Ferrotype Privacy Policy

Last updated: 14 October 2026

Ferrotype is a photo album app. Your photos are yours — the app does not upload them anywhere, and we do not collect, store, or have access to them.

How your data is handled

Photos. The app reads photos from your device's photo library to display them. Photos are processed on-device and are never transmitted to us or any third party.
Face recognition. Face detection and recognition run entirely on your device using on-device machine learning. Face data never leaves your iPhone.
Locations. If you enable location captions, the app reverse-geocodes photo coordinates to place names. This uses Apple's geocoding service, which means coordinates are sent to Apple as part of that system service. We do not receive them.
iCloud sync. If you enable iCloud sync, your albums and settings sync via Apple's CloudKit to your own iCloud account. We cannot access this data.
Curated albums. Album definitions and preferences are stored on your device (and in your iCloud account if sync is on).

No analytics or crash reporting frameworks.
No advertising identifiers.
No accounts or sign-in (beyond Apple's own iCloud, which we don't control).
No access to your photos, faces, or albums from our side — there is no server component.

If you have questions about this policy, contact us via the support page.