Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

Temporary Notepad is designed from the ground up to be privacy-first. We do not require any personal information, such as your name, email address, or phone number, to use our basic services. Furthermore, we do not use tracking cookies to identify you personally or track your behavior across other websites.

2. Note Data and Storage

How your data is handled depends entirely on how you use the Service:

Unshared Notes: When you use our notepad without generating a share link, your data is stored entirely locally on your device utilizing standard browser `localStorage`. This data never reaches our servers, meaning we have absolutely no access to it.

Shared Notes: If you choose to share a note via a temporary link, the text you submit is temporarily transmitted to and stored on our servers along with a unique, cryptographically secure identifier. This data is automatically, permanently, and irreversibly deleted from our servers as soon as your selected expiration timer runs out.

3. Third-Party Services

To keep Temporary Notepad fast, secure, and free to use, we rely on a few trusted third-party services:

• Cloudflare: Used for hosting, CDN routing, and basic analytics to ensure the site remains online and loads quickly.
• Google AdSense: Used to serve relevant advertisements that help fund the servers. AdSense may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites.

These services may automatically collect standard web log information, such as IP addresses, browser types, and usage data.

4. Data Security

We take reasonable and modern technical measures to protect your information from unauthorized access or disclosure. Shared notes are assigned highly secure, randomly generated URLs that are practically impossible to guess. However, please remember that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we strongly advise against submitting highly sensitive personal data, passwords, or financial information.

5. Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our website's Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use our site.

6. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post those changes on this page and update the "Last updated" date at the top.

7. Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us at hello@temporarynotepad.com.