Privacy policy: Plain ID Photo (working name)

Status: this app is in development and has not been released yet. This policy describes what the app is designed to do, as written in its specification; it will be reviewed again before release.

In short

The app turns a photo into an ID, passport or visa photo at the right size with a plain background. Everything is done on your phone. It has no account, no advertising, no analytics, no watermark and no tracking, and it contains no network code. Nothing is uploaded. The image-processing models are bundled in the app and run locally; the app does not guarantee that any office will accept a self-made photo.

What is stored on your phone

• Settings only, in a local database: language, theme, units, default paper and print resolution, sheet margins, the last document you chose, and optional lab profiles that you create to correct print size.
• One unfinished draft at a time, so that you can continue after the app is closed. Your original photo is never modified. The working files of a draft are kept in the app's cache and are removed when you press Done or Discard, and at launch after 24 hours. There is no gallery of past photos.
• Exported files carry no GPS, device or time metadata.
• An ID photo is sensitive. The About page says where files live and how to remove them; a "Clear work files" button in Settings is yours to press.

Permissions

• Camera: asked the first time you tap "Take a photo", after a one-line explanation, never at launch. Choosing an existing photo uses the system photo picker and needs no permission.
• iPhone: add-only access to Photos, asked the first time you tap "Save to Photos".
• Android: no storage permission on current versions; on Android 9 and older, the write-storage permission is asked only at your first save.
• No microphone, location, contacts or notifications. Android release builds have no internet permission.

Backup and export

There is nothing to back up beyond a few settings. You export the finished photo as a file for an online upload, or as a sheet for printing, through the share sheet, to Photos or to a printer. You decide where files go.

What the app does not do

No advertising, no analytics, no accounts, no payments, no network use, no telemetry in the bundled image libraries. Planned store privacy labels: App Store "Data Not Collected".

Contact

Questions about privacy: plainapps@tuta.com.