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Last updated: August 1, 2026

Overview

Learnfold is a native learning workspace that turns topics and sources into personal courses. This policy explains what the app stores on your device, what it may sync through Apple, and what it sends when you choose a connected learning agent, model provider, voice feature, pairing service, or notification feature.

Learnfold does not contain advertising or third-party tracking SDKs, and we do not sell personal information. Processing described below is used to provide app functionality.

Information Stored on Your Device

Learnfold stores the information needed to keep your learning workspace available between sessions. Depending on the features you use, this can include:

  • Course content: course plans, generated pages, progress, discussion history, revision state, and recovery information.
  • Sources you choose: copied documents, selected photos, link addresses, filenames, and source metadata used to build or discuss a course.
  • Preferences: appearance, model and agent choices, accessibility preferences, recent workspaces, and other app settings.
  • Connection information: saved server descriptions and cryptographic credentials. Secrets such as agent tokens and API keys are stored in the Apple Keychain where the feature supports it.
  • Operational logs: Apple unified logs and local recovery journals used to diagnose failures and restore interrupted work. Learnfold does not include a third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDK.

Photos, Files, Links, Camera, and Clipboard

Learnfold only receives photos and files that you select, capture, paste, or otherwise explicitly add. Selected items may be copied into the app's private storage so the course can continue to use them. A photo or video selected for visual customization is also stored locally.

When you choose Paste Link or paste an image into a composer, Learnfold reads the clipboard for that action. The camera is used only for a feature you start, such as scanning a pairing code or capturing supported content. Connected agents or websites may receive a link or source content when you ask Learnfold to use it, as described below.

iCloud and CloudKit Sync

If course cloud sync is enabled and you are signed in to iCloud, Learnfold stores course catalog records and checksummed course workspace data in the app's private CloudKit database. Synced workspace data can include course pages, progress and discussion state, and copies of imported sources stored inside that workspace.

CloudKit is operated by Apple and associated with your Apple Account. Apple processes this data under its privacy policy. Turning off sync stops future synchronization but does not itself delete data already stored in iCloud.

Learning Agents and Model Providers

The destination of course requests depends on the learning agent you choose:

  • Apple on-device models: supported generation runs on your device.
  • Apple Private Cloud Compute: when available and selected, prompts and relevant course context are processed by Apple's Private Cloud Compute service.
  • Hermes or another connected server: learner messages, link addresses, course context, tool results, and supported attachments are sent to the server you connect. That server may in turn use a model provider configured by its owner.
  • Other authenticated providers: if a build exposes an additional provider and you enable it, requests are sent using the account or API key you supply.

Learnfold does not control the storage, logging, training, or deletion practices of a user-operated server or its configured model provider. Review those services' policies and do not submit material you are not authorized to share.

Voice and Audio

Learnfold accesses the microphone only after you start a voice feature and grant permission.

  • Voice transcription: recorded audio is held in memory and uploaded to the transcription endpoint selected by your authentication method, currently an OpenAI API or ChatGPT transcription endpoint. Learnfold does not save the raw recording as a user file after the request.
  • Realtime voice: microphone audio and voice-session events are sent over a realtime connection to the selected connected agent or model service. Transcripts and handoff results can become part of the associated thread history.

Provider-side retention and account linkage are governed by the selected provider. For OpenAI-operated endpoints, see the OpenAI Privacy Policy.

Hermes Pairing

If you use the assisted Hermes connection flow, Learnfold contacts our pairing broker. The broker receives a random Learnfold installation identifier, a temporary request identifier and claim credential, and the computer name, node identifier, relay address, and one-time connection payload submitted by the computer. This information is used only to match and complete the pairing request. The request is removed when claimed or canceled, or expires if it is not completed.

After pairing, the long-lived connection credential is stored on your device. Normal agent traffic travels through the connected server path rather than through the pairing broker.

Push Notifications

For background task notifications, Learnfold temporarily registers an Apple Push Notification service device token with our push relay. The registration also includes the platform, APNs environment, polling interval, and expiry period. The relay uses this information only to deliver app functionality and removes the registration when the app deregisters it or it expires. Notification permissions and presentation can be changed in system settings.

Network and Device Permissions

Learnfold may request local-network, Bluetooth, Nearby Interaction, camera, microphone, notification, photo-picker, or document-picker access when a related feature needs it. Local-network and nearby-device access are used to discover or confirm a server you choose to connect. Learnfold does not request location or contacts access.

Service Metadata

Our pairing broker and push relay, and the infrastructure providers that operate them, necessarily process network metadata such as IP address, request time, response status, and security or error information. We use this information to operate, protect, and troubleshoot those services, not for advertising or cross-app tracking.

Analytics, Advertising, and Tracking

Learnfold does not include third-party advertising, behavioral analytics, or cross-app tracking SDKs. We do not use course content, imported sources, microphone audio, or device identifiers for advertising, and we do not sell them.

Children's Privacy

Learnfold is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. A parent, guardian, school, or organization using Learnfold with a minor is responsible for selecting appropriate connected services and obtaining any required consent.

Retention, Deletion, and Your Choices

  • Local app data remains on the device until Learnfold replaces or removes it as part of an available feature, you remove an individual item where a deletion control is provided, or you uninstall the app.
  • Uninstalling Learnfold removes its local app container but does not automatically remove data already synchronized to iCloud. You can manage Learnfold's iCloud storage through Apple's system settings.
  • Credentials stored in Apple Keychain may persist after uninstalling the app. Remove a saved connection in Learnfold before uninstalling when possible; erasing the device also removes Keychain data.
  • Removing a connected server deletes the saved connection from Learnfold; it does not delete conversations, provider records, or logs held by that server.
  • To delete data held by a connected server or model provider, use that service's controls or contact its operator.
  • Temporary pairing and push registrations are deleted on claim, cancellation, deregistration, or expiry as described above.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as Learnfold changes. We will post revisions here and update the date above.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact chirag@forgeme.xyz.

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