Blackbear Web Clipper reads a web page only when you click the toolbar button or press its shortcut, and only the tab you clicked on. It never reads your browsing history, other tabs or cookies, and it collects no analytics or telemetry.

When you save a clip, it contains what you chose to save (the article text, your selection, or just the link), the page's address and title, its site name and author when the page lists them, any note you add, and the time you saved it. The clipper encrypts the clip in your browser to one of your own Blackbear devices (the one you paired it with) before sending it to api.blackbear.app. Blackbear's servers hold the encrypted clip only until that device downloads it, then delete it; a clip nobody collects is deleted after 30 days. Blackbear cannot read clips. A small receipt without any content (which clip key sent it, its size, and when) is kept for 7 days so a clip sent twice is saved once.

Pairing stores a clip key in the extension's own storage. That key can only send clips; it cannot read anything in your Blackbear account. Clips waiting to be sent are stored in the extension, already encrypted. You can revoke the clipper at any time in Blackbear under Settings, Connections, Web Clipper.

Full policy: https://blackbear.app/privacy#web-clipper