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Privacy Policy

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In one sentence

Your photos stay on your device. Apple and RevenueCat handle purchases. The free plan may use Google AdMob for a banner in Settings, ads after some camera photos and voluntary rewarded ads before certain imports; its SDK can process device and ad interaction data.

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

Poptone does not require an account, sign-up, login or profile. It does not send your photos, contacts or profile information to Poptone, RevenueCat, Google or ad technology partners. Purchases and advertising involve the third-party processing described below.

In the planned 1.0 build:

  • The app’s photo capture, development and gallery stay on the device. Apple’s StoreKit handles the App Store transaction, and the RevenueCat SDK makes the network requests needed to validate purchases, restore them and keep subscription access current.
  • RevenueCat is used for purchases, restores and subscription status. It is not the ad provider.
  • Google AdMob is used to serve a banner in Settings, ads after some captures and voluntary rewarded ads before certain imports to eligible free users. Its SDK may process an IP address (which can indicate approximate location), device identifiers (including the advertising identifier only when authorized), diagnostic and performance data, ads seen, and app or ad interactions for ad delivery, measurement and fraud prevention. Google’s Mobile Ads SDK data disclosure describes these categories. Google may work with ad technology partners for delivery and measurement; the applicable consent message lists the partners and their purposes where required. No photo is sent to Google or these partners.
  • The app configures AdMob for non-personalized ads and disables its publisher first-party ID. For eligible free users, after Google’s applicable consent flow, iOS may ask for permission to track across apps and websites using Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt. If you decline or tracking is restricted, Poptone may still show ads, but Google does not send the IDFA with ad requests. If you allow it, the identifier may be shared with ad partners to measure ads and limit repeats across apps. The app checks the applicable consent and permission state before requesting an ad.
  • RevenueCat purchase information and advertising data handled by Google and its ad technology partners serve their separate purposes. Poptone does not receive payment details or the photos on your device.

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. Payment is handled by Apple through the App Store. Poptone never sees or stores your payment details. RevenueCat receives the purchase and subscription information needed to validate transactions, restore purchases and keep Poptone’s access status current. RevenueCat also creates an anonymous App User ID because Poptone has no login. Apple and RevenueCat handle that information under their own privacy policies. No photo is sent to RevenueCat.

Advertising and privacy choices. The first three successful free-plan imports need no ad; from the fourth, each new import offers an opt-in rewarded ad, and an unavailable or failed ad does not prevent import. When RevenueCat has confirmed the free plan, the app may ask Google’s User Messaging Platform to update the applicable privacy choice before loading a banner, an ad after a capture or a rewarded ad offered before import. If the flow fails or access cannot be confirmed, no ad is requested. If your region requires an ongoing privacy-options entry point, it appears in Settings. An active Pro subscription removes ads for its duration; Founders Lifetime removes them permanently. Google’s privacy policy explains its processing and controls.

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 — such as whether you have seen the intro and which machine you used last — are stored locally through the system’s standard preferences storage. The Google consent flow may also store your privacy choices on the device.

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, and synchronized with RevenueCat so Poptone can recognize your access rights on the device. RevenueCat associates that purchase record with the anonymous App User ID generated by its SDK. Poptone receives the resulting access status, not your payment details.

Your control over it

Poptone does not maintain its own account or photo database. Photos and preferences remain on your device; purchase records are processed by Apple and RevenueCat, and Google and its ad technology partners handle the ad-related data described above:

  • 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 locally, 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 by itself delete Apple’s or RevenueCat’s purchase record; for a privacy request about that record, write to us at the address below.
  • Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. The support page explains how.
  • For an advertising privacy request or choice, use the entry point in Settings when shown, Google’s privacy controls or contact us at the address below.

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 for this website. Behind this site there is no email platform, no CRM, no analytics account and no form provider. RevenueCat and Google AdMob are relevant to the app integrations described above, not to this website.

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. We answer at support@poptone.app within 30 days at most and can direct you to Apple, RevenueCat or Google for data they control.

This website does not profile visitors. The app requests non-personalized ads, but Google’s ad delivery and fraud systems can process the data described above.

  • 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. Contact us for privacy requests and applicable choices about the app’s advertising integration.

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. We do not knowingly ask children to provide personal information. If a purchase is made, Apple and RevenueCat may process the purchase-related information described above.

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.

If this site ever asks for personal data again, we will say so before collecting it.

Version history

  • 1.5 — 2026-09-29. Clarified the planned App Tracking Transparency request and ad delivery when tracking is declined.
  • 1.4 — 2026-09-29. Clarified the first three imports without ads, the rewarded offer from the fourth, and import availability when ad inventory or delivery fails.
  • 1.3 — 2026-09-29. Documented planned free-tier banners and full-screen ads, Google AdMob/UMP, potential SDK data processing and privacy choices. The website itself still has no advertising SDK.
  • 1.2 — 2026-09-16. RevenueCat was added to the app’s purchase flow. The purchase-related information it processes, the anonymous SDK identifier and the absence of photo, analytics, advertising and tracking collection were documented.
  • 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.