DocXPal

DocXPal Privacy Policy

Effective from DocXPal 1.0.1

DocXPal is an iPhone and iPad app that reads your documents aloud, lets you mark passages and summarizes them. It is built so that your documents never leave your device. This policy covers the DocXPal app.

What DocXPal collects

DocXPal has no accounts, no advertising and no tracking. To learn which features are used, the app sends anonymous usage counts, from version 1.0.1, to Google Analytics for Firebase, a service run by Google.

In App Store countries of the European Union, the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the app asks first and sends nothing unless you agree. You can change your answer at any time: in the library, open the ⋯ menu, choose DocXPal Pro… and use Share Anonymous Usage Counts. Turning it off stops the counts at once and resets the random ID described below. In other countries there is no setting to turn this off.

What is counted. Only actions, each with a few fixed values. Examples are a document added (PDF or Word, scanned or not), reading started (at a slow, normal or fast speed), a mark added, a summary made, a search run, the Pro screen shown or closed, and a purchase (which plan). Two more values describe the app as a whole: whether you're in the free Pro period or on the free version or a Pro plan, and roughly how many documents are in your library (0, 1–5, 6–20 or more than 20).

What Google also receives. Every app that uses Google Analytics sends this, and it can't be turned off:

  • a random ID for this installation of the app, which is reset if you delete and reinstall it;
  • the device model, iOS version, app version and language;
  • your country or region, worked out from a shortened IP address;
  • when the app is first opened and used, app updates, and in-app purchases.

What is never sent. Your documents and their text, titles and file names, what you search for, your marks, notes and summaries, your name or Apple Account, the advertising identifier (IDFA) or Apple's vendor identifier (IDFV). The counts aren't linked to you, aren't used for advertising and aren't shared with advertisers. They're kept for the shortest time Google Analytics allows (2 months).

Google handles this data under Google's Privacy Policy.

Your documents and notes

  • Documents you add, your marks, notes, categories, folders and summaries are stored only in the app on your device.
  • Reading aloud uses Apple's on-device voices.
  • Text recognition of scanned pages, language detection, search and Word conversion all run on your device.
  • Summaries use Apple Intelligence on the device where it is available, or the app's own on-device method. Nothing is sent to a server.
  • If your device backs up to iCloud or your computer, the app's data is included in that backup like any other app's, under Apple's terms.

Purchases

  • DocXPal Pro is bought through Apple's App Store. Apple handles the payment; the developer never sees your name, Apple Account or payment details.
  • The app checks whether you have Pro using Apple's StoreKit on your device. It keeps the start date of your free Pro period, and how many free summaries you've made this month, on your device only.
  • Apple gives the developer sales reports with totals by country, not information about individual buyers.

Sharing

The app shares something only when you choose to, for example by sharing your marks or a summary with the share button. What you share and where it goes is up to you.

Deleting your data

Deleting a document in the app removes it, with its marks and summaries, from the device. Deleting the app removes all of its data.

Children

DocXPal doesn't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. The anonymous usage counts above are the same for everyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email [email protected].