Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 24, 2026
Cernita is designed so that this policy can stay short: the app runs entirely on your device and does not operate any servers of its own.
What we collect
Nothing. Cernita has no server, no analytics, no advertising SDKs, and no account system. Your photos never leave your phone. Your swipe decisions stay on your phone and in your own private iCloud, where only you can read them.
Apple services we use
Cernita has no server of its own and does not transmit data to us or any third party. It uses two of Apple's own systems:
- iCloud - to sync your lifetime stats and badges across your own devices, and to keep a copy of which photos you kept, marked for deletion, or skipped, so your progress comes back if you reinstall the app. That copy is a list of Apple's internal photo IDs only: no photos, no thumbnails, no dates, no locations, no album names. It lives in your private iCloud database, which we cannot access.
- StoreKit - to process the optional lifetime-unlock purchase, including when Apple shares it with your family.
Both are handled entirely by Apple. We never see, receive, or store your iCloud data or payment information ourselves.
Photo library access
Cernita asks for photo library access solely to show you your own photos, to delete the ones you confirm, and to save a trimmed copy of a video when you ask for one. All processing happens on-device using Apple's PhotoKit and AVFoundation frameworks. Photos you delete, and the full-length original of a video you trim, move to your iPhone's Recently Deleted album, where iOS keeps them for 30 days.
Data stored on your device
The app keeps a small local record of which photos you have already reviewed, counters for photos sorted, videos trimmed, and space freed, and your view preferences such as the active filter and whether the details panel is open. This data lives only in the app's own storage and is removed when you delete the app.
Changes
If a future version of Cernita ever changes any of the above, this policy will be updated before that version ships.
Contact
Questions? Reach out via LatentEdge.