ChopDownload

Privacy

Last updated August 2026.

The short version

The Chop app has no account system, telemetry or server of its own. Your screenshots and your licence key stay on your own computer. This website collects anonymous, aggregate visit and download-click counts.

What the app stores

  • Your captures, written to your Pictures folder —~/Pictures/Chop on a Mac,Pictures\Chop on Windows. They are never uploaded anywhere.
  • Your preferences — the capture shortcut and whether Chop opens at login — in the app's own settings file.
  • Your licence key, in a file beside those settings. It is checked mathematically on your own computer, not by asking a server.

What leaves your computer

One thing: to tell you when a new version is out, Chop asks GitHub for the latest published release. That request carries nothing about you beyond what any web request necessarily reveals — no identifier, no usage data, no licence key.

There is no telemetry, no crash reporting and no third-party SDK in the app.

Buying a licence

Purchases are handled by Polar, who act as the merchant of record. They collect the details needed to take payment and to charge the correct tax, and they hold them under their own privacy policy. We receive your email address so we can send you your licence key and reply if you write to us.

This website

Google Analytics (gtag.js, measurement ID G-Y1MPWKQDWF) counts visits and how people use the site. Google may set cookies and collect usage data under Google's privacy policy.

Cloudflare Web Analytics also counts visits and measures page performance. Cloudflare says this service does not collect visitors' personal data. It does not set cookies or read local storage.

When you click a download button, the site records the page, the button's location and the requested Chop build. It does not attach an IP address, account, email address or persistent identifier to that event. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals disable download-click events.

Getting in touch

Questions, or want your email address deleted from our records? Write to support@chop.asia.

Requirements: macOS 12 or later, or Windows 10 and 11.