ZeroGallery is designed around a simple principle: your personal photos should remain private. This Privacy Policy explains what the app accesses, what information may be processed, and the choices available to you.
1. Developer and scope
ZeroGallery is developed and operated by Başak Hicret (“ZeroGallery,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). Başak Hicret is the developer responsible for the processing described in this policy. This policy applies to the ZeroGallery: Photo Cleanup mobile application, its support website, and related communications. Privacy questions may be sent through our support email.
2. Photo and video library access and use
ZeroGallery requests photo access only after presenting an explanation in the app. Photo access is used to create Gallery Hunts, show previews, organize photos by date, identify screenshots, and suggest possibly blurry or out-of-focus items using on-device sharpness analysis. Quality suggestions are automated estimates and may be inaccurate. You may grant full or limited access and may change or revoke permission at any time in your device settings.
When you choose a video feature such as Large Video Hunt, ZeroGallery accesses videos available through the Photos permission you have granted. The app uses duration and resolution information to suggest videos for review and creates temporary local thumbnails for display. When needed, iOS Photos may fetch a thumbnail from your iCloud library to display a selected video. ZeroGallery does not upload that thumbnail or your video.
Media contents, filenames, dates, dimensions, durations, thumbnails, and library identifiers are processed locally on your device for these features. ZeroGallery does not upload your photos, videos, thumbnails, or media-library metadata to a server operated by Başak Hicret.
3. Media deletion and favorites
Swiping left does not immediately delete a photo or video. It adds the item to an in-app review list. Media is deleted from your library only after you review the selection and approve the operating system’s confirmation prompt. Your operating system and cloud-media provider may retain deleted items in a “Recently Deleted” area according to their own settings.
Favorite and keep decisions are used to provide the app experience and calculate local progress statistics. ZeroGallery currently stores aggregate favorite counts, not a remotely hosted copy of your favorite photos. Video review does not automatically add videos to photo favorites.
4. Information stored locally
The app stores preferences, onboarding status, unfinished Gallery Hunt drafts, Gallery Hunt history, streaks, weekly missions, rewards, XP, achievements, reminder time, purchase-access state, and aggregate activity statistics locally on your device. This information is used to retain your choices and provide core app features. Unfinished Gallery Hunt drafts expire automatically. This information is not tied to a ZeroGallery account because ZeroGallery does not currently offer account creation.
5. Optional local notifications
ZeroGallery may offer optional local notifications for Daily Photo Hunt, Streak Reminder, and On This Day Photos. The operating system asks for notification permission only if you choose to enable them. You can select a reminder time, turn individual reminders off in the app, or revoke notification permission in iOS Settings. These reminders are scheduled and delivered on your device and do not include photo or video details. ZeroGallery does not use remote push notifications in the current version.
6. Purchases and service providers
ZeroGallery uses Apple App Store billing and RevenueCat to offer, validate, and restore ZeroGallery Lifetime, a one-time purchase. These providers may process purchase status, transaction and product information, country or storefront, app-user or device identifiers, and technical diagnostics under their own terms and privacy policies. ZeroGallery does not receive or store your full payment-card details, and photo contents are not intentionally provided to these purchase providers.
7. What we do not do
ZeroGallery does not sell or rent personal information. We do not use your photos for advertising, profiling, facial recognition, or artificial-intelligence model training. The current version does not include third-party advertising or behavioral analytics. Apart from information processed by Apple and RevenueCat to provide purchases, ZeroGallery does not currently operate a backend that collects your photo library, local Gallery Hunt history, or progress.
8. Support communications
If you contact us, we receive the email address you use, your message, and any device, app-version, screenshot, or diagnostic information you voluntarily include. We use this information only to answer the request, troubleshoot the issue, protect the service, and meet legal obligations. Support correspondence is retained only as long as reasonably necessary for those purposes and is then deleted or anonymized, unless longer retention is legally required.
9. Retention and deletion
Local preferences and progress remain on your device until you reset local data through ZeroGallery’s Data & Privacy settings, clear the app’s storage where supported, or remove the app. Resetting app data does not delete photos from your photo library. Photos you deliberately delete are handled by your device and photo provider.
Purchase records and related identifiers may be retained by Apple and RevenueCat according to their policies and legal, fraud-prevention, tax, and accounting obligations. Because ZeroGallery does not currently create user accounts or maintain a user database, there is no ZeroGallery account to delete.
10. Privacy choices and data deletion
Where applicable law requires a legal basis, local media access is performed at your request and with the permission you grant through your device. Purchase processing is necessary to perform the transaction you request and to restore access. You can revoke or limit Photos permission, disable notifications, reset local progress, decline a purchase, or stop using the app at any time.
Photos permission: Use iOS Settings to grant full or limited Photos access, update selected photos, or revoke Photos access. Photo-only features do not require access to videos.
Notification permission: Use ZeroGallery’s Notification Settings to disable individual reminders or your system settings to revoke all notification access.
Local ZeroGallery data: Open Profile → Data & Privacy → Reset ZeroGallery Progress to remove locally stored XP, streaks, achievements, Gallery Hunt history, onboarding state, and preferences. This does not delete photos from your library.
Support information: To request access, correction, or deletion of information you previously sent to support, use our support email with the subject “ZeroGallery Privacy Request.”
No account to delete: ZeroGallery currently has no sign-up or login feature and does not maintain a remote user database, so there is no ZeroGallery account to delete. If accounts are introduced later, an in-app and web deletion method will be provided before launch.
Depending on where you live, you may also have rights concerning personal information, including access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or complaint to a data-protection authority.
11. International processing
Apple and RevenueCat may process purchase-related information in countries other than your own. Their privacy notices explain their locations, safeguards, and transfer practices.
12. Children
ZeroGallery is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
13. Security
ZeroGallery is designed to minimize collection and data transfer. Access to photos and videos is controlled by your operating system, and deletion requires system confirmation. No method of storage or processing is completely secure, but we use reasonable technical and organizational measures appropriate to the limited information we handle.
14. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when ZeroGallery, its providers, or applicable requirements change. We will publish the updated policy here and revise the “Last updated” date. Material changes may also be communicated within the app where appropriate.
15. Contact
Developer and privacy contact: Başak Hicret
Email ZeroGallery support