Privacy Policy

What lives on your device

The app uses Apple's standard UserDefaults and the iOS file system to keep a handful of preferences and caches on your device only. None of it is transmitted anywhere:

• Bookmarks — addresses you choose to save, with optional labels.
• Blocklist — addresses you choose to never view.
• Theme preference (Dark / Dim / Light).
• EPUB reading position and font-size preference, per book.
• Bootstrap peer overrides, if you set custom peers.
• A local content cache to avoid refetching identical chunks. You can clear it any time from Settings → Cache → Clear cache.

Delete the app and all of the above is gone.

Network traffic

The app makes network requests to:

• The Autonomi peer-to-peer network, to fetch the content at the address you ask for. The network is decentralised and operated by third-party node runners; the app sends only the cryptographic address you are asking for, not your identity.
• A single configuration URL on GitHub (raw.githubusercontent.com) when you tap "Refresh from upstream" in Settings → Network. This downloads a plain-text list of currently healthy bootstrap peers from the WithAutonomi project's public ant-node repository. Standard HTTP request headers only — no identifying body.

Rendered HTML pages inside the app are confined to the Autonomi network by a WebKit content rule list. Every non-Autonomi URL — https://, http://, third-party fonts, scripts, images, analytics beacons, tracking pixels — is blocked at the WebKit request layer. The browser is air-gapped from the open web by design.

Camera

If you tap the QR scanner button, iOS asks for camera permission. The camera is used only to decode the QR code in front of it and extract an Autonomi address. No image, video, or recognition data is saved, stored, or transmitted. Decline the permission and the rest of the app works normally.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13. It does not knowingly collect anything from anyone, including children.

User-generated content

Autonomi addresses point to content uploaded by third parties. fetch>it does not author, host, control, or moderate that content. From inside the app you can:

• Block any address (rendered top-bar menu or the bookmark context menu). Blocked addresses cannot be fetched again until you unblock them in Settings → Safety → Blocked addresses.
• Report an address (rendered top-bar menu or the blocked screen). This opens your device's Mail composer pre-addressed to reports@etchit.io with the offending address filled in.

We respond to reports of unlawful content within 24 hours.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at the same URL with an updated "Last updated" date.

Contact

For privacy questions, email privacy@etchit.io or open an issue on the relevant GitHub repository under github.com/etchit-io. The in-app Report action separately routes unlawful-content reports to reports@etchit.io. See also the companion end-user licence agreement and the project terms of use.