NearKitScope and local data
This policy covers the NearKit website and the website and Mac App Store editions of the NearKit macOS app. Both editions follow the same practices unless a difference is stated below. Core settings, shortcut bindings, clipboard history, widget content such as notes, to-dos, habits and hydration records, photo copies, and saved translations stay on your Mac and are not automatically uploaded to NearKit servers. Permissions and updates differ as described below.
Clipboard and selected text
Clipboard history reads the text, images, links, or file information you enable after you consent and turn recording on, for local history and search. You can stop recording, exclude apps, and set retention, item, and size limits. Favorites are kept separately; clearing ordinary history does not clear favorites.
Selected-text translation can receive text you provide through a system service. Radial-menu selection translation and search, plus insertion of text, emoji, icons, and clipboard items, use selection reading, the system clipboard, or event posting in response to your actions. Reading a selection and inserting content may require permission shown in Accessibility settings. Selection search sends the selected text to your configured search website. Restoring temporary clipboard data depends on the system and concurrent copying in other apps; other clipboard tools may also record sensitive content.
Apps, folders, and Chrome tabs
Workspace reads running-app and window metadata for display and activation. App and folder shortcuts use system APIs to open, bring forward, or hide an entire app; folders open through Finder. These actions do not read other apps’ Accessibility content.
Tab automation supports Chrome only. After you connect Chrome in Workspace or trigger a web shortcut while Chrome is the default browser, NearKit can read tab titles, full URLs, and window/tab identifiers, and select or close tabs for your actions. Previously authorized tabs may refresh when you open the panel. Ordinary web links still open in your system default browser; other browsers are not automated. Tab data is not uploaded to NearKit servers. NearKit does not read browser profiles or history databases.
Screenshots, recordings, and camera
Screenshots, scrolling captures, pinned images, and OCR read screen images for actions you initiate. Window and display recordings use the macOS content picker; region recordings and other screen-image access may require Screen Recording permission. Optional recording controls capture the selected content, system audio, microphone, camera, and mouse/key overlays. System audio in a window recording may include audio from the app that owns the window.
Screenshots and recordings are saved where you choose. Recordings default to Movies/NearKit Recordings, with an optional custom folder. These files are not automatically uploaded to NearKit servers. Camera, microphone, and recording activity are represented by system permissions and in-app controls, previews, or activity indicators.
The Mirror widget provides a local camera preview without recording audio or saving photos or video. You turn it on and off manually. Losing focus, being covered, or becoming idle does not stop it automatically. Turning it off, removing its view, or quitting the app stops capture; the system may also interrupt it.
Input permissions and window layout
Key display uses Input Monitoring for relevant keyboard events. Title-bar swipes use read-only AppKit scroll monitoring for previews without requesting Input Monitoring. On release, system Shortcuts performs the layout; a confirmed missing template opens an installation guide. Existing Input Monitoring access also enables Esc cancellation. Key display generates a local overlay only when enabled and clears temporary display state when stopped or turned off. It does not save a separate keystroke log. When the recording key overlay is enabled, visible keycaps become part of the saved video.
Ordinary key combinations and app/folder switching do not request Input Monitoring or Accessibility for those actions. The layout menu and title-bar swipes use a native template you add to system Shortcuts, with authorization handled by the system. Modifier Drag is off by default. Once you enable it and grant Accessibility access, it observes and modifies mouse-drag events matching your chosen modifier keys so the system can move or resize windows; it does not read window text. Listening stops when you turn the feature off or permission revocation is detected. No separate keyboard or mouse event log is saved. Automatic paste may need event-posting permission, which macOS may list under Accessibility.
OCR and translation
OCR uses on-device system text recognition. Translation uses macOS system translation for the text you provide; language resources and downloads are managed by the system. NearKit does not send text to its own translation server. Copying or favoriting a translation saves the source text, result, and language information in local recents/favorites. You can remove them in the Translation widget.
Photos, calendars, reminders, and files
Related widgets request Photos, Calendar, or Reminders access when used, read selected photos/albums or relevant events, and modify calendar/reminder items only for your explicit actions. Imported photos produce local display copies; this import process does not retain original EXIF metadata.
Files you select, drag, or copy may be used for previews, saving, organization, and shortcut opening. Custom folders may use system authorization bookmarks for later access. Linked images are downloaded only when you explicitly import a link and are stored as local copies.
Network requests and updates
When no local website icon is available, NearKit requests /favicon.ico or /apple-touch-icon.png from that website’s origin and may read its home page and declared icons, including from a CDN. Icon requests do not send the tab path or query parameters, use third-party icon aggregators, or carry browser cookies. Clipboard links only query the local icon cache and do not initiate these requests.
The website edition can use Sparkle to check for and download updates from xgod.dev/nearkit, with nearkit.xgod.dev retained for older versions. The Mac App Store edition does not include this updater and is updated through the App Store. Opening websites or this policy, or importing an image link, connects to the relevant site. Those sites and their hosting services may receive network information such as IP address, request time, user agent, and requested resource, and handle it under their policies.
Website visits and download statistics
The website uses Cloudflare hosting and Cloudflare Web Analytics for visit and performance statistics. Your language and theme choices are saved in the browser. Website buttons download the installer directly from Cloudflare R2 without setting a download-counting cookie for the click. Legacy download endpoints still set a random visitor-ID cookie for download counting and deduplication. These statistics store the identifier, version, archive name, time, and available country/region code; the statistics table does not store raw IP addresses and is not used for advertising tracking. You can clear cookies and site data in your browser.
Retention, deletion, and consent
Ordinary clipboard history is cleaned up under your storage settings. Favorites, widget content, and saved translations remain until you delete them. Instance content such as notes is deleted with its widget; local imported photo copies are cleaned up with photo-frame content. Shared hydration records, clipboard history, and translation records are retained separately and must be deleted in their own interfaces. Removing related widgets does not delete system photos, calendars, reminders, or original files. You can revoke permissions in System Settings. Revocation does not automatically delete previously saved content.
You manage recordings and screenshots in their save locations; turning features off or uninstalling the app does not automatically delete them. Uninstalling may also leave local settings, caches, and application-support files for you to remove. System backups or cloud folders may retain copies under their providers’ controls. Website statistics and support email are not removed by uninstalling. Contact the developer about access or deletion requests concerning your information.
Diagnostics, email, and contact
Diagnostic reports and recording technical logs help troubleshoot versions, system details, media formats, and errors locally and are not uploaded automatically. Exporting diagnostics only saves a local file. Only when you send email are your email address, message, and any reports or files you attach handled by your chosen email service and the developer for support. Review attachments and avoid unrelated sensitive content.
For privacy access, correction, or deletion requests, email nearkit@xgod.dev. Requests are handled according to their content and applicable requirements. Local app features do not require a NearKit account.