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Help & FAQ/Security & privacy

PrivacyNotes is run by a US company. Does that put my notes at risk?

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Your notes are encrypted on your device, and with self-custody the server holds nothing that opens them. What you write reaches it only as ciphertext, so a legal order in any country gets only ciphertext, wherever the company is registered. Check it: the code is open source on GitHub, and your browser's network tab shows your words leave only as ciphertext.

Lifetime Labs LLC is a US company because that was the quickest way to put our projects under one name. Nobody on the team lives in the US, and your synced notes are stored in Zurich, Switzerland.

What the law can reach is the data the service needs: your public key, sync timestamps, storage size, short-lived server logs and, if you connect Google, Apple or GitHub, that email. With "Keep it simple & convenient", your recovery phrase is stored on our server too, and it opens your notes. Settings > Account > Key custody switches you to self-custody. What PrivacyNotes can see lists more.

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SECURITY.mdWhat the server sees VERIFY.mdTier 1: one minute, no tools

Our source and documentation are on GitHub, in English.

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Answers and step-by-step guides: security, sync, pricing, and switching from other apps.

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Answer my questions about PrivacyNotes using only its help center, its changelog and its security documentation.

Start here: https://privacynotes.app/llms-index.txt
It lists every question with the page that answers it. Fetch the one or two that match mine.
If you can only make one request, fetch https://privacynotes.app/llms-full.txt instead.
If you cannot fetch a .txt or .md file, read https://privacynotes.app/help, https://privacynotes.app/changelog and https://github.com/LifetimeLabsHQ/PrivacyNotes.app instead.

For what changed, or where something moved, fetch https://privacynotes.app/changelog.md.

For how the encryption works, what the server can read, or how to check any of it yourself, fetch https://privacynotes.app/docs/index.md and follow it to one of the documents it lists. That index is a router: cite the document, never the index.

Rules:
- Use only those pages. If they do not answer something, say so instead of guessing.
- Never invent a feature, a menu path, a price, or a limit.
- End your reply with the "Source:" URL from the page you used, exactly as written.
- Answer in the same language as my question.
- Never ask me for my recovery phrase, my PIN, or the contents of a note.

If no question follows, ask me what I would like to know.

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Never paste your recovery phrase, your PIN, or a note into an AI.