Privacy Policy

The short version: AnyFront Camera collects nothing. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no server of ours. The app never uploads your photos, videos, sounds or face data.

What the app does not collect

AnyFront Camera does not collect, transmit, sell or share any personal data. It contains no analytics or advertising software and no third-party tracking code, and it does not connect to any server of ours. We do not know who you are or that you use the app. Its only network use is the App Store, for AnyFront Pro (see Purchases), and iCloud Photos, when it shows you a photo or video kept there (see Your photo library).

Camera and microphone

AnyFront Camera asks for the camera so it can take photos and videos, and for the microphone so videos and Live Photos can have sound and so you can record your own short sounds (see Sounds you add). What the camera and microphone pick up is processed on your iPhone only, while you are using the app, and is never uploaded.

Face detection (look-here shutter and Cinematic video)

The look-here shutter is the only part of AnyFront Camera that looks for faces itself. The first time you switch it on, the app explains what it does and asks you first. If you switch it on in Photo mode, the app uses Apple's Vision framework to find faces in the live camera preview, on your iPhone, up to eight times a second, and only while the shutter is on. It checks whether a face is turned toward the camera and takes the photo when one is, and it draws a box around each face in the viewfinder. It uses only where each face is in the picture and which way it is turned.

The app does not identify or recognize anyone, and it does not use face landmarks or depth data. It does not store, send or share face data or images with anyone, and it never uses them for advertising, marketing or profiling. Each result is held in memory only until the next one replaces it; when you switch the shutter off, leave Photo mode or close the app, nothing is kept.

Cinematic video works differently: there it is Apple's camera system that finds faces, not the app. In Cinematic mode, iOS uses where faces and other subjects are in the frame to choose what to keep in focus and when to shift it, on your iPhone, as in Apple's Camera app. Apple's documentation asks apps to turn on the camera's metadata output for Cinematic video, and iOS then also passes the positions it finds to the app; the app ignores them and does not look at, draw, keep, send or share them. The first time you start Cinematic video, the app explains this and asks you first, with the same notice as the look-here shutter.

Your photo library

Photos and videos you take are saved to your iPhone's photo library. For that, the app asks only for permission to add to it.

The app's album shows the photos and videos in your library inside the app, so you can look back at your shots without leaving the camera. The first time you tap the album button on the camera screen, and never before, the app asks for access to your photo library; you can allow all of it, only the items you choose, or none. The app only reads your library to show the items on your iPhone. It never changes, deletes, uploads or shares them. If an item is kept in iCloud Photos, iOS loads it from your own iCloud account to show it.

On iPhone Duo you can pick a photo or video from your library to show on the cover screen. The app receives only the items you pick and uses them only to show them on your iPhone. The app keeps a copy of the photo and of the video you chose in its own private storage on your iPhone, so they are still there the next time you open it, and it never uploads those copies. Picking another replaces the copy, holding its thumbnail in the app deletes it, and deleting the app removes them. Like other app data, they can be part of your iPhone's own backup.

Sounds you add

You can record your own short sounds or add sound files from the Files app, to play for the person or pet you are photographing. They are saved inside the app on your iPhone, are never uploaded, and stay until you delete them from the app's Sounds list or delete the app.

Settings

Your choices in the app, such as camera settings, the cover-screen options and the words on your message card, are stored on your iPhone. The app does not sync or send them anywhere, and they are removed when you delete the app.

Purchases

Some features unlock with AnyFront Pro, a monthly subscription sold through the App Store. Apple handles the payment. The app asks the App Store only for the offer and whether AnyFront Pro is active on your Apple Account, and stores nothing about the purchase itself. Payment details are covered by Apple's Privacy Policy, not by this one.

Children

The animations and sounds are there to catch the attention of whoever is in front of the camera, often a child or a pet. The app is used by the person holding the phone, and it collects nothing from anyone, children included. The look-here shutter does not recognize anyone (see Face detection).

Your choices

• Nothing to request or delete off your iPhone. AnyFront Camera holds nothing about you anywhere but on your iPhone, so there is no account or server copy to delete.
• Camera, microphone and Photos access. You can turn each one off at any time in the Settings app, under Apps > AnyFront or Privacy & Security. The camera, the sound recording, saving to your library or the album then stops working until you allow it again.
• Face detection. The look-here shutter is off until you switch it on, and you can switch it off at any time. It and Cinematic video each ask before their first use. In Camera Settings > Look-here shutter, Ask again before face detection takes back your answer for both.
• Sounds and the cover video. Delete any sound you added from the app's Sounds list. Picking another video replaces the cached copy while the app stays open; deleting the app removes every copy.
• Everything at once. Deleting the app removes everything it stored on your iPhone: settings, your message card, the sounds you added and the cached cover videos.
• Questions or requests. Write to support@jfound.net.

Apple

AnyFront Camera is distributed through the App Store. Downloads and any crash reports you choose to share with developers are handled by Apple under Apple's Privacy Policy.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date. A change that collects any data would be described here before it ships.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@jfound.net

This website

Everything above is about the app. This section is about the website you are reading, anyfront.jfound.net, which works differently: it uses analytics to count visits and to see how people find it. The app still collects nothing.

• Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views on every visit. It uses no cookies.
• Google Analytics, delivered through Cloudflare Zaraz, runs only if you allow it in the privacy card shown on your first visit. If you allow it, it uses cookies to recognise repeat visits, and Google handles that data under Google's Privacy Policy.

You can change your choice at any time with the Privacy button at the bottom of every page. The website has no accounts and shows no advertising.