Privacy policy

Your content and storage

DayPaw saves the information you enter or deliberately capture. Depending on the app, this includes tasks, reminders, goals, notes, journal entries, calendar entries, manually entered budget and expense records, saved replies, links, clipboard items, screenshots and preferences. Personal and Business workspaces organize this content.

Finances records the names, amounts, billing dates and other details you enter. When tracking a credit card, use a nickname and the optional last four digits. Your bank and payment services remain responsible for transactions in their own apps.

DayPaw stores its working collection on your device. On Mac, ordinary collection data, full JSON exports and saved meeting notes are readable files. Keep access to the device and its backups secure. Your operating system and chosen backup services can also retain copies.

Journal protection

On iPhone and iPad, saved journal page content, including its title and text, is encrypted. Technical information such as entry identifiers and revision times is stored with the encrypted data. Your device performs Face ID or Touch ID authentication if you enable biometric unlock, and protects the journal unlock key using system security.

On Mac, password-protected journal text and associated protected notebook content are encrypted. Journal titles, dates and other collection metadata may remain readable. Earlier backups can contain entries saved before journal protection was enabled.

Keep your journal password available. A portable-backup password and a journal password serve different purposes, and restoring a backup can still require the journal password.

Optional iCloud features

In builds that offer iCloud sync, you choose the available categories and explicitly start an exchange. Enabling a category sends its content to a private CloudKit database associated with your Apple Account. Availability depends on the signed build and the configured iCloud environment.

The current allocation sync feature shares named budgets, their amounts, recurrence settings, revisions and deletion markers. This supports merging changes across compatible builds. Other categories are available only where the app exposes and configures them. Turning sync off stops future exchanges, while previously stored copies remain subject to your iCloud account controls and Apple's retention practices.

Apple processes iCloud content under its own privacy and service terms. Review your iCloud settings and Apple's controls when managing cloud copies. Support can help you identify the available DayPaw controls.

Calendar and notifications

Calendar access is optional. On iPhone and iPad, DayPaw reads Apple Calendar events after you grant access. On Mac, it can display system calendar events and write entries when you choose to sync them. Your calendar provider handles entries stored with that account and may make them available on your other devices. Manage Calendar permission through your device settings.

Task and event reminders use the device's notification system. Notification previews can show entry titles. You can manage previews, sounds and notification permission in system settings, along with the alert options offered by DayPaw.

Chrome, clipboard and screenshots

The Chrome companion connects to DayPaw on the same computer using native messaging. When you request a capture, the extension handles the selected text or screenshot for the action you choose. Copy & save in the screenshot editor places the edited image on the clipboard and saves a copy in DayPaw's Business Clipboard collection. While you view Today, the companion can read saved Business reminders from the connected Mac.

Translate selected text uses Chrome's on-device translation models. Chrome may download a language model before first use. The selected passage and translated result are held temporarily in the translation window and cleared when it closes. DayPaw provides a Copy button if you want the result on the clipboard.

Chrome manages website and clipboard permissions. Other apps can receive content you choose to copy or paste through the system clipboard.

Optional writing and voice features

On Mac, choosing Send to OpenAI sends the displayed draft, tone and editing instructions to OpenAI using your API account. Screenshots are included when you explicitly select them. The API key uses protected system storage and is excluded from collection exports. Requests disable OpenAI API response storage, while provider retention follows the applicable API account terms and data controls. Removing the key prevents future requests through that configuration.

The Mac meeting assistant begins when you choose an audio capture action. Computer audio can include sounds from other apps. Supported on-device speech recognition processes audio in memory. Saving the transcript creates a readable Business Work Note that can be included in a full collection export. Tell meeting participants before transcribing.

On iPhone and iPad, Apple's keyboard Dictation and Apple Pencil Scribble can enter text into DayPaw. Apple handles those input services according to your device settings. DayPaw receives the resulting text, and encrypts saved journal page content.

Retention, backups and deletion

Saved content stays on the device until you remove it or an applicable retention rule removes it. Items in Recently deleted can remain recoverable until permanently removed. DayPaw on Mac also retains a previous local collection snapshot for recovery, which can contain earlier content.

Mac JSON backups and finance exports are readable files. On iPhone and iPad, portable backups are encrypted with the backup password you choose and saved to the Files location you select. A cloud-backed location places that copy under the selected provider's controls.

Manage exported files, clipboard copies, older backups and external calendar events in the apps or locations where they were stored. Deleting an entry from the current DayPaw collection can leave these separate copies available. Cloud sync can retain revisions and deletion markers to reconcile changes.

Service information and updates

Apple, Chrome, OpenAI and your selected calendar or storage providers apply their own privacy terms to their services. Cloudflare Pages hosts this public policy page. Cloudflare may process connection and security information to serve and protect it. See Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.

This policy will be updated when DayPaw's handling of data changes. The effective date above identifies the published version.