Privacy Policy

Short version

Pink Compass lets you pick one photo a day from your own Photos library. Apple's on-device Vision framework analyzes the still using VNDetectHorizonRequest and returns the horizon angle in degrees. The app saves the source PNG, an overlay PNG with the horizon line drawn over it, the computed angle, an optional note, and the date. Everything stays on your device. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs that contact a server. The only network calls the app makes are to Apple's StoreKit when you choose to subscribe or unlock the Lifetime tier.

Who we are

Pink Compass is published by Danielius Studio LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company at 30 N Gould St, Suite #5280, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA (“we”, “us”).

Data we do NOT collect

• No account, no email, no password — the app has no signup.
• No analytics, no telemetry, no event tracking.
• No advertising identifiers (no IDFA, no fingerprinting).
• No usage data sent off the device.
• No microphone, no camera. Pink Compass never opens the camera or records audio; it only reads photos you explicitly pick.
• No location. Pink Compass does not request location permission and does not read EXIF GPS metadata from your photos.
• No contacts, no calendar.
• No HealthKit, no Health data.

Photos permission

Pink Compass requests Photos access (the NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription permission) so that the system picker can show you photos to choose from. The permission is used only to read the photos you explicitly pick through Apple's PhotosPicker.

Pink Compass does NOT scan your broader library, does NOT build an index of your photos, does NOT extract face data, and does NOT read location or other EXIF metadata beyond what is intrinsic to the still you share with the app.

On-device Vision (horizon detection)

The horizon angle is computed by Apple's on-device Vision framework using VNDetectHorizonRequest (available since iOS 11). The request executes inside your iPhone, returns the angle in degrees and a transform for the horizon line, and the pixels of your photo never leave the device.

Pink Compass does NOT use Apple's Foundation Models, Image Playground, or any other generative model. The visual content of every compass entry is the real photo you picked plus a thin overlay line drawn locally over it; nothing about the image is synthesized or altered.

What stays on your device

• Your compass entries (the source PNG you picked, an overlay PNG with the horizon line rendered over it, the angle in degrees returned by Vision, an optional note you typed, and the created-at timestamp). Stored in on-device SwiftData with the image bytes held as external storage.
• The date the app was first launched (used to time the three-day no-strings free window). Stored in UserDefaults.
• Whether the day-three gift screen has been acknowledged.

The original photo continues to live in your Photos library. Pink Compass keeps only its own copy of the still plus the rendered overlay so it can show the entry without re-running Vision. Pink Compass never modifies, deletes, or writes back to the original.

All of the above lives on your device and never leaves it. Uninstalling the app deletes everything Pink Compass has stored.

Lock Screen widget

Pink Compass Pro includes a Lock Screen widget that shows today's compass count. The widget reads only the count and the timestamp of the most recent entry from an App Group container on your device. No image data is rendered on the Lock Screen and nothing is sent off the device for the widget to function.

In-app purchases

If you choose to subscribe (Monthly, Annual) or buy the Lifetime unlock, that transaction is handled by Apple's StoreKit. Apple processes the payment and shares only the receipt with the app so we can verify your entitlement. We never see your card number, billing address, or any personal information beyond Apple's opaque transaction identifier.

Subscription receipts are stored on-device by iOS and used to validate your entitlement when you re-open the app. They are not sent to any server we operate.

Family Sharing

Pink Compass Pro purchases (Monthly, Annual, Lifetime) are Family-Shareable through Apple's standard Family Sharing mechanism. Apple handles eligibility checks; we do not see who is in your family group.

Children

Pink Compass is rated 4+ in the App Store. Because the app collects no data at all, it complies with COPPA and similar children's-privacy regulations by design.

Your rights

Because Pink Compass does not collect data, there is nothing for us to export, correct, or delete on your behalf. To revoke Photos permission, use iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos. To remove all on-device state, delete the app.

For questions, write to dchalikovasss@gmail.com.

Changes

If we ever introduce a feature that involves any data leaving the device (for example, cloud sync or sharing), this page will be updated and the “Last updated” date at the top will change. For v1.0, no such feature exists.