Eden Apps makes My Snowball, Local PDF, Local Invoice, LocalResume, Local Journal, Local Scan, Local Home Inventory, Local Receipts, and Local Subscriptions, and the Mac tools: Furrow, Pagenook, Clearleaf, and Bookplate. This policy explains how we handle your information. The short version: the content you create in our current local-first apps stays on your device. The information we receive is limited to specific situations described below, such as purchases, support messages, and optional newsletter signups.
As Eden Apps grows, different products may work differently. Where a product handles information in a way this page doesn't describe, that product's own privacy information explains it.
Local Home Inventory, Local Receipts and Local Subscriptions each have a privacy policy of their own, which covers everything that app does: Local Home Inventory, Local Receipts and Local Subscriptions. Local Receipts and Local Subscriptions ask RevenueCat, a purchase service, whether Pro has been bought on your Apple Account; their policies say exactly what it receives, and none of your receipts or renewals go with it.
Three kinds of information
It helps to keep three things separate, because each is handled differently:
- The content you create: your plans, documents, files, and notes. In our current local-first apps, this is processed and stored on your device, and we don't receive it.
- Purchase information: what's needed to sell you Pro or a Mac tool and confirm your access. This goes through payment providers, described under Payments.
- Information you choose to send us: a support message or a newsletter signup. We receive only what you give us.
Where your work lives
Our current local-first apps are designed to do their core work directly on your device. They process your content locally rather than uploading it to Eden Apps servers.
In our current local-first apps
- They don't require Eden Apps accounts, logins, or passwords.
- No usage analytics, tracking pixels, or advertising.
- No tracking cookies and no third-party trackers.
Across Eden Apps, we don't sell your personal information or use it for third-party advertising. Where a service provider processes information on our behalf, such as a payment processor or the support form service, this page names them and links to their policies.
Information stored on your device
To make the apps useful, they save data locally on your device: in your browser's local storage on the web, and in the app's own storage on iPhone and iPad. That includes, for example, the plan or document you're working on, and a record of a Pro upgrade you've purchased. On the web this includes a randomly generated anonymous ID and a restore code (which contain no personal information); in the iPhone and iPad apps there's no restore code. Your Pro purchase is tied to your Apple Account and restored with Restore Purchases. This data stays on your device, and you can clear it at any time from the app, or through your browser settings on the web.
When an app uses a network connection
Some specific functions require a connection: purchasing Pro, restoring a purchase, or checking a Pro unlock, which go through the payment services described below. Local PDF on the web has one additional case: the first time you use text recognition, it downloads the recognition engine it needs. Your files are not included in that download. Where a product has other online features, its own page says what connects, when, and why.
The Mac tools
Furrow, Pagenook, Clearleaf, and Bookplate run on your Mac. They have no accounts and no servers of ours to talk to, so your spreadsheets, PDFs, documents, photos, and saved articles are read on your machine and stay there. We never receive them. None of the four collects analytics, telemetry, or crash reports, and none of them sends your files anywhere.
Furrow, Pagenook, and Clearleaf make no network requests. You can work in them with the network off and nothing changes. Links inside them, such as to this policy, open in your own web browser, not in the app. Bookplate is the exception, because opening web pages is what it is for: when you give it a link, it loads that page the way a browser would. The site sees your visit, and any scripts that site runs are its own, not ours. When you save an article, Bookplate also fetches that article's images so your copy still works offline later. Those requests go to the site you chose, and nowhere else. Your library itself is a file on your Mac: never uploaded to us, never synced, never shared by the app.
The same tools in your browser
Each Mac tool also runs as a web version on this site. Your files are opened and worked on in the browser, on your own device, and nothing you open is uploaded. We never receive your files.
The only network requests a browser tool makes are to this site, edenapps.app, to load the tool's own files and to quietly refresh them in the background so you get updates. None of your content is part of those requests. Your browser saves a tool's files the second time you open it while online; after that, in browsers that support offline web apps, the tool can open again with the connection switched off.
What differs is where things are kept. On a Mac these are files on your machine. In the browser they live in the browser's own storage for this site: Bookplate's library, your licence code, and a count of the free goes each tool allows before it asks for one. None of it is uploaded or synced. Clearing your browser's data for this site removes all of it, including your saved library. Bookplate's Download library button saves your articles as a file you keep, and importing that file puts them back, so take a copy before you clear anything.
Bookplate's web version also never opens a link for you. You give it a page you have already saved, a text file, or pasted text, so unlike the Mac app it makes no request to any other site on your behalf.
Unlocking a Mac tool
Mac tools are currently sold through the Mac App Store. Direct sales on this site haven't opened yet. A copy from the Mac App Store arrives ready to use, so there's no code to enter and no licence file kept on your Mac at all.
Once direct sales open, a Mac tool bought here will come with a licence code. The app checks that code on your Mac, by maths, against a key built into the app itself. Nothing is sent anywhere to verify it, and unlocking works the same with the network switched off. The code is then kept in the app's own folder on your machine. It contains no personal information: only which tool it unlocks, a random order reference, and the date it was made.
Payments
How a purchase is handled depends on where you buy. Each path is described separately below.
Mac tools bought on this site (once direct sales open). The sale goes through FastSpring, which acts as the merchant of record: FastSpring is the seller for the transaction itself and handles the payment and the tax. You enter your payment details with them, and we never see or store your card number. What reaches us is your email address and what you bought, so we can send your licence code and help you if something goes wrong. We use it only for that, never for marketing, and we never sell it. The purchase happens in your browser; the app itself never sees any part of it. See FastSpring's Privacy Policy.
Mac tools bought from the Mac App Store. Apple handles the checkout under its own privacy policy, and we don't receive your name, email, or card details.
Pro bought on the web. Payments are processed by Stripe and RevenueCat. You enter your payment details directly with them, and we never see or store your full card number. To process the purchase, they make limited information available to us, including:
- your email address
- your name (if your payment method provides it)
- the amount paid
- your card's brand and last four digits
We use this only to confirm your purchase, process refunds, and provide customer support. It is never linked to your content inside the app, never used for marketing, and never sold. Stripe and RevenueCat keep their own transaction records under their own policies: see Stripe's Privacy Policy and RevenueCat's Privacy Policy.
Pro bought in the iPhone and iPad apps. Pro is purchased through Apple's App Store, and Apple handles checkout under its own privacy policy. The app uses RevenueCat's software to confirm the purchase and manage your Pro access, so RevenueCat processes limited purchase information under its own privacy policy. What we can see is purchase and access information, such as which product was bought, when, and a random identifier. We don't receive your name, email, or card details.
If you contact us
When you email us or use the support form on this site, we receive the email address and message you provide so we can reply. The support form is delivered through Web3Forms, which processes the information you submit to deliver your message to us, and handles it under its own privacy practices. We use what you send only to help you, and contacting support does not add you to any mailing list.
Email updates (optional)
If you choose to sign up for email updates, we use the email address you provide to send the updates described when you subscribe. We never sell your address. Our newsletter is delivered through Buttondown, which handles your address under its own privacy practices. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email.
Children
Our apps are general purpose tools and are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes to this policy
If we update this policy, we'll revise the date at the top of this page. If an individual product handles information differently, its product-specific privacy information will explain those practices.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email support@edenapps.app.