Privacy Policy for Unfaded
Last updated: November 14, 2026
Unfaded restores and colorizes old photographs with AI models. This policy explains what happens to your photos and other information. The short version: there is no account; your archive stays on your phone; a photo leaves your phone only after you agree on a screen that explains where it goes; our relay removes its metadata and deletes it within 24 hours; the company that runs the models, fal.ai, processes it under its own published terms, and we ask it on every request to delete the photo and the result within one hour.
1. Who we are
Unfaded is published under the name Pocketkind by NEWETY TEKNOLOJİ VE YAZILIM LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ, a limited company with its registered address at Çamtepe Mah. Mahmut Tevfik Atay Blv. Gaziantep Teknopark No: 4A İç Kapı No: 11, Şahinbey / Gaziantep, Türkiye, registered with the Gaziantep Trade Registry Office under number 66455 (MERSIS number 0631171369100001) ("we", "us"). We are the data controller for the information described here.
Contact for privacy questions and requests, including our privacy contact for Canada and New Zealand: support@pocketkind.app.
2. Information that stays on your phone
Kept only in the app's storage on your device; we do not receive it:
- copies of the photos you import, and the restored results;
- the names you type for people in your photos, the captions, the dates and decades you assign, shoeboxes, and the change logs;
- the books, cards and frames you export;
- your consent record (when you allowed or withdrew sending photos), notification settings, and a cache of your remaining allowance;
- a creator code, if one was entered or came with an install link.
The app reads a photo's capture date from its metadata to suggest a decade. It does not read the location stored in a photo. Unfaded does not recognize faces: there is no face recognition, face grouping or face template. Names are labels you type.
Your original photos are never changed or deleted. Saving a result to your photo library, or sharing it, happens only when you choose to.
You can erase everything with Settings > Delete all data, or by uninstalling. The data export in Settings holds your captions, labels, dates and change logs, not the images; the images are exported through the book and card exports.
Notifications (a finished shoebox, an unfinished one, an allowance reset you asked for, an anniversary you switched on) are scheduled on your phone. No notification server is involved.
3. Information that leaves your phone
3.1 Your photos, when you restore them
Nothing is sent until you agree on the disclosure screen. You can withdraw that permission in Settings at any time; restoring then stops until you agree again.
When you restore a photo:
- The app sends the image to our relay, a small server we run on Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc., United States, as our hosting provider). The app prepares the image first: it is sized for the job and saved as JPEG or PNG.
- The relay removes every metadata block (including location, camera or device details, dates and embedded text) before the image goes anywhere else.
- The relay sends the image to a safety check and then to the restoration and colorization models run by fal.ai (fal – Features & Labels, Inc., United States). fal.ai processes the image under its published Terms of Service (https://fal.ai/terms) and Privacy Policy (https://fal.ai/privacy). On every request we ask fal.ai to delete the image and the result within one hour and not to keep them in its request history.
- The relay keeps the image and the result only while the restore runs and until your phone downloads the result, and in any case deletes them within 24 hours.
Purpose: to restore the photo you asked for. Legal basis where GDPR, UK GDPR or KVKK applies: performance of our contract with you (you asked for the restoration), and your explicit agreement on the disclosure screen.
Photos of other people. Old photos show family members and others. Upload only photos you have the right to use; you confirm this on the disclosure screen before the first upload. We use them only to perform the restoration you ask for and keep them no longer than stated here.
3.2 Safety screening and reports
Every uploaded photo is checked automatically for prohibited content before any restoration. If a photo is refused, we keep a record of the decision for 90 days (a scrambled device code, the item number, the result, a score and the time), with no image.
If you report a result with the Report button, we keep the reported result, the reason you chose and any note you type for 30 days so a person can review it, then delete them.
3.3 Device identifiers and allowance counting
There is no account. To give one free preview per device and to count a subscriber's weekly allowance, the relay issues a random installation code to your app and keeps counters against it. The relay sees your IP address with every request, uses it for a per-address rate limit and keeps it only as a scrambled (salted hash) value. The relay's logs contain only scrambled values, never a raw identifier, IP address, image or note, and our hosting provider keeps them for 3 days.
Purpose: to provide the service fairly and to prevent abuse. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in preventing fraud and abuse, and performance of the contract.
3.4 Purchases (RevenueCat and the app store)
Subscriptions are sold by Google Play or the Apple App Store, which handle payment; neither we nor RevenueCat see your card details. RevenueCat manages the subscription and receives an anonymous app-generated id, your purchase history, your device locale and, if you entered one, the creator code. RevenueCat, Inc. (United States) tells the app and our relay which subscription you hold. The id is random, created by RevenueCat's software for this installation; we send no name, email address, phone number or account id of our own, and use no advertising identifiers or advertising-attribution features. A creator code is sent with how and when it was entered. Our relay receives the same anonymous id and asks RevenueCat's servers whether it has an active subscription before it spends a restore; it never trusts a claim from the app.
3.5 Emails you send us
If you write to us, we receive your email address and your message and use them only to answer you, including requests to lift an annual limit.
3.6 What we do not collect
No account, name, phone number, postal address, location, contacts, microphone, advertising identifier or browsing history. No usage analytics. No advertising and no advertising software.
4. Who receives information
Only our service providers acting on our instructions: Cloudflare (relay hosting), fal.ai (safety screening and restoration models), RevenueCat (purchases), and Google or Apple for payments under their own policies. We do not sell personal information or share it for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising. We may disclose information if the law requires it.
Our providers are in the United States or process data there, so your information may be handled outside your country. Where the law requires safeguards for such transfers, we rely on the data-processing terms each provider offers its customers. You can ask us for details at support@pocketkind.app.
5. How long information is kept
| Information | Where | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your archive, captions, names, settings | Your phone | Until you delete it or uninstall |
| An uploaded photo and its result | Our relay | Until downloaded, at most 24 hours |
| An uploaded photo and its result | fal.ai | Deletion requested within 1 hour; fal.ai's own terms apply |
| A reported result, reason and note | Our relay | 30 days |
| Safety-check decisions (no image) | Our relay | 90 days |
| Allowance counters and scrambled device codes | Our relay | While needed for the allowance, then overwritten |
| Daily cost totals (numbers only) | Our relay | 35 days |
| Relay logs (scrambled values only) | Cloudflare | 3 days |
| Subscription records | RevenueCat | As long as needed for the service and for accounting and tax law |
| Support emails | Our mailbox | As long as needed to answer you |
6. Age
Unfaded is for adults. You must be 18 or older to use it. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. Family photos may show children; they are processed only to restore the photo you choose and are deleted as described above. If you believe someone under 18 has sent us information, write to support@pocketkind.app and we will delete it.
7. Your rights
Wherever you live, you can ask us what we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask for correction or deletion, or object, by writing to support@pocketkind.app. Most of what we hold deletes itself within 24 hours; reports within 30 days; safety decisions within 90 days. To delete what is on your phone, use Settings > Delete all data. You can withdraw permission to send photos at any time in Settings. To help us find subscription records, include the order number from your Google Play or App Store receipt (never send card details).
- European Economic Area and United Kingdom (GDPR, UK GDPR): you also have the rights to restrict processing and to data portability, to withdraw consent at any time without affecting earlier processing, and to complain to your data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office).
- Türkiye (KVKK, Law No. 6698): you have the rights in article 11 and may apply to us in writing and then to the Personal Data Protection Authority.
- United States: residents of states with consumer privacy laws may have rights to know, access, correct, delete and port their information and to opt out of sale, targeted advertising and profiling. We do none of those three. We will not treat you differently for exercising a right.
We answer within the time the applicable law sets (usually 30 days, or 45 days in several US states).
8. Security
All transfers use encrypted connections (HTTPS). The relay holds the provider keys so that no key ships in the app, strips metadata, checks every request and deletes images within 24 hours.
9. Changes
If we change how photos are handled, the app will ask for your agreement again before sending another photo. For other changes we update the date at the top and, for a material change, say so in the app or the store listing.
10. Contact
NEWETY TEKNOLOJİ VE YAZILIM LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ (Pocketkind), Çamtepe Mah. Mahmut Tevfik Atay Blv. Gaziantep Teknopark No: 4A İç Kapı No: 11, Şahinbey / Gaziantep, Türkiye, support@pocketkind.app.