Privacy

Updated 2026-11-08. This page is the privacy policy for Page & Hour.

Who we are

Page & Hour is made by Scrolling Is Evil LLC. Questions: [email protected].

What the phone stores

Your pages: ink strokes, typed text, sticky notes, stickers and photos you placed, and their dates. Also your sticker library, templates, pen settings, toolbar placement, app color, and whether the Supporter purchase is active. Photos you add are copied into the app’s own storage. There is no account.

If your phone backs up apps to iCloud or Google, that backup can include your journal. Apple or Google holds it under their own terms, and we cannot read it.

On Android, Backup in the app saves your whole journal (pages, photos, stickers you made, templates and settings) to one file. You pick where it goes: a folder on the phone, a memory card, a cloud app you use, or the share sheet. Restore reads a file you pick and checks it on the phone. Neither sends anything to us.

Automatic backup (Android, Supporter) is off until you turn it on. When it is on, the app saves that same backup file on its own, every day or every week, to the place you choose with Android’s own file screens: either one file, for example in Google Drive, that each copy replaces, or a folder on the phone, where it keeps the last seven dated copies. The app asks for no account and has no connection of its own to Google Drive or any other storage app; once the file is handed to that app, it handles the file under its own terms. We receive nothing. The app keeps the address of that file or folder and the date of the last copy on the phone, and these settings are not in backup files. While it replaces the one file, the app holds the file’s previous backup in its own storage on the phone, so it can put it back if the new copy does not finish (right away, or the next time the app opens or the backup runs), and deletes it once that file holds a whole backup again. Turning it off, or choosing Stop using this file or Stop using this folder, ends it; copies already saved stay where they are and open with Restore a backup.

Calendar (Android, optional)

Calendar events is off until you turn it on. When you do, Android asks you to allow Page & Hour to read your calendar. The app then reads the title, start and end time of events in the calendars you pick, on the phone, only to print them on your pages. It never changes your calendar, never stores events in your journal or in backup files, and never sends them to us or anyone. An event goes into a shared image or PDF only when you turn on Include calendar events for that share. Your on or off choice and the calendars you picked are kept on the phone and are not in backup files. You can turn it off in the app, or remove the permission in Android Settings.

Photos

Page photos come from your photo library. Stickers come from your photo library or from Files. The app copies each one into its own storage. The app does not use the camera, microphone or location.

What leaves the phone

Your pages never leave the phone unless you share one, save a backup file somewhere off the phone, or point automatic backup at a place off the phone. Share image and Share PDF turn one page into a file and open your phone’s share sheet, and the file goes only where you pick. On Android, Send a kit turns the pages you pick into one file that holds only what you chose: the page layout, plus handwriting, typed text or photos and stickers you made if you turn them on. It also goes only where you pick. On Android, page, PDF and kit shares include a link to Page & Hour on Google Play in the share text; the iPhone and iPad app adds no link. The support and privacy links in About open your mail app or browser.

A kit someone sends you is read only when you open it with Page & Hour. The app checks the file on the phone and adds pages only when you tap Add. Opening a kit sends nothing to us.

The app makes two kinds of network connection: to RevenueCat, for the optional Supporter purchase (below), and, in the Android app, to our own service for anonymous step counts (next section). The app has no crash reporting, ads or advertising identifier, and none of your pages, ink, text, photos or stickers is ever sent.

Anonymous step counts (Android)

The Android app counts how often a few steps are reached across all users, so we can see where new users stop. When one is reached, the app sends our service at tomatopotato-extract.scrollingisevil.workers.dev the app name, the step name and the app version, and nothing else. For the Supporter screen it also sends which screen opened it (for example the spread picker, About, the sticker preview bar or the brush try-out). The steps are: opening the app for the first time, making the first page or notebook, writing the first stroke, typing the first text, adding the first sticker or photo, sharing a page, trying the free Habit page, moving writing to another day, saving or restoring a backup file, sending a kit, opening a kit, adding a kit's pages, turning on calendar events for the first time, making the first school-year notebook, trying a Supporter sticker or brush in a preview, making a second notebook, making a notebook cover, selecting several pages at once, exporting a notebook, opening What Supporter adds, opening the Supporter screen, tapping Buy, completing the purchase, tapping Restore and whether it found a purchase, and opening the app again on a later day.

The service adds one to that day's total (by UTC calendar day, not the time) for the step and app version, and keeps those daily totals for analysis. It does not receive a device or install identifier, your RevenueCat ID, your pages or any text, and it does not store your IP address or the time of the request. Like any web request, the request shows your IP address to Cloudflare, which hosts the service; the service uses it only for a moment to limit how often one address can send counts. The totals cannot be traced back to a person or a phone. Which steps your phone has already counted, and the date you first opened the app (used on the phone to tell whether a later day has begun), stay on the phone and are never sent.

About has a switch, Share step counts, that turns this off. Counts are not sent from the iPhone and iPad app, from test builds, or from Google's pre-launch test devices. When you update the app from an earlier version, the first-time steps are not counted for that install.

Purchases

Page & Hour offers one optional one-time purchase, Page & Hour Supporter. On iPhone and iPad it adds seven spreads, six sticker sets with washi tapes, five paper colors, five app colors and page links on the monthly page. On Android it adds those too, plus six brushes, calendar events on every day instead of only today, and automatic backup; brushes, calendar events on other days and automatic backup are Android only. Everything else is free without it: one Habit grid page, the nine pens, templates, the eight built-in stickers, photos and sharing.

The purchase is made through the App Store or Google Play, which handle payment. The app does not receive your name, email address or payment details. RevenueCat, a service provider, checks the purchase with the store and keeps the purchase record (purchase history, an anonymous app user ID it creates, and basic device and app information such as the operating system and app version) so you can restore it on a new phone. RevenueCat never receives your pages, ink, text, photos or stickers. RevenueCat also uses the purchase records to give us totals (for example, how many Supporter purchases were made). We do not use a custom user ID, and the purchase data is not used for tracking or advertising.

The app keeps a note on the phone that Supporter is active, so the extras work offline. Pages made with Supporter spreads, paper colors, brushes or sticker sets keep showing the same way even if the purchase is refunded.

Kids

Page & Hour is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think we have, email us and we will delete what we hold.

Deleting data

The step counts are daily totals with no personal data in them, so there is nothing to delete for one person.

Uninstalling the app removes the journal and every photo it copied. There is no server copy of your pages. Purchase records are kept by Apple or Google and RevenueCat as needed to restore purchases, prevent fraud and meet legal requirements. Email us if you want help asking RevenueCat to delete its record.

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