Privacy Policy

Short version

Pink Hatch lets you pick one photo from your own Photos library and applies Apple's on-device Core Image bokeh-blur filter (CIBokehBlur) to it, with three sliders you control: radius, ring amount, and softness. The source PNG, the bokeh-blurred PNG, the three parameter values, and any note you type all stay 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 Hatch 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 Hatch never opens the camera or records audio; it only reads photos you explicitly pick.
• No location, no contacts, no calendar.
• No HealthKit, no Health data.

Photos permission

Pink Hatch 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 Hatch does NOT scan your broader library, does NOT build an index of your photos, does NOT extract face data, does NOT read EXIF or location metadata, and does NOT use the Vision framework or any other computer-vision pipeline on your photos. Only the picked photo is read, and only the bokeh-blur filter is applied to it.

What stays on your device

• Your hatch entries (the source PNG bytes of the picked photo, the bokeh-blurred PNG bytes produced by the filter, the three parameter values used for radius, ring amount, and softness, an optional note you typed, and the created-at timestamp). Stored in on-device SwiftData with the source and result 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 untouched. Pink Hatch keeps copies of the source and the filtered result inside its own container so you can revisit the entry later. Pink Hatch 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 Hatch has stored.

On-device Core Image filter

The bokeh blur is produced by Apple's built-in Core Image filter CIBokehBlur, which executes through Metal on your iPhone's GPU. The pixel data is processed in-memory and the result is written to disk inside the app's container. No image is uploaded anywhere and no machine-learning model is contacted off-device.

Pink Hatch does NOT use any generative-image model, does NOT use Image Playground, and does NOT use any cloud image-processing API. The output is a deterministic optical filter applied to the photo you picked.

Lock Screen widget

Pink Hatch Pro includes a Lock Screen widget that shows today's hatch 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 Hatch 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 Hatch 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 Hatch 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.