Effective date: [PUBLICATION DATE]
SaltMark: Bookmark Vault and the saltmark.xyz website are operated by [CURRENT INDIVIDUAL OPERATOR'S FULL LEGAL NAME] (“SaltMark,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). This policy explains what information these products process and what information SaltMark receives.
Summary
The SaltMark application does not send your bookmarks, folders, tags, vault contents, passwords, usage activity, diagnostics, or device identifiers to SaltMark. The application does not contain advertising, tracking, analytics, or a SaltMark account system.
If you choose to contact us by email, we receive the information you include in that message so that we can provide support or consider your feedback.
Information Processed by the Application
Vault and application data
SaltMark stores your bookmark data in an encrypted vault file that you create or open on your Mac. Application preferences and the information needed to reopen recently used vaults are stored locally by the application.
SaltMark does not receive or have remote access to this information.
Touch ID and YubiKey
If you enable Touch ID unlock, SaltMark stores a derived unlock secret in the macOS Keychain under biometric access control. SaltMark does not store your vault password in the Keychain.
If you use a supported YubiKey, the challenge-response operation takes place locally between the application and the connected device. SaltMark does not receive the challenge, response, password, or derived unlock secret.
Safari extension
When you explicitly ask the SaltMark Safari extension to save the active tab, the extension passes that tab's URL, title, and optional icon data to the local SaltMark application. This exchange uses local app-extension storage and is not sent to SaltMark.
Optional Backups
SaltMark can create encrypted backup snapshots in a folder you choose.
If you enable iCloud backup, SaltMark places encrypted snapshots in SaltMark's iCloud Documents container associated with your Apple account. Apple operates the iCloud service. SaltMark does not operate a separate server that receives these backup files. Your use of iCloud is also governed by Apple's applicable terms and privacy policies.
SaltMark backups are snapshots, not synchronization.
App Store Purchases
Apple processes purchases of the optional Signature appearance unlock. The application receives StoreKit product and entitlement status needed to offer, restore, and apply the purchase. SaltMark does not receive payment-card details through the application. Apple's handling of App Store transaction information is governed by Apple's applicable terms and privacy policies.
Support and Feedback
If you email support@saltmark.xyz, we receive:
- your email address;
- your name, if it is included in your email account or message;
- the subject and content of your message; and
- any files or other information you choose to attach.
We use this information only to respond to your request, troubleshoot the issue, or consider the feedback you submitted. We do not use support correspondence for advertising, tracking, or profiling.
Please do not send vault passwords, recovery codes, encryption keys, YubiKey secrets, or an unencrypted copy of sensitive vault content. SaltMark support will not ask you to disclose these secrets.
Email Service Provider
Support email is hosted using Proton Mail, a service operated by Proton AG. Proton processes email service data as our service provider under its own Proton Mail Privacy Policy.
Retention and Deletion of Support Correspondence
We retain support correspondence while the request is active and for up to 30 days after the request is resolved or our last substantive reply, whichever is later. We then permanently delete the correspondence from our active support mailbox unless a longer period is required by applicable law.
Proton states that encrypted offline backups are kept for up to 30 days. Consequently, a copy already included in a provider backup may remain temporarily after deletion from the active mailbox.
You may request deletion of your support correspondence at any time by emailing support@saltmark.xyz from the address used for the original request. Include enough information for us to identify the correspondence. We will delete the information we control unless retention is required by applicable law and will confirm the result by email.
SaltMark has no user accounts or remote bookmark database. Consequently, SaltMark normally has no application data to locate or delete. Vault files, local preferences, local backups, and iCloud files remain under your control on your devices and in the storage locations you selected.
Website
The saltmark.xyz website is delivered as a static website hosted on a Contabo server administered by SaltMark. SaltMark does not use cookies, advertising, analytics, tracking scripts, or contact forms on the site.
When your browser requests a page, its IP address and standard request information must be processed in real time to deliver the page and maintain the security and reliability of the hosting infrastructure. SaltMark does not use this information for analytics, advertising, tracking, or profiling.
For security and troubleshooting, the web server may record the IP address, requested path, request date and time, browser user agent, response status, and error details in access, error, or security logs. SaltMark uses these logs only to protect the site and diagnose availability or configuration problems. They are not used for analytics or profiling and are deleted within seven days.
Contabo provides the hosting infrastructure and processes information necessary to provide and secure that service under its applicable terms, privacy policy and any data-processing agreement concluded with SaltMark.
The interactive product preview processes the text entered into its demonstration controls only in the browser's temporary memory. The preview does not submit, store, or transmit that text to SaltMark. Refreshing or closing the page clears the preview state.
The website contains links that can open third-party websites. If you follow an external link, the destination's privacy practices apply.
Sharing
SaltMark does not sell personal information. We disclose support correspondence only to the service providers needed to operate the support channel, or when required by applicable law. We select service providers that commit to protecting the information they process consistently with this policy and applicable law.
The application uses Apple services only when needed for user-selected iCloud backup and App Store commerce. The website host and Proton Mail are the other operational providers described in this policy.
Children
SaltMark is a general-purpose productivity application and is not directed to children. The application does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy when SaltMark's features or operational practices change. We will publish the revised policy at this URL and update the effective date. If the application's data practices change, we will also update the App Privacy information in App Store Connect as required.
Contact
For privacy questions, deletion requests, support, or feedback, contact:
[CURRENT INDIVIDUAL OPERATOR'S FULL LEGAL NAME]
Operator of SaltMark