Nothing collected.

Your notes

Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you choose, on your own device. Igneous reads and writes that folder, and keeps its own settings — your list of notebooks and your preferences — on the same device. Your notes leave it only in the ways described below, and only if you set them up.

On iPhone and iPad, Igneous uses the camera only when you choose Take Photo to put a picture into a drawing, and iOS asks your permission first; the picture is kept in your notebook with the drawing. It adds a picture to your photo library only when you choose Save Image or Save to Photos.

What the app sends over the network

Nothing, except sync between your own devices, and only if you turn it on. There is no analytics, no crash reporter and no advertising in Igneous. The editor, the canvas and the drawing surface run code that ships inside the app, and they are locked so that they cannot load anything from the internet.

Two things you do yourself can reach the internet:

• Opening a web link in a note hands it to your browser.
• Exporting a note to PDF or HTML downloads any picture the note shows by its web address, such as ![](https://…), so it can be put in the file. The site that hosts the picture sees an ordinary request from your device for it, as it would from a browser.

Sync between your devices

Igneous for Mac can run a small server so that your iPhone, your iPad or a web browser can reach your notebook over your own network. It is off until you switch it on in Settings ▸ Web Server, and until you choose Local network there, only that Mac can reach it.

• The iPhone and iPad app finds your Mac with Bonjour, which is why it asks for access to your local network, and then connects to it directly. No Igneous server and no cloud service sits in between, and nothing reaches us.
• Nothing reads or changes your notes through the server without the pairing code the Mac shows you. Each device asks for it once. The Mac and the phone keep it in the Keychain; a browser keeps it in its own storage for that address. New Code on the Mac signs every device out at once.
• The connection is plain HTTP inside your network, and Igneous does not encrypt it. The pairing code stops other devices reading or changing your notes, but someone able to watch the traffic on your network could see what passes between your devices, so sync on a network you trust. If you connect over a VPN instead, the traffic travels over that VPN.
• If you open your notebook in a web browser, the browser shows your notes as it would any web page, including pictures your notes link to on the web.

iCloud Drive, and other services you choose

If you keep a notebook in iCloud Drive, or in a folder another service syncs, that service copies your files under its own terms; Igneous only reads and writes them. System features you choose to use inside Igneous, such as Writing Tools and dictation, are provided by Apple under Apple's privacy policy.

Diagnostics

Igneous's logs stay on your device. Copy Diagnostics — in the Help menu on the Mac, and in Settings ▸ System on iPhone and iPad — puts a report on the clipboard, where you can read it before you paste it anywhere. It goes only where you paste it: to us, if you choose to send it with a question. The app never sends it itself.

If you have turned on Share With App Developers in your iPhone's or iPad's Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Analytics & Improvements, Apple may pass crash reports from the App Store version on to us. That is Apple's system, and you can turn it off there.

Changes to this policy

If what Igneous does with your data changes, this page will change with it, and the date below will move.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@getigneous.com