Privacy

Updated October 12, 2026

MarkdownPoint works without an account. Your presentations stay on your computer, in the folders you choose. The app collects no analytics, telemetry or crash reports. This website uses no advertising trackers. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views and measure how fast pages load. It uses no cookies or other browser storage. For these counts, Cloudflare discards your IP address at its nearest data center.

What the app always sends

Each time it starts, MarkdownPoint checks markdownpoint.com for a new version and downloads it. The check sends a random number the updater keeps for the installation, and no app or system version. markdownpoint.com counts how many times each installer is downloaded each day. It doesn’t record who downloaded it.

On Windows, spell checking may download its dictionaries from Google.

What you choose to use

A MarkdownPoint account

You need an account only to publish view links, share presentations with others, take turns editing in a shared folder, post in Feedback, or publish, rate or report themes, or follow their authors. It signs you in with a code sent to your email address, and we never add you to a mailing list. It can also hold a full name, a display name and a photo. People you share presentations with see your display name, or else your full name or email address, and anyone with your photo’s link can view it.

Accounts and sign-in sessions are stored in Cloudflare. We send sign-in emails and invitations through Postmark. Postmark keeps delivery records. Sign-in sessions record your IP address and browser information, and request limits reduce automated abuse. A session cookie keeps you signed in on this website. While you are signed in, the app confirms your session when it starts and when you open Settings.

Signing in with a code agrees to the License and confirms you have read this page. Your account records when you agreed, and which version was in force then.

AI features

AI features are optional with your own API key. They send your request straight from the app to Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. It doesn’t pass through MarkdownPoint.

View links

A view link uploads a read-only copy of the slides and their media to Cloudflare, served at view.markdownpoint.com. Presenter notes, editable source and hidden slides are not included. Anyone with the link can open it. An account can have up to five view links. Each copy is kept until you delete its link, and republishing keeps the current and the previous version. Copies that viewers have already downloaded cannot be recalled.

Sharing with others

Sharing a presentation stores it and its edit history on MarkdownPoint’s collaboration service, hosted by Fly.io in Stockholm, together with the email addresses of the people you invite. The presentation’s images, videos and other files are kept in Cloudflare’s storage in the EU. MarkdownPoint emails each person you invite your name, your email address and a link to the presentation. A reply reaches you. To limit how many invitations are sent, MarkdownPoint keeps a coded form of both addresses for up to two days. When you stop sharing, the people you invited lose access within a minute and their copies move to their Trash. A download they already started can still finish. You keep your copy, and the service deletes its copy and its files within 25 hours. A shared presentation nobody has opened for 12 months is deleted with its files. Files the presentation no longer uses stay on the service until the presentation is deleted. If a file finishes uploading after its presentation is deleted, the service deletes it within an hour. Pointers, selections and names pass between editors without being stored.

Taking turns in a shared folder

While you are signed in, a presentation in a Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or iCloud Drive folder takes turns editing through MarkdownPoint’s collaboration service, hosted by Fly.io in Stockholm. The presentation itself travels only through your sync service. The collaboration service records whose turn it is: an identifier for each computer that has opened the presentation, each person’s name as others see it, the names of its files with a fingerprint of each but never their contents, and requests to edit. Which slide each person is on passes between them without being stored. The record is deleted once nobody has opened the presentation for 12 months.

Web videos

Adding a YouTube or Vimeo video to a slide fetches its title and poster from that site, and presenting the slide plays the video from there.

Bug reports and feature requests

What you post in Feedback is public. Anyone can read it with your display name and the time you posted it. A bug report also shows the MarkdownPoint version and system you enter. Posts and votes are stored with your account in Cloudflare. When you post, vote or reply, you follow that post, and we email you through Postmark when we reply or change its status, until you choose “Unfollow”. Service providers that help us read and answer posts receive their text, but never your name or email address. When your account is deleted, your votes are deleted. Your posts stay without your name, unless you ask us to remove them too.

Themes

A theme you publish in Themes is public. Anyone can see it, download it and use it. Your display name and photo show with it. Before it is listed, we send its words and pictures to Anthropic and use Claude to check them against the gallery’s rules. Your account’s name and email address are not sent with them. Anthropic deletes them within 30 days. Its privacy center lists the exceptions. Published themes are stored in Cloudflare with your account. Each attempt to publish is kept with the reasons a theme was refused. Your rating of a theme is shown only to you; others see the average and the number of ratings. A report of a theme is emailed to Johan with your display name. Whom you follow is stored with your account and shown only to you; an author sees how many people follow them, not who. Following sends no email. Installing a theme from the gallery in the app tells markdownpoint.com to count one install. Like a download, it’s counted without recording who installed it.

Why it is kept

Your email address and profile, and what you share, publish or post, are kept to give you the services you sign in for. That rests on your agreement to the License (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)).

Sign-in records and request limits protect the services from abuse. The theme check looks for what the gallery’s rules don’t allow. The email addresses of people you invite give them access. An email tells them. Page view counts show which pages people read and how fast they load. These rest on legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)), and you can object to them.

An account needs an email address. Without one, only the services that need an account are closed to you.

Where it is kept

Accounts, sign-in sessions, Feedback and the records of Themes are kept in Cloudflare’s database in the EU. Cloudflare stores theme files and view links in Eastern Europe where it can, and serves them worldwide from its network. Shared presentations and turn records are kept by Fly.io in Stockholm. A shared presentation’s files are kept in Cloudflare’s storage in the EU. We send emails through Postmark’s servers in the US. We use Anthropic, a US company, to check themes.

Cloudflare, Fly.io and Postmark (ActiveCampaign) are US companies certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Anthropic’s data processing terms include the EU’s standard contractual clauses.

How long it is kept

Your account is kept until you ask Johan to delete it. He deletes it with its photo, themes, ratings, follows, attempts to publish and view links. Presentations you share through collaboration are deleted with their files within 25 hours. You’re removed from the ones others share with you. As the Feedback section says, your posts stay without your name.

A sign-in session ends when you sign out, or about 30 days after you last used it. A code ends after 10 minutes. Ended sessions with the IP address they recorded, expired codes and request counts unused for a day are deleted daily. Backups keep deleted records for up to 30 days more.

Postmark keeps sent emails for 45 days, and the addresses that bounced or complained until they are removed. View links, shared presentations and turn records are kept as their sections above say.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your data, and to have it corrected, deleted or its use limited. You can ask for what you gave in a form you can take elsewhere, and object to a use that rests on legitimate interest. GDPR sets when each applies. Write to johan@markdownpoint.com. To complain, contact the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection, IMY.

Other people can give MarkdownPoint your personal data: your email address when they invite you, or what they put in what they share or publish. If a theme, view link or Feedback post shows your personal data without your permission, report the theme from its page, or write to Johan with its address. What shouldn’t be there is removed.

Who is responsible

Johan Sanneblad is responsible for the personal data MarkdownPoint’s services keep. Cloudflare, Fly.io, Postmark and Anthropic handle it on his behalf. Write to him, also to have your account deleted.

Johan Sanneblad
Holmen 11
517 92
Sweden
johan@markdownpoint.com