Scrinium Privacy Policy

Effective 10 August 2026

Scrinium is a read-later archive. You save an article from your browser; Scrinium keeps a copy on your devices and searches it later. It is built so that the developer cannot see your data — not “does not”: cannot.

What Scrinium collects

Scrinium has no accounts, no sign-up, no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting to the developer, no advertising, and no developer-run server. The app never phones home, because there is no home to phone.

Where your data lives

• On your devices. Articles you save are stored in a database inside the app’s own container on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
• In your own iCloud. If you are signed in to iCloud, your archive syncs through your private CloudKit database — the part of iCloud that is keyed to your Apple ID and readable only by you. Apple encrypts it; the developer has no access to it and no way to request access.

Your highlights, notes, hidden-block choices, tags, and reading preferences follow the same rule: your devices and your iCloud, nothing else.

What the browser extensions do

The Safari extension and the Scrinium Clipper (for Chromium browsers) capture the page you are currently reading when you tap the button, and only then. The Safari extension hands its capture straight to the app on the same device (a shared folder both can see — it never leaves your iPhone or iPad). The Clipper, which runs in browsers on other computers, uploads its capture to your own private iCloud database after you sign in once with your Apple ID; your devices pick it up from there. Either way, the extensions read no browsing history, follow no pages you didn’t explicitly save, and send nothing to the developer.

Saving a page captures it as your browser sees it in that moment, under your own login where you have one. Scrinium does not bypass paywalls and does not fetch articles from publishers on your behalf beyond the single page you chose to save.

Network connections the app makes

• Apple iCloud (CloudKit) — syncing your own archive between your own devices.
• Publisher image servers — when an article’s images weren’t captured with the page, the app may fetch them from the article’s own image URLs, exactly as a browser would when displaying the page.
• The article’s own URL — only when you share a bare link into Scrinium from a non-Safari browser, the app fetches that one page to archive it.

That is the complete list.

Data sharing and sale

Scrinium shares data with no one and sells data to no one. There are no third-party SDKs, ad networks, or analytics providers in the app.

Data retention and deletion

Your archive is yours. Deleting an article removes it from your devices and marks it deleted in your own iCloud database so your other devices remove it too. Deleting the app removes its local data; your iCloud copy can be removed by deleting the app’s iCloud data in Settings → Apple ID → iCloud → Manage Storage.

Children

Scrinium collects no data from anyone, children included.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of Scrinium ever changes any of the above, this policy will be updated and the change described plainly in the App Store release notes before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions: see the support page.