Privacy Policy

The Rowtine app collects no data at all. This page explains what that means in practice, with no jargon, then what the website measures.

What data exists

Your projects, your patterns, your yarn stash, your purchase history, your settings (language, units, currency…) and the photos you add from the app: all of that is created by you, for you. Rowtine never asks for an account, a sign-up, or any information about who you are.

Where it lives

Only on your phone, in the app's own storage. If you choose a backup folder (in Settings), a copy is written there too — on your phone or a memory card you control. Never on a server: the Rowtine app doesn't have one.

What leaves your phone

Nothing. Rowtine works entirely offline and never contacts any server, any third-party service. No advertising, no tracker, no audience measurement.

If you uninstall the app

The app's database disappears with it. Anything you backed up to your chosen folder (Settings) stays there: you can still find it, or delete it yourself, separately.

The feedback form (on this website)

This website — not the app — offers a form to write to us (/retours/). The message, the type of feedback and, if you give it, your email address are sent by mail and kept in a private folder on the server, outside public access, so we can reply and keep a record. Nothing is published or shared with a third-party service. To keep out automated submissions, the form asks for a small computation that your browser does on its own, with no third-party service and no cookie; without JavaScript, a simple question is shown instead. You can write without giving your email; if you do and want it erased, write to us at contact@rowtine.app.

Audience measurement (on this website)

This website, not the app, measures its traffic, anonymously and without any third-party service. For each page view, it records the page and its language, where you come from (a family, such as search engine or social network, or the name of the site that sent you), your browser and system in broad categories, your screen size as small, medium or large, your browser language, the country deduced from your IP address, and how long the page stayed visible. On the converter, it only counts the steps: a PDF chosen or dropped, a conversion that succeeded or was refused (with the reason for the refusal), an archive downloaded.

On the home page, it also records whether your screen is a touch screen, which parts of the page were displayed and for how long, and how far the videos were watched. On every page, it records which link to an app store, the guide, the converter or the feedback form was followed, and from which part of the page. Never your mouse movements, the exact spot of a click or what you type. When you send feedback, the visit only records that feedback was sent, never its content. This information is attached to the visit, like page views, and is only ever shown as totals.

What is never recorded: your IP address, a cookie, an identifier placed on your device, the name, content or size of your PDF. Your PDF stays in your browser and never reaches the server. The IP address is only used in memory, for the length of the request, to find the country, to group the pages of a single visit and to count visitors: two fingerprints derive from it. The first, computed with a salt renewed every day, is deleted at the latest on the first request of the next day; it is used to count the day's visitors. The second, computed with a salt specific to the month, is deleted together with that salt on the first request of the following month; it is used to count the month's visitors. The statistics only keep the fact that it was a first visit, never the fingerprint. These fingerprints cannot link two months or tell who you are.

The detail of visits is kept for about 3 months: it is deleted when the team looks at the statistics. Only anonymous daily totals are kept for 5 years. If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, nothing is measured.

This data stays on this website’s own server. It is read by the two people who run Rowtine, on a page protected by a password and a second factor.

Publisher and contact

Rowtine is published by Alexia O. For any questions about your data or this policy, write to contact@rowtine.app.