Privacy Policy

Short version

Pink Plume lets you pick a photo from your library and renders an attention heatmap from it using Apple's on-device Vision framework (VNGenerateAttentionBasedSaliencyImageRequest). The original photo, the colored heatmap, and the composite overlay are saved as today's entry on your device. A year wall collects the saliency visualizations. 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 Plume 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 Plume 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 Plume requests Photos access (the NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription permission) so Apple's system picker (PhotosPicker) can show you images to choose from. The permission is used only to read the single photo you explicitly pick. Pink Plume does NOT capture new photos with the camera, does NOT scan your broader Photos library, does NOT build an index of your photos, and does NOT extract face data, EXIF, or location metadata beyond what is intrinsic to the image you share with the app.

The Vision request the app uses is VNGenerateAttentionBasedSaliencyImageRequest, which produces a low-resolution attention map indicating where a human is likely to look in the image. It does not identify people, objects, or faces, and it does not produce labels or descriptions.

What stays on your device

• Your plume entries (a copy of the source photo you picked, the colored heatmap PNG rendered from the Vision saliency request, the composite PNG that overlays the heatmap on the source, an optional short note you can attach, 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 untouched. Pink Plume keeps its own working copy of the photo alongside the heatmap and composite so the entry is readable even if you later delete the original from Photos. Pink Plume 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 Plume has stored.

Vision framework (on-device)

Pink Plume uses Apple's Vision framework (VNGenerateAttentionBasedSaliencyImageRequest) to generate the attention heatmap. The request runs entirely on your device. The photo is not sent to Apple, to us, or to any third party.

Pink Plume does NOT use Image Playground, Apple Intelligence generative tools, or any other generative model. Every plume in your wall is computed deterministically from the real photo you provided; nothing about the heatmap or the composite is synthesized or invented.

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 Plume 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 Plume 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 Plume 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.