FaiSnapPrivacy Policy
Effective October 14, 2026
- Your screenshots stay on your Mac unless you share one or turn on backup.
- Text recognition, sensitive-information checks and project suggestions run on your Mac.
- No advertising, no analytics, no selling of data, no AI training on your screenshots.
- You can delete any capture, any link and your whole account.
Who we are
FaiSnap is a macOS app made by Faisal Islam ("we", "us"). Questions about this policy or your data: faisal.islam70@gmail.com.
What stays on your Mac
Every capture, its versions (your annotations, crops and backgrounds), the text recognized in it and your settings are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/FaiSnap on your Mac. Full-size images are kept for the period you choose in Settings (30 days by default); smaller previews are kept longer. Images you save as PNG go to the folder you choose.
These features run entirely on your Mac and send nothing anywhere:
- recognizing the text in a screenshot (Apple's Vision framework), for search and Copy Text;
- finding sensitive information (email addresses, phone numbers, keys, passwords, card numbers);
- suggesting which project a capture belongs to.
When information leaves your Mac
Sharing a link
To create a link, the capture is uploaded to FaiSnap Cloud: the original screenshot, the versions you saved (their annotations, crop and background) and images of the version the link shows. If you aren't signed in, the app creates an anonymous account on your Mac to own the upload. A link can show the latest version or a fixed one, can need a password (we store only a hash of it) and can expire.
Backup (optional, with a Google account)
If you sign in with Google and allow backup, FaiSnap uploads your captures with:
- the original screenshot, every version and images of the latest version;
- the capture's title (the app, and for window captures the window's title, it was taken from), its size and when it was taken;
- the text recognized in the screenshot, for search. Text under a redaction or outside a crop is left out;
- project names and colors;
- the name of the Mac a version was saved on, shown in the version history.
You can keep any capture "Only on this Mac", and turn backup off in Settings.
Google sign-in
Signing in with Google gives us your name, email address and Google account ID (the openid, email and profile permissions). We use them only to identify your account. We don't receive your Google password and we can't access your Gmail, Drive or any other Google data.
FaiSnap's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
When someone opens your link
We record the time, the browser, the operating system and, when available, the country. We don't record the viewer's IP address. You see these in the capture's Activity.
Where it is kept
| Service | What for | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Accounts, database and file storage for FaiSnap Cloud | Sydney, Australia |
| Sign-in only | Google's infrastructure | |
| Our web server | The page a password-protected link opens (snap.nscreed.com) and this website | A server we operate |
Data is sent over HTTPS. Access rules in the database let each account read only its own captures; a link shows only what it was created for.
Who can see your captures
- You, on your Macs signed in to your account.
- People you give a link to (and its password, if it has one), until you revoke it or it expires.
- As the operator of the service we can technically access stored data. We don't look at your captures, except when you ask us for help with one or the law requires it.
We don't sell or rent your information, we don't show ads, we use no third-party analytics or tracking, and we don't use your screenshots to train AI models.
Keeping and deleting
- On your Mac: delete any capture in the Library. Full-size images are also removed automatically after the period set in Settings.
- In the cloud: delete a capture's cloud copy, or delete it from your Mac and the cloud, in the Library. Revoke links there too.
- Your account: email faisal.islam70@gmail.com from the address you sign in with. We delete the account, every capture, version and link in FaiSnap Cloud within 30 days and confirm by email.
A capture's activity record (its title, when versions were saved and when links were opened) stays with your account after the capture is deleted, so you can still see what happened to it. It is deleted with your account.
Children
FaiSnap isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.
Changes
If we change this policy we'll update the date above, and for important changes tell you in the app before they take effect.
Contact
Faisal Islam, faisal.islam70@gmail.com