Privacy Policy ofApricity

Full privacy policy

What stays on your device

Everything you add or make: your books, including web pages and classics you bring in, highlights, notes, notebooks, drawings, typed text, photos, PDF pages and pictures you bring into a notebook, templates you add, recordings and their transcripts, your shelves, your settings, fonts you add, and your reading and focus time. Text recognition for scanned pages and handwriting, search, shelf suggestions, read-aloud and the soundscapes all run on your device. Siri requests are handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy. Book covers are made on your device from each book's first page or its own cover picture, or from a photo you choose; they are never looked up online. While you browse Classics, the covers shown come from Project Gutenberg's site.

Recordings, transcripts and Smart Notes

The microphone. Apricity uses the microphone only while you're recording in a notebook, and only after you've allowed it. You can turn microphone access off at any time in your device's Settings → Apps → Apricity. A recording is kept with its notebook on your device, and in your private iCloud if iCloud sync is on. It is never sent to Tesorin.

Transcripts. When you ask for a transcript, it's made on your device with Apple's speech recognition. The first time you transcribe in a language, your device may download Apple's speech model for that language from Apple, under the Apple Privacy Policy. The recording itself stays on your device.

Smart Notes. Summaries, quizzes and answers to your questions about a notebook are made on your device by Apple Intelligence's on-device model, from the notebook's typed words, handwriting as read on your device, PDF text and transcripts. Your notes aren't sent to Tesorin. Smart Notes need a device that supports Apple Intelligence, with Apple Intelligence turned on.

iCloud sync

iCloud sync is on unless you turn it off in Apricity's Settings. While it's on, your book details (title, author, cover, progress and reading time, and, for a web page or a classic, its address), shelves, highlights, notes, notebooks with their pages, drawings, typed text, photos, the PDF pages and pictures brought into them, and their recordings and transcripts, templates you add, and your reading and focus sessions are stored in your private iCloud database, so they appear on your other devices signed in to the same Apple Account.

That database belongs to your Apple Account. Tesorin can't read it, and Apple handles it under the Apple Privacy Policy. If you use Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, it is end-to-end encrypted. The files of the books on your shelves are never synced; each device keeps its own, and a web page or a classic can be fetched again on another device from its address. A PDF you bring into a notebook becomes that notebook's pages, which do sync.

Apricity Premium and the free trial

The App Store. Purchases are made through Apple, which handles your payment and Apple Account details under its own privacy policy. We never receive your name, email address, Apple Account or payment details.

Your Apricity ID and trial date. The first time a version with Premium opens, Apricity makes a random ID (for example, APR-7K2MQ-9XD4F) and notes the date your free trial began. Both are kept in your iCloud Keychain, so a reinstall or a new device carries on the same trial. The ID contains nothing about you.

RevenueCat. We use RevenueCat to keep track of subscriptions. When Apricity opens, it asks RevenueCat whether your Apricity ID has Premium. RevenueCat receives that ID, your App Store purchases and subscription status, your app and system version, language and App Store country, and, as with any internet request, your IP address. It never receives your name, email address or anything else that identifies you, and we never try to find out who an Apricity ID belongs to. RevenueCat processes this for us as a service provider, may do so in the United States, and handles it under the RevenueCat Privacy Policy. We use it to provide Premium and to see how subscriptions are doing overall, such as how many trials become subscriptions: never for advertising or to track you, and we never sell it.

What uses the internet

Nothing sends your books, notes or notebooks to Tesorin. Apricity uses the internet only for:

• iCloud sync, between your devices through your private iCloud, when it's on.
• Premium: the App Store and RevenueCat, as described above.
• Read the Web, from version 3.0.0. When you paste or share a link and ask Apricity to make it a book, Apricity fetches that page, and the pictures in its article, from the site itself, as a browser would. If the page needs it, it is opened in a private, hidden web view that keeps no cookies or history. The site receives a standard web request, which includes your IP address, a browser-like description of the app and your preferred languages, and its own privacy policy applies. The page and its address are never sent to Tesorin. A page shared from another app's Share sheet waits on your device until Apricity opens.
• Classics, from version 3.0.0. Browsing Classics fetches Project Gutenberg's catalog and its covers from gutenberg.org, and a book you pick is downloaded from there. These requests name Apricity and include your IP address; the Project Gutenberg privacy policy applies.
• Speech models. The first time you transcribe a recording in a language, your device may download Apple's speech model for it from Apple.
• The Kokoro voices. They come with the app, so nothing is downloaded for them. Versions before 2.1.0 downloaded them (one file, about 98 MB) from GitHub when you chose to, sending only a standard download request, which includes your IP address; the GitHub General Privacy Statement applies to those downloads.

Keeping and deleting your data

We hold no copy of your books, notes, notebooks or recordings, so there is nothing of them for us to keep, delete or hand over. You're in control: remove a book to delete it and everything attached to it; delete a notebook and it waits in Recently Deleted on the MySpace shelf for 30 days, in case you want it back, and is then deleted for good (or straight away, if you delete it there); delete a recording or a template you added from where it's listed. With iCloud sync on, deletions reach your other devices too. You can also remove the Kokoro voice from the Voice screen, or delete the app to delete everything on that device.

Turning off iCloud sync leaves what's already in iCloud in place. To remove it, use your device's Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage. Your device's own backups may include the app's data, under your iCloud or computer backup settings.

RevenueCat keeps your subscription record while Apricity uses it. If you've bought Premium and want that record deleted, send us the order ID from your App Store receipt and we'll find it and delete it. If you haven't bought Premium, your record holds only the anonymous ID and the fact that it has no purchases, with nothing that could lead us to you. Deleting it doesn't cancel a subscription: cancel that in your Apple Account settings. A subscription you bought comes back with Restore Purchases.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted. Apart from emails you send us, the only such information is the RevenueCat record described above. Write to us at the address below. You can also complain to your local data protection authority; in Canada, that's the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Writing to us

If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you include in your message, and use them to reply. Writing to us is always your choice.

Children

Apricity never asks anyone, including children, for their name, email address or other contact details. The subscription information described above is handled the same way for everyone and is never used for advertising.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update it here and change the effective date above. If a future version of Apricity sends anything new off your device, we'll say so here before it ships.