Privacy

The short version

Your photographs are written to your phone and stay there. There is no account, no server and nothing to sign in to. I never see a picture you take, because there is nowhere for one to go.

Photographs live inside the app until you send them to your camera roll. That means deleting Ordinary deletes them too, the same as any other app’s documents. There is a switch in the settings that copies every photograph to your camera roll as it is taken, and it is off when you install the app.

What the app asks permission for

Three things, and each is used for what its name says.

• Camera. To take the picture. Without it there is no app.
• Photo library. Ordinary keeps everything it saves in one album called ORDINARY. Creating and filling that album is the only reason it asks for access, and iOS grants that access as one permission rather than two, so the app technically holds the right to read the rest of your library. It never does. Nothing outside its own album is opened, listed or sent anywhere.
• Location, only if you turn it on. There is a switch in the settings called Save location to photos. It is off when you install the app, and while it is off the app never asks the phone where you are. Switch it on and the place is written into the photograph’s own metadata, the same way a camera writes it. The file is still yours and still on your phone.

What is collected

Nothing. No analytics, no crash reporting of my own, no advertising identifiers, no tracking across apps or websites. The app ships with Apple’s privacy manifest declaring exactly that: no tracking and no collected data types.

Your photographs are never used to train anything.

What Apple sees

The app is free. Ordinary Plus is a one-time purchase inside it, and Apple handles it, not me. I never see your payment details, only that a sale happened. Whether you own Plus is read from your Apple account by the App Store itself; the app stores no receipt of its own and asks no server. If you have turned on sharing diagnostics with developers in your iOS settings, Apple may pass me anonymised crash reports. Apple’s own privacy policy covers all of that.

This website

No cookies, no analytics, no forms.

The typefaces are served from this site, so loading a page here sends no request anywhere else. That was not true until September 2026, when the fonts moved here from Google Fonts.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask what personal data is held about you, have it corrected, or have it deleted. In this case there is none to hold: no account, no mailing list, no analytics. So there is usually nothing to hand over or erase. Ask anyway if you want it in writing.

The data controller is Tomáš Zahrádka, Malířská 9, 170 00 Prague 7, Czech Republic.

Children

Ordinary is not directed at children under 13, and it collects nothing from anyone of any age.

Changes

If this changes in a way that matters, the date at the top moves with it, and the previous wording stays available on request.

Contact

Tomáš Zahrádka, Malířská 9, 170 00 Prague 7, Czech Republic
Telephone +420 778 055 059
hello@ordinarycamera.com