Field IndexThe Mac app does not collect or upload your index content. It has no app account, advertising, analytics, tracking or automatic diagnostic-upload service.
Documents and local recovery
Field Index reads files you select and saves documents and exports where you choose. It stores recovery copies, unfinished capture text, unapplied field edits, preferences and workspace information locally on your Mac. Local document IDs and fingerprints are used to manage those files; they are not sent to the developer.
Recovery copies can contain your notes. You can inspect and delete them through Manage Recovery Copies. Saved index files are managed separately. Removing the app does not automatically remove documents you saved elsewhere.
Field Index does not encrypt its document or recovery files and does not provide secure deletion or password-vault protection. Files saved in a cloud-backed folder may be synchronized by macOS or your storage provider under that provider’s settings and policies.
Reference PDFs
If you attach a local PDF, the app keeps an access bookmark, reference identity, reading position and confirmed page mappings locally. The PDF is used read-only. Its bytes and access bookmark are not included in portable index exports.
Passwords entered to unlock a PDF are held in memory and are not saved in reference preferences.
Diagnostics and sharing
You can review and save a local diagnostic summary. It contains operational details such as app and macOS versions and record counts, rather than note text, source paths or PDF passwords. No report is sent automatically.
You decide whether to share an exported file or diagnostic summary. Help links open your browser only when selected; the app does not attach index content to those links. External sites and services have their own privacy practices.
When you email support
If you contact samuel.towers@icloud.com, Sam Towers receives your email address, message and any attachments you choose to send. That information is used to respond to your request and related follow-up, not for advertising or a mailing list.
Please send only what is needed to explain the problem. A fictional or redacted example is preferable to a complete private index. Do not send PDF passwords, exam questions or material you are not permitted to share.
Support correspondence is kept only as necessary to handle the request and any applicable obligations. You can use the same address to ask about or request deletion of support information. Email delivery and storage also involve the email providers used by you and the publisher.
This website and Cloudflare
This static website has no analytics scripts, advertising trackers, forms or mailing-list signup. It does not receive documents from the Mac app.
The site is hosted by Cloudflare. To deliver pages and protect its service, Cloudflare processes basic technical request information, such as an IP address, requested URL, request time and browser headers, and may retain service or security logs. This hosting activity is separate from the Mac app’s local document processing. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy for its practices.
Questions and policy updates
Contact Sam Towers at samuel.towers@icloud.com with questions about this policy. If the app or these practices change, this page will be updated with a new effective date.