Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-04-27

Paperless Clipper is a Safari Web Extension that saves the page you’re currently viewing to a Paperless-ngx server that you operate. This document describes the data the extension touches and where it goes.

What the extension reads

When you press the save action, the extension reads:

• The active tab’s URL and <title>
• The article-extracted text and structure of the active page (via Mozilla Readability, running locally in your browser)
• The server URL and API token you entered in Settings

It does not read other tabs, browsing history, cookies, form data, or any data outside the page you explicitly chose to save.

Where the data goes

The captured page is rendered locally to a PDF on your device using Apple’s WKWebView, then uploaded over HTTPS to the Paperless-ngx server you configured in Settings. That’s the only network destination involved in a save.

The extension does not:

• Send any data to the developer or Web Performance Incorporated
• Use any third-party analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, or advertising service
• Use any third-party rendering, OCR, or content-conversion service
• Phone home for updates, configuration, or feature flags

What is stored on your device

• Server URL: stored in the extension’s browser.storage.local
• API token: stored in the platform Keychain (macOS / iOS), shared between the containing app and the extension via an App Group
• Recent save state: a short list of recent successes/failures, stored in App Group UserDefaults, used only to populate the popup status

You can clear all of this by uninstalling Paperless Clipper from Safari (and, on macOS, deleting the containing app from /Applications).

Data sent to your Paperless server

When you save a page, the following is uploaded to your configured Paperless-ngx server, over HTTPS:

• A PDF of the captured page
• The page title
• The page’s source URL (preserved in the document title and/or a custom field, depending on your server configuration)

What your Paperless server then does with that document — OCR, classification, storage — is governed by your server, not by this extension.

Source code

The extension is open-source. You can audit the code, the build script, and every network call yourself at:

github.com/czei/paperless-safari-extension

Contact

Issues and questions: please open a GitHub issue at the URL above.