Privacy Policy

Letter content

Your letter is encrypted on your device (AES-256-GCM) before it goes anywhere, and it is written as QR codes only onto the paper/PDF you produce. The plaintext is never sent to us or to any third party, never stored, never logged. The capsule is shown to you once; we keep no copy — we cannot. Photos and files you attach are likewise encrypted on your device and live only inside the digital capsule file — they never reach us or any server. Gallery/camera access is used only to read the attachments you choose.

Accounts and identity

There are no accounts. At sealing time your e-mail address is verified via your device's Apple/Google sign-in to prevent impersonation; that address and timestamp are stamped only inside the encrypted letter. The e-mail address itself is never sent to our servers — only the person who opens the letter on its date can see it. Solely to stop the one free letter per device from being reset by reinstalling the app, we keep a counter. Where that counter lives depends on your operating system:

• iPhone / iPad: we use Apple's DeviceCheck service — a single bit per device (whether the free letter was used) is stored on Apple's servers. The app sends us a single-use, opaque token; only Apple can tell which device it belongs to. We store nothing.
• Android: Android has no equivalent, so we have to keep the counter ourselves. The device's persistent identifier is irreversibly digested (SHA-256) on the device itself; only that digest reaches our server and the raw identifier never reaches us. On the server the digest is mixed again with a secret key before being stored, so even if our records leaked they could not be traced back to a device identifier or matched against records held by any other service. This record is used solely to prevent abuse; it is not linked to your e-mail, your name or your letters, is never shared, and is deleted after two years of disuse.

In both cases we hold no e-mail, no e-mail digest and no user record, and the counter cannot be linked to any letter.

What leaves your device?

• Letter fingerprint (hash): at sealing, the letter's SHA-256 digest is sent to our relay to be written to the Polygon chain. A hash is one-way; it contains no content or personal data and cannot be reversed. The relay stores nothing related to your letter — but our hosting provider (Vercel) may keep technical access records (IP, time, path) for each request, and we can access those.
• Your draft never leaves your device — no exceptions. Earlier versions of the app had an optional "literary suggestion" feature that sent your draft to an AI service when you tapped it. That feature has been removed. There is no longer any path that takes your letter text off your device; the encryption happens there too.
• Time lock: when opening a letter, the app fetches that day's signature from the public drand network. That request carries no information about your letter.

What we keep to prevent abuse

We keep three short-lived records that have nothing to do with letters and exist only to stop bots and abuse. None of them can be linked to your name, your email or any letter:

• Request counter (IP): we count how many requests come from the same connection each day. The IP address is not stored in the clear: only a version mixed with a secret key we hold is used as the counter's name, and the record expires by itself after 48 hours. The counter cannot be turned back into an IP.
• App verification (iPhone/iPad only): to confirm a request really comes from our app, Apple's App Attest is used. The public key your device generates, plus a counter, is kept by us. It does not identify you, cannot be matched with your record at any other service, and is never linked to your letters.
• Free-letter ledger (Android only): the twice-hashed device digest described above.

None of this is used for advertising, measurement or profiling, and none of it is shared with third parties.

What stays on your device?

Only contentless "seal memories" (recipient name, dates, hash), your language/theme preferences and any reminders you enabled. They never leave the device and can be deleted in the app.

Two small exceptions, both of which stay on your device: (1) from the moment you tap "Seal" until the process finishes, an encrypted draft of your letter is kept, so that nothing is lost if the phone closes the app in the meantime. The encryption key lives in the device's secure store (Keychain); the draft is deleted as soon as the process ends, and on the next launch you are asked to restore or discard it. (2) Whether your one free letter has been used (a single number, containing nothing about any letter) is kept in the device's secure store; on iPhone, deleting and reinstalling the app does not reset it.

Reminders are local notifications: they are scheduled by your own device. We do not use remote push (APNs/FCM) — no device token and no unlock date ever reaches us. You can turn them off in Settings.

Website analytics, ads and cookies

There is no analytics, advertising ID, behavioural tracking or crash reporting in the mobile app. The following applies only to public daktilo.app information pages.

The Google Analytics 4 tag is downloaded only after you explicitly choose “Accept analytics.” Before consent, no analytics request is sent to Google and no analytics cookie is created. If you consent, page views and visit information such as approximate region, device/browser type and language may be processed.

URLs with query parameters or fragments are never measured. Invitation and letter paths (/d/…, /kilitli, /review) and all /api/ paths are excluded. Letter text, sender and recipient names, invitation or capsule codes, files and URL parameters are never sent to Google Analytics.

Enhanced Measurement, Google Signals, advertising storage and ad personalisation are disabled. Google Analytics may create analytics cookies after consent. You can change your choice at any time with “Analytics preferences”; rejecting disables analytics storage and removes accessible Google Analytics cookies.

Purchases

In-app purchases are processed by Apple App Store / Google Play; your payment details never reach us in any form.

Contact

Questions: mail@cagricakir.com.tr