Who we are
Kapture is made by KUMO STUDIO LIMITED, a private limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 08453597, whose registered office is at Office 2, Tweed House, Park Lane, Swanley, Kent, BR8 8DT, England. We are the controller of the personal data described in this policy.
In short
Your captures stay on your device. We never receive your screenshots, their contents, or your library, projects, tags or notes.
Kapture for Chrome needs no account. Kapture for Chrome and Kapture Pro count anonymous daily usage totals, which you can turn off, and share more detailed usage statistics only if you choose to.
A Kapture account holds your email address and, if you use Kapture Pro, your licence and the devices you activate.
We do not use advertising, cross-site tracking or third-party analytics, and we never sell your data. See Statistics.
Kapture for Chrome
Information Kapture handles
When the user starts a capture, Kapture processes the visual content of the active webpage and its address to create the requested PNG, JPEG or PDF file. Kapture stores limited screenshot-history metadata locally in Chrome, including the filename, source website hostname, Chrome download ID, capture time and file-availability status. It also stores the user's selected theme and Downloads subfolder setting locally. It also stores the user's statistics choices and a small queue of usage counts locally, as described under Statistics.
How the information is used
The information is used only to create and save screenshots, apply a user-selected viewport size, name downloaded files, display local capture history and let the user open or remove saved captures.
Local storage and retention
Screenshot files are saved directly to the user's computer through Chrome's Downloads system. History metadata and preferences are stored locally using Chrome storage. Users can clear history from Kapture and delete screenshot files through Kapture or their operating system. Local extension data is removed when the extension is uninstalled, subject to Chrome's behaviour. Downloaded screenshot files remain until the user deletes them.
Sharing and transmission
Kapture does not send webpage content, screenshots, browsing information or history metadata to the developer or to external servers. It sends the developer only the usage counts described under Statistics. Kapture does not use advertising, cross-site tracking, third-party analytics or third-party data services. User data is not sold or transferred to third parties.
Remote code
Kapture does not download or execute remote code. All executable code is included in the extension package distributed through the Chrome Web Store.
Chrome permissions
Kapture uses Chrome permissions only to operate its user-requested screenshot features: access the active tab, inject packaged capture controls, save and open downloads, display the side panel, store local preferences and history, and temporarily apply a selected responsive viewport.
Your Kapture account and Kapture Pro
You can create a Kapture account and sign in at kaptapp.com/account. This section explains how we handle your account information and, if you use Kapture Pro, your licence, devices and payments.
What we collect and why
Account details. Your email address, your account ID, and when you signed up and last signed in. We use them to create your account, sign you in with an emailed link and contact you about your account. Legal basis: performing our contract with you.
Sign-in sessions. For each signed-in session, the IP address and browser information recorded by our sign-in provider. We use them to keep accounts secure and to stop misuse. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in security.
Devices. When you use Kapture Pro: an identifier created by the app, the device name, the platform (macOS or Windows), the app version, and when the device was activated, last checked its licence and was deactivated. We use them to apply the two-device limit, issue licences and show your devices on your account page. Legal basis: performing our contract with you. The device name is the name set on the computer, which often includes its owner's first name.
Licence and trial. Whether you have Kapture Pro, on which plan and until when, when a free trial started and ends, and a one-way cryptographic hash of your email address. We use them to issue licences and to offer one free trial per person. Legal basis: performing our contract with you, and our legitimate interest in preventing repeated free trials.
Payments. When you pay for Kapture Pro: your Stripe customer and subscription IDs, plan, price, status, renewal and cancellation dates, and the amount, currency, date and refund status of each payment. We use them to give you the access you pay for and to keep financial records. Legal basis: performing our contract with you, and our legal obligation to keep accounting records.
Access codes. If you redeem an access code: the code, when you redeemed it and the access it gave you. We use them to give you that access and to let each account use a code only once. They are kept while your account exists. Legal basis: performing our contract with you.
Security records. The times of unsuccessful attempts to redeem an access code, used to limit repeated guessing. They are kept while your account exists. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in security.
Licence-check counts. Daily totals of licence-check results for each platform, such as how many checks succeeded or reached the device limit. They contain no account or device identifier. We use them to keep licensing working and keep them for up to 25 months. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in running the service.
Messages you send us. We use them to answer you. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in responding to you, or our contract with you where your message is about your account.
A Kapture Pro licence saved on your computer contains your account ID, a one-way hash of the device identifier, your plan and the dates it is valid for. We sign it so the app can check it offline.
What we do not collect
We do not receive your screenshots or PDFs, their file names or contents, the pages you capture, or your library, projects, collections, tags, notes or searches. We do not use advertising, cross-site tracking or third-party analytics, and we never sell your data. See Statistics.
Payments through Stripe
Payments will be handled by Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe, Limited, with Stripe Payments UK Ltd for regulated payment services). Stripe collects your payment details and billing address and, if you give one, your tax ID. We never receive or store your full card number or security code. Stripe also uses payment information for its own purposes, such as preventing fraud and meeting its legal obligations, as described in its privacy policy at stripe.com/privacy.
Who processes information for us
Supabase runs account sign-in, including sign-in emails, our account and licence database, and the service that issues licences. The data is stored in the European Union (Ireland). Supabase, Inc. is based in the United States and may access data to provide support. Supabase also stores the statistics described under Statistics.
Stripe will process payments and subscriptions, as described above.
GitHub Pages hosts kaptapp.com and receives standard web request information, such as IP addresses. It is based in the United States.
When information is transferred outside the UK or the European Economic Area, we rely on the safeguards these providers offer, such as UK adequacy regulations, the UK–US data bridge, the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses.
How long we keep it
Account details, sign-in sessions and device records, including devices you have deactivated, are kept while your account exists and are deleted when it is deleted.
The trial record, including the hash of your email address, is kept after your account is deleted for as long as we offer free trials, so that a trial cannot be claimed again with the same email address. The hash cannot be turned back into your address.
Payment records are kept by Stripe, and we keep the payment records that UK law requires for accounting, generally for six years.
Records of payment notifications from Stripe hold Stripe IDs and processing status, not payment details, and are kept while we need them to process and check those notifications.
Browser storage on kaptapp.com
The account page keeps your signed-in session in your browser’s local storage so that you stay signed in. It is needed for the page to work and is removed when you sign out. kaptapp.com sets no advertising or analytics cookies.
Deleting your account
Email us from the address on your account and we will delete your account, sign-in sessions and device records. We keep the trial record and payment records described above. Deleting your account does not delete anything on your computer.
Statistics
Kapture for Chrome 0.6.0 and later and Kapture Pro 1.0.1 and later send the statistics described here to our own server. Earlier versions send none. Kapture shows a short notice before it starts counting. Choosing “Share statistics” or “Not now” affects only usage statistics. Neither statistics setting affects the account, licence, trial and billing processing described above, which Kapture needs in order to work.
Anonymous usage totals (on unless you turn them off)
Kapture for Chrome and Kapture Pro count how features are used, for example how many captures were made in each format, which screens were opened, how long a library scan took, and how many days the app was used, as daily totals with no identifier. They include the app version, the operating-system version (for Kapture for Chrome, the Chrome version) and the interface language. To count returning use, Kapture keeps the month you first used it and the day you last used it on your device, and sends only that month and the time since your last use, in ranges. They are used only by us, to understand and improve Kapture, are never combined with your account, and are kept for up to 25 months. Turn them off in Settings → Privacy → Anonymous usage totals.
Usage statistics (off unless you turn them on)
If you choose “Share statistics”, the same counts are sent with a random identifier created only for statistics, together with your Kapture Pro plan state (such as trial, subscribed or signed out), the account steps you take in the app, such as signing in, starting a trial or opening checkout, and a summary of your settings and library size in ranges. This lets us understand how Kapture is used over time. The identifier is not your account or licence and is never combined with them. Counts with the identifier are kept for 40 days, records of which days Kapture was used for 13 months, and totals without the identifier for up to 25 months. Turn this off in Settings → Privacy → Share usage statistics; Kapture then deletes the identifier and asks our server to delete what was stored with it. Turning off anonymous usage totals turns this off too. Legal basis: your consent.
Never sent
Statistics never include your screenshots or their contents, file or folder names or paths, the web addresses you capture, page titles, project, collection or rule names, tags, notes, search terms, your email address or account details.
Downloads and the Chrome Web Store
GitHub, which hosts kaptapp.com, serves our installers. Google provides us with install and uninstall totals for Kapture for Chrome.
Where statistics are kept
Our database provider Supabase keeps them in Ireland (EU), acting on our behalf. Kapture does not store the IP address or browser details of statistics requests, although Supabase's standard request logs may hold them briefly for security and operations.
Your rights
You can ask us for a copy of your personal data, and ask us to correct or delete it, to restrict how we use it, or to give you the data you provided in a portable format. You can object to uses based on our legitimate interests. We reply within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, please tell us first. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk) or, if you live in the European Union, to your national data protection authority.
Children
Kapture accounts are not intended for anyone under 16, or older where local law requires it, and we do not knowingly create accounts for them.
Changes to this policy
If Kapture's data practices change, this policy and the Chrome Web Store disclosures will be updated before the changed functionality is released.
If a change materially affects how we use account holders’ data, we tell them by email before it takes effect.
Contact
For privacy or support questions, email contact.