Privacy Policy
Old School Notepad — developed by DrivenAI · Effective date: 9 September 2026
1. Who we are
Old School Notepad is developed by DrivenAI ("we", "us", "our"). This policy explains what happens to your information when you use the app, and also covers the drivenai.ai family of websites.
2. What data the app collects
None. Specifically:
- No sign-up, login, account creation, or identity verification of any kind.
- No analytics, telemetry, crash-reporting, or advertising SDKs of any kind.
- No cloud AI — no note content is ever sent to any AI service.
- No network requests of its own. The released (Play Store) build does not hold the Android
INTERNETpermission at all — verified against the built app, not just the source — so it cannot open a connection to us or to anyone else. (The permission exists only in development builds, where a local dev server needs it.) What it can still do is hand a file or a link to another app you choose, and Google Play handles billing through its own connection; those are described in sections 4 and 7. - We never receive, see, store, or process any content you create in the app — notebook text, drawings, photos, titles, or anything else. There is no server for it to go to.
- A few things unrelated to the app itself can contact our website — opening a policy or terms link, tapping a reminder link, and a check Android performs to verify the app may open its own links. All are described in section 12. None is the app sending us your data.
3. Where your data lives
Everything you create — notebooks, pages, typed text, drawings, inserted photos, and app settings — is stored locally on your device only, using standard on-device app storage. Nothing is synced or transmitted to us. The only thing written automatically is the premium automatic backup feature, and only after you switch it on and pick a folder yourself — see section 4.
4. Features that involve your choice to share data
The app includes optional features that let you decide to move your own data off your device. In every case, the destination is chosen by you through your device's own system dialogs, and we never receive a copy:
- Share a page — hands an image or text snapshot of a page to the standard system share sheet, so you can send it to any app you choose.
- Export a notebook backup (
.osnbfile) or a PDF — you either pick a destination via the system file picker, or hand the file to the share sheet to send wherever you like. Either way, it goes exactly where you tell it to go. - Automatic backup (premium) — once you switch it on and choose a folder, the app writes a dated backup of your library to that folder when you open it, at most once a day. If the folder you choose is managed by a cloud service such as Google Drive or OneDrive, that service may upload the file automatically under its own terms. The choice of folder is yours, and we never receive a copy either way.
- Import / restore a backup — reads a
.osnbfile you select and loads it into the app, on-device. - Calendar reminder — "Share Page" then "Remind me…" builds a standard calendar file containing that page's title, its typed text, and a link back to the page, and hands it to whichever calendar app you pick. Nothing is added to any calendar until you confirm it there. The app holds no calendar permission and never reads your calendar. Once you save the event, that text lives in your calendar — so if your calendar syncs to an account such as Google or Microsoft, it goes there under that provider's terms, exactly as anything else you type into your calendar would. The link itself is described in section 12.
.osnb backup files are plain, unencrypted JSON. Once exported, the contents are readable by anything that can open the file — treat a backup file with the same care you'd give the notes inside it, especially if you store or send it somewhere you don't fully control.
If you send a shared file or backup to a third-party service (for example, your own Google Drive, or email), that service's own privacy policy governs how it handles that file from that point on — we have no visibility into or control over that.
5. Camera and photo permissions
If you use the "Insert photo" feature, the app requests camera access (to take a new photo) or your device's photo/file picker (to choose an existing one) — only at the moment you use that feature. A photo you insert is copied into the app's private, on-device storage for display on your notebook page. It is never transmitted anywhere by the app.
6. Permissions summary
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
CAMERA | Only when you insert a photo taken with the camera |
com.android.vending.BILLING | The one-time premium unlock, handled by Google Play |
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE | Added by the Play Billing library. Reports whether a network exists; grants no access to one |
| An app-private receiver permission | Internal only — lets the app talk to its own components, and nothing else |
INTERNET | Not requested. Absent from the release build entirely. |
Choosing files and photos, and saving backups or PDFs, goes through Android's own picker dialogs. Those need no permission at all — you grant access to the single file you picked, at the moment you pick it. The release build requests no broad storage permission.
7. Payments
Old School Notepad offers an optional, one-time premium unlock — not yet available to buy. It is not a subscription and will never renew or recur. Google Play Billing is already built into the app: it checks with Google Play when the app launches and when you return to it, to see whether you own the unlock, and caches that answer on your device so premium keeps working offline. Payment is handled entirely by Google Play. The app receives only whether you own the product — never your card or bank details — and we receive no payment information at all.
8. Children's privacy
Old School Notepad is intended for adults aged 18 and over. It is a general-purpose note-taking app, is not directed at children or teenagers, and is listed on Google Play with an 18-and-over target audience. It never asks your age, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone — regardless of age — because the app does not collect information from anyone at all.
9. Your rights (GDPR / CCPA and similar laws)
Regulations like the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) give you rights over personal data a company holds about you — to access, correct, delete, or export it. We hold no server-side copy of your notebooks, so there is nothing on our end to access, correct, delete, or export on your behalf: your notebook data exists solely on your own device, and anywhere you personally choose to export or share it. You are always in complete control of it — delete any notebook or page in the app, empty Recently deleted, or remove all app data at once by uninstalling it. One exception: if you email us, we then hold your email address and whatever you wrote, purely in order to reply. Ask us about that correspondence and we will tell you what we have, or delete it.
We describe our practices here rather than certifying a compliance status — "compliant" is a legal conclusion, and we'd rather you know exactly what we do and don't do.
10. Third-party services
The app is distributed through app stores (such as Google Play), which have their own data practices governed by their own privacy policies. If you buy the premium upgrade once it is available, that transaction is processed entirely by the store's billing system — we will not receive or store your payment information.
11. Data retention and deletion
Your data is retained on your device for as long as you keep the app installed and choose to keep it. Deleting a page moves it to Recently deleted, where its content stays on your device until you restore it, permanently delete it, or it is pushed out by the 30-page-per-notebook limit. Emptying Recently deleted removes it for good. Temporary copies made for sharing or export can also linger in the app’s cache. Uninstalling the app removes everything in its private storage — but not backups, PDFs, shared files, or calendar entries you have already sent elsewhere; those you must delete wherever you put them.
12. The website
The drivenai.ai and notebook.drivenai.ai websites are static informational sites. They do not use analytics or advertising cookies. If you email us, we use your message and email address only to respond to you.
Reminder links
A calendar reminder you create includes a link back to the page it came from, so you can tap the entry later and land on that page. It looks like https://notebook.drivenai.ai/n/…/p/2, and it carries only two things: an internal notebook identifier — a random string generated on your own device — and a page number. It contains none of your notes: no text, no titles, no drawings, no photos. That identifier means nothing to us and matches nothing we hold, because we hold nothing.
Some things may contact notebook.drivenai.ai. None of them is the app sending us your data — as section 2 explains, the released app holds no INTERNET permission at all:
- When you tap a reminder link. Android opens it either directly in Old School Notepad, or first in your browser, which then hands it on to the app. Where the browser is involved, it is your browser contacting this site using its own internet access — the same as tapping any other link.
- When Android verifies the app's links. Android fetches a small file from this site to confirm the app may open its own links. That is done by the operating system, not the app, and happens whether or not you ever create a reminder. Android may repeat or refresh that check later; it is not necessarily a one-off.
- When you open a policy or terms link from inside the app. That opens this site in your browser, using your browser's own internet access.
We do not receive access logs for this site from our hosting provider, so these requests are not visible to us. That is a statement about what we see, not a claim that nothing is processed: our hosting provider necessarily handles the connection and the requested address in order to serve the page, under its own terms. A reminder address carries only the notebook identifier and a page number — never your notes.
13. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we'll update the effective date above and post the revised policy at this same address. Because the app doesn't collect contact information from you, we can't notify you directly — please check back periodically if you have concerns.
14. Contact us
Questions about this policy or the app's privacy practices can be sent to notebook.support@drivenai.ai.