Privacy policy

Who is responsible

Laytr is published by Waitery Inc, the data controller for the small amount of data described below. You can reach a human at support@laytr.app, normally answered within 3 business days.

What Laytr stores, and where

Everything you save — links, articles, videos, places, products, PDFs, images, screenshots, your notes, tags, cases, favourites, return times and search history — is stored in Laytr’s own storage on your iPhone. It is not synced, backed up to us, or readable by us.

Text that Laytr reads out of your screenshots is produced on your device by Apple’s Vision framework. The images are not sent anywhere for processing, and neither is the text.

If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, your Laytr data is included in that backup, under Apple’s terms and your own settings. That backup is yours; we have no access to it.

Network requests Laytr makes

Laytr contacts the internet in exactly three situations:

1. To fetch a page you saved. When you save a link, Laytr requests that page from its own website to get the title, a preview image, and — where the page allows it — the article text and pictures to store offline. That request goes to the site you saved, and nowhere else. Those sites see a request the same way any browser visit would, and their own privacy policies apply to it.
2. To complete a purchase. Purchases go through Apple’s App Store using StoreKit. Laytr never sees or handles your payment details, and there is no Laytr receipt-validation server.
3. Optional diagnostics, if you switch them on. Described in the next section.

Laytr never contacts login-walled platforms at all, never downloads video from any platform, and never attempts to get past a paywall, a meter, or a consent gate.

Optional diagnostics

Laytr has two switches under Library → Archive tools → Privacy — “Share anonymous usage” and “Share crash reports”. Both are off by default.

In the version currently published, no diagnostics provider is configured in the app at all, so these switches have nothing to send to and no data leaves your device whether they are on or off. If that changes in a future release, this page and the App Store privacy label will be updated before that version ships, and the switches will still default to off.

What is never collected

None of the following is ever sent off your device by Laytr, on any setting:

• The addresses, titles or text of anything you saved
• Your notes, tags, collection names or favourites
• Article text, screenshots, images, PDFs, or text read out of them
• Anything you typed into search
• Reminder times or notification text
• Filenames, or anything you exported
• Your location, contacts, photos library, calendar, health or camera
• Advertising identifiers, device fingerprints, or any cross-app identifier

This is enforced in Laytr’s own automated tests, which fail the build if a diagnostic event so much as carries a field that looks like user content — not by policy alone.

Advertising and tracking

There is none. Laytr contains no advertising SDK, sells nothing to data brokers, and does not track you across apps or websites. Because nothing is used for tracking, Laytr never presents the App Tracking Transparency prompt.

Permissions Laytr asks for

Notifications

Asked for only after you schedule something that needs one, and explained first. Declining never breaks anything — the item still returns to the top of your Inbox at the time you chose.

Photos and Files

Reached only through the system share sheet and document picker, one item at a time, when you choose to save something. Laytr never browses or indexes your photo library.

Laytr requests no location, contacts, camera, microphone or health access.

Purchases

Payment is handled entirely by Apple. Laytr receives from StoreKit only whether an active entitlement exists; it never receives your name, card, billing address or Apple Account. Refunds, renewals and cancellations are managed in your Apple Account settings, not by us.

This website

laytr.app sets no cookies, runs no analytics, loads no third-party fonts, scripts, embeds or trackers, and asks you for nothing. There is no contact form; the only way to write to us is the e-mail address above, from your own mail app.

The site is served by our hosting provider, which processes standard server request data (IP address, requested page, user agent, timestamp) to deliver pages and defend against abuse. We do not use that data to identify or profile visitors, and we do not combine it with anything else.

Retention

Your saved content is kept on your device until you delete it. Deleted items go to Recently Deleted and are recoverable for 30 days before being removed permanently. Deleting the Laytr app removes all of it from the device.

Your rights

Depending on where you live — including under the UK and EU GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act — you have rights to access, correct, delete, and port your personal data, and to object to or restrict its processing. Laytr is an unusual case for a good reason:

• Access and portability are built in. Your entire archive exports from the app as one ZIP of readable Markdown, HTML and your original files, free, at any time, on any plan or none. We could not provide it to you because we never had it.
• Deletion is in your hands. Delete an item, or delete the app, and it is gone. There is no copy with us to request the deletion of.

We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under U.S. state privacy laws, and we have no “Do Not Sell” obligation to honour because there is no sale to opt out of. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

Laytr is not directed at children and collects nothing that would identify anyone, of any age. It has no accounts, no social features, no messaging, and no user-generated content from anyone but you.

International transfers

Your saved content does not travel, because it does not leave your device. This website is served from a global content network, so the page you are reading may have been delivered from a server near you.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that affects what leaves your device, the change ships with an app release and the App Store privacy label is updated at the same time. The effective date at the top of this page always reflects the current version.

Contact

support@laytr.app
Waitery Inc