Privacy policy

This policy describes Browsebook for Android, application app.browsebook, published by Heber Garza. Contact: mail@heberuriegas.com.

Browsing and searching the web

Opening a website sends requests to that website and the services it loads. They may receive your IP address, browser information, cookies and information you submit. Searches go to your selected search provider. If search suggestions are enabled, text entered in the address bar may also be sent to that provider before you submit a search. Website accounts, payments, forms, advertising and tracking are governed by those websites' own policies.

Websites can offer their own AI or other online services. Information you submit to a website is handled by that website, even when you access it through Browsebook.

Your notes, snapshots and browser data

Browsebook saves annotations in its private app storage, including the page URL, title and drawing data. Snapshots can include a saved image and annotation data, together with a title, URL and creation time. These files may contain sensitive page content. An image snapshot can be viewed locally; reopening a live snapshot loads the website again and makes normal web requests. A live snapshot is not an offline copy of the website.

Ordinary browser data can include history, cookies, site storage, bookmarks, downloads and saved settings. The annotation interface is unavailable in private browsing tabs. Private browsing does not hide network activity from websites or your network provider.

You can delete notes and snapshots from their libraries and use the browser's separate controls to clear browsing data. Deleting a note does not delete separately saved snapshots or copies outside the app. Clearing Android app storage or uninstalling Browsebook removes locally stored notes, snapshots and settings. There is no Browsebook cloud sync or backup-and-restore service for these notes. The release is configured to disable Android application backup; copies saved outside the app can still be backed up by other applications or device services.

Accounts and built-in AI

Browsing, annotations and snapshots do not require a Browsebook account or subscription. In versions that offer optional built-in AI, you can configure your own provider connection. When you send a question, Browsebook sends it to your selected provider. Requests can include conversation history, instructions, attached page text or HTML and, if enabled, a screenshot. Attachments may contain sensitive information from pages where you are signed in.

Your API key authenticates requests to your selected endpoint. Browsebook may also request model information from that endpoint. Provider processing, retention and charges follow the provider's policies and your account configuration. Disabling API storage does not guarantee that the provider retains no data.

The planned first public release disables built-in AI access and provider requests. That change does not apply retroactively to existing internal-test versions. In versions with built-in AI disabled, AI-provider credentials are not required or used for provider requests. Configuration and history left by an earlier version may remain locally after an upgrade; disabling the feature does not erase them.

Security and browser services

Browsebook is based on Chromium and Brave. Security checks and component or filter updates can contact external services. Depending on the enabled service, a request can include information about the URL being checked, the browser or component version and your IP address. On Android, the inherited Safe Browsing integration uses Google Play services to check web addresses. These services process requests under their applicable policies. Locally stored notes do not mean that the browser makes no network requests.

Component update requests can include diagnostic information, update results and random request identifiers used for the update process.

The Browsebook configuration disables optional usage metrics and usage reporting, Brave Rewards, Wallet, VPN, News, Talk, Sync, web discovery and translation. This does not disable security updates or prevent websites from running their own analytics and advertising. Manage available search and security options in browser settings.

Optional website compatibility reports

If you choose to report a broken website from the Shields panel, Browsebook sends the report to Brave's website compatibility service. The report can include the page address, browser and component versions, protection settings, the issue category and details you enter. You can also choose to include contact information and a screenshot, which may contain sensitive page content. The report flow removes the page address's query and fragment before submission, but its path and anything you type or attach can still identify information. Review your report before sending it.

These reports are voluntary and are sent to Brave to investigate website compatibility problems. Brave's browser privacy policy states that submitted web compatibility report data is deleted from its servers after 30 days. Removing local browser data does not remove a report already submitted to that service.

Device and website permissions

Browser and website features can request camera, microphone, location, notifications, nearby-device or file access. Granting a permission to the app does not automatically grant it to every website. You can manage app permissions in Android settings and website permissions in the browser's site settings.

If you allow a website to send push notifications, the browser can register with Google's messaging service using identifiers and registration tokens that let the service route notifications to your browser. You can manage each website's notification permission in site settings. Google and the website handle information under their respective policies, including Google's privacy policy. Removing a website's permission stops future notifications from that site; it does not promise deletion of all information already processed by those services.

Downloading files, opening links in other apps or choosing to share information can pass files or addresses to the app or service you select. Those recipients handle their copies under their own policies. Downloaded files can remain outside Browsebook's private storage after you clear browser data or uninstall the app.

Support, retention and deletion

If you contact mail@heberuriegas.com, your email address and the information you send are used to respond to your request. Do not send passwords or API keys. You can use that address to ask about or request deletion of information you provided to support.

Local information remains until you remove it, clear app storage or uninstall, subject to Android behavior. Deleting local data does not delete information already received by websites or other services. Contact those services about their retention and deletion practices.

Questions and changes

Contact mail@heberuriegas.com with privacy questions. Updated policies will identify their revision date on this page.