Privacy Policy

Effective November 5, 2026

This policy explains how the Beginner Cam app for iPhone and Android ("Beginner Cam", "the app") and this website handle information. Beginner Cam is developed and published by Sopheareach Te ("we", "us"), who is responsible for your information under this policy.

In short: there is no account and no server of our own. Your photos never leave your phone unless you share them. We do not sell or share data for advertising, show ads, track you or use analytics. The only outside service the app uses is RevenueCat, to verify purchases.

Information we do not collect

• We do not ask for your name, email address, phone number or any account.
• We do not upload, view or store your photos on any server.
• We do not use advertising identifiers (Apple's IDFA or Google's Advertising ID), track you across other apps or websites, or show ads.
• We do not collect your location. Location data is removed from photos the app saves, and saved videos carry no location.
• We do not collect contacts, browsing history, health, financial or other sensitive information.
• The app does not send usage analytics or crash reports to us or to any analytics service.

Permissions

The app asks for each permission only when you first use the feature that needs it. You can say no, or change your mind later in your phone's settings.

• Camera: used only to show the live preview and take photos and videos inside the app.
• Microphone: used only to record sound with your videos, including Dual. You can say no and still record videos without sound.
• Photos / media: used only to save your photos to your photo library or gallery. On iPhone the app asks for "add only" access and cannot read or browse your existing photos. On Android it saves new photos and videos to your gallery and does not read your existing ones. If you add photos from your library (a Pro feature), you choose them in the system's photo picker, and the app receives only the ones you pick.
• Notifications (optional): asked once after the short demo when you first open the app, and, if you choose Not now, once more after you save your first photo. Reminders are scheduled on your phone; nothing is sent from a server. You can turn them off in the app's Settings or in your phone's settings.

Information stored on your phone

• Your onboarding answers (what you shoot, your vibe, where you post, your level) and your settings, such as language, appearance and notification preferences.
• The photos and videos you take, with your edits (look, crop, rotation, trim), kept in the app's own library until you delete them or delete the app.
• The start times of the welcome and limited-time offers, so an offer is not restarted. These are dates and times only.

This information stays on your device and is never sent to us. To keep offers from restarting after a reinstall, the offer start times are also kept in your iPhone's Keychain and your own iCloud key-value storage on iPhone, or in your Google Android backup on Android if you have backup turned on. They contain no personal information. iCloud is handled under Apple's Privacy Policy and Android backup under Google's Privacy Policy.

Purchases

Purchases are made through the App Store (Apple) or Google Play (Google), who process the payment. We never see your payment details, name or email address.

To check whether your unlock is active and to restore it, the app uses RevenueCat, a purchase-management service. RevenueCat receives:

• an anonymous app user ID created by the app,
• your purchase and transaction details (such as product, price, currency, date and store transaction ID),
• basic device and app information (such as the operating system and app version, country and the IP address of the request).

It does not receive your name, email or photos. The App Store or Google Play may also tell the app when you first installed it, so that new and returning users see the right offer. This stays on your phone.

How we use information

We use the information above only to run the app: to show the guides and looks that fit what you shoot, remember your settings, keep your photos and videos in the app's library, schedule reminders you have allowed, show the right offer, and verify and restore your purchase. We do not use it for advertising, profiling or selling, and we do not combine it with information from other sources.

Who we share information with

• Apple or Google, to process purchases and refunds through their stores.
• RevenueCat, as our service provider, only to verify and restore purchases. RevenueCat may use only the data it needs to provide this service to us and is required to protect it at least as well as this policy does.
• Authorities, only if required by law.

We do not sell personal information and do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Sharing your photos

When you share a photo, it goes only where you choose through your phone's share sheet, and is then handled by the app you share to. The caption can include a link to Beginner Cam on the App Store or Google Play. The link never contains anything that identifies you or your device. Pro users can turn the link off in Settings.

Data retention and deletion

• On your phone: kept until you delete it in the app or delete the app. Deleting the app removes all of its on-device data, except the offer start times kept in Keychain, iCloud or Android backup, which contain no personal information.
• RevenueCat: purchase records are kept for as long as needed to provide and restore your purchase, and to meet tax and accounting obligations.
• Deletion requests: email us at sopheareachte@gmail.com and we will have your purchase records deleted from RevenueCat within 30 days, except where the law requires us to keep them. Please include your store order ID (found in your App Store or Google Play purchase history) so we can find them. Deleting these records does not cancel or refund your purchase; you can restore it again later.

Because there is no account, there is no account to delete.

Security

Information sent to RevenueCat travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Information on your phone is protected by your device's own security, such as your passcode and encryption. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but we keep the information we handle to the minimum the app needs.

Children

Beginner Cam is suitable for all ages. It is a general-audience app, not one made specifically for children. Because the app does not collect personal information from anyone, it collects none from children either. If a child under 13 uses the app, nothing about them leaves their device; purchases go through Apple or Google, where parental controls such as Family Sharing, Ask to Buy and Google Family Link apply. If you believe we hold information about a child, contact us and we will delete it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, including under the GDPR in the European Economic Area and the UK, and under California and other US state laws, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of your personal information, and to object to or restrict how it is used. We hold almost no personal information, but you can make any of these requests by emailing us, and we will respond within 30 days. We will not treat you differently for using these rights. You may also complain to your local data protection authority.

Where the GDPR applies, we rely on performing our contract with you (providing the app and your purchase) and on our legitimate interest in preventing offers from being restarted.

International transfers

RevenueCat, Apple and Google may process information in the United States and other countries. They use safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for these transfers.

This website

beginnercam.com uses no cookies, analytics or ads. It is hosted on GitHub Pages, and loads its fonts from Google Fonts. Like any website, these services receive your IP address and browser details when you visit, under the GitHub Privacy Statement and Google's Privacy Policy.

Links

Links in the app and on this site (this policy, the Terms of Use, support, the app stores) open in your browser, mail app or store app. Their own privacy policies apply there.

Changes to this policy

If the way the app or this website handles information changes, we will update this page and its effective date before the change takes effect.

Contact

Sopheareach Te, developer of Beginner Cam
Email: sopheareachte@gmail.com
Support: beginnercam.com/support