Privacy Policy
Nose Editor has no server, no account and no analytics. Your photographs are opened, analysed and edited entirely on your device — including the part that finds the face — and nothing you put into the app is ever sent anywhere.
At a glance
No data collected
The app's privacy manifest declares no collected data types and no tracking domains. There is nothing on our side to hold.
Faces are found on device
Apple's Vision framework locates the nose on your device. No faceprint is created, nothing is stored, nothing is uploaded.
No account, ever
No sign-in, no email address, no profile. The app works the moment you open it and forgets you when you delete it.
Add-only photo access
The app can add the photos it saves to your library. It never asks for permission to read what is already in it.
What we collect
Nothing. Nose Editor does not collect, receive, store or transmit any personal information about you. There is no server behind this app to send anything to: everything it does — opening a photograph, finding the face in it, reshaping the nose, cropping, rotating, encoding and saving — happens on your device.
No name, no email address, no phone number, no contacts, no location, no device identifier and no advertising identifier reach us. The app sends us no crash report and no usage statistic, because it has nowhere to send one to. We do not build a profile of you, because we have nothing to build one from.
The one network connection the app relies on is Apple's. When you open the subscription screen or make a purchase, iOS talks to the App Store on the app's behalf, under Apple's Privacy Policy. The app itself contacts no other service, and contains no networking code of its own.
Apple also reports aggregate figures to us as the app's developer, which is the one thing on this page that isn't “nothing” — Tracking, ads and third parties says exactly what those are.
Your photographs
A photograph of your face is about as personal as a file gets, and it is the one thing this app is built around. So it never leaves your device.
- Choosing a photograph. Photos are picked through the system photo picker, which runs outside the app in its own process. The app receives only the single item you chose. It never requests permission to read your photo library, and it cannot browse it.
- Editing it. Face detection, the nose reshaping itself, the automatic suggestion, cropping, rotation and encoding all run on device, on your photograph's own pixels at its native resolution. No image, no crop and no region of a face is uploaded for processing, and there is no enhancement, beautification or retouching service anywhere in the pipeline.
- Saving it. The app holds add-only photo library permission. It can place the photos you save into your library and can do nothing else there — it cannot read, edit or delete anything, including the photographs it put there itself.
- Sharing it. Share hands the finished photo to iOS's own share sheet, and from there it goes wherever you send it. That destination — a message, another app, a cloud service — is your choice and is covered by that service's privacy policy, not by this one. Nothing about it passes through us.
- Working files. The photograph you open is held in memory and is never written to disk. Each save is staged into the app's own private temporary directory, then moved into your photo library rather than duplicated, and any leftovers are swept away the next time the app launches. Those files are inside the app's sandbox, where no other app can reach them.
Your original is never modified. Every edit produces a new photo, and the picture you started from stays in your library exactly as it was.
You keep every right in your own photographs. We never see them, so we can make no claim to them and no use of them.
Face detection and biometrics
To reshape a nose the app has to find one, and that means looking at a face. This section says exactly what that looking consists of, because “the app analyses your face” is the sentence on this page most worth being precise about.
Detection is performed by Apple's Vision framework, on your device. It is the same on-device machine learning iOS uses elsewhere in the system; it involves no server, no model download and no network request. What it returns to the app is a small set of coordinates — where the bridge, the tip and the two sides of the nose are, the outlines Vision traced, and a confidence figure.
- No faceprint and no template. The app does not compute, derive or store a facial recognition template, a face embedding, a faceprint or any other biometric identifier. Nothing is compared against anything.
- No identification, and no ability to identify. The app cannot tell who is in a photograph, cannot tell whether two photographs show the same person, and does not try. Where a group photograph is numbered “face 2 of 3”, that number describes a position in that one picture and means nothing outside it.
- Nothing survives the session. The coordinates exist in memory while you have that photograph open in the editor and are gone when you leave it or close the app. They are never written to disk, never saved into the exported photo, and never transmitted.
- Detection is optional. If Vision finds nothing, or finds the wrong thing, you can place the nose yourself by dragging two handles. That path runs no detection at all and produces the same result.
Some privacy laws — including the GDPR and UK GDPR — treat biometric data as a special category when it is processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying a person. That is never the purpose here, and the app has no capability to do it: the coordinates are used to place a geometric adjustment on a picture you already have, on the device that already holds it. We receive none of it in any case.
What stays on your device
The app remembers a small number of settings so it behaves the way you left it. All of it is written to the app's own private preferences, all of it stays on the device, and all of it is removed when you delete the app. This is the complete list.
| Free save ledger | A date and a small count, so the app knows whether today's free save has been used. |
|---|---|
| Export defaults | Your last chosen format (HEIC, JPEG or PNG) and the quality setting. |
| Appearance | Whether you asked for light, dark, or the system setting. |
| Language | The language you picked, stored in the same per-app setting iOS itself uses, plus a copy of your device's own language order so the “Automatic” row can name it. |
| Face markers | Whether you asked the editor to stop drawing brackets over the faces in a group photograph. |
| Before/after hint | A single yes or no recording that you have used the comparison slider once, so the app stops explaining it. |
None of this identifies you, none of it is transmitted, and none of it is tied to an account. No photograph, no thumbnail and no face coordinate is kept in any of it. If your device backs itself up to iCloud or to a computer, the app's container may be included in that backup under your own backup settings — that backup is yours and is governed by Apple's terms, not by ours.
What a saved photo carries
A saved photo is encoded fresh from the edited pixels rather than patched into a copy of the original file, which means its metadata is only what the app deliberately writes into it:
- The original's capture date and time, with the time-zone offset the original carried — so your library files the edit beside the photograph it came from rather than under today's date. A source that carried no date produces a file that carries none.
- A software tag reading Nose Editor, which is the standard EXIF field naming the program that wrote the file.
Nothing else is copied across. The location the original was taken at, the camera make, model and serial number, lens and exposure data, and any other metadata in the source are not carried into the saved photo. That is a consequence of how the app encodes rather than a promise about a future version, so if it ever changes this page changes with it — but it is worth knowing today, because it means a photo you share from this app carries less about you than the one you started from.
The app writes no marker of its own about the edit: no record of the adjustments you made, no face coordinates, and no identifier of you or your device.
Subscriptions and payment
Nose Editor Pro PRO is sold through Apple, and Apple handles the entire transaction. Payment is taken by Apple, from your Apple Account, using the details Apple already holds.
- We never see and never receive your name, email address, billing address, card number or any other payment detail.
- The app asks the operating system a single question — whether an active subscription exists on this Apple Account — and receives yes or no.
- Restoring a purchase re-asks that same question. It does not create an account or send us anything.
Apple's handling of your purchase is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy and the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
Tracking, ads and third parties
There is no tracking in this app, in any sense of the word. It contains no advertising, no analytics package, no attribution kit, no crash reporter and no third-party SDKs of any kind. Nothing you do in it is measured, scored or shared.
Because nothing is tracked, the app never shows an App Tracking Transparency prompt — there is nothing to ask you about. Its privacy manifest declares tracking as false with no tracking domains, and its only declared API use is reading and writing the app's own settings.
What Apple may show us
One thing does reach us, and it does not come from the app. Every developer on the App Store has an App Store Connect account, and Apple reports figures there: downloads, sales, subscription counts, and — if you have left Share With App Developers switched on in your device's analytics settings — aggregated crash logs and usage measurements for this app.
Those reports are prepared by Apple, are aggregated across everyone who uses the app, and identify nobody. We cannot tell from them who you are, what photographs you opened or what you saved. You control that sharing yourself, for every app at once, in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.
We do not sell, share, rent, trade or disclose personal information, for the straightforward reason that we do not have any.
Children
The app collects no data at all, and therefore collects no data from children. It is not directed at children specifically, and it contains no advertising, no social features and no user-generated content shared with anyone.
It is worth a parent's judgement all the same: an app that changes the shape of a feature of somebody's face is the kind of thing a younger user is better off using with an adult around, whatever it does with data.
Purchases are made through the Apple Account signed in on the device. If you share a device with a child, Apple's Screen Time and Ask to Buy controls govern whether a purchase can be made.
Your rights
Privacy law in your region — including the GDPR and UK GDPR in Europe, the CCPA and CPRA in California, and Türkiye's KVKK — gives you rights to access, correct, port and delete the personal data a company holds about you, and to object to its processing.
We hold no personal data about you — the App Store figures under Tracking, ads and third parties are aggregated by Apple and identify nobody — so there is nothing for us to hand over, correct or erase, and no sale or sharing of personal information for you to opt out of. Everything the app keeps is on your device and under your control:
- Delete the app to remove every setting it stored, including the free-save ledger.
- Photos you saved stay in your photo library, because they are yours — remove them there if you no longer want them.
- Revoke the app's add-only photo permission at any time in Settings → Nose Editor.
- Manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings, at any time.
You are welcome to write to us with a privacy question anyway, and we will answer it.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the effective date at the top of the page changes with it, and the previous wording is replaced rather than quietly amended. A change that materially affects how the app handles your information will also be described in that release's App Store notes. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated policy.
Contact
Nose Editor is published by Hello World Games & Apps, Türkiye, who is the data controller for the purposes of this policy — a role that in practice covers no data.
Questions about privacy, this policy, or anything the app does with your photographs: thehelloworld.apps@gmail.com. We aim to reply within a few business days.