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Shotbox is an iPhone app by Álvaro Juan Ciriaco (“we”). It has no account and no server of ours, so we never receive your screenshots, folders, notes or any other personal data. This policy explains where that data lives and who else is involved.

In short

  • No account, no sign-in and no server of ours.
  • Your screenshots, folders and notes stay on your iPhone, and their text is read on the device.
  • Shotbox only sees the screenshots you send it. It never reads your photo library.
  • With Pro, they sync through your own iCloud, which we can’t read.
  • Purchases go through Apple and RevenueCat, with an anonymous ID.
  • No analytics, no ads, no tracking.

On your iPhone

The screenshots you save are kept as files in Shotbox’s own storage on your iPhone, alongside a local database with your folders (name and colour), the date of each screenshot and your notes. Your settings, such as Appearance and Haptic Feedback, are stored there too.

So you can find a screenshot by a word it shows, Shotbox reads its text with Apple’s Vision framework. The reading happens on your iPhone: no image or text is sent to us, or to anyone else, to be read.

What Shotbox sees

Shotbox never asks for access to your photo library and can’t browse it. It only receives the images you send it:

  • The Save Screenshot shortcut (Back Tap or the Action Button) takes a screenshot with the system’s own action and hands Shotbox that one image.
  • Share › Shotbox receives only the images you share with it, one or several at a time.

If you share a screenshot from Shotbox and save it to Photos, iOS asks your permission to add it. That permission only lets Shotbox add images to Photos, never read them.

iCloud sync (Pro)

With Shotbox Pro, your folders, screenshots and notes sync between your iPhones through Apple’s CloudKit, in the private database of the iCloud account signed in on each iPhone. That database belongs to your Apple Account: we, as the developer, have no access to it and can’t read it. Folder names, the text read from your screenshots and your notes are also encrypted end to end, with keys kept in your iCloud Keychain.

Sync runs only while you have Pro and are signed in to iCloud. Without Pro, none of your screenshots, folders or notes leave your iPhone. If Pro ends, sync stops: what’s on your iPhone stays, and what’s in iCloud stays there until you delete it. This data uses your iCloud storage, and Apple keeps it under its privacy policy; see also Apple’s iCloud data security overview.

Purchases

Shotbox Pro is sold through the App Store. Apple handles the payment: we never see your card or your Apple Account.

To know whether you have Pro, Shotbox uses RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc.), a subscription service. RevenueCat processes your purchase history for Shotbox (its App Store transactions) under an anonymous app user ID that it creates on your iPhone. That ID isn’t tied to your name, your email address or your Apple Account. As with any connection, its requests also carry technical data such as your IP address, device model, iOS version, language and App Store country. RevenueCat processes this data on our behalf, only to unlock Pro and restore it on your other iPhones. Its practices are described in RevenueCat’s privacy policy.

For users in the European Union and the United Kingdom, this processing is necessary to provide the subscription you buy (performance of a contract).

No analytics, ads or tracking

Shotbox contains no analytics, advertising, crash-reporting or tracking SDK. The only third-party code in the app is RevenueCat’s purchases SDK, described above. Shotbox doesn’t track you across apps or websites and never asks for the advertising identifier.

If you choose to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone’s settings, Apple may pass us anonymous crash reports. You can turn this off in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements.

Deleting your data

  • A screenshot or a folder: delete it in Shotbox. Deleting a folder moves its screenshots to General. With sync on, the deletion reaches iCloud and your other iPhones too.
  • Everything on your iPhone: delete the app. Its storage, with every screenshot, folder and note, goes with it. We have no copy to restore it from.
  • Everything in iCloud: on your iPhone, go to Settings › your name › iCloud › Storage (or Manage Account Storage) › Shotbox and tap Delete Data from iCloud.
  • Purchase records: Apple keeps your purchase history under its own policy. To have RevenueCat delete the record of your subscription, write to us with the order ID from your Apple receipt.

Children

Shotbox isn’t directed at children and collects no personal data from anyone, children included.

Your rights

We hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing on our side to access, correct or delete: your data is on your iPhone and in your iCloud, under your control. For the purchase data RevenueCat processes on our behalf, write to us and we’ll help. You can also lodge a complaint with your data protection authority.

Changes to this policy

If Shotbox changes how it handles data, we’ll update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches the app.

Contact

Álvaro Juan Ciriaco, publisher of Shotbox and responsible for this policy: alvaro.juan@vectorlime.com