Privacy notice

What stays on your device

Littlefold receives the photos you select through the system photo picker. It stores working copies of those photos, your album text and layout, and generated PDF previews in the app’s files. It does not change the originals in your photo library.

The app automatically prepares smaller JPEG copies on your device before upload. It removes photo metadata, including embedded GPS tags, from newly prepared copies. This does not remove location information visible in a photo or written in a caption.

Creating and previewing an album does not upload its contents. Signing in, or copying a guest album into your account’s local workspace, does not upload those contents either. Littlefold does not request your contacts or device location.

Signing out removes that account’s local app files; it does not delete its saved cloud draft. Save a separate PDF to Files first if you need to keep one. The guest workspace is separate.

Accounts and cloud saves

If you sign in with Apple or Google, the sign-in provider supplies account information such as your provider identifier, email address and, when available, name or profile information. Littlefold uses Supabase for authentication, its database and private file storage. A sign-in session is stored in your device’s Keychain.

Choosing Save draft to account sends the album’s prepared photos, title, captions, notes and layout to your account storage. These records let you reopen your work and let the service check which account can access it. Unchanged photos already stored for that album are reused when their content matches.

Your account albums are not published in a public gallery. Apple and Google handle their sign-in services under their own privacy policies.

PDF purchases

If you choose to buy a PDF, Littlefold uploads prepared photo copies and the page layout, including your title, captions and notes, to private storage. An account-linked order records the source’s size and content identifier. After Apple confirms payment, the service creates the finished PDF and makes it available to your account. The free preview stays on your device and does not create or download a PDF.

Apple processes the payment. Littlefold receives transaction and product identifiers, purchase or revocation dates, and the order association needed to verify the purchase and provide the PDF. Littlefold does not receive your payment-card number.

Service records and website visits

Supabase and its network providers process operational records that can include your IP address, approximate location derived from it, browser or app information, request paths, account identifiers, errors and timing. These records support sign-in, security, abuse prevention and troubleshooting. Approximate network location is separate from your device’s GPS location.

This website uses GitHub Pages. GitHub records visitors’ IP addresses for security. See GitHub’s explanation of this collection.

Littlefold has no advertising or cross-app tracking SDK and does not use album content for advertising. These pages have no analytics scripts, contact form, external fonts or embedded media.

Access windows are not deletion deadlines

A saved draft is available through your account for 30 days from its first save. Editing it does not restart that period. For a purchased PDF, the account download window is 30 days from purchase. A PDF you save separately to Files has no Littlefold access deadline.

Expired or deleted cloud media becomes eligible for cleanup. The temporary photos and layout used for a PDF purchase are removed after the finished PDF is stored successfully. If checkout was never started, that temporary source becomes eligible after 24 hours; an unresolved payment can keep it longer so delivery can be recovered. Unfinished draft uploads and photos removed from an active saved album have a grace period of at least 24 hours. Cleanup runs in batches and retries failures.

Draft text, account records and export metadata are not all erased when an access window ends. While an account remains open, records that prevent deleted files from being restored have no automatic deletion deadline. For PDF purchases, transaction and revocation records can also remain after access ends or an account is deleted; pending orders may be kept to resolve an interrupted payment.

Provider logs and any provider-managed backups follow separate retention arrangements. We do not promise that all copies or records are erased after 30 days. Save important work outside the app before its account access expires.

Deleting an account and sharing a PDF

To delete your account, open Account → Delete account in Littlefold and confirm. The process removes the account’s active private media and account records. If a service operation fails, deletion remains pending and the app lets you retry. For an Apple-linked account, follow any sign-in or Apple authorization instructions shown by the app.

Completed account deletion also clears that account’s draft and export deletion markers. Provider security logs have their own retention arrangements. For PDF purchases, payment verification and revocation records can remain to prevent a transaction from being used again. Deleting an account does not erase Apple’s purchase history, cancel a pending Apple payment or request a refund.

Littlefold sends a shared PDF to the destination you choose in the system share sheet. Copies in Files, Photos, device backups or a recipient’s storage are separate from Littlefold’s account storage. You and the chosen service or recipient control those copies.

Contact and privacy requests

For questions about your information, an access or export request, or help deleting an account, contact Ali Sahin at alisahindev@gmail.com.

If you email support, we receive your address and the information you include so we can respond. We may ask for enough account information to verify that a request is yours. Do not send passwords, sign-in codes, full payment-card details or private photos.

We will update this notice when the way Littlefold handles information changes. The effective date appears at the bottom of the published page.