Privacy Policy

Overview

ShotSumo is a native macOS app that captures and annotates screenshots entirely on your Mac. It does not collect, transmit, or store any of your data outside your own machine. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, and no user account of any kind.

What ShotSumo collects

Nothing.

From version 2.0 and later, ShotSumo carries the network entitlement macOS requires before an app may open an outbound connection at all. The only thing that uses it is Apple's own purchase system (StoreKit), to load the subscription, process a purchase or a restore, and receive renewals. ShotSumo contains no networking code of its own.

Screenshots you capture, and the annotations you make on them, stay on your machine unless you explicitly copy or save them yourself — and you choose where they go.

Screen Recording permission

ShotSumo asks macOS for the Screen Recording permission through the operating system's own prompt. That permission is what makes capturing the screen possible at all; without it the app cannot function. Nothing is ever captured without an explicit action from you — a menu item or a keyboard shortcut you chose to press.

Where your files go

Copied screenshots go to your system clipboard. Saved screenshots are written to the folder you chose the first time you saved, as PNG, AVIF or HEIC — whichever format you chose in Preferences, PNG by default. ShotSumo has no built-in default location and does not pick one for you. It runs inside Apple's App Sandbox, so the folder you picked is the only place outside its own container it can write at all.

ShotSumo does not upload your screenshots anywhere, because it cannot.

Purchases and subscriptions

ShotSumo Pro is an auto-renewing subscription sold and processed entirely by Apple through the Mac App Store. ShotSumo never sees or stores your payment details — Apple handles them under Apple's own Privacy Policy. The only traffic ShotSumo is responsible for is the standard exchange with Apple about the purchase and the receipt.

The app keeps a local record, on your Mac only, of whether the subscription is active, or whether you installed ShotSumo before version 2.0 — read from the App Store's own record of the version you originally downloaded. Nothing about your screenshots is part of any of this.

Nothing else on this page changes: still no telemetry, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs. The App Store's privacy label for ShotSumo reads "Data Not Collected."

This website

This site is static HTML with no cookies, no analytics, and no tracking scripts of any kind. The one page that sends anything anywhere is the feedback form, and it sends what you type into it — your message, an email address if you chose to leave one, and which app the message is about. That submission is handled by the site's hosting provider, which forwards it through a third-party messaging service to a private chat the developer reads; the message, the optional email address, and the app name all sit with that third party. Messages stay in that chat until deleted by hand — nothing removes them automatically. None of it is used for anything other than replying to you.

Like any hosted site, the provider's infrastructure may log standard web-server data (such as IP addresses) as part of normal operation, independently of ShotSumo and of anything you do in the app. Providers are described here by what they are rather than by name, so that changing one is a deployment change and not a rewrite of this page.

Requesting deletion, or withdrawing consent

There is nothing collected here to delete or to withdraw consent for — ShotSumo doesn't hold anything about you on any server. If that ever changes, or if you have a question about it, the feedback form is the one route to reach the developer, and any such request is handled there.

Who is responsible

ShotSumo is made and operated by an independent individual developer, not a company. The feedback form is the way to reach them.

Children

ShotSumo is not directed at children, and the feedback form is not intended for use by them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the update is posted here with a new "Last updated" date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy: the feedback form.