Privacy Policy

Who we are and what this covers

Mark Me Down is a web tool that converts any URL to clean Markdown. You paste a URL, we fetch the page and return the Markdown — that's it. This policy describes how we handle information in the process of doing that.

Mark Me Down is operated as a personal project based in the United States. This policy applies to the Mark Me Down web service at markmedown.app.

What we collect (and what we don't)

We collect very little — and we don't keep most of what we briefly see.

What we don't collect:

• Your URL is not stored or logged by our application. We fetch it, extract the content, and that's the end of it.
• The Markdown we return to you is never stored on our end. It goes straight to your browser.
• We don't set cookies.
• We don't run any analytics or tracking scripts.
• We don't ask you to create an account, so we have no names, emails, or profile data.

The one thing we do briefly handle: your IP address.

To protect the service from abuse, our server enforces a rate limit on how many requests it will handle from any one IP address in a given time window. To do this, we keep a short-lived rate-limit record keyed to your IP address. In production, that record is stored in Upstash Redis. In local or fallback environments, it may be held in server memory instead. In both cases it expires automatically after the rate-limit window and is used only to prevent abuse.

In plain terms: we see your IP address to prevent abuse, but we don't record it or use it for analytics, advertising, or profiling.

How your URL is used

When you submit a URL, our server makes a network request to fetch that page on your behalf. The content is processed in memory and converted to Markdown, which is returned to your browser. The URL is not stored and not used for any purpose other than fetching the page you asked for.

We don't analyze, index, or retain submitted URLs.

Server logs

Like all web services, our hosting infrastructure generates standard server access logs. These logs may include your IP address, the time of your request, and basic HTTP metadata (e.g. response code, bytes transferred). This logging happens at the infrastructure level — it's outside our direct control, and is a normal part of how cloud hosting works.

The app is hosted on Google Cloud (Cloud Run). Google's privacy policy applies to hosting infrastructure.

Third parties

We don't share your data with advertisers, data brokers, analytics services, or any other third parties.

The outside services involved in running Mark Me Down are Google Cloud, which hosts the app on Cloud Run, and Upstash, which stores short-lived rate-limit state for abuse prevention in production.

The website you ask us to fetch will also receive a request from our server, because retrieving that page is the core action you asked us to perform.

Contact

If you have a question about this privacy policy, you can reach us at hello@markmedown.app.

Changes to this policy

If we make a meaningful change to how we handle data, we'll update this page and change the “last updated” date at the top. We won't make changes that contradict the core principle here: we don't store your URLs or your content.