Privacy Policy

Last updated 8 October 2026

• Your notes and maps never leave your computer. We can’t see them.
• No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no cookies, in the app or on this site.
• If you buy a license, we keep your email address, and the name and a one-way hash of the hardware ID of each computer you activate it on. For the free trial, we keep only that hash and when the trial started.

Who we are

Emaki is made by Runar Hummelsund, a sole trader in Norway. Email support@getemaki.app with any question or request about your data.

In the app

Everything you write is saved as files on your computer, in folders you choose. Emaki connects to the internet only to:

• Check for updates, on Mac and Windows, about once a day, by downloading a small file that lists the latest version. Like any web request, it reveals your IP address and the app’s version. On Linux, your package manager checks instead.
• Activate and check your license. Activating sends your key, your computer’s name, like “Alex’s MacBook”, so you can tell your computers apart, and a one-way hash of its hardware ID, so activating the same computer again doesn’t use up another place. Each time the app starts, it checks that the activation is still valid.
• Keep track of the free trial. While it lasts, each time the app starts, it sends the same hash and when the trial started, so reinstalling doesn’t start it over.

When you buy

Stripe handles the purchase as the merchant of record. It collects your payment details, billing address and email to take the payment, prevent fraud and handle sales tax, and is responsible for that data under Stripe’s privacy policy. We never see your card details.

Stripe tells us your email address and the purchase’s IDs, so we can make your license key and email it to you.

What we keep

• Your email address, your license key and the Stripe IDs of the purchase.
• For each computer the key is activated on, its name, the hash of its ID and when it was activated.
• When computers were removed from the key, to limit how often that happens.
• For each computer that tried the app, the hash of its ID and when its trial started.

We use this only to give you your license: to email the key, to activate it, to let you manage your computers and get your key again here, and to stop keys being shared and trials being started over. That is needed to fulfil our agreement with you, and it’s in our legitimate interest to prevent abuse. We never sell it or use it for marketing.

We keep it as long as your license exists. Ask us to delete it and we will, though your key then stops working. Records of sales are kept for as long as bookkeeping law requires. A trial’s hash and start date are kept for as long as Emaki is sold, so it can’t be started over.

This website

This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics or third-party scripts. Its hosting processes IP addresses, as any website must, to serve pages and downloads and to protect against attacks.

Who processes it for us

• Cloudflare hosts this site, the downloads and the license server, and sends the emails with your key.
• Stripe handles payments, as above.

They may process data outside the EEA, including in the United States, under the EU’s standard contractual clauses or the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, delete or get a copy of the data we have about you, and object to how we use it. Email support@getemaki.app and we’ll answer within a month. If you’re unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet, or the authority where you live.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update it here and change the date at the top.