Privacy Policy for Shed
The short version
Shed keeps your saved links on your phone. There are no accounts, no advertising, and no third-party tracking or analytics. Links are sorted by an AI model only if you agree to it, and you can change your mind in Settings. A few usage totals are counted on the device and never sent anywhere; they are described below. If you choose to send us a message through the feedback form, that message is sent to us and nothing else about you. If you uninstall the app, all of it goes with it.
What Shed stores, and where
Everything you save — the link, its title, description, cover image address, category, and the dates involved — is stored only in the app's own storage on your device. It is never uploaded to us, and we have no way to read it. It is also left out of your phone's cloud and computer backups (iCloud on iPhone, Google's backup on Android), so moving to a new phone goes through the app's own export file.
What leaves your device
At most three things. Two happen as a direct result of saving a link, and the third only if you choose to write to us:
1. A request to the website itself. To show you a title and a cover image, Shed asks the linked page for its preview information, the same way a browser would. That request goes to the website you saved, not to us. Those sites can see that a request was made, including your IP address, exactly as if you had opened the link.
2. The link, for sorting — only if you agree. The first time you open Shed, it asks whether links may be sorted with AI, and says what that sends. Until you say yes, nothing goes to our categorisation service; if you choose "Not now", or later turn "Sort links with AI" off in Settings, nothing is sent at all. Links from sites Shed recognises by their address are still sorted on the phone, and you can choose any link's subject yourself.
If you agree, Shed sends four things to our categorisation service: the link address, its title, the summary the page itself publishes about its own content — the first 500 characters of it — and the page's own keyword list, up to 200 characters. On the sites people save from most, the title is only an account name and the summary is the post itself, so without it the sorting does not work; and some pages publish no summary at all and name their subject only in the keyword list.
That request returns a single category word. Our service does not store or log it, and it is not linked to any identity — Shed has no user accounts, so there is nothing to link it to.
To find the category, our service asks Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, and passes those four things on for that one question. Under Anthropic's commercial terms they are not used to train its models, and Anthropic deletes API inputs and outputs within 30 days, except where it must keep them longer to enforce its usage policy or comply with the law (Anthropic's retention policy).
The service itself runs on Fly.io (in Frankfurt, Germany), which hosts it for us and does not receive the content in any other way. Anthropic, however, handles the question on its own infrastructure, which is in the United States and may include other regions; Anthropic offers no European-only processing for this service. So those four things leave Europe for that one question, and the rules above (no training, deletion within 30 days) are what applies to them there.
Note what this means: if you save a post, the text of that post is sent to be sorted. It is text the page publishes about itself, not anything private you wrote, and Shed keeps none of it — but it is more than an address, and you should know that.
3. A message to us, only if you write one. See "Sending us feedback" below.
Nothing else is transmitted. Shed does not collect your name, email address, contacts, location, device identifiers, or usage statistics.
Sending us feedback
Shed has a "Send feedback" row in Settings and a link at the end of Review. They open a short form: you choose whether it is a suggestion or a problem and write your message. Nothing is sent until you press Send. The form asks for no name and no email address, and we do not answer individual messages.
What reaches us: the words you typed, and a line saying which version of Shed, which system (Android or iOS and its version) and which language you use, so a problem can be reproduced. Nothing from your archive - no link, no note - is ever added.
How it travels: the message goes to our server, which passes it on to us by email through Resend, an email delivery service, and keeps no copy of it. We read it ourselves and use it to decide what to change in Shed. We keep the emails we receive for as long as they are useful for that. Because the form carries no name or address, we cannot tell whose message a given one is, and so we cannot find or delete one on request; do not write anything into it you would not want us to read. If our server cannot be reached, the form offers to open your own email app with the same message instead; then you send it yourself, and we see the address it comes from.
Counting how you use the app
Shed keeps a few running totals on your device: how many links you have saved, how many you opened, how many you kept or removed in a review, and on how many separate days you reviewed. These are plain numbers. They are not sent anywhere, they are not attached to any identity, and no record is kept of individual taps, screens, or sessions.
They exist so that you — and, during the beta, anyone who chooses to help — can see whether the app is actually being used the way it was meant to be. The numbers travel inside the export file, so sharing them is a thing you do deliberately, not something that happens in the background.
Permissions Shed asks for
- Notifications — only to send the weekly reminder that links are waiting for review. You can refuse, and the rest of the app works normally.
Shed does not ask for access to your files, contacts, camera, microphone, or location. When you import, it reads only the one file you choose.
Children
Shed is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone.
Deleting your data
Removing a link in the app deletes it permanently. Uninstalling Shed removes everything the app has stored. Because we hold nothing on our servers, there is no separate deletion request to make.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change with it. Material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions about this policy: oguzs.app@gmail.com