// PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy.
Effective 27 September 2026
01What stays on your Mac
Your drawings, highlights and text labels exist only on your screen while you use them. Overlaid never uploads them anywhere.
Your settings (shortcuts, colours, toolbar layout and keystroke-overlay style) are saved in your Mac's standard app preferences and stay there.
02Keystrokes (Accessibility permission)
The keystroke overlay needs macOS's Accessibility permission to see which keys you press, so it can show them on screen. Key presses are displayed and then discarded. They are never recorded, stored or sent.
When macOS marks a field as secure (password fields, for example), Overlaid shows nothing at all. You can leave this permission off if you don't use the keystroke overlay.
03Your screen (Screen Recording permission)
The magnifier, Zoom and Snipe tools need macOS's Screen Recording permission to read the pixels they magnify or capture. That happens in memory, on your Mac. Overlaid never saves your screen to disk on its own, and never sends it anywhere. Drawing itself needs no permission at all.
04Your license
When you activate, Overlaid sends your license key and your Mac's name (as set in System Settings, e.g. “Priya's MacBook Pro”) to Dodo Payments, so the activation can be tied to your Mac and shown to you if you need to move it.
On launch, the app checks the key with Dodo Payments using the key and its activation ID. If you're offline, it keeps working for up to 7 days before it needs to check again.
Your license key, activation ID and free-trial start date are stored in your Mac's Keychain. The trial date lives there so reinstalling the app doesn't restart the trial.
05Purchases
Payments are handled by Dodo Payments, our merchant of record. They collect your payment details and handle tax. We never see your card number. We receive what we need to issue and support your license: your name, email, country and order details. Dodo Payments' own privacy policy covers how they handle your data.
06This website
This site uses DataFast in its cookieless mode to count visits and see which pages and links bring people here. It sets no cookies: a visitor is represented by an anonymous hash that changes every 24 hours, so you can't be followed across days, and nothing is sold or shared for advertising. The site is hosted on Vercel, which keeps standard server logs (such as IP address and browser type) for security and reliability. The “licenses left” counter on the pricing section asks Dodo Payments for a number and involves no personal data.
07Changes and contact
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Questions, or want your purchase data deleted? Email himanshuarora315@gmail.com.