Privacy Statement for iOS apps.

My vision for my iOS apps is to not collect any personally identifiable data, and in particular, design the apps to not profile app usage within or across apps. Any deviations from this plan will be clearly specified with the application in the App store.

Special Considerations

Pic Pals

Pic Pals stores photos, because sending a photo to a printer somewhere else in the house is what the app is for. Here is exactly where they go. Your photos are stored in your own iCloud account. When you add a photo to a print queue, Pic Pals saves a reduced-size copy of it, along with your framing choices and any caption text, to a private area of your personal iCloud storage. It is your Apple Account and your storage quota. None of this information is contained on any server or database that I manage.

Photos in a shared queue are visible to everyone invited to that queue.

This is the point of the app, but it is worth being plain about: if you join a family queue, the photos you add can be seen by the person who owns the printer and by everyone else they have invited. Photos you have already added stay in the queue even if your access is later removed, until someone deletes them from the queue.

Nothing is sent to me, and nothing is sent to anyone else. There are no analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifiers, and no third-party software of any kind in either app. Apple is the only other party involved, as the provider of iCloud.

Pic Pals never asks for your location. If you turn on captions, the app can name the place a photo was taken using GPS information already saved inside that photo by the camera. Turning that coordinate into a place name requires asking Apple's mapping service, so that one coordinate is sent to Apple. The app never reads your device's current location and contains no location-tracking code.

Pic Pals never asks for access to your photo library. You pick photos through Apple's own photo picker, which hands the app only the photos you choose.

Removing your photos. Delete a photo from the queue in either app and its stored copy goes with it. If you own the queue, you can stop sharing it at any time, which removes everyone's access at once. Deleting the app from all your devices and removing Pic Pals data from iCloud settings clears the rest.

Children. Family photos often include children. Pic Pals has no accounts, no profiles, no messaging, and no way for anyone outside a queue you control to see anything — but photos in a queue are visible to everyone invited to it, so invite only people you would hand a photo album to.