Privacy Policy — Remove Background Transparent
Effective date: August 27, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains what Remove Background Transparent ("the app", "we", "us") does with your information when you use the app on iOS — above all, what happens to a photo you ask it to process.
No account, no login
The app has no login screen, no Sign in with Apple, and no account of any kind. It does not ask for your name, email address, or phone number, it does not create a user identifier for you, and it does not send any identifier with your photo. There is no advertising in the app, no advertising SDK, and no analytics or tracking SDK of any kind.
What happens to the photo you process
Background removal is not done on your device: it runs on paid image-processing services. This is the whole of the data flow, and the part of this policy that matters most:
- You choose one photo. The original stays in your photo library — the app never uploads it as-is.
- The app makes a compressed, downscaled JPEG copy (kept under about one megabyte) and sends that copy over an encrypted connection to our own serverless function, hosted on Supabase, which acts as our processor.
- The request carries the image and nothing else that identifies you: no account, no device identifier, no location.
- Our function stores nothing. It has no database and no file storage attached; it writes only which engine answered and any error text into its operational log. The image is held in memory for the seconds the request takes and is gone when the response is returned.
- Our function forwards the image to the image-processing providers listed below, purely to obtain the cut-out, and returns the resulting transparent PNG to your device.
- The finished cut-out is yours: it is saved to your photo library or shared only when you choose to, and we never receive a copy of it back.
Image-processing providers and how long they keep an image
Two independent providers are used, so that a failure at one does not take the app down. Each keeps request data for a period set by its own policy, which we cannot shorten to zero:
- fal.ai — runs the primary background-removal model. fal's published data retention policy stores the JSON inputs and outputs of a request for 30 days by default, and keeps the media file the model generates on the fal CDN for at least 7 days by default. The link to that file is created for that single request and is never published by us.
- Replicate — runs the fallback model and the two free retry models. Replicate's published data retention policy states that for predictions created through the API, all input parameters, output values, output files, and logs are automatically removed after an hour by default.
Because your photo is available to these providers for longer than the moment it takes to serve the request, our App Store privacy declaration reports Photos or Video as collected data, used for App Functionality and not linked to your identity. Neither provider receives anything from us that identifies you, and neither is permitted to use your image for its own purposes.
Purchases
Image credits are sold as one-time in-app purchases through Apple. Apple processes the payment and we never see your payment details, your Apple Account, or your name. Your remaining credit balance is stored in your device's own Keychain — we keep no copy of it, and we run no purchase ledger, no account database, and no server-side profile of any kind. Because there is no account, there is nothing on our side to look up, export, or delete.
Why we process this information
- Performance of our contract with you — to deliver the cut-out you paid a credit for.
- Legitimate interests — to keep the service working, which is why an error is logged with the name of the engine that failed.
There is no advertising and no marketing profile built from your data, so we never process personal data on the basis of interest-based advertising.
Third parties involved
- Apple processes your purchase; Apple's own privacy policy governs its handling of your payment details.
- Supabase hosts the serverless function described above as our processor and does not use your data for its own purposes.
- fal.ai and Replicate receive the photo copy in order to remove its background, and retain it only for the periods quoted above.
We do not sell your information, and we do not share it with data brokers or advertising networks.
Children's privacy
This app is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. The app asks for no personal details at all. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us at the address below so we can delete it.
Changes to this policy
If we make a material change to this policy — for example, if we change which image-processing provider handles your photo — we will update the effective date above and, where required, provide notice in the app.
Contact us
For privacy questions or support related to your data, contact us at: [email protected]