Clipboard PlainText Power Tool (CPPT) does not store, gather or forward any information to be sent to the developer MetadataConsulting.ca or transmitted directly to any third parties (except transformations that described below). No real time or monitoring data is gathered by this tool. No snooping. Your clips are private.
The only data gathered and stored is for licensing of this tool, and that is gathered via the licensing tool when you purchase the product and consists of your name, address, and a hardware/software fingerprint. This information is kept strictly confidential and is not shared with any other party. Period.
Internet Connectivity for Specific Functions
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Functions that reach out to the internet are indicated by arrows.
▲ or ↑ up-arrow indicates pinging or reaching out to the internet.
▼ or ↓ down-arrow indicates downloading information/file from the internet.
As of version 4.5+ just using ▼ (down-arrow) for all transformations that require internet connectivity.
Using these internet connected functions briefly reaches out over the internet to complete it's task. It's not a sustained pipe.
Using internet transformation reveals about the same amount of metadata as surfing to that address in your browser. But typically it reveals far less browsing metadata and is more equivalent to a curl request on UNIX systems. No other information is shared. Technically, under the C# code covers, a HttpWebRequest is usually used most of the time.
Most internet transformations will reach out to the site you wish to HTML scrape or query. For example,
'Generate <A HREF= tag with title pulled from valid URL▼'
This transformation will query a valid URL (a website) (that you copied) and try to get the title of the HTML page so when you create the link, the hover text will be the title of the webpage you pointed to.
For
https://www.google.com/
you get
<a href='https://www.google.com/' target='_blank' title='Google'>Google</a>
how cool is that!
So the same information as a curl request is exposed here to the site, essentially a lite browser request.
Most internet transformation are like this, if not stated otherwise.
Third-Party Sites
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'URL Link Expander'
This transformation will query a URL and wait for the response from whatever shorting provider third-party site was used to create the short link. So the same information as a curl request is exposed here to the site, essentially a lite browser request.
'Get public IPv4 address▼'
This transformation does a lookup at http://checkip.dyndns.org to get your external IP address. It's a favorite used by programmers for many years, as of 2016 owned by Oracle. I know, but it's a really handy feature, I use a lot. So the same information as a curl request is exposed here to the site, essentially a lite browser request.
'Sysinternals Live' transformations download files from http://live.sysinternals.com/. So the same information as a curl request is exposed here to the site, essentially a lite browser request.
Your privacy matters!