This Privacy Policy explains how Tabularium (“the app”, “we”, “us”) handles information when you use the app. We have designed Tabularium to keep your photos on your device. We are committed to protecting your privacy and complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable French law.
Who is responsible for your data
The data controller is Hugo Martin, independent developer of Tabularium, located in France. For any privacy request, contact us at contact@hmartin.dev .
The short version
- Your photos never leave your device. Tabularium reads your photo library to display photos for sorting, analyze them on your device and apply the changes you choose. We do not upload, copy, or transmit your photos or their content.
- We show ads through Google AdMob, which may process advertising identifiers.
- If you buy Tabularium+, Apple handles the payment and RevenueCat helps us check and restore your purchase. Neither receives your photos.
- We ask for your consent before any advertising tracking, and you can change your mind at any time.
What we process and why
Photos and your photo library
With your permission (iOS Photos access), the app reads photos so you can review and delete them. Deletions go to your device’s Recently Deleted album, where iOS keeps them temporarily so you can recover them. Photo processing occurs entirely on your device: no photo content, metadata, thumbnails, or deletion history is transmitted to us or stored on our servers.
Photo analysis (blurry shots, screenshots and receipts, duplicates) runs entirely on your device using Apple’s Vision framework. When you compress a video or turn Live Photos into still photos, the app saves a new, lighter version in your library and moves the original to Recently Deleted, after iOS asks for your confirmation.
To name your events after a city, the app sends the GPS coordinates of some photos (never the photos themselves) to Apple’s geocoding service, under Apple’s Privacy Policy .
Statistics, notifications and widget
Your sorting statistics (space freed, photos sorted) are stored on your device and, if iCloud is enabled, synced across your devices through your own private iCloud database (Apple CloudKit). We cannot access this database. Reminders are local notifications scheduled on your device; no server is involved. The home screen widget reads today’s goal and streak from storage shared between the app and the widget on your device.
Advertising data (Google AdMob)
The free version of Tabularium displays ads served by Google AdMob. To show and measure ads, Google may process device and advertising identifiers (such as the Identifier for Advertisers, IDFA), approximate location derived from your IP address, and ad-interaction data. In App Store terms, Google AdMob may collect identifiers, usage data, diagnostics , and advertising-related information, consistent with the privacy information we declare on the App Store. The data Google collects is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy . See also how Google uses information from AdMob .
Tabularium+ (in-app purchase)
Tabularium+ is an optional one-time purchase that removes ads and the daily limits on some tools. Payment is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store; we never receive your payment card or banking information.
To check whether you own Tabularium+ and to restore it on your other devices, the app uses RevenueCat, Inc. (our purchase-management provider). RevenueCat receives an anonymous app user identifier generated by the app and your App Store purchase history for Tabularium (product, date, price, country). It does not receive your name, email address or photos. See RevenueCat’s Privacy Policy .
Apple also sends our server notifications about Tabularium purchases (App Store Server Notifications): transaction identifiers, product, purchase date, price, currency and storefront country. They do not include your name or email address. We use them only to follow sales and refunds. If you previously subscribed to “Unlimited”, the same applies to that subscription.
Launch waitlist (this website)
If you submit your email address in the “Get notified” form on this website, we add it to a contact list so we can email you once when Tabularium launches, plus the occasional related update. We collect only your email address, and only with your explicit consent (the checkbox on the form). This is separate from the app: it concerns the website, not your photos.
The list is managed by Brevo (Sendinblue SA), our email service provider, which stores the data on servers in the European Union under a data-processing agreement. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send, or by contacting us at contact@hmartin.dev . We keep your email only until launch and a short follow-up period, or until you unsubscribe — whichever comes first.
Support requests (this website)
If you use the support form , we store your message, the category you chose, the email address you optionally provide, the app version and your browser’s user agent, so we can answer you. To limit abuse, we also store a salted, one-way hash of your IP address, never the address itself. This data is stored on our own server and is kept only as long as needed to handle your request.
Website analytics
This website measures its audience with a self-hosted instance of Plausible Analytics. It uses no cookies and collects no personal data: visits are counted in aggregate, without identifying you or following you across sites.
Tracking and your consent
Personalized advertising relies on tracking, which requires your consent. We request it in two complementary ways:
- App Tracking Transparency (Apple): iOS asks whether the app may track you across apps and websites.
- Consent management (Google): if you are in the EU, UK, or Switzerland, a consent screen lets you accept or refuse personalized ads, in line with GDPR.
If you refuse, you will still see ads, but they will be non-personalized. You can change your advertising choices at any time in your device settings.
Legal bases
- Consent — for personalized advertising and any advertising-related tracking where required by law, and for adding you to the launch waitlist if you submit your email on this website.
- Performance of a contract — to provide the app’s features and your Tabularium+ purchase.
- Legitimate interests — to maintain the security, integrity, and functionality of the app, to answer your support requests, and to measure this website’s audience without identifying you.
Who we share data with
We do not sell your data. Data may be processed by the service providers that make the app work: Google (AdMob, advertising), Apple (App Store, in-app purchases, iCloud, geocoding, app analytics you may have enabled at the system level), RevenueCat (purchase management), and Brevo (Sendinblue SA — managing the launch-waitlist email list described above, EU-hosted under a data-processing agreement). These providers act under their own privacy terms.
International transfers
Our providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where they do, they rely on appropriate safeguards such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
Data retention
Our own server only holds support requests and App Store purchase notifications, as described above. Advertising and purchase data are retained by Google, Apple and RevenueCat according to their respective policies. Your in-app settings are stored locally on your device and removed when you delete the app; synced statistics stay in your private iCloud database until you delete them in your iCloud settings.
Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have the right to:
- access, rectify, or erase your personal data;
- restrict or object to its processing;
- data portability;
- withdraw your consent at any time;
- lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority — in France, the CNIL .
To exercise these rights, email us at contact@hmartin.dev . We will respond to privacy requests within the timeframes required by applicable data protection laws.
Children
Tabularium is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country), and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. We will revise the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Email contact@hmartin.dev .