Your photos.
Your choice.

Photos and processing

Spare analyzes photos on your device. This version does not upload your photos or scan results to a server. You choose which photos Spare can access through iOS photo permissions and can change that access in iPhone Settings. Scanning uses locally available photos. When you open photo inspection, Apple Photos may download a higher-quality image from your iCloud Photos library; this is retrieval through Apple, not an upload of photos or scan results to Spare.

Data stored on your device

Spare stores settings, scan results, photo identifiers (including a local record of photos admitted to review), review decisions, and cached analysis locally so you can resume a review and speed up later scans. Analysis may include image similarity and face-quality measurements; it is used for photo comparison, not to identify people. Local app data may be included in backups managed by your device and Apple account settings.

Removal and control

Spare requires confirmation before deleting photos. Photo-library changes may sync through iCloud Photos. Revoking access or deleting Spare does not itself delete your photo library. Deleting the app removes its local app data; copies in device backups are controlled through your backup settings.

Tracking and sharing

Spare supports optional rewarded ads through Google AdMob and Google’s User Messaging Platform. Ad and consent requests may send information to Google under the applicable privacy choices. Google’s Mobile Ads SDK may collect IP-derived approximate location, device identifiers, advertising and interaction data, crash information, performance data, and other diagnostics for advertising, measurement, and service operation. Photos and scan results are never sent to the ad service. Production ads require provider configuration; development builds use test ads. Spare refreshes consent information at launch so advertising privacy choices are available in Settings when required by the consent platform. This refresh does not load an ad or present a consent form; an ad still requires your explicit choice. Apple handles subscription billing and purchase restoration.

Analytics and diagnostics

Analytics, diagnostics, and their Settings control are introduced in version 1.0, build 5. Earlier test builds without Firebase Analytics do not collect this usage data.

Spare uses Google Analytics for Firebase to understand feature use and improve the app. Analytics and diagnostics are on by default. You can turn it off anytime in Settings → Share analytics & diagnostics. Analytics includes feature interactions, sessions, app and device information, an app-instance identifier, approximate location derived from your connection, and automatic purchase and ad-interaction measurement. Spare does not send photos, photo identifiers or metadata, scan results, or cleanup totals to Analytics. We disable Analytics advertising-identifier collection and ad personalization; we do not set an account-level user ID. Turning analytics off stops its collection, clears its local data, and prevents initialization on the next launch. This does not erase data already received by Google or change your separate advertising choices.

Crashlytics collects crash stack traces, relevant app/device/OS state, and recent Analytics event breadcrumbs. Performance Monitoring collects startup and rendering timings, CPU/memory measurements, network request timing and URL patterns, installation/session identifiers, and device/app information; IP addresses support geographic segmentation. We do not attach photos, photo identifiers, custom free-text logs, or account-level user IDs to diagnostics. Turning sharing off disables Analytics and Performance collection and stops new crash-report submissions, clears local Analytics data and pending crash reports, and prevents Firebase initialization on the next launch. In-flight submissions and data already received by Google are not erased. Crash information may still be recorded locally for the remainder of an already initialized session; it is not submitted while sharing is off. Advertising choices remain separate.

Provider retention and deletion

Turning off analytics, changing advertising choices, or deleting Spare does not automatically erase information previously received by Google. Google applies different retention rules depending on the information and purpose; this policy does not promise a single retention period for its services. See Google’s privacy policy, data retention policy, and privacy and deletion help for applicable controls and requests. Google’s account tools apply to eligible account-associated information; they are not a promise that all AdMob information is account-associated or removable through one tool.

You can reopen advertising choices from Settings → Privacy policy when the consent platform requires that control. If a network failure prevents opening it, retry with a connection. Contact roeyhazot@gmail.com for help with a Spare privacy request or identifying the appropriate provider request process. Spare cannot directly erase records controlled by Google or Apple.

Support contact and updates

Contact roeyhazot@gmail.com with questions or privacy requests. If you send an email, the recipient and email providers receive your email address and the contents you choose to provide. Do not send photo-library contents or sensitive information unless needed for your request. You can request deletion of support correspondence through the same address.

We will update this policy when our data practices change and show the new effective date on this page.