Zero Knowledge
How RightPlace keeps your data private: it is encrypted so that only you can open it, never us.
RightPlace is built on a simple promise. Your data is yours, and only you can read it.
We call this a zero knowledge design. It lets RightPlace store and sync your work across your devices without ever being able to look inside it.
What zero knowledge means
Your data is locked on your own device before it ever leaves it. What reaches RightPlace is sealed and unreadable. We keep that sealed data safe and in sync, but we cannot open it. Neither can anyone who might break into our servers, because the thing that opens it stays with you.
Why it matters
- Your projects, notes, settings, and connected accounts stay private to you.
- If our servers were ever breached, an attacker would find only sealed data they cannot open.
- Privacy is not a setting you switch on. It is how RightPlace works by default.
How this is different
Many apps encrypt your data and then keep a copy of the key for themselves. That is convenient, but it means the company, and anyone who compromises it, can read what you store.
RightPlace keeps the key with you instead.
What it means for you
Day to day, you do not have to think about any of this. You sign in and your work is simply there, in sync across your devices.
The one thing to remember is your recovery code. It is the key to your own data, and because only you hold it, keeping a safe copy is up to you. See Recovery Code for how to save it.
In short
- Your data is encrypted so that only you can open it.
- RightPlace stores and syncs it, but cannot read it.
- Your recovery code is yours alone. Keep it somewhere safe.