SurfPad Privacy Policy

Complete transparency about how SurfPad handles your privacy and data.

Last updated: February 2025

Our Privacy Commitment

SurfPad is designed with privacy as its foundation. We believe your browsing history, bookmarks, and personal data are yours alone, and we've built SurfPad to ensure they stay private.

In simple terms: We don't collect, store, transmit, or analyze any of your personal data, browsing history, or usage patterns.

What We Don't Do

No Analytics or Tracking

We don't use any analytics services, tracking pixels, or telemetry to monitor how you use SurfPad.

No Browsing Data Collection

We don't collect your browsing history, bookmarks, tabs, or any data about the websites you visit.

No Data Transmission

SurfPad doesn't send any of your data to external servers. Everything stays on your device.

No Third-Party Integrations

We don't integrate with analytics platforms, advertising networks, or data brokers.

What Data Stays Local

SurfPad stores the following information locally on your iPad to provide its functionality:

Browsing Data

Your tabs, spaces, browsing history, bookmarks, favorites, and downloaded files are stored locally on your device.

App Settings

Your preferences including search engine, ad blocker level, theme, accent color, and other customizations.

Site Permissions

Per-site settings for camera, microphone, location, and other permissions you've granted.

Ad Blocker Whitelist

Sites you've chosen to allow ads on are stored locally in your preferences.

Important:

All this data is stored exclusively on your iPad using iOS/iPadOS secure storage (SwiftData and UserDefaults). It never leaves your device and cannot be accessed by us or any third parties.

Built-in Ad Blocker

SurfPad includes a built-in ad blocker that works entirely on your device:

Local Filter Lists

The ad blocker uses filter lists that are bundled with the app. No external requests are made to fetch or update filters.

No Blocking Reports

We don't collect any data about what ads are blocked or which sites you visit. The blocking happens entirely on-device.

Incognito Mode

SurfPad offers an incognito browsing mode for enhanced privacy:

Incognito tabs use a separate, non-persistent data store
No browsing history, cookies, or cache is saved from incognito sessions
All incognito data is cleared when you exit incognito mode
Downloaded files in incognito are deleted when you exit

Third-Party Websites

When you browse the web using SurfPad, websites you visit may collect their own data:

Websites have their own privacy policies and data collection practices
SurfPad provides tools (ad blocker, cookie controls) to help manage this
We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of sites you visit

Note:

SurfPad itself never shares your data with websites. Any data websites collect is through standard web browser mechanisms (cookies, JavaScript, etc.), not through SurfPad.

Questions About Privacy?

If you have any questions about how SurfPad handles privacy, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Email: [email protected]

Response Time: We typically respond within 24-48 hours

Policy Updates

If we ever need to update this privacy policy, we will:

  • Post the updated policy on this page with a new "last updated" date
  • Notify users through the app if there are material changes
  • Maintain our core commitment to privacy regardless of any updates