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MarkRead Privacy Policy
The short version: MarkRead doesn’t collect anything. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, and no server of mine for the app to talk to. Your documents and your reading stay on your device.
What MarkRead stores
All of the following is kept locally, in the app’s own storage on your device. None of it is sent to me or to anyone else.
- Your documents. Markdown files you add to MarkRead’s own folder, and files in folders you have given it access to. Files in your folders are read where they are — MarkRead does not copy them elsewhere or upload them.
- Folder access. When you grant access to a folder, iOS hands the app a bookmark to it. That bookmark is stored on device so the folder is still there next time you open the app.
- Reading positions and favourites. Where you had got to in each document, and which documents you marked.
- Appearance preferences. Theme, typeface, text size, line spacing, page width, progress bar, and whether the screen stays awake.
If you use iCloud Backup or back your device up to a computer, this data is included in that backup like any other app’s, and is covered by Apple’s privacy policy rather than this one. Deleting MarkRead removes everything above from your device; documents stored in your own folders are untouched.
When MarkRead uses the internet
MarkRead has no servers. It makes a network connection in only two situations, both of which follow from what you choose to open or tap:
- Remote images. If a markdown document references an image by an
http://orhttps://address, MarkRead requests that image from whichever server hosts it in order to display it. That server will see your device’s IP address and the ordinary information any web request carries. Those servers are not mine and I have no control over what they log. Documents whose images are all local files never cause any request. - Links you tap. Tapping a link hands it to your browser and you leave MarkRead. What happens after that is between you and that site.
For the avoidance of doubt, these do not cause connections: Mermaid diagrams are drawn entirely offline, by a copy of the renderer bundled inside the app, so reading a document with diagrams makes no request to any CDN. There is no update check, no telemetry, no crash-reporting service, and no third-party code of any kind in the app.
What I never do
- No analytics, usage tracking, or fingerprinting.
- No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
- No selling, sharing, or brokering of your data — there is nothing to sell.
- No accounts, sign-ins, or email addresses collected.
- No third-party SDKs.
What Apple may tell me
MarkRead is distributed through the App Store. If you have opted in to sharing analytics with developers (iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements), Apple may make crash and usage reports available to me in aggregate. Apple also provides anonymous, aggregate App Store figures such as download counts. I cannot identify you from any of it, and Apple handles this under Apple’s own privacy policy.
Children
MarkRead collects no personal data from anyone, of any age.
Your rights
Under the UK GDPR, the EU GDPR, the CCPA and similar laws you have rights to access, correct, and delete personal data held about you. Because MarkRead neither collects nor receives any, I hold nothing about you to produce, correct, or erase. The data described above stays on your device and under your control; deleting the app deletes it.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, I will update this page and the date at the top of it. Anything material will also be noted in the app’s release notes.
Contact
Questions about this policy or about MarkRead: daniel@caddickbrown.com