Film Rescue for iPhone

Privacy Policy

Effective and last updated: 20 August 2026

Film Rescue is developed by Dzmitry Dziachenka. This policy explains what the app processes, what stays on your iPhone, and what happens when you visit this website or email support.

1. The short version

2. Information processed on your iPhone

All of the following is created by you, kept in Film Rescue's own private app storage, and processed on the device:

• Photographs of negatives you capture with the camera, and images you choose through the system photo picker.
• The positive photographs Film Rescue develops from them, including the reduced-size previews it caches so a roll opens quickly.
• Your film-base calibration for a roll, the crop and rotation you accept, the style you choose, and the adjustments you make.
• Roll and frame records: the roll's name, its film type, capture timestamps, frame order, and whether an original is still readable.
• How many frames you have saved, so the app knows whether the free allowance still applies, and the last verified result of your App Store purchase so unlimited saving keeps working without a network connection.

A photograph of a negative can show faces, children, homes, documents, and private events. That is exactly why the developing happens on your iPhone and why none of it is sent to the developer.

3. Information the app does not collect

Film Rescue has no user accounts and asks for no name, email address, or date of birth. It contains no advertising, no advertising identifier, no analytics or attribution SDK, and no crash-reporting SDK. It does not track you across apps or websites, does not build a profile, and does not sell or share personal data. It does not ask for your location, microphone, contacts, calendar, notifications, Bluetooth, or health data, and it does not read your photo library — the system photo picker hands the app only the specific images you select. The developer does not receive your photographs, thumbnails, colour measurements, roll names, or edit values.

4. Apple services

Film Rescue uses services provided by Apple, which Apple operates under its own privacy policy and terms rather than this one:

• App Store and StoreKit. Buying unlimited saving, restoring a previous purchase, and showing the price are handled by Apple. Apple keeps the record of the transaction; the app only stores whether the purchase is verified.
• Ratings and reviews. If you rate the app, Apple receives your rating. The app is told nothing about what you wrote or whether you wrote anything.
• Photos and Files. Saving a finished photograph puts it where you asked. Once it is there it is covered by your own device and iCloud settings, not by Film Rescue.
• System diagnostics. If you have allowed Apple to receive diagnostic and usage data in your iPhone settings, an app crash may be reported to Apple. The developer sees only what Apple chooses to aggregate and never receives your content.

5. Permissions and your choices

Film Rescue asks for two permissions, each one only at the moment you choose the action that needs it, and each one refusable without losing the app:

• Camera. Asked after you tap Use Camera, so the app can photograph a negative and check focus, lighting, and framing live. Frames from the camera are analysed on the device and never streamed anywhere. Refuse it and you can still import a photo instead. Change it later in Settings › Film Rescue › Camera.
• Add to Photos. Asked only when you choose Save to Photos for a finished photograph. It is add-only access: the app can put a photo in your library and cannot read what is already there. Refuse it and Save to Files and Share still work. Change it later in Settings › Film Rescue › Photos.

Revoking either permission while the app is running stops that capability safely and leaves your saved work untouched.

6. Retention and deletion

What you make stays on your iPhone until you remove it or remove the app. Temporary files created while exporting are deleted after the export finishes. You can delete your data in the app at three levels:

• A single frame, from that frame's own actions.
• A whole roll and its frames, from the roll's actions.
• Everything, with About › Data & Privacy › Delete All Data.

Each one asks you to confirm, names what will be removed, and cannot be undone. Deleting removes the app's own records, images, previews, and drafts together.

There are things a deletion inside an app honestly cannot reach, and Film Rescue does not claim otherwise. Photographs you already exported stay where you saved them. Email you already sent has already arrived. Device or iCloud backups made before the deletion follow your own backup settings. Apple keeps its record of your purchase, which is what allows Restore Purchases to work, and deleting your data does not cancel or refund it. Deletion on flash storage is logical rather than forensic erasure.

7. This website and support email

This site is served by Cloudflare Pages as static files. It has no accounts, no forms, no cookies, and no analytics, and it runs no script. Cloudflare processes request data such as your IP address in order to deliver and protect the site, under its own privacy terms.

Mail sent to ddziachenka@cloudlinux.com is received and read only by Dzmitry Dziachenka, and is used only to answer your request. It is not added to a mailing list and is not used for marketing. A message and its attachments are deleted within 90 days after the request is closed, unless the law or an active dispute requires keeping it longer. Please send a photograph only when it is needed to explain the problem, and treat anything you attach as something that has left your iPhone.

8. Changes to this policy

This page is updated before a material change takes effect, and the date at the top changes with it.

9. Contact

Privacy questions go to ddziachenka@cloudlinux.com. For anything else, start at Support.