Effective date: November 10, 2026
Still is a desktop Chrome extension that keeps a searchable plain-text clipboard history. This policy describes the data the extension handles, including data kept only on your device.
What Still handles
After you enable capture, Still reads the plain-text contents of your system clipboard approximately every two seconds while Chrome is running. It stores copied text, capture and creation timestamps, a content-derived identifier used to detect duplicates, a capture count, titles, tags, collections, pin groups, favorites, archive/trash state, and source-device metadata. A randomly generated installation identifier and your chosen device name identify the source computer for filtering and optional sync. Preferences, saved searches, shortcut assignments, private-mode timers, and local error/backup/sync status are also stored. The developer does not receive this data.
Copied text can contain personal information, private communications, website content, passwords, financial information, or health information. Still does not identify or filter these categories. Only enable capture when you are comfortable saving the text you copy. Capture starts only after you explicitly enable it. Images, files, and rich formatting are not saved.
Why data is used
Clipboard data is used only for clipboard-history features: saving, searching, organizing, transforming text, copying, recovery, local backups, and optional recent-history sync. Fuzzy search, text tools, URL cleanup, JSON validation, and backup encryption run locally. Still does not collect browsing history, page titles, website addresses as browsing metadata, keystrokes, analytics, advertising identifiers, or usage telemetry. A website address or other information that you copy can become part of clipboard history.
Shift+V quick paste on webpages
A small bundled content script runs in HTTP and HTTPS webpages, including supported frames, to recognize Shift+V. It does not scan page text, record ordinary keystrokes, or collect browsing activity. When you open the picker, it temporarily remembers the focused editable element and its cursor/selection locally, and requests up to twenty short clipboard previews from the extension. Search queries go only to the extension's local history search. The full selected clip is fetched only after you choose it. The picker uses a closed shadow root to reduce access by ordinary page scripts, and its DOM and preview references are removed when dismissed.
Choosing a clip inserts plain text into the previously focused field where supported. The selected text then becomes available to that website, just like text you type or paste normally; that website's privacy practices apply. If no suitable field is focused or the editor cannot accept insertion, the clip is copied to your system clipboard instead. There is no automatic submission of forms. Some custom editors and Chrome-restricted pages are unsupported.
Quick paste is enabled by default and can be turned off in Settings → Keyboard shortcuts. While enabled, Shift+V opens the picker instead of typing uppercase V. Chrome's website-access controls also govern where the helper can run. Private mode pauses clipboard capture; it does not disable explicitly requested pasting of existing history. The webpage helper is given only a restricted list/get/copy message interface; it cannot change preferences, import history, or delete clips.
Local storage and retention
Full clipboard history and organization metadata are stored in IndexedDB in your Chrome profile. Preferences are stored in Chrome extension storage. By default, active and archived history has no automatic expiration or item limit. You can set an expiry period based on the last capture date and a maximum clip count; reducing these limits applies immediately. Pinned clips are protected by default, unless you disable that protection. Expired clips and clips removed by size limits are erased permanently, outside trash. Maintenance normally runs about once per minute while Chrome is running, and expired active clips are hidden from searches even before the cleanup runs.
Ordinary deletion and Clear local history move text to trash for seven days by default. You can choose immediate permanent deletion, or one, seven, thirty, or ninety days of trash retention. Trash lets you undo deletion and restore text before it is purged. Empty trash permanently removes its text. A content identifier and timestamp tombstone remain after permanent removal to prevent optional sync from reimporting that clip. Restoring a clip refreshes its history timestamp. Local storage depends on available disk space.
Still does not add its own encryption to local history. Chrome profile and operating-system security protect local files; anyone who can access your unlocked profile or device may be able to access saved text. Do not use Still as a password manager or secure vault.
Optional Chrome Sync
Sync is off by default. If you turn on “Sync recent clips,” eligible recent text, timestamps, source-device identifier, and device name are written to Google's Chrome Sync infrastructure using Chrome's storage.sync API and can be received by your other signed-in Chrome installations of Still. Titles, tags, collections, favorites, pin groups, archive/trash state, preferences, and saved searches are local. This uses your existing Chrome Sync account and settings; Still does not receive your account credentials or email address. The recent sync window is limited to about 80 KB, at most 180 clips, with individual entries smaller than 7.5 KB including metadata. Larger clips remain local.
Google operates Chrome Sync and handles transmission and storage according to its own service settings and policies. Still makes no separate end-to-end encryption claim. The developer does not run a clipboard server or receive a copy of your clipboard contents.
Your controls and deletion
- Pause or resume clipboard reading using Settings → Capture clipboard. Private mode closes the clipboard watcher for your chosen duration and restores the previous capture setting afterward. On watcher startup or resumption, the current clipboard is ignored until its text changes so text left over from private mode is not immediately saved. Pausing does not erase existing history, disable existing sync, or suspend scheduled backups. Turn those features off separately if desired.
- Delete individual or selected clips, delete matches in a date range, or clear local history. These actions use your configured trash retention; choose permanent deletion or empty trash to erase text immediately. Organization and deletions are local.
- Turn sync off to stop this installation from importing or uploading clips. Turning it off does not erase earlier uploads.
- To remove the extension's shared sync entries, first turn sync off on every other device, then use Settings → Remove synced clips. This also disables sync on the current installation. Another device with sync enabled may otherwise upload its local history again. Chrome controls when deletion reaches other devices.
- Uninstalling removes the extension's local profile data. Exported files, completed downloads, copies already synced, and history retained on other devices are separate. Remove files yourself, remove shared sync entries, and clear history on other devices as needed.
Backups and file access
You can export active and archived clips as JSON, CSV, plain text, or passphrase-encrypted JSON. Trash is excluded. JSON includes clip metadata, saved searches, and collection/pin-group definitions; CSV includes clip metadata; text exports include text only. Import reads only files you select, previews the changes, and merges clips while skipping exact duplicates. An optional restore action moves current history to trash before adding the backup. Imports are limited to 100 MB and 100,000 clips per file.
Encrypted manual backups use AES-256-GCM with a random salt and IV and a key derived from your passphrase with PBKDF2-SHA-256 (310,000 iterations). The passphrase and encryption key are not intentionally saved to extension storage or sent to a server. You must keep the passphrase yourself; it cannot be recovered. This protects the exported file, not the ordinary local history database. Plain JSON, CSV, and text exports are not encrypted by Still.
Scheduled backups are off by default. If you enable them, Still requests the optional Chrome Downloads permission and periodically saves unencrypted JSON files in your configured subfolder inside Downloads (default: Still backups). Downloads permission is used to start these local downloads and track their completion, not to inspect unrelated downloaded files. Temporary download identifiers and Blob URLs are kept in session storage during these operations. Chrome must be running; delayed alarms may run after the next startup. Old backup files are not automatically deleted. You are responsible for securing or deleting exported and downloaded files. Automatic expiry in Still does not erase copies in backups.
Sharing and limited use
Still does not sell user data, use it for advertising, transfer it to data brokers, or use it for creditworthiness or lending decisions. It does not send text to AI services. Sharing performed by the extension consists of optional Chrome Sync and text you explicitly choose to paste into a website, as described above. User data is handled only for Still's clipboard-history features.
Contact and changes
For privacy or support questions, email [email protected]. Requests that contain clipboard text are information you voluntarily share with the publisher; do not send passwords or other secrets. Updates to this policy will be published here with a revised effective date. Changes to data handling will be disclosed in the extension before new handling starts.
This website and support messages
This policy also covers still.raasri.in. The website does not read or save your system clipboard. Interactive previews use illustrative sample text; clicking a sample or a Copy button can write that selected text to your clipboard with your browser’s permission. The quick-paste demo only inserts sample text into its own text field. Demo preferences and text remain in memory and reset when the page reloads.
This site does not set application cookies, use local storage, include analytics, embed advertising, load third-party fonts, or use contact-tracking scripts. It is served by Hostinger. The hosting provider may process standard request information, such as an IP address, requested URL, browser information, and timestamps, for delivery, security, and server logs, according to its services and configuration. Such logs are not clipboard history.
Contact links open your email application. The site has no contact-form backend or mailing list. If you email [email protected], the publisher and email service process the address, message, and attachments you choose to send to respond and resolve your request. Do not include passwords, private clipboard history, or other secrets. Ask by email if you want a support message deleted, subject to any applicable retention obligations. You control whether to follow external links; third-party privacy practices apply on those sites.
The use of data by Still complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. Website hosting request logs and voluntary support messages are separate from extension clipboard data, which the publisher does not receive through the extension.