App Privacy

The short version: the iPad edition of Ink Gazette collects nothing. Nothing you write, draw or solve leaves your iPad. The one thing the app sends anywhere at all is a subscription purchase, and that goes to Apple.

What we collect: nothing

There is no account and no sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporter, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. The only code in the app that opens a network connection is Apple’s own StoreKit, and it serves the subscription and nothing else.

What stays on your iPad

Your entries, your pencil strokes and how far you got are written into the app’s own folder on the device. Your settings — checking, ink tone, handedness and the rest — are kept beside them. All of it belongs to the app: deleting the app deletes it, and it travels nowhere except in your own device backup, on Apple’s terms rather than ours.

Handwriting

When you write a letter or a digit with the pencil, iPadOS recognises it on the device itself. The strokes are not sent anywhere, and we never see them.

The subscription

The magazine subscription is sold, charged and managed by the App Store. Apple handles the payment and tells the app a single thing: whether this Apple Account holds a subscription. We never see your name, your payment details or your Apple Account, so there is nothing here for us to keep — and we keep nothing. Cancelling, refunds and renewals are Apple’s, under Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions.

The website is a separate thing

This page is about the iPad app. inkgazette.com is a different product and keeps its own page: what the website stores.

Questions

Write to contact@inkgazette.com, or by post to Julien Thumm, c/o F2BII E-Commerce#1267, Hintergoldingerstrasse 30, 8638 Goldingen, Switzerland.

Changes

If the app ever starts doing something that touches your data, this page will say so before that version ships.