Read the Privacy Policy and now deleting account

[u/Arcaxion]

Notability offered me to "Learn more" or to "Accept" the new Privacy Policy that they have.

I decided to learn more to know what I am to accept and I am happy that I have.

Under "Personal Data"/"Categories of Personal Data We Collect" you can read:

"This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over the past 12 months".

Tables lists "types of data", "why they want it" and "who they share it with".

And it includes all kinds of rubbish like identifiers, ip addresses, geolocation, web analytics and others to be shared with third parties and for purposes such as advertising and analytics.

Seriously? If I pay you for the service you provide then this is not how this works. Definitely not without an obvious and clear way where I can "refuse" providing personal information.

So despite having some months of an active subscription I have exported my notebooks as PDFs and deleting my account.

Making this post for people who may care about that kind of information but did not check what they are being offered to accept.

[u/kaylanotability]

Hey there, thank you all for your feedback and concerns. If you’d prefer not to share data for ads, you can opt out in two ways:

When you see Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) prompt in the app, you can select “Ask App Not to Track.”

You can also go anytime into your device settings: Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking and toggle off permission for Notability.

This will stop all ad tracking. You’ll still have full access to Notability, and your notes, recordings, images, and documents are never used for ads.

[u/Applecations]

Even if this was all the case, is it even much worse than what Google and all the other big companies are doing? I don’t think there’s much to avoiding this in the first place

[u/Arcaxion → u/Applecations]

I agree with you.

Which is why personally I deliberately de-googled as well. Do not use any of Google's services and only have one new empty account for cases when this is the only way to log-in/sign-up.

When you pay for a product you have to have the right to own your information, to keep it private and to have to transparent policies.

But even if you have some other company misusing your personal data - the fewer cases you can allow the better. I don't see it as a justification to allow misuse to anyone else.

Notability is nice, but it is not nearly as critical or non-replaceable to comply with this behavior. On macs Apple Notes and Freeform are free and already catching up.

So if before I might have kept paying to have Notability as an alternative just for these "bells and whistles", now I don't think I would trust Notability trust with my data.

[u/iMonkr → u/Applecations]

You can never make what notability is doing right by saying such things

[u/Applecations → u/iMonkr]

I totally understand it isn’t right, but I’m saying that it’s not like it’s much better elsewhere in the industry

[u/iMonkr → u/Applecations]

In most way possible I am trying to avoid those things by not using it. (Generally)