup above, plus any future network-touching detector. Toggle it from the menu bar and the app stops talking to the network entirely; any results that were previously fetched are purged from memory so the panel never shows network-sourced data while the switch is on. The setting persists across restarts, so once you turn it on it stays on until you turn it off.

Payments and licensing

When you buy a licence, the purchase is processed by Paddle.com, our reseller and Merchant of Record. Paddle — not us — collects the information needed to take payment and meet tax obligations: typically your name, email address, billing country/postal code, the payment details you enter, and technical data such as your IP address for fraud and tax purposes. Paddle is an independent data controller for that information; its handling is described in Paddle’s Privacy Notice. We receive from Paddle only the limited order data we need to deliver your licence and support you — such as your email address, country, and an order reference. We use it to issue your licence key, provide customer support, and keep records required by law. See our Refund Policy for how billing questions and refunds are handled.

Who we are and your rights

The controller for the limited order and support data described above is Thriving Things, established in the Netherlands (KvK 58731695; our full registered details are in our Terms of Service). We process it to perform our contract with you and to comply with our legal obligations, and we keep it only as long as needed for support and statutory record-keeping. Under the GDPR you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your data, object to or restrict its processing, and lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens). To exercise any of these, email support@little-eye.com.

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If you have a privacy concern that isn't covered here, email support@little-eye.com and we will follow up.