Privacy Policy
Our apps do not collect any personal data. What you open, edit, or export is processed only on your own device and is never transmitted to us or to anyone else.
Who is responsible
Michael Schwarz, Nuremberg, Germany. For any question about this policy or about one of the apps, use the contact page.
Which apps this covers
This policy applies to every app published by Michael Schwarz on the Apple App Store, including Photo Library Export for macOS, Photo Statistic for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and Parkling for iPhone, Apple Watch, and CarPlay. Anything that is specific to an individual app is listed under App-specific notes at the end of this page. Where an app has no entry there, everything in this policy applies to it unchanged.
What the apps do with your data
The apps work on the content you point them at — your files, photos, and their metadata — and everything they touch stays on your device:
- Your content and its metadata are read to do the job you asked for, and written only to the location you chose.
- Your settings are stored locally in each app's own preferences so the app can reopen with the same setup.
- Logs and reports an app creates are written locally, in its own container or wherever you choose to save them.
None of this is sent anywhere. We have no server that receives it.
Data we collect
None. The apps have no accounts, no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics, no crash reporting, no tracking of any kind, and no third-party SDKs that could collect data. We have no way of seeing what you work on, how often you use an app, or that you use it at all.
Network connections
No app of ours sends your content or your usage anywhere, and we run no server that could receive it. On macOS, an app that has no need to reach the internet ships without permission to make outgoing network connections at all, enforced by Apple's App Sandbox rather than by our promise alone.
Some features do rely on services the operating system provides, and there the transfer happens between your device and Apple, under your own Apple Account where one is involved. We are not part of it and receive nothing. Two examples: macOS downloading a full-resolution original from your own iCloud Photo Library through Apple's Photos framework, and Apple Maps loading map tiles, answering a place search, or turning coordinates into a street name for an app that shows you a map. Apple's handling of such requests is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.
Purchases and subscriptions
One-time purchases and subscriptions are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Apple processes the payment; we never see your name, payment details, or Apple Account. An app only receives from the App Store whether a purchase or subscription is currently active on your device. Apple's handling of that transaction is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.
Permissions
An app asks the system for a permission only when a feature you use needs it — access to your photos, to a folder you picked, to a connected device, to the printer, to your location, to motion data, or to send you notifications. macOS and iOS ask you before granting any of them, each permission is used only for the purpose it was requested for, and you can revoke any of them at any time in System Settings.
If you contact support
When you email us, we receive your email address, whatever you write, and anything you attach, such as a screenshot or a log file. We use it only to answer you and to fix the problem, we never use it for marketing, and we do not pass it on. We keep support messages only as long as needed to handle the matter, and you can ask us to delete yours at any time.
This website
These pages are plain static pages. They set no cookies, run no scripts, and load nothing from third-party servers, so no profile of you is built here. As with any website, the hosting provider may keep standard server log entries such as IP address and requested page for the technical operation and security of the site.
Your rights
Because we collect no personal data, there is normally nothing about you for us to access, correct, export, or erase. For support messages you have sent us, you have the rights granted under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including access, correction, erasure, restriction, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Write to the address above to exercise them.
Children
The apps are not directed at children and collect no data from anyone, regardless of age.
Terms of Use
All our apps are licensed under Apple's standard End User License Agreement: Terms of Use (EULA).
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version is posted on this page with a new date at the top. Material changes will also be noted in the release notes of the app concerned.
App-specific notes
Photo Library Export for macOS
The app reads photos and videos from the Photos library on your Mac, or from a connected camera, smartphone, or memory card, and copies them as files into a folder you choose. It reads each item's metadata — including capture date, camera model, and any location stored in the file — to decide what to export, to name and organize the exported files, and to write the optional JSON or XMP sidecar files. Export logs and the printable index are written locally and list the files that were exported.
The app never deletes or modifies anything in your Photos library or on your camera; it only reads and copies. It runs in Apple's App Sandbox without permission to make outgoing network connections, so nothing you export can leave your Mac through the app. It asks for access to your photo library, to the destination folder you pick, to connected USB devices and memory cards, and to the printer when you print or save the PDF index.
The app is free to use for up to 100 items per export run. Unlimited export can be unlocked with an optional yearly subscription or a one-time purchase, both handled entirely by Apple as described under Purchases and subscriptions above. The app contains no ads and no analytics.
Photo Statistic for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
The app reads the photos and videos already in your Photos library and counts them. It uses each item's metadata — capture date and time, media type, file size, and any location stored with the photo — to build the statistics, charts, and map you see on screen. The results are calculated on your device each time and are not sent anywhere. The map is drawn from coordinates already saved in your photos: the app never asks for your device's location and has no access to it.
The app only reads your library; it never deletes or edits a photo, a video, or an album. The one exception is the album you ask it to create: when you mark pictures and tap to collect them, the app writes an album in the Photos app containing those items, and it removes that album's contents again when you choose to clear it. Nothing else in your library is ever written to.
Siri, Apple Intelligence, and the Shortcuts actions are handled by the system on your device. When you ask a question, only the resulting numbers are passed back for Siri to speak or for your shortcut to use. Reports and CSV or JSON exports produced by a shortcut are handed to that shortcut and saved wherever you direct them. If you enable Handoff, macOS and iOS pass the screen you are viewing between your own devices through Apple's Continuity service, using your Apple Account; the transfer is between your devices and we receive nothing.
On the Mac the app runs in Apple's App Sandbox without permission to make outgoing network connections, so nothing it reads can leave your Mac through the app. It asks only for access to your photo library, plus permission to add to it when you first create the album. The app is free and contains no purchases, no subscriptions, no ads, and no analytics.
Parkling for iPhone, Apple Watch, and CarPlay
The app is a parking timer: you set how long you may park, and it reminds you before the time runs out. Everything it records about a parking session — the duration, the time it started, and, if you use the location features, the coordinates and place name of where you parked — is stored on your device, in the app's own container shared with its widgets and its Watch app. None of it is sent to us, and there is no account and no iCloud sync.
Location. The location features are optional and the app asks before using them. With permission it remembers where you parked, shows it on a map, and watches for you arriving at or leaving a saved spot so it can offer to start a timer or stop one. Recognising that you have left or returned while the app is not open is what the "Always" level of the permission is for; granting only "While Using" keeps the map and the saved spot and gives up the automatic part. You can revoke either at any time in Settings, and the app still works as a plain timer you set by hand.
Motion. If you enable automatic parking detection, the app uses Apple's motion activity data to notice that you have most likely stopped driving, so it can offer to start a timer at that moment. It is used for that decision only, it is not kept afterwards, and it goes nowhere.
The map. Where the app shows a map, searches for a place, or turns coordinates into a street name, that work is done by Apple Maps, which means those requests reach Apple rather than staying on the device. See Network connections above. We are not involved and receive nothing.
Reminders and the Live Activity. Notifications, including the time-sensitive ones that can break through a Focus, are scheduled locally by the app on your device; there are no push notifications from a server of ours. The Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island shows the remaining time and the parking spot, so be aware that this is visible on your locked screen. You can turn it off in the app's settings.
Apple Watch and CarPlay. The timer is passed between your iPhone and your Apple Watch directly by Apple's Watch Connectivity, from one of your devices to the other. In CarPlay the app shows the same timer and parking spot on the car's screen; the screen is produced by the app on your iPhone, and the app neither reads anything from the car nor writes anything to it.
Siri and Shortcuts. Starting, stopping, or asking about a timer by voice or from a shortcut is handled by the system on your device, and only the timer action and its result are passed back for Siri to speak or for your shortcut to use.
The app contains no purchases, no subscriptions, no ads, no analytics, and no third-party code of any kind.