Privacy policy
In short: sytpad keeps your notes, photos and documents on your phone. The developer has no server of its own, no account system and no analytics of its own, and never receives a copy of anything you save, unless you send it to sytpad yourself. Some things do leave your phone when you tap a button that hands them on — your voice when you use the mic, an address when you tap Map, a task when you tap the reminder button, an entry or a job you share, an estimate, agreement or report you send, and any backup you send. Each is listed below.
Who makes sytpad
On Google Play, sytpad's developer name is sytpad. For any question about privacy, or to ask anything about this policy, write to sytpad@gmail.com.
What the app keeps, and where
Everything you enter — jobs, client names, addresses, phone numbers and emails you type in, materials, tasks, issues, work-done notes, photos and your marks on them, estimates, agreements, your logo and your drawn signature — is stored only on your phone, inside the app's own storage. The developer cannot see it, does not receive it, and keeps no copy, unless you send it to sytpad yourself. There is no sign-up in the app, no account and no syncing between phones.
Things that leave your phone, and when
- Your voice, when you tap a mic — to speak a note, or to say what to look for in Find. The app asks your phone's speech service to turn what you say into text. On most Android phones that service is Google's, and the sound is sent to Google to do it; some phones do it on the phone itself, and the app cannot tell which. sytpad keeps only the text, on your phone, and never keeps the sound. Google's handling of it is covered by Google's privacy policy. Typing instead of speaking avoids this entirely.
- Map. Tapping Map opens Google Maps with the job's address, so Google receives that address.
- The reminder (⏰) button on a task or issue. Tapping it opens Google Calendar with the task's text and date filled in, so Google receives them.
- Call and Email. These pass the client's phone number or email address to your phone's own phone or email app.
- Sending a backup. The backup's Send button hands the backup file — all your jobs, notes and photos — to the app you choose, such as Gmail, Google Drive or WhatsApp. Where it goes after that is up to you and that app.
- Sharing an entry or a job. An entry's Share button hands a short written note of it, and its photo if it has one, to the app you choose from your phone's share list, such as WhatsApp, Gmail or Messages. Share job sends a written summary of the job (its name and address, then its entries grouped by day) with up to 10 of its photos (the newest); the client's name, phone and email are left out unless you tick them. Where it goes after that is up to you and that app.
- Sending an estimate, agreement or report. The Send button on an estimate or agreement, and Send the PDF on the report for your bookkeeper, hand that PDF — with the client's name, contact details, address and prices, and in the report any photos and receipts you left in — to the app you choose. Where it goes after that is up to you and that app.
- Export and documents. Export saves a spreadsheet file on your phone. Save as PDF and Print open your phone's print screen, which can save a PDF on the phone or send the page to a printer you choose.
None of these happen unless you tap the button. The app never sends your notes anywhere on its own.
If you email sytpad
When you write to sytpad@gmail.com (to join the test, report a problem or suggest an idea), sytpad receives your email address, your name if your email shows it, and whatever you write or attach, such as a screenshot. It is used only to answer you, to add you to the test if you asked, and to fix or improve the app. It is never sold.
To find and fix a problem, what you wrote, and any screenshot, may be shown to the AI tools that help write sytpad's code. Your name and email address are taken out first. What those tools were shown can stay in their own records for a while.
Your emails are kept in sytpad's Gmail, which Google runs. Ask, and the developer deletes them and empties them from the trash; Google may keep its own backup copies for a while. If you join the test, the Google address you give is added to sytpad's test list in Google Play, so Google can let you install the app; ask, and it comes off the list.
Loading the app
The sytpad Android app opens sytpad's pages inside Chrome on your phone. Those pages, and this website, are hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. When the app or this site loads with signal, your phone asks Cloudflare for the app's or the site's own files; that request normally includes your phone's internet address, the kind of browser, and the time. Cloudflare uses it to deliver the files and to protect the site from attacks, and keeps it as set out in Cloudflare's privacy policy. These requests never carry your notes. The developer does not collect or keep these records; Cloudflare may show the developer overall visit counts. Google Play also shows the developer overall numbers, such as how many phones installed sytpad and in which countries, with no names. sytpad sets no cookies and runs no advertising, tracking or analytics of its own. Chrome itself is covered by Google's privacy policy.
Reminders on your phone
If you give a task or issue a due time, at that time sytpad buzzes and shows a short message with its text and the job's name — but only while sytpad is open on your screen. It never puts a notification on your phone, so nothing shows on your lock screen. To be reminded when the app is closed, tap the reminder (⏰) button described above, which hands the task to Google Calendar.
What the app asks permission for
Your phone asks you before the app can use any of these, and you can change your answer in the phone's settings.
- Camera — only to take a job photo when you tap Photo or Take photo.
- Microphone — only while you are using a mic button, to speak a note or a search.
The app needs no permission to keep your notes in its own storage on the phone. It does ask Android to protect that storage from being cleared when space runs low; Android may say no.
How long it is kept, and deleting it
Your notes stay on your phone until you delete them in the app or clear sytpad's data in Chrome. Uninstalling the app does not by itself delete them, but Chrome may offer to clear sytpad's data when you uninstall: say no if you want to keep your notes, and save a full copy first. Android may also clear them itself if the phone runs very low on space and has not agreed to keep them — which is why the app keeps asking you to make a backup.
Every copy you make outside the app — a full copy, a backup file, a spreadsheet export, a saved PDF, a recovery copy the app offered you to save — is a file on your phone or wherever you sent it, and is yours to keep or delete. The developer never has a copy unless you send it to sytpad yourself (see "If you email sytpad", above). To remove your data, delete it in the app or clear sytpad's data in Chrome, and delete any copies you made.
Keeping it safe
Your notes are protected by your phone's own lock and storage. They never travel to a server run by the developer, because there isn't one. A full copy or a backup file is not encrypted by the app, so treat it like any document with client details in it.
Children
sytpad is a work tool for contractors and is not meant for children under 13.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date at the top.
Contact
sytpad · sytpad@gmail.com