Privacy Policy

Who is responsible for your data

Feathy is made by an independent developer based in France (European Union). For the purposes of EU data protection law (GDPR/RGPD), that developer is the “data controller” for the limited processing described here — even though, as explained throughout, that processing happens entirely on your own device and the developer receives none of your data.

• Contact: hello.feathy@outlook.com
• Developer identity: The developer's trader identity and contact details are shown on Feathy's App Store listing.

We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer, and are not required to, because Feathy does not carry out large‑scale or high‑risk processing of personal data.

Information Feathy accesses

Your photo library (with your permission). Feathy asks for access to your photos so it can identify large or redundant files and help you manage your library's storage. This access is used only on your device, and only while you are using the app. You can change or revoke it at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos › Feathy.

On‑device face recognition. To offer “Find someone” — gathering a person's photos so you can tuck them away or delete them — Feathy uses Apple's on‑device Vision and machine‑learning frameworks to recognize faces. The facial recognition data this creates (“faceprints”) is considered biometric data, a special category of personal data under EU law, so Feathy creates it only with your explicit consent, given when you turn the feature on. The analysis runs only on your iPhone. The faceprints are stored only on your device, are never uploaded, and are never seen by or sent to the developer; they are used only to match photos within your own library. You can turn the feature off at any time, and the faceprints are removed when you delete the app. Because they never leave your device, the developer could not access, export, or delete them even if asked — they are entirely under your control.

iCloud photos. Some of your photos may be stored only in iCloud rather than on your device. When Feathy needs one — to show a thumbnail, or to include it in a search — it asks iOS to download that photo to your device. The “Find someone” face search downloads iCloud photos only while you are on Wi‑Fi, never over cellular. In every case this is Apple's iCloud delivering your own photos to your own device; Feathy does not upload or send your photos to iCloud, to the developer, or to anyone else — it has no server to send them to.

Deleting, hiding, and changing photos

Every action that removes, hides, compresses, or converts a photo goes through Apple's Photos system and its confirmation dialog. Feathy does not delete, hide, or modify any photo without your explicit confirmation.

• “Tuck away” moves photos to your Photos “Hidden” album (protected by Face ID). They are hidden, not deleted.
• Compressing or converting always saves the smaller copy before removing the original. The original then waits 30 days in “Recently Deleted,” where you can restore it.

No data collection

Under Apple's definitions, on‑device processing that is never transmitted off the device and never linked to your identity is not “data collection.” The only time the developer receives any personal data is if you choose to email us — see If you contact us below.

We do not sell or share your data

Feathy never sells, rents, or shares your data with anyone, for any purpose. There is nothing to sell or share: no analytics, no advertising, no trackers, no third‑party SDKs, and no information about you or your photos ever reaches the developer or a third party.

The legal bases we rely on

EU law asks us to state the legal basis for each kind of processing. Because everything happens on your device and under your control, the bases are simple:

• Core features (scanning your library on the device, finding duplicates and similar photos, showing what takes up space). Basis: performing the service you asked Feathy to perform, together with your own control of your own data. You start this by granting Feathy access to your photos, and you can withdraw it at any time in Settings.
• On‑device face recognition (“Find someone”). The faceprints this creates are biometric data. Basis: your explicit consent (GDPR Art. 9(2)(a)), given when you turn the feature on. You can withdraw that consent at any time by turning the feature off. The faceprints never leave your device, and the developer neither receives nor processes them.

If you contact us

If you email us — for support, a question, or to exercise a privacy right — we necessarily receive your email address and whatever you write. We use it only to reply to you and resolve your request. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering people who contact us (and, where relevant, handling a legal request). We keep it only as long as needed to handle your query, and then delete it. This is the only situation in which Feathy's developer receives any personal data from you, and it happens only because you chose to write to us.

How long things are kept

We do not keep any of your photo, library, or face data — it stays on your device, and we never receive it. On your device, that data lasts exactly as long as you keep it: your photos remain until you delete them, the on‑device faceprints remain until you turn off face recognition or delete the app, and deleting the app removes everything Feathy created on your device.

Any support email you send us is kept only as long as we need it to handle your question, and is then deleted.

International data transfers

Because Feathy sends none of your data off your device to the developer or anyone else, there are no international transfers of your data by Feathy — nothing crosses a border because nothing leaves your iPhone. Any handling of your purchase and App Store information is done by Apple, under Apple's own privacy policy and its own transfer safeguards.

Purchases

Feathy offers a one‑time in‑app purchase that unlocks the app's full functionality. Payments are handled entirely by Apple's App Store. Feathy never sees your name, card number, or Apple ID; Apple only tells the app whether the purchase is active. Feathy stores no purchase identifier and cannot link the purchase to you. The purchase can be shared with your family through Apple's Family Sharing. Apple processes your purchase and App Store information as its own controller, under Apple's privacy policy, and any questions or rights about that payment data are handled by Apple.

Your rights

EU data protection law gives you the rights to access your personal data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its processing, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. With Feathy these are unusually easy to exercise, because your data lives on your own device, under your direct control:

• Access, correct, delete, or export your photos and library data directly in Apple's Photos app, at any time.
• Withdraw consent, object, or restrict by turning off face recognition, or by changing or revoking Feathy's access in Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos › Feathy.
• Erase everything Feathy created by deleting the app, which also removes the on‑device faceprints.

The developer holds no photo, library, or face data, so there is nothing there to show, correct, or delete. The one exception is a support email you send us: you can ask us to show or delete that correspondence, and we will.

Your right to complain

If you believe we have handled your personal data unlawfully, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. Because Feathy is based in France, ours is the CNIL:

If you live elsewhere in the EU or EEA, you may also contact the data protection authority in your own country. We would prefer you email us first at hello.feathy@outlook.com so we can try to help.

California privacy rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident: Feathy does not collect personal information through the app, does not sell your personal information, and does not “share” it for cross‑context behavioral advertising — there is no advertising, no tracker, and no third‑party analytics, so there is nothing to sell or share. Because we do not collect or hold your personal information, the CCPA/CPRA rights to know, delete, correct, and opt out are honored by design: there is nothing on our side to disclose, delete, or correct. If you email us, see If you contact us for the limited information we then receive. You will never be treated differently for exercising a privacy right.

Children

Feathy is a general‑audience utility and is not directed at children; it is not offered in the App Store “Kids” category. Feathy collects no personal data from anyone, including children, so it does not knowingly process the data of children under the digital‑consent age (16 under the GDPR, set at 15 in France) or of children under 13 for the purposes of the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If you believe a child has emailed us, write to hello.feathy@outlook.com and we will delete the message.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new date, and any material change will be clearly indicated.