Privacy policy

Bindery collects nothing, asks for no permissions, and sends nothing you convert anywhere. Below is the detail behind that sentence.

What the app does with your documents

It reads the Markdown files you give it, turns them into one document, and writes that out as Word, PDF or an e‑book. All of it happens on the device itself. The converter is an ordinary part of the app, not a service we call — which is why the app is as large as it is.

Diagrams and mathematics are drawn by software that ships inside the app too. Nothing is fetched to render them.

What we collect

Nothing. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, and no third-party SDK doing any of those on our behalf. Beyond the frameworks that draw the interface, the only Apple service the app uses is the one that sells it.

Permissions

The app asks for none. Not the microphone, camera, photos, contacts or location. You choose a file through the system's own document picker, which hands the app that file and nothing else. A cover photo is chosen the same way, through the system's photo picker, which hands over the one photo you pick and nothing else from your library — so there is no prompt to accept and nothing to review later in Settings.

What is saved on your device

Four things, all yours and all local:

• The files you add, copied into the app's own folder so they can be converted. The copy goes when you remove the file from the list, and at the latest the next time the app starts. Your original is never touched.
• A cover photo, if you choose one. The app keeps its own copy, re-encoded from the picture alone, so the photo's location, the camera details and every other piece of metadata are removed. It is replaced when you choose another and deleted when you remove it.
• The documents it makes, written where you can reach them in the Files app.
• A monthly counter for the free allowance — a month and a number. It holds nothing about your documents: not their names, not their contents, not how many there were.

All four live in the app's own storage, are covered by the device's encryption, and go when you delete the app. None is transmitted anywhere. The app also keeps things it can make again in its cache — drawn diagrams and equations, and the most recent preview — which the system may clear whenever it needs the space.

Nothing of yours is deleted automatically. The app deletes only the copies it made for itself. Your original files are never touched, and deleting a document it made is yours to do, in Files.

The purchase

Bindery Pro is a one‑off purchase through the App Store, not a subscription. Apple handles the payment and any refund; we see only aggregate sales reporting and never learn who bought it. We do not receive your name, email address, Apple Account or payment details.

This is the one part of the app that contacts anything outside your device, and it asks Apple a yes-or-no question: has this Apple Account bought it? Apple's own privacy policy governs that exchange. Nothing you convert is involved.

Restoring it on a second device asks Apple the same question.

The free allowance

Bookkeeping, not a lock. It counts pages converted in a calendar month, resets on the first, and is not reported to us. If it ever fails to read or write, the app gives you the benefit of the doubt rather than refusing to work.

Children

Bindery is a document tool and is not directed at children. It collects nothing, so it holds no information about anyone of any age.

If you contact support

Support is separate from the app, which never sends a request on your behalf. What we keep when you raise a case is set out on the privacy page.

Your rights

Under the Australian Privacy Act, and the GDPR or similar law if it covers you, you may access, correct and erase personal information an organisation holds about you. Here those rights have nothing to attach to, because we hold nothing. To erase a support case, quote its number through the support form.

Changes to this policy

If a future version ever sends any part of a document anywhere, this policy changes in the same release, the app tells you before you can use it, and the claim above is rewritten rather than softened. No such feature is planned. The version and date at the top are the record.

Contact

The Owlery Works, Sydney, Australia. Reach us through the support form — anonymously if you prefer.