PhotoTag · Legal

PhotoTag Privacy Policy

Effective date: [DATE]
Publisher: OPM-Services, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“we”, “us”)
Contact: support@opm-servicesllc.com

PhotoTag (“the app”) adds descriptive information (what the event was, when and where it was) to the photos and videos you take, using your phone’s calendar. It does all of this on your phone. We do not run a server for the app, we do not have user accounts, and we do not receive your photos, your calendar or anything else you put into the app.

The short version

• We collect no personal data. The app sends nothing about you to us. On Android, Google’s own billing component sends technical diagnostics to Google; see “Google’s billing component” below.
• No account, no ads, no tracking, and no selling or sharing of your data.
• The app uses your calendar, camera, microphone and photo library only on your phone, and only when you allow it.
• The information the app writes into a photo travels with that photo when you share a copy. You decide what to share.
• The app does not use facial recognition or any other biometric technology, does not use advertising identifiers, and does not fingerprint your device.

What the app uses, and why

The app asks for each permission when you first use the feature that needs it. You can say no, or turn a permission off later in your phone’s settings. The features that need it then stop working; nothing else changes.

Calendar

• Why: to find the event (and any longer event around it, such as a trip) that was happening when a photo was taken, and to write that event’s details into the photo.
• Writing to your calendar: you can create and edit events in the app. The app also saves the details you add in the app (description, keywords, people, copyright) in that event’s notes. Those events and notes live in your phone’s calendar. If your calendar syncs to an account (for example iCloud, Google or Microsoft), that provider syncs them under its own privacy terms, as it does for any event you create.
• The app does not send your calendar to us or anyone else.

Camera

• Why: to take photos and record videos inside the app, so they are tagged as they are made.

Microphone and speech

• Why: (1) to record sound with videos you record in the app, and (2) for voice notes: you press the mic and speak a note, which is turned into text and written into the photo.
• The microphone is used only while you are recording a video or holding a voice note open. No audio recording is kept. For voice notes, only the text is kept.
• Speech is converted to text on your phone. Your voice is not sent to any server. The app starts dictation only after the phone confirms it can recognise your language on the phone itself, and every start asks for on-device recognition. On phones that cannot do that, the mic button is turned off with a short explanation and you type your note instead. On Android this needs Android 13 or later and the language’s on-device model.
• The microphone button on your phone’s keyboard is part of the keyboard, not PhotoTag. The app does not control where the keyboard sends audio.

Photos and videos (your photo library)

• Why: to save the tagged photos and videos you take, to put them in an album, and for Tag afterward, which finds photos you took with your regular camera and saves tagged copies of them.
• Your originals are not changed. Tag afterward saves a new, tagged copy next to the original.
• Choosing photos: you pick the photos with your phone’s own photo picker, so the app sees only the photos you pick. The app tells you every time that it saved a tagged copy and your original is unchanged.
• Location already in your photos: if your camera saved a GPS location in a photo, the tagged copy keeps it, as the camera wrote it. The app reads that location only to keep it in the copy.

Location

• Recording your location is off by default. Without it, the “where” in a tag comes from the location text of the calendar event, if the event has one.
• If you turn it on, the app asks your phone for permission once and uses your location only while the app is open. For photos you take in PhotoTag, the position is saved inside the photo and in its companion file. Taking a photo is never delayed waiting for a position. You can turn it off at any time in Settings, and you can leave it out when you share a photo.
• Photos you choose from your library never get your current position added. If one already has its own location, that stays.
• The app does not send your coordinates anywhere. “Show on map” opens the maps app on your phone with the coordinates the photo already carries.

Contacts

• The app does not read your contacts.

Names of people invited to an event

• An optional setting, off by default, writes the names of the people invited to a calendar event into the photos taken during it. Only names are used, never email addresses. You are left out, and so is anyone who declined. A confirmation is shown before the setting turns on.
• If you turn it on, those names travel with every copy of the photo you share, and anyone who receives the copy can read them with ordinary photo tools. Turn it on only if you are comfortable with that.
• Today, a “People” list you type into an event in the app is kept in your calendar. It is not written into photos. It is written into the separate .xmp “sidecar” description file the app makes for each video.

What travels with your photos

The app writes information into each photo file, and into a small companion .xmp file for each photo and video. That information is the event name (and any longer event it falls within), the event’s description, keywords, location text and time, any voice note text, copyright text you entered, and a file name based on the event. This is the point of the app: the information stays with the photo. Anyone you send the photo or sidecar to can read it. Calendar notes that other apps put on an event are never put into photos.

Before you share a photo, you choose which details go into the shared copy. Location, meaning both the place name and the GPS position, is one choice and is left out unless you switch it on. The date and time always stay. The copy is a new file; the photo in your library is not changed. If you choose to leave location out and the app cannot remove it from that kind of file, it will not share the file rather than send it with the location still in. With the event left out, the shared file gets a neutral name.

Some apps and social networks remove this kind of information when you upload a photo. Others keep it. We do not control what they do.

What is stored, and where

Everything the app keeps is stored on your phone:

• your settings (album name, file-name style, the location and invitee-name switches);
• photo-numbering counters, and a list of the photos and videos you tagged;
• for each item you tag, a saved copy of the event details used for it (so a later edit can be checked against what was true when the photo was taken);
• the .xmp sidecar files, in the app’s own folder.

Deleting an item’s record also deletes the saved event details for it. You can delete the counters and the list in Settings → Reset counters and records. Your photos and calendar events are not touched. Deleting the app deletes everything it stored; photos it saved to your library stay there.

A later version of the app may reorganize how this data is stored. It stays on your phone.

Your phone’s own backup (for example iCloud or Google backup) may include this data under your backup settings.

Network connections

• PhotoTag sends nothing to us. We run no server for the app. The app contains no analytics, crash reporting or advertising code, and no purchase-verification service run by us or for us.
• Purchases: when you subscribe or restore purchases, and when the app checks your subscription after the free period has ended, the app asks Apple’s App Store or Google Play on your phone. Your phone’s store connection then talks to Apple or Google, under their own privacy policies. During the free period the app does not ask the store.
• Links you tap: “Show on map” hands the photo’s place to your phone’s maps app, and “Send feedback” opens your email app with a draft. What those apps do is covered by their own privacy policies; PhotoTag sends nothing itself.

When the app talks to the App Store or Google Play (to show prices, complete a purchase or check a subscription), that connection is made by your phone’s store software and is covered by Apple’s or Google’s privacy policy. PhotoTag adds nothing to it.

Google’s billing component (Android only)

On Android, the app includes Google’s in-app billing component (the Google Play Billing Library), which handles subscriptions. That component sends Google technical diagnostics about its own operation, such as your device model, Android version, language and country, time zone, mobile carrier and the app’s version. Google receives this under its own privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy) and uses it to improve the component. PhotoTag does not receive it, and we cannot see or delete it. The iPhone app does not include this component. We declare it in Google Play’s Data safety section under App info and performance: Diagnostics.

Data we collect, sell or share

• Collected by us: none.
• Sold: none. Shared by us: none. Sent to Google by its own billing component (Android only): technical diagnostics, described above. Used for advertising or tracking: none.
• California residents: we do not sell or share personal information as defined by California law, and have not done so in the preceding 12 months.
• Sharing you choose: when you share a photo, a video or a sidecar export through your phone’s share menu, it goes where you send it. That is your choice, and we do not receive a copy.

Purchases

PhotoTag is free for a limited time, until March 31, 2027. That date is the same for everyone. After it, a subscription is required for everyone to keep using the app.

Payments are handled entirely by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). We do not receive your payment card or bank details. The app reads your subscription status (which plan, and until when) from Apple or Google on your phone, and that status is not sent to us. You can restore an earlier purchase with “Restore purchases” on the app’s subscription screen. We receive only the sales reports Apple and Google give every developer (for example, the number of subscriptions and downloads). Those reports do not identify you to us.

Feedback

If you email us, for example from the “Send feedback” link in Settings, we receive what you choose to send: your email address and your message. The link opens your own email app with a draft that names the app version, the phone’s system and its version, and nothing else; nothing is sent unless you send the email. We use it only to reply and to improve the app. We do not add you to a mailing list. We keep feedback emails for 12 months after our last exchange with you, then delete them, unless we need them longer to resolve a dispute or meet a legal duty.

Children

PhotoTag is not directed at children under 13, or under the age of digital consent where you live (up to 16 in parts of the European Union), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we will delete it.

Your rights

Because we hold no personal data about you, there is normally nothing for us to access, correct or delete. Your data stays on your phone, under your control. If you email us, you can ask us to see, correct or delete what you sent us, and we will within 45 days.

For users in the EEA, UK and Switzerland

For the limited data we do hold — emails you send us — OPM-Services, LLC is the controller. We process them on the basis of our legitimate interest in answering you and improving the app (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), keep them as described under “Feedback”, and store them in the United States, where data protection law differs from yours. You have the right to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of that data, to object to or restrict its processing, and to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority. Email support@opm-servicesllc.com to exercise these rights. Everything the app itself does happens on your phone under your control; we are not the controller of your photos, videos or calendar.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version at this address with a new effective date, and tell you in the app if the change is material. If the app ever starts to collect any data, we will update this policy and the store privacy labels before that version is released.

Contact

OPM-Services, LLC, 10333 Avenida Magnifica, San Diego, CA 92131, USA
support@opm-servicesllc.com