Privacy Policy
Verdict is built around a single principle: your photos never leave your device. This policy explains what that means in practice.
What we collect
Nothing. Verdict does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data, photo content, metadata, analytics, crash logs, or usage telemetry to any server we control. There is no account, no signup, no profile.
What stays on your device
- Sorting decisions: which photos you marked as keep / discard / hold are stored locally in iOS UserDefaults.
- Internal albums: Verdict creates two albums ("Verdict — To Delete" and "Verdict — Held") inside your iOS Photos library to track your decisions until you confirm them.
- Duplicate fingerprints (Pro): visual feature prints computed by Apple's Vision framework are cached locally in the app's Application Support directory so analysis can resume across launches.
- Statistics: cumulative counts of photos sorted / deleted / held, last activity timestamp, daily activity log, storage freed (Pro). All in UserDefaults.
None of this is uploaded anywhere.
Network access
Verdict makes minimal use of the network, only via Apple's PhotoKit and StoreKit frameworks on your behalf:
- iCloud Photos: if your library uses "Optimise iPhone Storage", Apple's PhotoKit may fetch a photo from iCloud on demand when you swipe or analyse it. This is a request to Apple's iCloud servers, not to ours. Verdict never has access to your iCloud credentials.
- App Store purchases: StoreKit handles the Pro in-app purchase. Verdict only receives the entitlement status back from Apple; the transaction itself happens between Apple and you.
Permissions Verdict requests
- Photo Library (read & write): required to display your photos, create the internal sorting albums, and trigger the iOS native deletion prompt. Verdict never reads any photo outside the scope you grant.
That's the only permission. No microphone, camera, contacts, location, motion, calendar, or notifications.
Third-party services
None. Verdict ships with no third-party SDK: no analytics (Mixpanel, Amplitude, Firebase), no crash reporter (Sentry, Crashlytics), no advertising network, no attribution provider, no A/B testing platform, no customer support widget. Everything you see and do in the app is local code we wrote.
Children
Verdict is not directed at children under 13. Since we collect no data at all, COPPA compliance is automatic.
Changes to this policy
If we ever change Verdict's data practices (we don't plan to), we will update this page and bump the "Last updated" date. The previous version's wording remains in our git history.
Contact
Questions? Email contact@bloomwise.io.