Last updated: October 23, 2025
Welcome to Take Interest!
We're a husband-and-wife team based outside Seattle, and we build apps that respect your privacy. We started this company to create tools that are quiet, fast, and private. Software that respects your focus and your data.
Our philosophy is simple: privacy is a prerequisite, not a feature.
Our free apps work completely offline by default with zero data collection (unless you explicitly enable diagnostics). Your personal content is yours, and it stays on your device. The only information we ever handle is what you choose to share with us directly, like your email address for our community list, a file for a support request, or optional diagnostics to help us improve. That's our promise.
Our apps are built with an offline-first architecture—a technical choice that reflects our core belief that your data belongs to you. The most sensitive information—the personal content you create, the ideas you explore, the plans you make—is processed and stored directly on your device.
We have no access to it. This isn't marketing; it's how our software is engineered from the ground up. The free versions of our apps work completely offline by default with zero data collection.
For optional features that require syncing your on-device data between your devices, we use platform-native services like Apple's iCloud or Google Drive. We do not store your personal content on our servers, and access is governed by your platform provider and your account settings.
Our paid subscriptions unlock powerful online features. These are entirely optional and require your explicit consent. If you choose not to use these premium features, our core promise remains: our apps will continue to work completely offline with zero data collection.
These optional connections may include:
If you subscribe and choose to enable a third-party connection, it is critical that you understand the following:
You can disconnect any third-party service at any time from within our app's settings.
We do not collect, store, or have access to any data from within our apps by default, including:
To help us find and fix bugs and improve our apps, you can choose to enable diagnostics in Settings. This is turned off by default. If you opt-in, we collect de-identified technical information, including:
Before any diagnostics data leaves your device, we strip all direct identifiers, use rotating session identifiers that cannot be linked to you personally, and apply other de-identification techniques. This data is not linked to your account or identity and cannot reasonably be used to identify you. We use a third-party service with PII-stripping enabled, to analyze this data. You can turn this off at any time in Settings, which will immediately stop all future data collection.
Some of our app features use on-device machine learning to provide smart suggestions or an adaptive interface. Your preferences and patterns are processed locally on your device; no personal information or usage patterns are sent to our servers.
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We also do not "share" personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as defined by California law. We share information only in the following limited circumstances:
You are in control of your information. You have the right to access, correct, request the deletion of, and receive a portable copy of your personal information.
We implement security measures to protect the limited information we handle, including:
However, no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure. These measures apply to data transmitted through our apps and website; email transmission security also depends on your email provider.
Tracking & SDKs: We do not use third-party SDKs in our apps that pool our app data with data from other companies’ apps for advertising or measurement. Because we do not engage in "tracking" as defined by Apple, we do not request App Tracking Transparency (ATT) permission.
We are based in the United States, and the limited data we handle is stored and processed in the U.S. For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), UK, or Switzerland, we use Standard Contractual Clauses where required for data transfers.
Our services are intended for users aged 16 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16 without verifiable parental consent. In the United States, we also comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which provides additional protections for children under 13. If we learn we have collected such data, we will delete it promptly.
We retain different types of data only for as long as necessary:
In the event of a security breach that affects personal information we handle (for example, our email list), we will notify you via email without undue delay after confirming the breach, providing information about what happened and the steps you can take.
For any material changes to this policy, we will provide active notice by emailing our community list and displaying a prominent in-app notice at least 15 days before the changes take effect. We will never retroactively apply material changes to data we previously collected without your explicit opt-in consent. We maintain past versions of this policy at www.takeinterest.ai/legal/privacy-archive.
If you have questions or concerns about this policy, please contact us. We're a small team, and we read every message.
Email: privacy@takeinterest.ai