FLIPPY NOTES

Privacy Policy

Last updated October 15, 2026

The short version: your notes stay on your Mac. Our server only knows what it needs to handle purchases, usage statistics and crash reports that you can turn off, and, if you choose, email. We don’t sell your information, show ads, or use trackers.

Your notes stay on your Mac

• Notes, titles, tags and the source details saved with them (such as a page title, website address or app name) are stored on your Mac. They are never uploaded to our servers.
• To flip a window, Flippy Notes uses the Screen Recording permission you grant in macOS and takes one picture of the window you flip. By default, a smaller copy of that picture is saved with the new note on your Mac, so you can recall where the note came from. It is never uploaded. You can turn this off in Settings › Sources & Privacy, and remove any note’s picture from the note.
• Exports and imports only use files you choose.

What our server handles

The App Store version of Flippy Notes talks to our server at api.flippynotes.com. When it first starts, it creates an anonymous account with:

• a random account ID and an access token (kept in your Mac’s Keychain);
• a random purchase ID that the App Store attaches to your purchases, so they can be matched to your account;
• the app version and when the app last checked in.

If you buy a Coffee Club membership

Apple sends us, and the app forwards, signed purchase records: the product, transaction IDs, purchase and renewal dates, whether it will renew, refunds, and whether it was a test purchase. We never receive your payment card or Apple Account details.

If you sign in with email (optional)

Your email address, when you confirmed it, and whether you agreed to receive tips. Signing in is never required to use or buy Flippy Notes.

Usage counts

The app may send simple counts, such as how many notes you have and whether you have tried a flip, so we only send help emails that make sense. It never sends note content.

Usage statistics and crash reports

To see whether Flippy Notes works well and to fix problems, the app sends usage statistics and crash reports to our own server (api.flippynotes.com):

• daily counts, such as how many flips you started, how many opened and how many failed, and how many notes you created and saved;
• short error codes that say why something didn’t work, such as a missing permission;
• how many times the app was opened, and whether Screen Recording is allowed for Flippy Notes (yes or no), including how often the app asked for it;
• the app version, the macOS version and a random ID for this installation of the app;
• crash, hang and similar diagnostic reports that macOS prepares about the app.

They are linked to the app’s account. They never include the text of your notes, titles, tags, pictures, window titles, the names of the apps you flip, or web addresses. We don’t share them with anyone else and don’t use them for advertising or tracking.

This is on by default. You can turn it off in Settings › Sources & Privacy: the app then stops recording and sending them, and deletes what it hasn’t sent yet.

Email

• We only email addresses you give us: sign-in codes and messages about your account, purchases and billing.
• Tips and reminders are sent only if you opt in, and each one has a one-click unsubscribe link.
• If you ask this website to send the Flippy Notes link to your Mac, we use that address to send that one email. We keep a record of the request for 30 days, only to stop the form being used to send repeated or unwanted email, then delete it. We never add that address to any other email.
• If you join the waitlist on this website, we store your email address, whether you’ve confirmed it, and when. We email you a link to confirm; until you use it, we send nothing else, and unconfirmed addresses are deleted after 30 days. Once confirmed, we email you when Flippy Notes launches and, occasionally, with product news. Every one of those emails has a one-click unsubscribe link, and you can ask us to delete your address at any time. To keep bots out, the form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks your browser when you open the form.
• Email is delivered by Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES), which tells us whether a message was delivered, bounced or marked as spam. We stop emailing addresses that bounce or complain.

This website

flippynotes.com doesn’t use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers. Like any website, our hosting and Cloudflare process your IP address and basic request details to deliver pages and protect against abuse. Cloudflare’s Turnstile spam check loads only when you open the waitlist form.

Who processes information for us

• Apple — App Store payments, purchase records and notifications.
• Hetzner Online — our server, hosted in Germany.
• Cloudflare — domain name service, network delivery and security, including the Turnstile spam check on the waitlist form.
• Amazon Web Services — email delivery (Amazon SES).

We don’t sell or share your information for advertising.

How long we keep it

• Account information is kept while your account exists. When you delete your account, we delete it along with your email address, preferences and the purchase records linked to it. Apple keeps its own records of your purchases.
• Usage statistics are kept while your account exists and are deleted with it. Crash and hang reports are deleted after 180 days, or with your account if that comes first.
• Requests to send the link to your Mac are deleted after 30 days.
• Waitlist addresses are kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them; addresses never confirmed are deleted after 30 days.
• Security records, such as request-rate counters and server logs, are kept only briefly.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us to show, correct, export or delete your information, and you can unsubscribe from tips at any time. To delete your account, use the option in the app when available, or email [email protected]. Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in the EU and UK, or California law), you may have further rights, including complaining to your data protection authority.

Children

Flippy Notes isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date above. Significant changes will also be announced in the app or by email.

Contact

Questions or requests: [email protected].