Privacy
Your photos stay on your phone. Fondly never sends them anywhere, and nobody at Fondly sees them. What Fondly learns about them stays with you.
Your photos
Fondly reads the photos you allow it to use and shows them back to you in a feed. There is no account, no advertising, and nothing that follows you around.
People and pets
Fondly reads the faces in your photos, on your phone, to group photos of the same person, and does the same for the dogs and cats it finds. For each face it keeps where the face sits in the photo and a set of numbers, made on your phone, that describes it; it never keeps a picture of the face. Those numbers, the groups built from them, and the names you type are used only to group and show your own photos: the circles under a photo, a person's feed, hiding a person, and ranking your feed by the people you like to see. All of it stays in Fondly's database on your phone and in your own device backup. None of it is ever sent to the developer or to anyone else. It is kept until the photo leaves your library, you turn grouping off or delete all face data in Settings (either one deletes every face, group, and name), you erase all Fondly data, or you delete Fondly. A person you hid stays hidden under the name you gave, so you can find the hide.
Places
When Fondly names a place, or formats a photo's date in the time zone where it was taken, Apple's geocoding service receives that photo's coordinates. Nothing else about the photo is sent, and Fondly receives no copy of your library.
Feedback
A shake report goes as an email from your own mail app, and you can read all of it in the mail before it goes: your note; the app and system versions, language and free space; counts of what Fondly holds and how far it has got; its settings; the numbers behind the photo on screen and the feed's learned weights; a short log of what Fondly was doing; and, if you leave it in, a screenshot with your photos blurred unless you choose to show them. None of it holds a photo, a face, a place, or a name you typed. If you choose, it also includes a map of your People groups: each group's size, the name you gave it, and how alike its faces are, as numbers, with no photos or faces. Nothing is sent unless you send it.
What Fondly keeps
Fondly keeps its index, names, hides, bookmarks, and what it has learned until you remove them. In Fondly's Settings, Reset feed learning starts the feed over and leaves your hides in place, and Erase all Fondly data removes everything Fondly holds without changing your Photos library.
Apple
Fondly uses Apple's services for your iCloud library, place names, notifications, sharing, and device backups. Apple handles those under your own Apple settings and Apple's terms. Fondly's developer collects no data.
Contact
Questions about this policy: support@scrollfondly.com.