LoremBuilder Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-04-19

LoremBuilder (“the app”) is a macOS menu bar utility that generates Lorem Ipsum text. This document describes what data the app reads, stores, and transmits.

Summary

LoremBuilder does not collect, transmit, or share any personal data with the developer or any third party. All data the app handles stays on your Mac.

What the app stores locally

The following data is stored only on your Mac, under ~/Library/Application Support/LoremBuilder/:

Sentences, thematic sentences, and HTML tag presets — saved as plain JSON (data.json). These are the content templates the app uses to build Lorem Ipsum output.
Clipboard history (only if you opt in) — saved to clipboard_history.encrypted, encrypted at rest using AES-GCM with a 256-bit key stored in your macOS Keychain. The key never leaves your machine.
User preferences — stored in macOS UserDefaults (selected hotkeys, tag options, last-generated text, Wikipedia page choice, clipboard history settings).

Clipboard history (opt-in)

The Clipboard History feature is disabled by default. When you turn it on, you are shown a disclosure prompt explaining the behavior and must confirm. Only then does the app:

Poll NSPasteboard.general once per second to detect new text you copy in any app.
Append the copied text to an encrypted history file on your Mac.
Optionally purge entries older than a configurable number of days (default: 30).

You can disable the feature at any time from the Preferences window; the app will stop polling immediately. You can also clear the entire history with a single click. The app never transmits clipboard contents anywhere.

Network activity

The app makes network requests only to the public Wikipedia REST API (en.wikipedia.org), and only when you explicitly fetch thematic sentences from a Wikipedia article. The request contains only the Wikipedia page title/URL you chose. No personal data, no analytics, no telemetry, and no identifiers are sent.

As with any HTTPS request, the Wikimedia Foundation may log the request (including your IP address) in its own server logs, which are governed by Wikimedia’s privacy policy. LoremBuilder itself never sees, stores, or shares this information.

None. LoremBuilder does not include any analytics SDKs, advertising SDKs, crash reporters, or third-party data processors.

Permissions

Network (client) — to fetch Wikipedia articles when you request thematic sentences.
Keychain — to store the encryption key for clipboard history locally.
Pasteboard access — to read and write the system clipboard (writing is the core feature; reading is used only when clipboard history is enabled).
Login item — optional, to launch the app at login if you enable it.

The app is sandboxed and runs with the macOS Hardened Runtime.

Your rights

Because no data ever leaves your Mac, there is nothing for the developer to delete, export, or correct. You have full control: delete ~/Library/Application Support/LoremBuilder/ at any time to wipe all app data, or uninstall the app.

Contact

Questions about this policy: use the contact form at https://www.lorembuilder.com/#contact.