Privacy Policy

This policy explains how Doppler HQ, Inc. ("Doppler", "we", "us") handles information when you use footnotes, its beta website at footnotes.rest, and related beta services.

Product status. Footnotes is a beta, offline-first notebook. The current app has no Footnotes cloud account or hosted sync service. This policy distinguishes information kept on your device from information sent to website, analytics, or optional enrichment services.

1. Information footnotes handles

Depending on the features you choose, the app can handle:

• note text, titles, timestamps, speech transcripts, and other writing;
• photographs, audio recordings, and video or frame data you deliberately capture;
• precise latitude and longitude when you grant foreground location permission, used to label where a note began;
• camera, microphone, speech-recognition, photo-library, and location permission states; and
• diagnostic state needed to save notes, retry optional enrichment, and recover from interruptions.

On the beta website, we collect the email address you submit, your consent to join the waitlist, the page and attribution URL associated with that submission, and anti-abuse signals such as a hidden honeypot field. Contacting us through WhatsApp, Instagram, or email causes those providers to process the information you send under their own policies.

2. On-device storage and permissions

Notes and their media are stored in the app's private storage on your device. Footnotes asks for camera, microphone, speech-recognition, photo-library, or foreground location access only when a related feature needs it. You can decline or later change these permissions in your device settings, although the associated capture feature may stop working.

Your operating-system or device-backup settings may create copies under Apple, Google, or your backup provider's terms. Footnotes does not currently provide its own hosted notebook sync or user account.

3. Optional enrichment

The app contains an optional companion enrichment feature that can transcribe recordings and analyze captured frames. When an enrichment endpoint is configured and a completed note is queued for enrichment, the app sends that session's text, metadata, location, and associated media to that endpoint and polls it for the result.

The default app configuration points to a local companion service rather than a Doppler-hosted public service. If we introduce a hosted enrichment or sync service for public users, we will update this policy and provide any required in-app disclosure and choice before that service processes notebook content.

4. Website and app analytics

We use Amplitude to understand whether Footnotes works and which product flows are used. App analytics can include screen and lifecycle events, capture type, permission outcomes, app environment, platform, operating-system version, and language. Website analytics can include page views, sessions, referral or campaign attribution, browser language, and platform.

Our analytics implementation is designed not to send note text, titles, transcripts, email addresses, photographs, recordings, media paths, or precise location. We disable IP-address collection in the Amplitude SDK configuration and do not enable session replay for Footnotes. Network providers still receive an IP address as part of ordinary internet transport.

5. How we use information

We use information to provide capture and playback, save and restore notebooks, perform enrichment you initiate, operate the beta waitlist, respond to support requests, measure reliability and feature use, prevent abuse, and comply with law. We do not sell notebook content or use it for targeted advertising.

6. When information is shared

We share information only as needed with:

• Amplitude, which processes limited app and website analytics on our behalf;
• our website hosting and backend providers, which deliver footnotes.rest and process beta signup requests;
• an enrichment endpoint you or a Footnotes build configures, when you use enrichment;
• professional advisers, authorities, or counterparties when required by law or a corporate transaction; and
• other providers you choose to contact, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, or email.

7. Retention and deletion

On-device notes and media remain until you delete the note or app, subject to device backups you control. Deleting a note removes its local session, media, queued enrichment state, and locally stored enrichment result. It cannot delete copies already sent to an independently configured enrichment endpoint.

We keep beta signup information while we operate the beta, communicate about access, handle abuse, or meet legal requirements. Analytics is retained according to our configured provider settings. You can ask us to delete website signup, support, or analytics information associated with you by emailing hi@doppler.life. We may need enough information to verify and complete the request.

8. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards appropriate to a small beta product. No storage or transmission method is completely secure. Keep your device protected and do not treat Footnotes as the only copy of information you cannot afford to lose.

9. International processing

Doppler HQ, Inc. is a United States company. Our providers may process information in the United States, Singapore, and other countries where they operate. Those places may have different data-protection laws from where you live.

10. Children

Footnotes is not directed to children under 13. If local law requires parental consent for a younger person to use the service, they may use it only with that consent. Contact us if you believe a child provided information to our website or hosted services without appropriate consent.

11. Your choices and rights

You can decline permissions, change them in device settings, delete individual notes, uninstall the app, or stop submitting information to the beta website. Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to our processing of personal information. Email us to make a request.

12. Changes to this policy

We will update this page and its date when Footnotes' data practices materially change. Where appropriate, we will provide an additional notice in the app or by email.

13. Contact

For privacy questions or requests, email hi@doppler.life.

Data controller: Doppler HQ, Inc., 3830 94th Ave NE, Yarrow Point, WA 98004, United States.