---
title: Privacy
description: Privacy policy for Visual MD.
canonical: https://visualmd.gabi.to/privacy/
effective: 2026-08-26
---

# Privacy

Effective August 26, 2026

Visual MD is a local-first Markdown reader. It does not require an account, operate an analytics service, track you, or collect personal data.

## What stays on your Mac

The folders and Markdown files you choose remain on your device. Visual MD reads them only to build your library and display the document you select. Preferences and saved folder access are also stored locally.

## Network requests

Visual MD does not send your documents to us. A document can contain a remote image or link. Loading that image or opening that link may contact the destination named by the document, which can receive ordinary request information such as your IP address. Reading fonts ship inside the app; custom themes cannot load fonts from the network.

## Data collection

We do not collect, sell, or share personal data through Visual MD. Because we do not receive your library, we cannot inspect, recover, or delete it for you.

## Retention and deletion

We retain no app data. Because Visual MD sends us no documents or account data, there is no developer-held app data to delete and no data-collection consent to withdraw. Remove a folder from the library to revoke its saved access; preferences remain on your Mac and can be reset by removing Visual MD's local application data.

## This website

This website is hosted with OpenAI Sites and delivered through Cloudflare. To deliver and protect the site, those providers process ordinary request information such as an IP address, browser details, the requested path, and request time. Cloudflare may set the strictly necessary `__cf_bm` bot-management cookie; it expires after 30 minutes of inactivity, does not identify an account in Visual MD, and is not used by us for analytics or advertising. Provider processing is described in the [ChatGPT Sites Data Processing Addendum](https://openai.com/policies/chatgpt-sites-data-processing-addendum/) and [Cloudflare's cookie documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/policies-compliances/cloudflare-cookies/).

## Changes to this policy

If Visual MD's data practices change, this page will be updated before the changed version is released.

## Questions

For questions about this policy, use the [Visual MD support page](https://visualmd.gabi.to/support/). Email is available there when a question should not be asked in public. Do not send private documents or personal information unless it is necessary to answer your question.