Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Jinn Notes is desktop software published by the developer identified on the Microsoft Store listing for the application. This policy describes how the software and this website handle information.

For any privacy question, contact privacy@jnotes.app.

2. Information we collect

None, by default. Unless you create an account, the application does not:

• require an account, sign-in, or registration;
• collect analytics, usage statistics, crash reports, or telemetry;
• transmit your notes, images, files, or board contents anywhere;
• contain advertising, trackers, or third-party SDKs;
• read files outside the project folder you explicitly choose and the files you explicitly add.

The application does periodically contact jnotes.app to check for a newer version (see section 5), and does offer an optional account system and online sync — both off unless you turn them on, and described fully in section 5.

3. Where your data is stored

Everything stays on your device. There are two storage locations, depending on how you run Jinn Notes:

• Desktop application. Each board is a folder you pick. Jinn Notes writes a .canvas file into it (open JSON Canvas format) and copies the files you add alongside it. The application also remembers the path of the last board you opened, stored locally, so it can reopen it next time.
• Browser mode. If you run Jinn Notes in a web browser, boards and attachments are held in that browser's local IndexedDB storage on your machine. Clearing your browser's site data deletes them.
• Online storage (optional). If you switch a board to "Online" in the app's toolbar, its content and files are instead stored on our server — or in a dedicated folder in your own Google Drive if you've connected it — see section 5.

Uninstalling the application does not delete your boards — they remain in the folders you chose.

Local storage keys

For transparency, the only values the application persists outside your board folder are the path of the last-opened project and the filename of the last-opened canvas. These are stored in local browser-style storage on your device and are never transmitted.

4. When the application contacts the internet

By default Jinn Notes makes no network requests of its own beyond one thing: a check, on your own action or on startup, for whether a newer version exists (see section 5 below — this replaces an earlier version of this policy that said updates were never checked for at all). It otherwise only makes a request when you add content that requires one, or when you opt into an account, and then only to the address that action implies:

• Pasting a link to an image. The app downloads that image from the site hosting it, so it can be saved into your board folder. That website sees the request, which necessarily includes your IP address.
• Adding a YouTube video. The card shows the video's thumbnail, fetched from YouTube. If you click play, the video is embedded from YouTube. In both cases YouTube (Google) receives the request and may set cookies or collect data according to its own privacy policy, over which we have no control.
• Notes containing image links. An image URL written into a note is displayed as a preview, which loads that image from its host.

Nothing about you is added to these requests. They are ordinary requests for the content you asked for, made directly from your computer. If you never add remote content and never create an account, the only traffic Jinn Notes ever generates is the update check described next.

For safety, the application only permits http, https and mailto links. Other schemes are rejected, so a board shared with you cannot execute code through a malicious link.

5. Optional accounts, online sync, and update checks

Everything in this section is off unless you turn it on. The app's default is local-only storage on your own disk, exactly as described above.

• Update checks. The app periodically asks jnotes.app whether a newer version is available, sending only the version number you're running. This happens whether or not you have an account, and never blocks the app from working if there's no connection.
• Creating an account (email and password, or "Sign in with Google") stores your email, a securely hashed password (we never store the password itself), and a display name on our server, so you can sign in on more than one device.
• Switching a board to "Online" storage uploads that board's content and any files on it to our server (or, if you connect Google Drive, to a folder in your own Drive that only this app can see) so it can sync across devices. Boards you keep "Local" never leave your disk.
• Connecting Google Drive uses Google's sign-in to grant the app permission to create and edit files in a Drive folder it creates for itself — it never requests access to the rest of your Drive. Google's own privacy policy covers what Google does with that connection.

Deleting your account removes your email, password hash, and any boards stored on our server; it does not touch files already in your own Google Drive or on your own disk.

6. This website

jnotes.app uses Google Analytics (GA4) to understand aggregate traffic to this website — pages viewed, referring sites, approximate location, and device type. This loads a script from Google and may set cookies to distinguish visitors; it is not linked to your Jinn Notes account, and it never runs inside the desktop application itself, only on these public web pages. See Google's privacy policy for what Google does with that data. Fonts are served from this domain rather than a font CDN. Signing in separately sets a session cookie/token purely to keep you signed in.

Our web host records standard server logs (such as IP address and requested URL) as an ordinary part of serving the site. We do not use those logs to build profiles, and we do not combine them with anything else.

Outbound links — for example to the Microsoft Store or to jsoncanvas.org — are governed by those sites' own policies once you follow them.

7. Distribution through the Microsoft Store

If you install Jinn Notes from the Microsoft Store, Microsoft handles the download, licensing, and update process, and collects whatever information its own policies describe. That relationship is between you and Microsoft; we receive only the aggregate, anonymous acquisition statistics that Partner Center shows every publisher (such as total installs per country). Those figures identify nobody.

8. Children

Jinn Notes is a general-purpose productivity tool. The app itself collects no information from anyone, including children, unless an account is deliberately created.

9. Your rights

Data-protection law gives you rights to access, correct, export, and delete personal data a company holds about you. If you've never created an account, we hold none, so there is nothing for us to produce or erase — your data is in your own files, under your own control: to export it, copy the folder; to delete it, delete the folder. If you have created an account, email privacy@jnotes.app to access, export, or delete the email/password/display-name/board data we hold for it.

10. Security

Boards kept in "Local" storage never leave your device, so their security is the security of your own computer — board files are written atomically (to a temporary file, then renamed into place) so an interrupted save cannot corrupt existing work. For boards you switch to "Online" storage, or an account's password: passwords are stored as a salted hash (never in plain text), sessions use a random token rather than the password itself, and board content in transit is sent over HTTPS. We recommend keeping your own backups either way, as you would for any documents.

11. Changes to this policy

If the application's behaviour ever changes in a way that affects this policy, this page will be updated and the date at the top revised. Material changes will also be noted in the application's release notes.

12. Contact

Questions about this policy or about privacy in Jinn Notes: privacy@jnotes.app.