Thank you for using Clipbeam, a desktop application designed to help you save, organize, and retrieve notes, files, and links using intelligent AI-powered tools. Your privacy and data security are our highest priorities, so we’ve provided a clear, concise overview of how we handle your information below. To read the full legal privacy notice and see how it applies across different jurisdictions, click here.
✅ Key Takeaways
Free Users — No personally identifying data collected. Your privacy is absolute.
Premium Users — Your data is encrypted, synced via your personal Google Drive, and can only be read by you.
AI — Runs locally. No data sent to servers. Your privacy is protected.
You Own — Your password, your information, your privacy.
Extended legal privacy notice — Please click here.
1. Information We Collect
Free Version
By default, no personal data is collected, stored, or sent to Clipbeam or any third party when using the free version.
When prompted, you may choose to share anonymized usage statistics with us. This data helps us improve the app and understand how people use it. The information collected includes:
- Total number of notes, files, and links saved
- Frequency of AI chat usage
- App open frequency
- Crash reports (without identifying details)
✅ All usage data is completely anonymous.
✅ You can enable or disable data sharing at any time via Help > Share Usage Analytics in the app.
❗ No personal data is stored for free users — not even if you opt-in to analytics.
Premium Version (Sync Across Devices via Google Drive)
To sync your notes, files, and links across devices using Google Drive, the following data is collected and processed:
- Email address (used to identify your account)
- Google authentication credentials (OAuth tokens)
- Encrypted content metadata (never the actual content):
- Number and type of items (e.g., text, image, file, link)
- Number of devices on which items are synced
- Whether items were deleted
- A unique reference ID to their location on your Google Drive
🔒 Key Security Note:
- All notes, files, and links are encrypted on your device using a password you choose.
- This encryption password is never shared with Clipbeam, Google, or any third party.
- The encrypted data is uploaded to your personal Google Drive.
- Clipbeam does not receive, store, or access your encrypted data or decryption password.
- Google does not have access to your decryption password and cannot read your data.
- Clipbeam does not access your Google Drive or decrypt your files outside of your device.
2. AI Functionality: Fully Local & Private
Clipbeam’s AI features — including smart note summarization, content tagging, search suggestions, and chat with your clipped data — are powered by a local AI model that runs entirely on your device.
- ✅ No data is sent to any server for AI processing.
- ✅ Your notes, files, links, and chat history never leave your computer (unless you sync them to other devices).
- ✅ The AI model is not trained on your data, and you are not part of any AI training dataset.
- ✅ All AI operations occur offline and in real time, ensuring privacy, speed, and full control.
🔐 This means: Your data stays private, your privacy is protected, and your AI experience is fast and secure.
3. How We Use Your Data
Free Version: Anonymized usage data (if shared) is used to improve app performance, fix bugs, and inform feature development.
Premium Version: We use your account information and metadata to:
- Enable syncing across your devices
- Manage your account and subscription status
- Provide customer support
- Ensure the secure operation of the sync service
⚠️ We do not see or use your actual notes, files, or links for any purpose — not for advertising, not for training AI, and not for internal analytics.
4. Data Deletion: Clear & Transparent
Free Users: Since no personal data is collected or stored on Clipbeam’s servers for free users there is no data to delete. Your experience remains completely private and ephemeral.
Premium Users: You have full control over your data:
- You may delete your account and associated data at any time via File > Sync > Delete Data.
- Upon deletion, all user data tied to your account (including metadata) will be permanently removed from our systems.
- Your encrypted files will be deleted from your personal Google Drive. Clipbeam will no longer have access to them or any reference data.
✅ You can export your encrypted data at any time before deletion via Google Drive.
❗ Clipbeam does not retain your files, so you are responsible for backing them up.
5. Data Sharing & Third Parties
Google: Your encrypted data is stored in your personal Google Drive. Clipbeam uses Google’s API to upload and retrieve encrypted files on your behalf, but we do not access or monitor your Drive. Google does not see your decryption password.
No Sharing of Sensitive Data: We never share your notes, files, links, passwords, or personal information with any third party.
No Data Monetization: Clipbeam does not sell, rent, or license your personal data.
6. Security Measures
- All user data is end-to-end encrypted on your device.
- The encryption password is never stored by Clipbeam or Google.
- Data transmission uses industry-standard encryption (TLS).
- We follow strict security practices to protect your information.
7. Children’s Privacy
Clipbeam is not intended for users under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. The latest version will always be available in the app under Help > Privacy Policy.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or wish to exercise your privacy rights (e.g., data deletion), please contact us at:
📧 privacy@clipbeam.com
Send Email
10. Full legal text & regulatory compliance
To access a detailed document that expands on the information above — including all of your rights and options — simply click the button below:
View Extended Privacy Notice