Notegrove and your privacy
This page sums up what Notegrove does with your data. The Hedgerow privacy policy covers every app, the website and purchases in full.
What stays on your PC
- Settings and data live in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Notegroveon your PC. - Your notes, tags and links, in a database in the library folder, with pasted pictures and attached files copied next to it. The library is in the data folder unless you move it in Settings › Data.
- A daily backup of your notes in the data folder (the newest 30 are kept), and deleted notes in Trash for 30 days.
- After the trial, the number of new notes made today.
- A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
- A Start with Windows entry in your user Run key, only while Start with Windows is on in Settings › General (Direct edition; off by default).
When Notegrove goes online
- License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Notegrove sends the key, your PC’s name, the app’s name and an anonymous device ID to our license server. About once a week it checks the license again, sending the key and the activation’s ID.
- Update checks (Direct edition): Notegrove downloads a small file listing the latest version about 30 seconds after it starts. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
- Crash reports: off unless you turn them on. If Notegrove crashes, it saves a report on your PC; with reports turned on it also sends that report, with file paths removed, to crash.hedgerowapps.com.
Good to know
- Rich text pasted from the web keeps remote pictures as links. Notegrove doesn't download them.
- Spell check uses the spell checker built into Windows, on the PC.
There are no ads, and no analytics or usage tracking.
Microsoft Store edition
The Store edition doesn’t contact our license server or check for updates itself: Microsoft handles the purchase, the license and updates, under Microsoft’s privacy statement.