Privacy

Accio Patent is published by Driven Leaf, LLC (“we”). The app is designed so that we do not know who you are or which patents you are fetching. That is not a promise about how carefully your data is handled — it is a statement that the data is not collected in the first place.

This website

acciopatent.com collects nothing. It is a set of static HTML, CSS, image, and font files served from a server we run. Specifically, this site has:

• No analytics. Earlier versions of this site used Fathom, a privacy-focused analytics tool. It has been removed, and nothing replaced it.
• No cookies.
• No advertising or ad networks.
• No tracking pixels or fingerprinting.
• No third-party scripts, fonts, or embeds. Every file the site loads comes from acciopatent.com.

As with any web server, requests appear in server logs, which include an IP address and are used only to keep the site running and secure. They are not analyzed to build a picture of visitors and are not shared.

The app

Accio Patent has no accounts and no sign-in. It contains no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party tracking SDKs. There is no server of ours between you and the patent offices, so there is no search history for us to hold, sell, or be compelled to hand over.

Where your searches go

When you fetch a patent, the app sends the patent number directly to a patent office data service — the European Patent Office (EPO) or the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Those organizations receive the request and are subject to their own privacy practices, which we do not control. The request identifies the app, not you.

The barcode scanner processes camera images entirely on your device. Images are never stored and never transmitted.

iCloud Drive and Dropbox

If you turn on syncing, PDFs are saved to your own storage:

• iCloud Drive uses your device’s existing Apple account. Files go to your iCloud Drive, governed by Apple’s privacy policy.
• Dropbox is optional and off unless you connect it. When you do, you authorize the app against your own Dropbox account, and PDFs are written to that account’s app folder. You can disconnect or switch accounts at any time. Dropbox’s own privacy policy governs what they hold.

We have no access to either account and cannot see what is in them.

Subscriptions

Accio Patent Premium is an in-app purchase handled entirely by Apple. Payment details go to Apple and never to us. We receive Apple’s standard aggregate sales and subscription reports, which do not identify individual customers.

Support email

If you email support@acciopatent.com, we will have whatever you choose to put in that message, and we will use it only to reply to you.

Children

Accio Patent is a professional tool and is not directed at children. It knowingly collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated date at the top of this page changes with it.

Contact

Questions about privacy are welcome at support@acciopatent.com.