Your photos. Your days.

Who is responsible

Photide is made by Charles Ley Baldemor, an independent developer. In this policy, “Photide”, “we” and “us” mean the app and its developer, and “you” means the person using it.

What stays on your iPhone

Photide keeps your library in its private storage on your device. That library contains:

• originals of photographs taken in Photide, using your selected photo-size setting, and any originals imported in earlier versions;
• references and metadata for accessible Apple Photos images when you enable that feature, without copying their originals;
• smaller copies used for browsing, which are re-created from the image pixels and contain no location or camera metadata;
• the date and time of each photograph;
• its coordinates and a short place name, when location is on;
• which photographs you marked as favourites or chose as a day's cover;
• whether each original has been backed up to Google Drive.

This library does not sync between devices. Like other app data, it may be included in your iPhone's own iCloud or computer backups, depending on your iOS settings.

Camera, photo library and motion

Photide asks for camera access so you can take photographs inside the app. It uses the camera only while the capture screen is open.

When you enable Show Apple Photos in Photide, Photide asks for library access and displays the photos you allow. It stores asset references, dates, optional location metadata, and an evictable preview cache limited to 200 MB. Originals remain in Apple Photos. Edits are reflected in Photide; deleting a source or revoking access can make it unavailable. Full-quality viewing may download an image from iCloud Photos.

Apple Photos images are uploaded to Google Drive only after you select and confirm them. Photide prepares a temporary full-quality still image for upload and removes the temporary file afterward. Photos taken inside Photide can back up automatically when that setting is enabled. Existing imported originals are retained on upgrade.

Saving to Photos

When you choose Save to Photos or enable Also save to Photos, Photide requests permission to add captures to Apple Photos. It records the created asset reference to prevent duplicate diary entries. Library access is requested separately when you enable showing Apple Photos or explicitly choose to delete linked Apple Photos copies. Photide does not edit originals. Deletion from Apple Photos is optional and requires your selection and the system confirmation; it can also affect devices using the same iCloud Photos library.

The Today widget

Photide's home screen widget runs in its own process and cannot read the app's storage. So Photide writes a copy of today's photographs — about 900 pixels on the long edge, pixels only, with no location and no camera details — into a container that the app and its widget share on your device. It holds today and at most eight photographs, and older copies are deleted as the day moves on. Nothing in that container leaves your iPhone.

Motion

The water in the Capture button moves as you tilt your phone. To do that, Photide reads which way is down from your iPhone's motion sensor while the calendar is on screen. This is used only to draw the water: it stays on your device, is never stored, and stops when you leave the calendar or close the app.

Location

When the setting Record where I photograph is on, and you have allowed location access while the app is in use, Photide asks iOS for your location once, at the moment you press the shutter. It does not read your location at any other time, does not track you, and never runs in the background.

That location is used to:

• write GPS coordinates into the photograph's original file, as a camera normally would;
• look up a short place name, such as a neighbourhood and country, to name the day (see Apple services);
• show the photograph on your map.

You can turn the setting off in Photide, or remove location access in iOS Settings, at any time. Photographs are still saved, just without a place. Clear saved places in Photide's settings removes stored coordinates and place names from its library. Coordinates already written into original files, including copies already backed up to Google Drive, stay in those files.

Google account and Google Drive

Connecting Google Drive is optional. Photide works fully without it.

What Photide asks Google for

• Your email address and Google account identifier (the openid, email and profile permissions). Photide stores only the email address and identifier, to show which account is connected and to make sure a photograph is never uploaded into a different person's Drive. It does not store your name or profile picture.
• Access to files Photide creates in your Drive (the drive.file permission). Photide cannot see, open, change or delete any other file in your Google Drive.

What Photide does with that access

• Creates a folder named Photide in your Drive.
• Uploads the saved file of each photograph you back up — including its date, camera details and, if recorded, its location — into that folder.
• Labels each uploaded file with an internal photograph identifier and a checksum, so a retried upload never creates a duplicate.
• Checks whether a file it previously uploaded still exists.

Uploads go directly from your iPhone to Google. They do not pass through any server run by Photide, and the developer cannot see your Google data or files.

Where your Google credentials are kept

The sign-in tokens Google issues are stored in your iPhone's Keychain, restricted to that device. They are never sent anywhere except to Google.

Sharing

Photide does not share, sell or transfer any data received from Google to anyone. It is not used for advertising or to train artificial intelligence or machine-learning models.

Photide's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Disconnecting

In Photide's settings, Disconnect Drive removes the credentials from your iPhone. Choosing Disconnect and remove Photide's access also revokes the permission with Google. You can revoke access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Disconnecting does not delete files already in your Drive; you can delete them in Google Drive.

Apple services

Photide uses two Apple services built into iOS, which are covered by Apple's privacy policy:

• Geocoding. To turn coordinates into a place name, Photide sends that one location to Apple and keeps only the short name it returns. This happens only when location is on.
• Maps. When you open the map, Apple's map service loads the areas you view.

What the Photide iPhone app never does

• Run servers or collect your data on them.
• Include analytics, advertising or tracking software in the app.
• Track your location in the background.
• Use face recognition, or analyse the content of your photographs.
• Create public links or share your photographs with anyone.
• Sell, rent or trade any personal information.

Keeping and deleting data

Your library stays on your iPhone until you remove it.

• Removing a photograph moves it to Photide's Recently Deleted. Put Back restores its diary entry without uploading it. Local originals continue to use storage until you explicitly delete them permanently from Photide. A small metadata record prevents removed photos being rediscovered automatically.
• Other copies are unchanged by default. You can separately choose to move selected, linked Google Drive backups to Trash or delete linked Apple Photos copies. Those services have their own recovery and retention rules. Put Back restores only the Photide entry; recover a deleted Apple Photos original in Apple Photos, or use Restore Drive backup while that backup remains in Drive Trash.
• Deleting the Photide app deletes its library and stored places from your iPhone, subject to any device backups you have made.
• Files in Google Drive remain in your account unless you explicitly choose to remove them through Photide or Google Drive. Photide never empties Drive Trash.

The developer does not hold your app library; you control it on your device and in your Google account. Android early-access signup responses are separate and can be deleted on request as described below.

Security

Photide's library files use iOS data protection, so they cannot be read after your iPhone restarts until you unlock it for the first time. Google credentials are kept in the Keychain. Connections to Google use HTTPS. Google Drive files are protected by Google's own security; Photide does not add its own end-to-end encryption to them.

Children

Photide and the early-access signup are not directed at children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has submitted personal information through the signup form, contact us to request its removal.

This website

photide.vercel.app is hosted by Vercel, which records the ordinary server information any website receives when a page is requested.

The site also uses Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights: a count of page views and how quickly pages load. They set no cookies, build no profile, and cannot follow you to any other site. What the developer sees is a total — how many people opened a page, roughly where in the world, and which browser — never an individual. Nothing from the app, your photographs or your Google account is involved, and none of it is sold or shared.

Sending a mail from the address on this site is, of course, an ordinary email: it reaches the developer's inbox.

Android early access

Joining the Android early-access list is optional. The signup opens Google Forms, a service provided by Google, rather than collecting your answers on this website.

What you submit and why

The form asks for your Google Play email address, Android version, willingness to participate in a 14-day test, willingness to share feedback, and consent to receive early-access communications. Charles Ley Baldemor uses these responses to organise the test, understand device compatibility, and send invitations and testing updates. Signup consent does not include unrelated marketing.

If you are invited, your Google Play email may be added to the test’s eligible-tester list in Google Play Console. You still need to follow the invitation and opt in yourself. Submitting the form does not automatically enroll you or start the 14-day test period. You can leave the test at any time.

Storage, access and withdrawal

Responses are stored in Google Forms in the developer’s Google account. They are not published to other respondents or the Facebook community. Google handles the form under its privacy policy. We use signup responses while organising and running early access; they are not sold or used for advertising.

You can withdraw consent, stop testing emails, or request deletion of your signup by emailing charlesleyb24@gmail.com from the address you registered. This does not affect your photos or your use of the iPhone app.

Community feedback

The Facebook community is hosted by Meta. Joining or posting there is a separate action and is governed by Facebook’s privacy rules and the group’s visibility settings. Avoid posting private photos, your email address, or other personal information in feedback. You can send feedback directly by email instead.

Changes to this policy

If Photide changes how it handles your data, this page will be updated and the effective date above will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: charlesleyb24@gmail.com.