Hedgerow
Copyloft

Copyloft and your privacy

This page sums up what Copyloft does with your data. The Hedgerow privacy policy covers every app, the website and purchases in full.

What stays on your PC

  • Settings and data live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Copyloft on your PC.
  • Your clipboard history (text, links, colors, file and folder paths, and images with thumbnails) and pinboards, in a database on this PC. Deleting an item removes it from the file, not just from view.
  • For each item, the name of the app it was copied from and when.
  • Your settings and list of excluded apps.
  • A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
  • A Start with Windows entry under your user account, if that option is on (Direct edition).

When Copyloft goes online

  • License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Copyloft sends the key, your PC’s name, the app’s name and an anonymous device ID to our license server. About once a week it checks the license again, sending the key and the activation’s ID.
  • Update checks (Direct edition): only when you choose Check for updates. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
  • Crash reports: off unless you turn them on. If Copyloft crashes, it saves a report on your PC; with reports turned on it also sends that report, with file paths removed, to crash.hedgerowapps.com.

Good to know

  • Copyloft skips anything an app marks as private or not for clipboard history, and anything copied from password managers or apps you exclude.
  • Copyloft never visits links you copy. A link's page title appears only when your browser put it on the clipboard.
  • Files and folders are kept as references to where they are, not as copies.
  • If you turn on "Use Win+V for Copyloft", it watches the keyboard for that one key combination only, and only while the option is on.

There are no ads, and no analytics or usage tracking.

Microsoft Store edition

The Store edition doesn’t contact our license server or check for updates itself: Microsoft handles the purchase, the license and updates, under Microsoft’s privacy statement.