CreateNote privacy policy
Last updated: November 6, 2026
CreateNote is a notes and lists app for Android. This policy explains what data it handles, why, and what your rights are.
1. Who we are
Carlos J. Figueredo González (KarFiGo). Contact for any privacy question: apps.karfigo@gmail.com.
2. Your notes and backups
CreateNote has no accounts of its own and no servers of our own. Your notes, lists, colours, images you add from your gallery and reminders are stored on your phone. We never receive them.
The app only accesses the photos you pick with the Android picker. If you save a backup to a file, it goes to the location you choose, and if you share a note it goes to the app you choose. In both cases you decide, and that service handles it, not us.
Optional Google Drive backup
If you tap "Back up now", the app asks Google for permission to use a hidden folder for this app in your own Google Drive. It only requests the drive.appdata permission, which lets the app create, read and delete its own backup in that folder. It can't see any of your other Drive files.
The backup contains your notes with their colours, reminders and other settings. Your phone sends it directly to Google. We have no access to it and no copy of it, and we don't receive your email address or name. It stays in your Google account, under Google's privacy policy, and there is one backup, which is replaced each time. Nothing is sent to Drive unless you ask for it. Restoring only reads that file and saves the notes on your phone.
Uninstalling the app doesn't delete this backup. To delete it, open Google Drive settings on the web, go to Manage apps, and choose "Delete hidden app data" for this app. To remove the app's access, go to your Google account connections.
The app's use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. This data is used only to save and restore your backup. It is not used for ads, not sold and not shared with anyone.
3. Reminders
Reminders are scheduled on your own phone using Android alarms and notifications, and are rescheduled when the phone restarts. We use no push notification services and send no data.
4. Ads
CreateNote shows ads from Google AdMob: banners, occasional full-screen ads and optional rewarded ads. AdMob may use your device's advertising ID and technical data (such as device model, Android version, IP address and approximate region) to show and measure ads and to prevent fraud.
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a consent form (Google's UMP platform) is shown before any ad is requested. You can change your choice at any time from the app's privacy options. If you don't consent, the ads you see will not be personalised.
More information: how Google uses data from apps that use its services.
5. Who processes the data
The data that leaves your phone is the data used by Google AdMob for ads, as explained above, and your backup if you choose to save it in your own Google Drive. Google acts under its own policies; international transfers may take place under the Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. We do not sell your data.
6. Your rights
We have no accounts and no servers of our own, so we hold no data about you to access, correct or delete: your content lives on your phone and is removed when you clear the app's data or uninstall it. A Google Drive backup stays in your Google account until you delete it, as explained in section 2. For ad data you can change your consent from the app's privacy options, reset your advertising ID in Android settings or write to apps.karfigo@gmail.com. If you believe your data is not handled correctly, you can complain to the data protection authority in your country.
7. US residents
We do not sell your personal information. Advertising partners (Google AdMob) may use device identifiers to show ads, which some laws consider "sharing" data for targeted advertising. You can opt out from the app's privacy options or from Android's ads settings.
8. Children
The app is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
9. Changes
If we change this policy, we will publish the new version here with its date and, if the change is significant, let you know in the app.