Privacy Policy
Last updated: 10 October 2026
Paperlane is built to be private by default. The short version: your scans stay on your device. Recommendations for our other apps use aggregate view and open counts, described below.
Your documents stay on your device
Scanning, edge detection, perspective correction, OCR and PDF creation all happen on your iPhone using Apple's on-device frameworks. Your scanned documents and their contents are never uploaded, never sent to us, and never leave your device. We do not have access to them and we do not collect them.
No account or personal profiles
Paperlane has no login or account and does not create personal profiles. We do not collect your name, email, contacts or location, and we never see the contents of your scans. The recommendation counts described below contain no persistent user identifier.
Advertising in the free version
The free version shows ads, which are served by Google AdMob. Google receives device and ad-request data in order to deliver and measure those ads, and may use an advertising identifier for that purpose. We never send Google your scans or anything from inside them.
Before any ad loads, you are asked for consent through Google's consent form, and separately for permission to track through Apple's system prompt. You can decline both, in which case Google serves only non-personalised ads and no advertising identifier is used. Your choice can be changed at any time under Ad privacy in the app's settings.
Buying the one-time Pro unlock removes all advertising, and with it the ad requests to Google.
Google's handling of this data is described in its privacy policy.
What we collect
- Scanned documents and their contents: not collected (processed on-device only).
- Name, contact details and location: not collected by the recommendation service.
- Identifiers and advertising data: not collected by us. Handled by Google AdMob for advertising in the free version, subject to the consent choices above.
Recommendations for our other apps
In Settings, the app can fetch up to three recommendations for our other apps. The choices depend on the app you are using, App Store availability and iOS compatibility, not on your personal data or activity inside the app. App icons load from Apple’s image servers. Opening a recommendation takes you to the App Store with a campaign label identifying the source app and placement, never a person.
We count qualified views and successful opens in aggregate. Our service stores daily counts with the source app, recommended app, placement, configuration revision and optional presentation variant. It does not store an account, advertising identifier, device identifier, persistent visitor identifier or personal profile, and it does not receive scans, document contents or OCR text. These counts cannot tell us who installed an app.
The recommendation service is hosted by Supabase. Network requests necessarily expose an IP address to the hosting provider for delivery and security; our aggregate counter does not store it. See Supabase’s privacy policy. Apple processes icon requests and App Store visits under Apple’s privacy policy.
Purchases
The optional one-time Pro unlock is processed by Apple. We never see your payment details.
Children
Paperlane is not directed to children under 13.
Changes
We may update this policy; material changes will be reflected here with a new date.
Analytics on this website
This website uses Vercel Web Analytics. It works without cookies, sets no identifier and builds no profile of you. It counts page views and clicks on the App Store button, recording only which button on which page was used. The provider is Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Avenue #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA. Their privacy policy is at vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy. There is no personal evaluation and nothing is passed on to anyone else.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email levin.schwab@gmx.de.