Privacy Policy – LifeLoop

Effective date: 2026-07-25 · Deutsche Version (maßgeblich)

Controller:
Julian Schweizer – SchweizerleLab
Schabringerstraße 2, 89407 Dillingen a. d. Donau, Germany
Email: schweizerlemail@gmail.com

The short version

LifeLoop is built local-first. Your photos, projects, and settings stay on your device. We run no servers, require no account, and do not sell or share your data.

What data the app processes

• Photos and project data (photos you capture or import, project names, notes, streaks, settings): stored only on your device in the app's private storage. Deleting a project or uninstalling the app deletes this data.
• Face and gesture detection: face alignment runs entirely on your device using Google ML Kit's on-device models; images are never uploaded. While the camera is open, the app additionally analyses body pose to recognise the shutter gesture ("raise your hand") — also on-device only, never stored, never uploaded. We build no biometric templates and identify no one; the only purpose is image alignment.
  Note: Google's ML Kit SDK sends technical metrics to Google for diagnostics and usage analytics (including device and app information, installation identifiers, latencies and error codes). The recipient is Google Ireland/LLC; see Google's ML Kit data disclosure for details.
• Optional Google Drive backup: if you connect Google Drive, backups are written (encrypted in transit) to your own Google account's app-data folder. We never see this data; Google's privacy policy applies. You can delete backups in the app or revoke access at myaccount.google.com.
• Notifications: daily reminders are scheduled on your device; no data leaves it.
• Purchases (when available): payment is handled by Google Play / the App Store. We receive no payment details; the app stores only whether Pro is unlocked.
• Usage statistics (only with your consent): we ask you on first launch. Only after you agree does the app record event counts (e.g. "a video was rendered") via Aptabase (EU-hosted) — no advertising IDs, no device IDs, no cross-app tracking, and nothing from your photos, project names or notes. Aptabase derives a pseudonymous identifier from your IP address, user agent and a daily-rotating random value; we cannot link it to you. Processor: Aptabase (EU). Withdraw anytime in Settings → Data & Privacy — without consent nothing is transmitted.
• Crash reports (same consent): if the app crashes or hits an unexpected error, we send a technical report (error message, stack trace, device model, app version) to Sentry (EU region) — processor: Functional Software, Inc. Screenshots and screen contents are explicitly excluded, and file paths to your photos are stripped before sending. The same switch turns this off.

What we do NOT do

No accounts. No ads. No sale of data. No advertising or cross-app tracking SDKs. No upload of your photos to our or anyone's servers — not even into an automatic operating-system backup: we explicitly disabled Android Auto Backup for this app so your photos and the app database cannot leave the device unasked.

The third-party services we use are limited to those named above: Google Play (purchases), Google Drive (only if you connect it), Google ML Kit (on-device analysis, with diagnostic metrics to Google), Aptabase (statistics) and Sentry (crash reports) — the last two only after you consent.

Legal bases (GDPR)

• Local processing of your content: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (providing the functionality you request).
• Optional Drive backup: Art. 6(1)(a)/(b) GDPR (you actively connect your own account).
• Usage statistics and crash reports: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (your consent) together with § 25(1) TDDDG. Nothing is transmitted without consent, and you may withdraw it at any time without giving reasons (Settings → Data & Privacy). Withdrawal takes effect immediately and does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out beforehand.

Your rights

Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection (Art. 15–21 GDPR) — since your data lives on your device, you exercise most of these directly in the app (delete projects or backups, uninstall). For anything else contact schweizerlemail@gmail.com. You may also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Changes

We will update this policy when the app's data practices change and note the new effective date here.