Privacy
Last updated: 24 September 2026
This policy describes how NetBlade for iPhone and iPad (on the App Store) handles data. NetBlade is developed by Innovatek Software (Innovatek di Cafaro Carmelina). No account is needed and we collect no personal data for our own purposes: we have no server that receives your scans, your devices or your credentials. It is independent of the NetBlade apps for other platforms: they share no data and do not communicate with one another.
Local network scans (devices, ports, SNMP, diagnostic tools) run and are processed only on your device. Saved results stay in the app's local storage and are never sent to us: Innovatek Software receives no data about your networks.
Exports (CSV, JSON, PDF) and sharing happen only when you ask for them, to the destination you choose.
App data (saved scans, recognised devices, networks, event history) lives in a local database on the device and is included in the device backup (iCloud or computer): that backup stays in your own Apple account, encrypted, and is not accessible to us.
Credentials — SNMP communities and keys, Windows accounts, and the SSH or FTP passwords you choose to remember — are kept only in the iOS Keychain, tied to this device. They are not in the database, not in the device backup and not in the backup file you can export from the app (.nbak).
With the credentials you enter, NetBlade queries routers, switches and printers over SNMP and, with NetBlade Pro, reads the Windows PCs (SMB and WinRM) and Linux machines (SSH) on your network. It does so only while the app is open: iOS gives it no way to watch your network in the background. Use these features only on networks and machines you are entitled to administer.
iOS asks for the "local network" permission the first time: without it the app cannot see a single device. Location is required by the system only to read the name of the Wi‑Fi network you are connected to. There is never background location access.
You may deny any permission: the features that do not depend on it stay available.
A few tools, and only when you start them yourself, query public third-party services: ipinfo.io and ipwho.is for public-IP information and the geolocation of an IP address; speed.cloudflare.com for the speed test; crt.sh for a domain's certificates; internetdb.shodan.io to see which ports of your public IP are exposed to the internet; services.nvd.nist.gov (National Vulnerability Database) for the known vulnerabilities of a recognised program; api.pwnedpasswords.com (Have I Been Pwned) to check whether a password has leaked. In that last case the password never leaves the device: only the beginning of its cryptographic hash is sent (k‑anonymity), which cannot be traced back to the password.
The vulnerability check is optional and sends only the name and version of recognised programs.
Each service receives only what that single request needs — the IP address, the domain, the program name or the partial hash — along with the IP address the connection comes from. Scans of your local network never go through any external service.
NetBlade for iPhone and iPad contains no advertising and no advertising SDK, and does not track you.
NetBlade Pro (monthly or yearly subscription) is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never receive or store payment data and we do not know who subscribed: the app asks the App Store, on the device, whether the subscription is active.
Since the app's data lives only on your devices, you can delete it at any time by deleting the app. For any privacy request (access, rectification, erasure) write to info@innovateksoftware.com.
Innovatek di Cafaro Carmelina — P.IVA / VAT IT06424410659 — info@innovateksoftware.com
