Privacy Policy
Blocks collects no data.
Your files and what you save in them stay on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.
Who we are
Blocks is an iPhone app for keeping and viewing your own HTML files, called blocks. It's made by Keltson. Questions about this policy go to apps@keltson.com.
What we collect
Nothing. Blocks has no account system, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party SDKs, and it doesn't send your files, your blocks' saved data or anything about how you use the app to us or to anyone else.
What stays on your iPhone
- Your blocks. Files you add are stored on your iPhone, in the app's own storage.
- What each block saves. Data a block saves (for example, entries you type into it) is kept on your iPhone, separately for each block. No other block can read it.
- Spotlight. Block names are added to your iPhone's Spotlight index so you can search for them. This index stays on your device.
iCloud
Blocks uses Apple's iCloud (CloudKit) for two optional features. Apple runs iCloud, and we can't read anything stored there.
- iCloud Backup (on by default; you can turn it off in Blocks). Each block's files, name, icon, color and saved data are copied to your own private iCloud, and the last three versions of its data are kept. Backups of deleted blocks are removed after 30 days. Only you can see your backups, and they use your iCloud storage.
- Shared data (only if you turn it on for a block). You can share one block's saved data with people you invite through Apple's sharing sheet. That data is stored in the iCloud account of the person who started sharing and is visible only to the people they invited. Each person can be allowed to edit or only view. People who join see the names iCloud provides for the others in the share.
If you're not signed in to iCloud, these features are unavailable and everything stays on your iPhone.
Camera, microphone and location
A block can ask to use your camera, microphone or location, the same way a web page can in Safari. Blocks asks you first, naming the block, and iOS then asks too. Your answer is remembered for that block only, and you can change it in Block Settings. Blocks itself doesn't collect, store or send anything from these features: it goes only to the block that asked for it.
Blocks you add
Blocks are files you choose to add. Like any web page, a block can connect to websites on the internet and send them information, including anything you've allowed it to use. Blocks doesn't control what the files you add do. If a block connects to a website, that website's own privacy policy applies. Only add files you trust.
Deleting your data
- One block's saved data: Block Settings → Clear data.
- A block and its data: press and hold it in the library, or open it and tap ⋯, then Delete.
- iCloud backups: backups of deleted blocks are removed after 30 days. You can turn iCloud Backup off in Blocks, or manage Blocks' iCloud data in your iPhone's Settings → your name → iCloud.
- Shared data: anyone in a share can leave it. The person who started sharing can stop sharing, or delete the shared data for everyone, from the block's Block Settings.
- Everything: deleting the Blocks app removes everything it stored on your iPhone.
Crash reports
If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone's Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements, Apple may send us anonymous crash reports. They don't include your files or your blocks' data, and you can turn this off at any time.
Children
Blocks doesn't collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.