Privacy

The short version

The Rote desktop application does not send your files, or anything about them, anywhere. This website stores an email address if — and only if — you type one into the wishlist form.

The desktop application

Rote is local-first. It reads files from your computer, works on them on your computer, and writes results to a location you choose. There is no account, no sign-in and no upload.

• Your files stay put. No file, row, column name or value is transmitted off your machine.
• No analytics inside the application. We do not collect usage statistics, crash reports or telemetry.
• Nothing is overwritten. Rote does not silently modify or replace a source file.

Because the application does not transmit anything, there is no server-side copy of your data for us to lose, sell or be compelled to hand over.

This website

If you join the wishlist, we store:

• the email address you enter;
• your answer to "what would you use Rote for?", if you write one;
• the platform you pick, if you pick one;
• the date and time you submitted the form.

That is the whole record. We use it once, to tell you the beta is ready, and to decide which platform to build for first. We do not sell it, share it or add you to anything else.

If you send a feature request, we store what you wrote, the area you picked if you picked one, and your email address only if you chose to give one.

The website sets no cookies and runs no third-party analytics or advertising scripts. Choosing a language is a plain link to another page, so no preference is stored for it. The site loads one webfont from Google Fonts, which means Google's servers see the request for that font file.

Removing yourself

Ask and we will delete your row. Since the record is an email address and at most two lines of text, there is nothing else to remove.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect, the date at the top of this page will change and the new terms will apply from then.