Notevity

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 30 October 2026

Notevity Privacy Policy

Notevity is an offline-first notes app. Your notes, drawings, photos and voice recordings are created and kept on your device. There are no accounts and no servers holding your work, so we cannot see, collect, sell or share it.

Summary

• We collect no personal data and we run no servers that store your notes.

• We do not send your notes, photos, recordings or scans to us or to anyone else.

• We run no analytics, no advertising and no third-party tracking SDKs.

• Text scanning runs entirely on your device; images are not uploaded anywhere.

• We cannot see, read, recover or restore your notes — they exist only on your device.

Information stored on your device

Notevity saves the following inside the app's private storage so it can work: your folders, notebooks and pages; the text, tables, checklists, drawings, shapes and images you place on a page; voice recordings you make; preview images downloaded for link cards; and a short list of recently opened notebooks.

It also stores your app settings and your App Lock choice. If you set a PIN, only a one-way hash of it is saved — never the PIN itself.

This information is written to storage that other apps on your device cannot read. It is not uploaded, and it is not included in Android device backups.

App Lock and your PIN

• A PIN or fingerprint / face unlock can stop someone from opening the app on your device.

• Fingerprint and face data never reach the app. Android performs the check and only tells us whether it succeeded.

• Your PIN is stored as a one-way hash. It cannot be reversed, and there is no reset or recovery option.

• App Lock is a screen-level lock. It does not encrypt the app's files, so someone with full control of an unlocked or rooted device could still reach the underlying data.

Permissions and why we ask for them

• Microphone — used only while you are recording a voice memo. Recording stops when you tap stop.

• Camera — used only when you tap Camera to add a photo or Scan document to read text from a page. Capture is handled by your device's camera app.

• Photos and videos — used only when you pick an existing image from your gallery to place on a page.

• Files and storage — used only when you export, share or open a file you explicitly chose.

• Biometrics — used only by the App Lock settings, and handled entirely by Android.

• Internet and network state — used for link preview cards and for opening external links or email that you tap.

Notevity does not request background location, contacts, SMS, call history, calendar access or your advertising identifier, and it never opens the microphone or camera unless you start that action yourself.

Text scanning (OCR)

When you use Scan document, the text recognition model runs on your device using Google ML Kit bundled inside the app. The captured image is processed locally and is not uploaded to us or to Google.

Only the recognised text is added to your note. The captured photo is not kept after the scan finishes.

Link previews and external websites

When you paste or insert a web link, Notevity asks the website at that address for the page so it can build a preview card (title, description and preview image). That request goes directly from your device to that website — we do not proxy it and we never see the link or the response.

Because the request comes from your device, the website can see your IP address, the time of the request and standard technical details such as the browser identification string the app sends. It cannot see your notes or anything else in the app.

The downloaded title, description and preview image are saved inside the note on your device so the card still renders offline. Deleting the note removes them.

Websites you link to are not operated by us and their own privacy policies apply to them. Simply not pasting a link avoids this feature entirely.

When data leaves your device

Only when you ask it to. If you use export or share, Android passes the file to the destination app you selected. If you insert a link, your device fetches that page as described above. We have no involvement in either transfer and no visibility into it.

Notevity itself has no servers and no user accounts, so there is no account data, no usage log and no advertising identifier for us to collect or disclose.

Data retention and deletion

Your library is retained until you delete it. Deleting a notebook or a page inside the app removes it from your device, along with any preview images it cached. Uninstalling Notevity removes its private storage, including your library, images and recordings. Because we hold no copy anywhere, deletion is immediate and final.

Children

Notevity is a general-purpose productivity app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone, children included, so we have nothing to delete on request.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published with the app and the date at the top of this page will be updated. Material changes will be described in the release notes on the Play Store listing.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to bigmountstudioapps@zohomail.in.

We will respond to privacy requests within 30 days.