Privacy Policy

1. Who runs Note Counter

Note Counter is a personal, free, open-source project built and maintained by Yash Patil. The source code is published on GitHub under the MIT license at github.com/PATILYASHH/note-counter. There is no company, no commercial entity, and no paid tier.

2. What data stays on your device

The following is stored locally in your browser using localStorage and never leaves your device:

• Denomination counts and saved counting sessions
• History of counting sessions, GST / tax calculations, and EMI calculations
• Quick notes from the built-in notepad
• Custom currencies you create (code, name, symbol, denominations)
• App preferences: selected currency, display settings, hide-amounts toggle
• Calculator history and reference hashes
• Optional Web Lock PIN/password (stored hashed in localStorage; never transmitted)

You can wipe all of this at any time with your browser's "Clear site data" / "Clear local storage" option, or with Note Counter's built-in "Clear history" buttons.

3. What is sent over the network

3.1 Anonymous page-view analytics (Vercel Analytics)

The site is hosted on Vercel and uses Vercel Analytics for basic page-view counts. According to Vercel's documentation, this records the URL path, referrer, country (from IP — the IP itself is not stored long-term), browser, OS, and device type. It does not use cookies, does not build a user profile, does not follow you across other sites, and is not sold to anyone.

The developer uses this only to see how many people visit the site overall. See Vercel's Analytics Privacy Policy for full detail.

3.2 Currency Converter — exchange rate lookup

When you open the FX (Currency Converter) tab, the app fetches mid-market exchange rates from floatrates.com via a public GET request to https://www.floatrates.com/daily/usd.json. The response is cached in your browser's localStorage for 24 hours, so subsequent visits within that window don't hit the network at all.

The request contains no user data, no cookies, and no amounts you've entered — just the standard URL fetch. Floatrates may log standard request metadata (IP, user agent) on their server for operational purposes, the same as any web request to any site.

3.3 Contact / feedback form — only when you click Send

Note Counter has an in-app Contact form (Menu → Contact) and a standalone /contact.html page. Both let you send the developer feedback, bug reports, feature requests, or general messages. The form is wired to Formspree, a third-party form-relay service.

Nothing is transmitted until you fill out the form and press Send. When you do, the following is sent to Formspree's servers, which then forwards it to the developer's email:

• Whatever you typed in the form: name (optional), email (optional), subject (optional), message (required), and the selected category (Feedback / Bug / Feature / Contact)
• Triage metadata: app version, the URL of the page you submitted from, your browser's user-agent, and an ISO timestamp

Your counts, history, and any amounts you've entered into calculators are never included. See Formspree's privacy policy for how they handle the relay. If you'd rather not use Formspree, you can email the developer directly at patilyasshh@gmail.com or open a GitHub issue.

3.4 No advertising, no third-party trackers

Note Counter does not use Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Plausible, Mixpanel, or any other ad/tracking provider. No cookies are used for advertising or cross-site tracking.

3.5 Static assets

Web fonts (Google Fonts: Inter, JetBrains Mono) are loaded from Google's servers when the page first loads. Google may log the request IP as part of normal CDN operation. After the first load, the PWA service worker caches these locally and the app works offline.

3.6 Outbound links

Note Counter links to GitHub (source, sponsors), the developer's portfolio, and policy pages. Visiting those links sends standard browser-request data to those external sites under their privacy policies — Note Counter does not control or share data with them.

4. Cookies

Note Counter does not set any cookies of its own. There is no cookie consent banner because there is nothing to consent to. The Vercel Analytics script described above is cookieless.

5. Children's privacy

Note Counter does not collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13. There is no account creation, no advertising, and no behavioural profiling. The app is safe to use at any age.

6. GDPR / CCPA / global users

Because Note Counter does not collect personal data, there is no personal data to access, correct, port, or delete on the developer's side — your data lives only in your own browser, fully under your control. Specifically:

• No personal data is collected beyond the anonymous, aggregate page-view stats described in section 3.1.
• No personal data is sold or shared.
• You can exercise your "right to erasure" instantly by clearing your browser's site data for notecounter.shop.

7. Security

The site is served over HTTPS. Because nothing about your counts is transmitted, there is no server-side credential or financial data store to breach. The optional Web Lock PIN/password is stored as a salted hash in your own browser; it is not synced or transmitted.

8. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date. Substantive changes (e.g., adding any new third-party service) will be called out clearly at the top of the page.

9. Contact

Questions about privacy, the project, or this policy: