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Privacy Policy

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In one sentence

Neither the Poptone app nor this website collects anything about you.

Those are two different surfaces, so this policy takes them one at a time. The app comes first, because that is the part that touches your photos.

Who we are

Poptone is made by Federico Cossia, based in Argentina, working alone. For anything in this document — a question, a correction, a request to delete your data — write to support@poptone.app. It is read by the person who wrote this page.

The app

What it collects

Nothing. There is no account, no sign-up, no login, no profile, no identifier, no analytics event and no crash report. There is no server for any of it to go to.

That is not a statement of intent. It is a property of the build:

  • The app makes no network requests of its own. The only code in it that reaches the internet is Apple’s StoreKit, and only when you buy or restore a purchase.
  • There are no third-party SDKs — no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no attribution. The project has no external software dependencies of any kind.
  • There is no advertising anywhere in the app, so it never asks you for tracking permission.
  • The app’s privacy manifest declares no tracking and no collected data types, which is what Apple shows on the App Store product page.
  • We do not sell, rent or share data with anyone, because we do not have any.

What the app asks permission for, and why

Camera. Only to take the photos you develop inside the app. No image from the camera leaves your device unless you export it yourself.

Photos, for importing. The app uses Apple’s system photo picker, which hands over only the specific photos you pick. Poptone never sees the rest of your library and cannot browse it.

Photos, for saving. Permission to add photos to your camera roll, and only to add. The app never reads or changes photos already there. It is asked the first time you export something from Poptone’s own gallery — never automatically when you take a picture.

Purchases. Handled by Apple through the App Store. Poptone never sees or stores your payment details; Apple does, under Apple’s own privacy policy.

The app never asks for your location, because it contains no location code at all. Nothing Poptone writes into a photo records where you were.

Where things live on your phone

Photos you take or import are saved in Poptone’s own gallery, inside the app’s private storage. They are not added to your camera roll automatically; moving a photo into the system Photos app is always a deliberate action you take from Poptone’s gallery.

Photos you export live in your camera roll like any other photo, covered by your own iCloud and backup settings.

Preferences — whether you have seen the intro, which machine you used last, which machine today’s rotation unlocked — are stored locally through the system’s standard preferences storage. Seven values in total, none of them about you, none of them sent anywhere.

Device backups. If you back up your iPhone, that backup includes Poptone’s internal gallery, the same way it includes other apps’ data. The backup is yours and is handled by Apple. Poptone cannot read it.

Purchase history is held by Apple, tied to your Apple Account. Poptone only asks Apple whether a purchase is currently valid.

Your control over it

There is no external database to request access to, correct or delete, because there is no external database. Everything is on your own device:

  • To delete one photo, delete it from Poptone’s gallery, or from the Photos app if you already exported it.
  • To delete everything Poptone stores, delete the app. That removes its gallery and all of its settings. Photos you exported stay where they are — they belong to your Photos library now.
  • Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. The support page explains how.

This website

What we collect

Nothing.

This site used to have a waitlist: a form that asked for an email address so we could write once on launch day. That form is gone. There is no field on any page, and with it went the only personal data this site ever asked for.

Reading this site leaves us with nothing at all.

Who hosts it

The site runs on a private server rented from Hostinger International Limited, physically in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. That is outside Argentina and outside the European Economic Area.

Like any web server, it keeps ordinary access logs, which include the IP address a request came from. That is the minimum a server does in order to work. We do not use them, do not analyse them, do not cross-reference them with anything and do not build anything from them.

There is no other company in between. Behind this site there is no email platform, no CRM, no analytics account and no form provider.

No cookies, no tracking

This site sets no cookies. It runs no analytics, loads no third-party scripts, embeds no fonts or images from anyone else’s servers, and carries no ads, no pixels and no social buttons. There is nothing here that could follow you anywhere, which is why you never saw a cookie banner: there was nothing to ask you about.

Because we track nobody, a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal from your browser changes nothing about how this site behaves. There is no tracking to switch off and no sale of personal data to opt out of.

If you were on the waitlist

If you left your email while the form existed, that address was deleted along with the form. No copy was kept, nothing was migrated anywhere, and you will not get the launch email you were promised: the way to hear about it will be the App Store, the same as for everyone else. To confirm that, or for anything else, write to support@poptone.app.

Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us whether we hold any data about you, ask for a copy, ask us to correct it, delete it or stop using it. The short answer today is that we hold nothing, but the request gets answered anyway, within 30 days at most, at support@poptone.app.

There is no automated decision-making and no profiling.

  • European Economic Area and United Kingdom. These are your rights under the GDPR and UK GDPR, and you can complain to the data protection authority where you live.
  • Argentina. These are your rights under Law 25.326, and you can complain to the Agencia de Acceso a la Información Pública.
  • California and other US states. We do not sell or share personal data in the sense those state laws give those terms, and never have.

Required notice under Argentine law

Under Argentine Law 25.326, the data subject has the right to access their personal data free of charge at intervals of no less than six months, unless a legitimate interest to do so sooner is demonstrated, as established in article 14, subsection 3 of Law 25.326.

The Agencia de Acceso a la Información Pública, the enforcement authority for Law 25.326, is empowered to hear complaints and claims regarding failures to comply with personal data protection rules.

If something goes wrong

If we ever did hold personal data and it were exposed, we would say so publicly on this site within 72 hours of finding out, and would notify the relevant authority wherever the law requires it.

Children

Poptone is not directed at children under 13, or the minimum age that applies where you live. The app collects nothing from anyone, so it collects nothing from a child either.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that matters — new data collected, a new purpose, a new third party — it is updated here with a new date before the change takes effect, not after. Where the law requires consent, you would be asked for it first, and silence would not count as agreement.

There is no data to repurpose today, and if this site ever asked for some again, it would be said here before it was asked for.

Version history

  • 1.1 — 2026-07-30. The waitlist was removed, and with it the only personal data this site collected. The site stopped being hosted on Netlify and moved to a server of our own; who hosts it and where it sits were corrected accordingly.
  • 1.0 — 2026-07-29. First published version, before the app’s release.

Contact

Questions, requests and deletions: support@poptone.app.