Privacy policy
Last updated 13 November 2026
- Your chat export is opened and read on your own device. It is never uploaded, and we never see it.
- The page is technically blocked from sending data anywhere except its own address, and it only does that to check a license key.
- No accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking cookies.
- If you buy Pro, Polar processes your payment and shares your email and order with us.
Your chat stays on your device
When you choose a chat export, your browser opens the file and a background script on your device counts messages, emoji, times and words. Only the finished results (names as they appear in the chat, numbers, emoji and single words) are used to draw the cards. No message text, file or result is sent to us or to anyone else. Images and videos you save are created on your device and go straight to your downloads or to the app you share them with.
We enforce this with the page's security settings (a Content Security Policy): the page may only load files from its own address and may only send requests to its own address. The only requests it sends are to check a license key, and those contain only the key.
The cards show the names people use in the chat. Please share cards the way you'd want your own shared, and only share chats you're part of.
What we store in your browser
If you have Pro, your license key is saved in your browser's local storage so Pro stays unlocked. We don't save your chat, your cards or your choices. You can clear the key at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser.
Purchases
Payments are handled by Polar Software Inc., our merchant of record. Polar collects your name, email address, billing address and payment details to process the payment, calculate tax and send receipts, under its own privacy policy. Polar shares your email address, order details and license key with us so we can provide Pro and answer support requests. We never receive your card details.
When you return from checkout, the page asks our server for your license key using the checkout reference in the address bar, so Pro can unlock right away. The key is only shown in that browser.
Hosting and logs
Yapbook is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any website, Cloudflare processes your IP address and basic request information to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. These requests never include your chat. We don't use them for advertising or to build profiles.
If you email us, we use your message and email address only to reply and keep a record of the conversation.
Children
Yapbook isn't directed at children under 13, and you must be old enough to use the messaging app your export comes from.
Your rights
We hold almost nothing about you: at most your email and order if you bought Pro. You can ask what we hold, ask us to correct it or ask us to delete it by emailing tinyusefulthings003+yapbook@gmail.com. Purchase records that Polar holds are covered by Polar's privacy policy, and some must be kept for tax reasons.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page.