Privacy Policy — AperFolio

The short version.

There is no account and no sign-in. We do not run a server for AperFolio and we never receive your data.
Your photographs are never uploaded, copied, or transmitted. AperFolio reads their metadata on your device and stores only a reference to each one.
There is no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, and no third-party SDK in the app.
AperFolio never asks for your location. The only coordinates it knows are the ones your camera wrote into a photograph.
To turn coordinates into place names and to search for a place, the app asks Apple Maps. That is the one time information leaves your device, and it is described in full below.
Deleting the app deletes everything AperFolio has stored.

Who this policy is from

AperFolio (“the app”) is published by Rufus (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what the app does with information when you use it. If you have a question about anything here, write to kowubuntu@gmail.com.

What we collect

Nothing. AperFolio has no server, no account system and no back end. We do not collect, receive, store, or have any means of accessing information about you or your photographs. Everything the app produces stays on your device.

The app contains no analytics framework, no crash reporting service, no advertising identifier, no attribution SDK and no third-party libraries of any kind. It does not track you across apps or websites, and it collects no data that Apple’s App Store privacy labels would classify as linked to you.

Your photographs

With your permission, AperFolio reads your photo library in order to work out which camera and lens made each frame.

What it reads. The EXIF metadata your camera wrote into each photograph — camera make and model, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, capture date, image dimensions, file type, and GPS coordinates where your camera recorded them.
What it stores. That metadata, plus the photo library identifier of the original — a local reference that only means anything on your own device. It is kept in a database inside the app’s own storage on your device.
What it never does. AperFolio does not copy, upload, duplicate, back up, modify or delete your photographs. The originals stay where they are, in your photo library, under your control.

You can grant access to your entire library or to a limited selection, and you can change or revoke that at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos. Revoking it stops the app reading anything new.

Location

AperFolio does not use your device’s location services. It never asks for location permission and cannot see where you are. The app contains no location manager and requests no location authorisation.

The coordinates it works with come from one place only: the GPS data your own camera or phone wrote into a photograph when you took it. You can also type a location onto a frame yourself, or correct one, from the photograph’s detail page.

When information leaves your device

There are three cases, all of them handled by Apple, and none of them reaching us.

1. Place names and place search (Apple Maps)

To show “Kyoto, Japan” instead of a pair of numbers, AperFolio sends the coordinate to Apple’s geocoding service and receives a name back. When you search for a place in the location editor, it sends the text you typed. The Atlas screen also loads map imagery from Apple.

These requests go to Apple, not to us, and are handled under Apple’s Privacy Policy. Apple states that Maps is designed not to associate this kind of request with your Apple Account. We never see the request, the coordinate, or the result. Resolved place names are cached on your device so the same place is only ever asked about once.

If you never open the Atlas and never use the location editor, this does not happen at all.

2. Purchases (Apple StoreKit)

Subscriptions and the one-time purchase are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Apple tells the app whether you currently have an active entitlement; that is all it receives. AperFolio never sees your name, your Apple Account, your payment method, or your billing details, and we have no access to them. Purchases are covered by Apple’s own terms and privacy policy.

3. Sharing, when you choose to

Share cards are composed on your device. Nothing is transmitted until you tap share and choose a destination yourself, at which point the image goes to whichever app or service you picked — and is then governed by that service’s own policy, not this one.

A frame’s place name is off by default on every export. It is printed only if you switch it on for that particular card.

How long anything is kept, and how to remove it

AperFolio’s data lives only on your device, for as long as the app is installed. There is nothing on a server to request, export, or erase.

Delete the app and everything it stored goes with it.
Profile › Clear collection removes every gear and frame record while leaving the app installed.

Because everything is local, the app holds no backup of your collection. If you delete the app, the titles and stories you wrote are gone with it; your photographs themselves are untouched, because they were never AperFolio’s to begin with.

Children

AperFolio is a tool for photographers and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone, children included.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever starts doing something this page does not describe, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will change. Material changes will also be noted in the App Store release notes.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or anything else about privacy: kowubuntu@gmail.com.