KeepNote Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 9, 2026
1. Information We Collect
You can use most features without creating an account. We only process the following information when you choose to sign in:
| Data | When | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | When you sign in with Apple or with an email code | To identify your account |
| Name | When you sign in with Apple and choose to share it | To display in your profile |
| User ID | Assigned by our server after sign-in | To link your account to your device |
| Profile photo (optional) | Only if you choose to set one in your account | To show your avatar across your devices |
Beyond this, we collect no other personal information: no location, contacts, health data, browsing history, search history, or advertising/tracking identifiers.
2. Where Your Content Lives
The lists, ledger entries, notes, images and sketches you create:
- Are stored locally on your device
- If you enable iCloud, are synced to your own private iCloud database (Apple's CloudKit)
We cannot read this content. It lives under your personal iCloud account; we have no access to it and never upload it to our own servers. The single exception is your optional profile photo — see sections 1 and 3.
3. Camera and Photos
- Camera — used only by the text-scanning feature. Recognition happens on your device; images are never uploaded.
- Photos — read only when you pick an image. Images you insert into a note, or set as a background, stay on your device and are never uploaded.
- Profile photo — if you choose to set one, it is uploaded to our server so it can appear on your other devices. It is downscaled to 256×256 on your device before upload, stored as a file on our server (not in our database, and not included in our database backups), and served from
/api/profile/avatar/<your user ID>. It is not linked to any other personal data we hold, and it is deleted when you delete your account.
You can revoke these permissions at any time in system settings.
4. Payments
Paid items are purchased through Apple App Store In-App Purchase. We never see or store your payment card details — Apple handles them directly under Apple's Privacy Policy.
5. Third Parties
This app contains no third-party analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs. Apart from our own server used for sign-in, the app transmits no information about you to any third party.
One exception worth naming: sign-in verification codes are delivered by email through our transactional email provider, Resend. Your email address is passed to that provider for the sole purpose of delivering the code.
6. Retention and Deletion
- You can permanently delete your account and associated data at any time from Me → Delete Account inside the app.
- After deletion, the email, name, user ID and uploaded profile photo associated with your account are removed from our server.
- Data on your device and in iCloud can be deleted in the app, or by deleting the app / clearing it in iCloud settings.
7. Children
This app is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
8. Changes
If this policy changes, we will post the new version on this page with an updated date.
9. Contact
Questions about this policy? Contact: 981230299@qq.com