Privacy Policy

Last updated 22 October 2026.

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes the manner in which information is handled in connection with the Paperbook software application ("App") and the website paperbookapp.com.

In this Policy, "Publisher" means the publisher of the App, being the developer identified on the page of the App on the App Store, "Apple" means Apple Inc. and its affiliates, "Case" means the collection of documents, workspaces, annotations, notes and related material that a user maintains in the App, whether alone or shared with other users, "Library" means the collection of bare Acts, rules, regulations and similar texts made available through the App, and "AI Provider" means a provider of artificial intelligence services whose application programming interface key a user enters in the App.

1. Summary

1.1The Publisher does not operate any server for the App. The Publisher does not collect, receive, store, sell or share any personal data of users through the App.

1.2The Cases of a user remain on the devices of that user and in the iCloud account of that user, or in the iCloud account of the owner of a Case which has been shared with that user. The Publisher has no access to them.

1.3The App contains no advertising, no analytics and no third party tracking code.

2. Information stored by the App

2.1The App stores the following information on your device: the documents that you import into the App, together with your highlights, ink, excerpts, workspaces, links, notes, flags, bookmarks, indexes, labels, folders and settings.

2.2Each Case is also stored in iCloud (CloudKit), a service of Apple, in the private iCloud database of the user who created it, so that it is available on the devices of that user and may be removed from a device and restored to it. A Case that is shared is stored in the iCloud account of its owner and is available to the persons with whom it is shared.

2.3The storage of information in iCloud is governed by the terms and the privacy policy of Apple. The Publisher has no access to information stored in iCloud.

3. The Library

3.1The texts in the Library are kept in the public database of the App in iCloud, and are downloaded to your device when a Case requires them.

3.2A request for a text in the Library identifies only the text requested. Such a request does not contain the contents of your Cases, and the Publisher does not receive your name, your email address or any other information that identifies you as a result of it.

4. AI features

4.1The AI features of the App are available only where you enter an application programming interface key issued to you by an AI Provider. Unless and until you do so, the App does not send any information to any AI Provider.

4.2Where you enter such a key and use an AI feature, the text, page or question that you submit is sent directly from your device to the AI Provider concerned. Its use by the AI Provider is governed by the terms and the privacy policy of that AI Provider, and by your agreement with it. The Publisher does not receive any such information.

4.3The key that you enter is stored on your device. It is not transmitted to the Publisher.

4.4You are responsible for determining whether any material, including material entrusted to you by a client, may be sent to an AI Provider consistently with your obligations of confidentiality.

5. Cause Diary

5.1Cause Diary is a separate application of the Publisher. Where you use the App to obtain orders from Cause Diary, the App exchanges the particulars of the Case concerned, and the orders in it, with Cause Diary through your device and your iCloud account, and may add that case to Cause Diary.

5.2No information passes to the Publisher in the course of such an exchange.

6. Information transmitted from your device

6.1Save as stated in clauses 2.2, 3, 4 and 5, the App does not transmit any information from your device.

7. Device permissions

7.1Where the App requests a permission from your device, it uses that permission only for the purpose stated in the request. You may withdraw any such permission at any time in the settings of your device.

8. Shared Cases

8.1A person with whom you share a Case is able to view and to modify the whole of the contents of that Case, including its documents and workspaces.

8.2You are responsible for determining whether a Case may be shared with a person consistently with your obligations of confidentiality.

9. Retention and deletion

9.1Your data is retained until you delete it.

9.2The deletion of a Case in the App removes that Case from your device and from iCloud.

9.3The deletion of the App removes the data that the App stored on the device. Data stored in iCloud may be deleted through the iCloud settings of the device.

10. The Website and correspondence

10.1The Publisher does not use the website paperbookapp.com to collect personal data. The website carries no advertising and no analytics code. The website is served through a third party hosting provider, which may process technical information, such as internet protocol addresses, in the ordinary course of delivering web pages.

10.2Where you write to the Publisher by email, the Publisher receives your email address and the contents of your message, and uses them only for the purpose of responding to you.

11. Children

11.1The App is not directed at children.

12. Amendment

12.1The Publisher may amend this Policy from time to time. The amended Policy will be published at paperbookapp.com/privacy, together with the date of the amendment.

13. Contact and grievances

13.1Any question, request or grievance in relation to this Policy may be addressed to the Publisher at Chandigarh, India, by email at support@paperbookapp.com.