Privacy.

The short version

• Your writing is yours. Only you can read it.
• Ink keeps only what it needs to sign you in and keep your writing safe.
• No ads, no tracking, no selling or sharing your data.
• Nothing you write is used to train anyone’s models.

What Ink keeps

• Your account: your email address. If you sign in with Google, Google also shares your name and profile picture with Ink; Ink does not use them for anything yet.
• Your settings, only if you choose them: a pen name, and which seasons Ink groups your writing by. Ink never stores your time zone or location; it reads the time zone on your device only.
• Your writing: each piece you write, its title if you give one, its language, and when you created and last changed it.
• Your pictures, only if you add them: a cover or a picture in your notes. Before a picture leaves your device, Ink makes it smaller and keeps only the image itself, so the place, camera and time a photo was taken are never sent. A picture you take off a piece stays in your Pictures until you delete it there; deleting it removes it for good.
• What Ink works out from your writing: a copy of each piece’s words for search, and a list of numbers that stands for its meaning, so Ink can find pieces that are close. Both are kept next to the piece and deleted with it.
• Pieces you dismiss: when you choose “Not related” on a note in Ink sees this too, Ink remembers that pair of your pieces so it does not show them together again. Only you can see it.
• A password, only if you add one: it is stored scrambled (hashed), never as you typed it.
• Sign-in records: the services below keep short technical logs (such as the time of a sign-in and the network address it came from) to keep accounts secure.

What Ink does not do

• No advertising, no analytics and no tracking cookies in the app.
• No selling, renting or sharing your data with anyone for their own use.
• No reading your writing to show you ads or to train models.

On your device

Your browser keeps a sign-in token so you stay signed in. It is removed when you sign out. The app sets no cookies.

So that nothing you write is lost, each change is first kept in your browser’s own storage on this device, then sent to Ink. Once Ink has it, the copy on the device is removed. If you are offline or sign out before it is sent, it waits there and is sent the next time you sign in on this device. Your colour choice and whether the menu is open are remembered there too. Nothing else is stored on your device.

This website

This website (withink.app) is separate from the app. It sets no tracking cookies. It keeps two things on your device: whether you picked the light or the dark page, and your answer to the question about counting visits.

If you say yes, Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views and which pages are read. It sets no cookies and keeps no profile of you. If you say no, nothing is counted. You can change your answer at any time with “Cookie settings” in the footer.

If you join the list, your email address goes to Resend, which keeps it so Ink can write to you about Ink. Every email has an unsubscribe link. Cloudflare hosts the site.

Who is involved

Ink uses a few services to run. Each one handles your data only to do its job for Ink.

• Supabase stores your account, your writing and your pictures, in a data centre in Mumbai, India.
• Google, only if you choose Continue with Google, to confirm who you are. Ink’s fonts are served by Ink itself, not by Google or anyone else.
• An email service (Resend) sends your 6-digit sign-in codes and your password links, from an address on Ink’s own domain.
• Hosting for the app and its server. [Names and regions, once Ink is deployed.]

Who can read your writing

Only you, through Ink. Every request for your writing or your pictures is checked against your account, so another writer cannot open it even by guessing a link. [Who at Ink can technically reach the database, and the promise about when they would, if ever.]

Features that look at your writing

Two features look at your writing: Ink sees this too, the notes beside a piece, and search by meaning. For them, an open model (BGE-M3) turns the title and words of each piece into a list of numbers that stands for its meaning. The model runs on a computer Ink runs itself: your writing is never sent to an outside AI company, and it is never used to train a model. The numbers are kept with your writing and are only ever compared with your own pieces. When you search, the words you type are turned into numbers the same way, and are not kept. Ink never writes, rewrites or judges anything for you.

Keeping and deleting

Your writing stays until you delete it. [How to delete a piece or your whole account, and how long deleted writing and backups are kept.]

Your choices

• You can ask for a copy of everything Ink keeps about you.
• You can ask Ink to correct or delete it.
• To do either, write to [contact email].

Who runs Ink

[Name of the person or company responsible for Ink, and where it is based.]

Children

[Minimum age to use Ink.]

Changes

When this page changes in a way that matters, Ink will tell you before the change takes effect. The date at the top always shows the latest version.