Privacy

Key Expander is a small software project, and the developer behind it is responsible for the information described on this page. The easiest way to reach us is the contact form.

The Mac app is not covered by this page, because it does not send us anything. Your snippets are stored on your own Mac, there is no account and no server, and the app works with the network switched off. It does not store passwords, it does not keep a copy of your clipboard, and it does not record what you type beyond the moment it needs to spot a trigger.

When you use the signup form on this site, we store four things:

• your email address;
• the date and time you signed up;
• the exact wording you agreed to, saved as it was written on the day you signed up rather than as it reads today;
• the IP address your browser was using at that moment. We keep it as proof that the request to subscribe came from a real person and a real device, so that we can answer the question of who asked for these emails if it is ever put to us. It is not used for anything else, and we do not use it to work out where you are.

Nothing is sent to you until you click the link in the confirmation email. If you never click it, the pending request is deleted automatically and you hear nothing further from us. We do not sell, share or pass your address to anyone.

Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link, and one click on it is enough. There is nothing to log in to and nothing to confirm. You can also ask us to delete your address entirely through the contact form, and we will.

Your name, your email address, your subject line and your message are sent to our own inbox so that we can read and answer them. Your address is used to reply to you and for nothing else. Using the contact form does not add you to the newsletter or to any other list.

The signup form and the contact form are protected by reCAPTCHA v3, which is a service run by Google. To make it work, this site loads a script from google.com on the two pages that carry a form, which means Google receives information about your visit to those pages, including your IP address, and may read and set its own storage in your browser for that purpose. That is how the check tells a person from a script.

Google is the only third party this site loads anything from. The privacy page, the confirmation page and the unsubscribe page do not load it, and on those pages nothing about your visit reaches Google. Google describes its own handling of this data in its privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

There is no analytics on this site, of any kind, privacy-preserving or otherwise. There are no advertising trackers and no social media pixels. We set no cookies of our own, which is why there is no cookie banner: the only browser storage involved is reCAPTCHA's, and it is there to make the spam check work rather than to follow you.

You can ask us what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted, and you can withdraw your consent to the newsletter at any time without giving a reason. Use the contact form and we will deal with it.