Privacy

Effective August 3, 2026.

The app

Sealshot processes everything on your Mac. Screenshots, OCR text, annotations, generated metadata, and search indexes never leave your device. The app requires no account and collects no telemetry or analytics — nothing about what you capture, or how you use Sealshot, is ever sent anywhere. The three downloads it does make are listed below.

Sealshot makes exactly three network requests, and all three are downloads. None of them sends anything about you — no account, no identifier, no license key, no usage data, and never your content.

Update check. Once a day Sealshot reads a public version feed and downloads a new release if there is one. You can turn this off in Settings ▸ General.
Revocation list. On launch, Sealshot downloads a small public file listing licenses that have been revoked — after a refund, for example. It is a plain download of the whole list, which Sealshot then checks on your Mac: it never asks a server about your license, and never sends your license ID. This follows the same setting as the update check, so turning that off turns this off too.
Enhanced redaction model. Only if you choose to enable it, and only once, with your explicit consent. The model then runs entirely on your Mac and you can remove it at any time.

Each of these is an ordinary file download, so the server sees what any download reveals — that some computer asked for a file — and nothing that identifies you or your copy of Sealshot. There is no request in which Sealshot reports anything back.

One thing worth naming, because it is the only time anything about your license crosses the network: when you click Buy or Renew, Sealshot opens this website in your browser. The renewal link includes your license ID and email address, so we can find the purchase you are renewing and send the new file to the right place. That is your browser, at your request, as part of buying something — not Sealshot reporting in. Nothing is sent if you never click it.

This website

seal-shot.com is a static site and sets no cookies. It uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies, without fingerprinting, and without building any profile of you. It records the page you visited, the referring site, and general details of your browser and country — never an identifier that follows you between visits or between sites. There is nothing here to opt out of, because nothing identifies you.

Buying a license

Payments are handled by Polar, our merchant of record. Your card details go to Polar and its payment processor and never reach us — we never see or store them. Polar holds your name, billing address, email address, and invoice history as the seller of record, and passes the first three to us so your license can name its owner.

To deliver your license and let you renew it later, we store the following ourselves, in Cloudflare's key-value storage:

your name, billing address, and email address, as given at checkout
your license ID, and the dates it was issued and covers updates through
whether it is an individual or volume license, and how many users it covers
whether delivery succeeded, so a failed send can be retried

Your license file is emailed to you through Resend, our transactional email provider, which holds the message — including the attached license file, in which your name, billing address, and email appear as readable text — for a limited period. We use these records only to deliver your license, to honor a renewal, and to answer support requests about your purchase. They are never sold, shared, or used for marketing.

Your license names you, and now also states the billing address you bought it with. That is deliberate: a license file is personal, and one that identifies its owner is one you are less likely to pass around. It also means the file is worth keeping to yourself — treat it like a receipt, not something to attach to a public bug report.

We keep them for as long as the license exists, because a renewal has to find a license bought a year or more earlier and support requests can arrive long after a purchase. If you would like your purchase records deleted, ask us and we will remove them — note that this also removes our ability to reissue or renew that license.

Feedback form

If you send feedback through the support form, your message — and your name and email address, if you choose to include them — is emailed straight to our inbox by our own service, through Resend, the same provider that delivers licenses. Nothing is stored on the way: there is no database of submissions, so the message exists only as an email. It goes through no third-party form relay, and we use it only to respond to you and improve Sealshot. It is never sold or shared.

If you sign up for updates, your email address is stored with Kit, our email service, and used only to send Sealshot news, offers, and tips. Signup is double opt-in, every email includes an unsubscribe link, and your address is never sold or shared.

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