Privacy Policy

Article 1. Information We Do Not Collect

HoneybeeMobility does not collect personal information through Garim. The app has no sign-up and no sign-in, and it does not create an account that identifies you.

The following statements describe how the app is built.

• We operate no server for the app. The app contains no network code that sends photos, videos, or processed results anywhere.
• The app includes no third-party advertising, analytics, or tracking SDK. It uses Apple's standard frameworks only.
• In the app's privacy manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy), tracking is set to false and the list of collected data types is empty.
• The app does not ask for your name, e-mail address, phone number, or an advertising identifier.

Article 2. Information Processed Only on Your Device

Garim uses the Apple Vision framework to analyze the photos and videos you choose, locating where faces appear and where text appears, and then covers those areas with a mosaic, blur, sticker image, or solid color. Analysis and rendering happen entirely on your device and work without a network connection. The exception is precise masking by tap on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27: the first time you tap a person or object in a photo, Apple Vision downloads its segmentation model once. The app sends no photo during that download, and the segmentation itself runs on your device.

For faces, the app computes the rectangle on screen, and for heads that face detection misses, it estimates the head area from the person's pose (the positions of the nose, eyes, and ears). It does not build facial feature data or a biometric template, it does not match anyone against an identity, and detection results are used for that job only and are not kept afterwards.

Text on screen, such as license plates, name tags, and signs, is handled the same way: only its position is detected and the area is covered with a rectangle. The app does not store or transmit the content of that text.

Article 3. Photo Library and File Access

The only usage permission the app requests is access to your photo library (NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription). It is used solely to load the photos and videos you select into the app.

Results are saved through the share sheet on iPhone and iPad, and through the save panel on Mac. The app writes files only to the location you choose at that moment.

The Mac version runs in the app sandbox and reads and writes only the files you select yourself. On a Mac, the network is used for App Store purchases, for opening policy links, and for iCloud Key-Value Storage sync, and on macOS 27 also for the one-time download of the Apple Vision model used for precise masking by tap.

Article 4. Information the App Stores on Your Device

The app stores the following on your device; of these, the items in Article 5 are synced between your own devices through iCloud. None of it is sent to us, and we cannot access it.

• Processing history: output files, thumbnails, and a one-page PDF record are kept in the Application Support folder on your device (GarimHistory).
• Rows in the PDF record: date and time, source file name, output file name, processed length, cover style and strength, processing mode, the highest number of faces detected in one frame, the number of manual regions, whether audio was preserved, and the app version.
• Credit balance: stored in UserDefaults and verified with a Keychain signature to detect tampering.
• Applied purchase transaction numbers: recorded so that the same purchase or refund is not applied to your credits twice.
• Paid video record: the file fingerprint (file size and hash value) and photo library item number of each video you spent a credit on, used only so that saving the same video again does not use another credit.
• Flags recording whether the welcome gift of 3 credits has been claimed and whether the one-time free full-length save has been used.
• Your settings, such as cover style, strength, detection sensitivity, and export format.

Article 5. iCloud Key-Value Storage

Your credit balance, the welcome-gift flag, and the one-time free-save flag are synced through iCloud Key-Value Storage (NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore) between your own devices signed in to the same Apple Account.

Photos, videos, processed results, processing history, and PDF records are never uploaded to iCloud. iCloud is a service provided and operated by Apple, and Apple's privacy policy applies to the values held in that storage.

Article 6. Payments Through Apple

Credits and the Garim Pro subscription are purchased only through Apple's App Store and StoreKit. We never receive or store payment details such as card numbers.

Purchases and subscription status are verified on your device with StoreKit. Billing, cancellation, and refunds are handled by Apple.

Article 7. Permissions We Do Not Request, and Tracking

The app does not request camera, microphone, location, contacts, or notification permissions. Because it never handles location data, there is no location-based service agreement for this app.

The app does not track you, does not use an advertising identifier, and does not combine your data with data from other companies.

Article 8. Retention and Deletion

Information stored on your device stays there until you delete it. You can delete processing history inside the app, and deleting the app on iPhone or iPad also removes the processing history and settings. Your credit balance and the gift and free-save flags remain in iCloud Key-Value Storage and carry over when you reinstall the app.

Files you export to your photo library or elsewhere, PDF records you share, and watermark text you type are your own material and remain under your control.

Article 9. Third Parties

We do not share the information the app handles with third parties and do not delegate its processing to them, because we hold no user information from the app in the first place. Inquiry e-mails are handled as described in Article 13.

The only outside company involved is Apple, and only for distribution through the App Store, purchases through StoreKit, synchronization through iCloud Key-Value Storage, and the download of the Apple Vision model used for precise masking by tap.

Article 10. Your Rights and Security

There is no account and we hold no personal information from the app, so there is nothing about the app to request access to, correction of, or deletion of from us. You can delete the data left on your device yourself in the ways described in Article 8, and you can ask us to delete an inquiry e-mail as described in Article 13.

The credit balance is protected with a Keychain signature that verifies its integrity. Photos and videos never leave your device, so they are not exposed in transit.

Article 11. Children

The app collects no personal information, and therefore collects none from children. It does not ask for an age, does not request any separate information from children, and shows no advertising or tracking to them.

Article 12. Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, we publish the new text and its effective date on this page. The version shown here is the one currently in force.

Article 13. Business Information and Contact

Questions about this policy or about the app are answered by e-mail at the address below.

• What we receive: your e-mail address and what you write or attach. The app does not pre-fill any diagnostic information in the message.
• Purpose: used only to answer you and to find and fix problems; never shared with third parties or used for advertising or marketing.
• Retention and deletion: e-mails are kept in the e-mail service we use (Gmail) and copied into our internal inquiry-handling list so we can prepare a reply. We delete the e-mail and the list entry one year after your inquiry is resolved, and without delay if you ask.
• Processors and transfer abroad: inquiry e-mails are stored on servers of Google LLC (USA, Gmail), and we may use Anthropic PBC (USA, Claude) as an AI tool that helps draft replies, so the content of your inquiry is processed on its servers while we prepare a reply. The information transferred is the information listed above; it is sent over the network when you send the e-mail and while we prepare the reply, and it is kept for the period above. Contacts: policies.google.com/privacy · anthropic.com/legal/privacy. If you do not want this transfer, do not send an inquiry e-mail; we then cannot reply to you by e-mail.