Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.
Our Privacy Policy explains how Markee app and its affiliates (further referred to as “Markee”, “Itesta” UAB, “we” or “us”) collect, use, and share information when you use our websites or our applications for iPhone, iPad and Mac (collectively referred to as our “Services”).
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Markee Terms of Service. Your use of the Markee Service and any personal information you provide to us or via the Markee Service remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy will be updated to reflect our current data collection, use, and sharing practices.
Markee at a glance
- You can use Markee without an account. Everything you save then stays on your device.
- An account is only needed for sync, which is part of Markee Premium and entirely optional.
- AI summaries are created on your device. The articles you summarise are never sent to us or to any AI service.
- Payments are handled by Apple. We never see your card or payment details.
- You can delete your account, and everything synced with it, from inside the app at any time.
Information we collect and why
In order to provide you with our Services, we collect certain information from you when you use our Services. We will hold the below information for as long as is necessary in order to provide you with our services, deal with any specific issues that you may raise or otherwise as is required by law or any relevant regulatory body.
- Account Information — If you sign in to use sync, we receive your name, email address and a user identifier from Sign in with Apple or Google Sign-In. If you choose to hide your email with Sign in with Apple, we only receive Apple's private relay address. We use this information to create your account and keep your library in sync. We never receive your Apple or Google password.
- Synced Library — When sync is on, the links you saved (their address, title, the dates they were saved and changed, and whether they are favourited or archived), your groups and your RSS feed subscriptions are stored on our servers, linked to your account, so they can appear on all your devices. Articles from your feeds and items in the Tray are not synced. Turning sync off stops syncing but never deletes anything stored on your device.
- Application Data — "Application Data" is the content you create in Markee, such as saved links, groups, feed subscriptions, the Tray and your settings. It is stored on your device. Unless you turn on sync, we have no access to it.
- AI Summaries — Summaries are generated entirely on your device by Apple's Foundation Models, on devices with Apple Intelligence. The text of the articles you summarise and the summaries themselves are not sent to us or to any third-party AI service.
- Purchases — Markee Premium subscriptions and the lifetime unlock are sold through the Apple App Store. Apple processes your payment. We only receive information about the status of your purchase, such as which plan is active, so that we can unlock Premium features.
- Crash, Performance and Usage Information — When you use the app, some information is collected automatically to help us fix problems and improve Markee. This includes crash reports, app performance data, the device model, operating system and app version, a device or installation identifier, and anonymous information about how the app is used.
- Location Information — We do not collect your precise location. Our analytics providers may derive a generic location (such as country or city) from your IP address, which we use only in aggregate to understand where our users are.
- Support Requests — When you contact us at support@markeeapp.com, we receive your name, email address and correspondence. We use this information only to answer your enquiry.
- Cookies on our website — Our website shows ads provided by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies to show ads and measure their performance, including ads based on your previous visits to this and other websites. You can manage personalised advertising in Google's Ad Settings. Most browsers also let you block or delete cookies in their settings.
How we use your information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- to provide you with our services, including sign-in and sync across your devices;
- to unlock the Premium features you have purchased;
- to find and fix crashes and other problems, and to improve the app;
- to answer your support requests; and
- to notify you about changes to our service.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use the content of your library for advertising.
How we share your information
For our effective operation and to deliver our Services to you we share information with the Third Party Services listed below. They process it on our behalf and only for the purposes described in this Policy.
Third Party Services
In addition to the Services we provide directly, we also use third party service providers (collectively referred to as “Third Party Services”) who operate their own Privacy Policies.
The Third Party Services we use:
- Google Firebase — Firebase Authentication for your account, Cloud Firestore to store and sync your library, Crashlytics and Performance Monitoring for crash and performance reports, Google Analytics for Firebase for anonymous usage statistics, and Remote Config to deliver the catalog of suggested RSS feeds.
- Google Sign-In — if you choose to sign in with your Google account.
- Sign in with Apple — if you choose to sign in with your Apple Account.
- Apple App Store — for purchases and subscriptions.
- Apple App Analytics — (only if you have chosen to share analytics with app developers) for anonymous statistics about how the app is used.
- Google AdSense — for showing ads on our website.
When you open a saved link, follow an RSS feed or play a video, Markee loads that content directly from the website or service that published it, such as YouTube. Their own privacy policies apply to that content.
Data Storage
Data we collect
Information about you may be transferred to, or accessed by, entities located around the world as described in this Policy. Some of these entities may be located in countries that do not provide an equivalent level of protection as your home country. By using our Services, and providing us information about you, you consent to the international transfer of information about you to the above parties.
Data Protection
We take reasonable measures to protect any personal information we may hold about you in an effort to prevent loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
Information sent between your browser and our website, and between your device and our Third Party Services, is encrypted in transit using TLS. Your synced library can only be accessed when you are signed in to your account.
Data Choices, Access and Correction
- Email — If you do not want to receive marketing and promotional emails from us, you may click on the "unsubscribe" link in the email to unsubscribe and opt-out of marketing email communications. Alternatively, to the extent that applicable law requires your prior opt-in consent to receive marketing and promotional emails, you can choose not to opt-in. Please note that even if you opt-out of receiving marketing communications from one or all of our Services, we may need to send you service-related communications.
- Sync — You can turn sync on or off at any time in the app. Turning it off never deletes the data stored on your device.
- Deleting your account — In Markee, open Preferences and tap Delete Account in the Account section. If you subscribe to Markee Premium, open Preferences, then Markee Premium, and tap Delete Account. This permanently deletes your account and everything synced with it from our servers. Data stored on your devices stays there until you delete it or remove the app. Deleting your account does not cancel an App Store subscription; you can cancel it in your Apple Account's subscription settings.
- Application Data — If you do not use sync and would like to delete all your Application Data, delete the Markee app from your device. As we do not have access to this data, we cannot do this for you.
Data Access and Correction
If you believe we are storing information that you would like access to or information corrected, please contact us at support@markeeapp.com.
Children
Our Services are not for use by children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information of a child under 13, we will delete such information.
Residents of the EU
If you are a resident of the European Union ("EU"), you may have certain additional rights, as detailed below. For purposes of this notice, "personal data” has the meaning ascribed in the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").
Processing Bases
To process your personal data, we rely on the following legal bases:
- For the performance of a contract we have with you (for example, to provide your account, sync and the Premium features you purchased).
- For compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (such as when we are obliged to comply with lawful requests from competent authorities such as law enforcement).
- For the purposes of our legitimate interests (such as finding and fixing crashes and improving our Services), provided that such processing does not outweigh your rights and freedoms.
- Your consent, where required (for example, for personalised ads on our website).
Your Rights
To the extent a specific element of our processing of your personal data relies upon your consent, you may withdraw such consent at any time with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the consent withdrawal.
Additional Data Privacy Rights
You may have these rights under applicable law:
- Access — You may request that we confirm whether or not we are processing your personal data. If we are, you may request a copy of your personal data, which we will provide free of charge, together with information about the processing, such as the purposes of the processing and the categories of personal data concerned. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access. We may decline or charge a reasonable administrative cost for requests which are excessive, particularly if repetitive.
- Rectification — You may edit some of your personal data when you have access to do so. You may also ask us to change, update or fix your personal data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.
- Erasure — You may request the erasure of your personal data, or delete your account yourself in the app as described above.
- Restrict Processing — You may ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances, such as if your Personal Data is inaccurate or unlawfully held.
- Data portability — You may ask for a copy of the personal data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit this data to another entity.
- Object — You may object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation under certain circumstances , for example for direct marketing. If you have a right to object and you exercise this right, your personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us, unless there are overriding compelling legitimate grounds for the processing or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, to complete any transactions that you began prior to your request, or for other purposes as required or permitted by applicable law.
International Transfers
Personal data may be transferred to and processed by recipients that are located inside or outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"), including Google in the United States. For recipients located outside of the EEA, some are certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and others are located in countries with adequacy decisions and, in each case, the transfer is thereby recognised as providing an adequate level of data protection from a European data protection law perspective. Other recipients might be located in countries which do not provide an adequate level of protection from a European data protection law perspective and for which we will base the transfer on appropriate safeguards, such as standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission or by a supervisory authority, approved codes of conduct together with binding and enforceable commitments of the recipient, or approved certification mechanisms together with binding and enforceable commitments of the recipient.
Changes to this Policy
From time to time we may change our privacy policy and although these changes might be minor we encourage our users to check this page regularly. Any major changes of significant impact to our users will be communicated on the Markee site and in-app. By continuing to use Markee after those changes become effective, you are agreeing to be bound by the revised policy.
Questions
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@markeeapp.com.
This privacy policy was last updated on 11th Oct 2026