Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 8, 2026 · Last updated: October 8, 2026
Your files stay where you keep them. 42 Editor has no accounts, no servers and no analytics. It opens files on your device and in the file providers you choose, and saves them back there. We collect nothing, so there is nothing to sell, share or delete.
CS42.org ("we", "us", "our") built 42 Editor as a free code and text editor. This policy explains what the app handles and where it goes. The short version: your files stay on your device and in the storage providers you choose. 42 Editor has no accounts, no servers of its own and no analytics, and it contains no code that sends your files or data to us or to anyone else.
1. What We Collect
Nothing. We operate no servers for the app and receive no data from it. We cannot see your files, their names or contents, or how you use the app.
2. Your Files
The app reads and writes only the files and folders you open with it: through the system file picker (Open File or Open Folder), from the Files app or the share sheet (Open in 42 Editor), or in its own folder, On My iPhone › 42 Editor. Your changes are saved back to the same file, on your device or in the provider that holds it. Files in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Working Copy or any other provider are stored and synced by that provider under its own terms; 42 Editor only works with the copy iOS gives it.
3. What the App Stores on Your Device
- Recent files and opened folders: each one's name, where it is (its path), when you last opened it, and a security-scoped bookmark. The bookmark is the permission iOS gives the app to reopen that file or folder without asking you to pick it again. The list keeps up to 30 recent files.
- Preferences: theme, font size, tab width, spaces or tabs, line wrapping, line numbers, syntax highlighting, auto-indent, bracket closing, autosave, and whether a CSV file's first row is a header.
- Files you create in the app, in its own folder (On My iPhone › 42 Editor), which you can also see in the Files app.
None of it is transmitted. It is not part of any account, because there is no account.
4. No Permissions Needed
42 Editor does not ask for access to your camera, microphone, photos, contacts or location, and it does not send notifications. It can reach a file or folder only after you pick it, and you can take that access back in the app at any time (see section 9).
5. The Preview and Links
The preview shows an HTML or Markdown file as a web page, inside the app. If the file refers to images, stylesheets or scripts at web addresses, the preview loads them from those addresses, the way a browser would, so the sites that host them receive an ordinary web request from your device, including your IP address. Scripts in an HTML file run in the preview as they would in a browser. Nothing from your file is ever sent to us. A link you tap in the preview opens in Safari or your mail app. A file that refers to nothing on the web is previewed without any network connection.
6. Sharing Is Always Your Choice
Nothing is shared automatically. When you tap Share, iOS hands the file to whichever app you pick, and from that point that app's privacy policy applies.
7. No Tracking, No Ads, No Third-Party SDKs
The app contains no advertising, no analytics, no crash-reporting services and no tracking identifiers. It does not use the Advertising Identifier and does not "track" you as defined by Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework.
8. Children
42 Editor is a general-purpose editor and is not directed at children. Because we collect no data at all, we hold no personal information about anyone, including children.
9. Your Control and Your Rights
- Swipe a recent file or a folder on the home screen to remove it, or tap Clear to empty the recent list. Removing a folder also forgets the files you opened through it.
- Change any preference in Settings at any time.
- Deleting the app removes its recent list, its preferences and the files in its own folder (On My iPhone › 42 Editor). Move any file you want to keep out of that folder first. Files you opened from anywhere else stay where they are.
There is no request to make of us under GDPR, CCPA or similar laws, because we hold nothing to disclose, correct or erase.
10. Data Retention
We retain nothing, for any period. The app keeps the items above on your device until you remove them or delete the app.
11. Security
Your files are protected by your device's own security: your passcode, Face ID or Touch ID, and iOS app sandboxing, which lets the app reach only its own folder and the files and folders you pick. Files in a cloud provider are also protected by that provider's security. Keep your device updated and locked.
12. International Users
We receive no data, so no data is transferred to us from any country.
13. Changes to This Policy
If this policy changes, the dates at the top change with it, and material changes will be described in the app's release notes.
14. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at hello@cs42.org.
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