Privacy Policy
Gallerio Swipe Clean is built so that your gallery stays yours. This page explains exactly what leaves your device, what does not, and how to erase everything.
Last updated: 11 August 2026
The short version
- Your photo library is never uploaded. Every tool in the app reads and writes photos on your device.
- The only image that ever leaves your device is a profile photo you pick yourself.
- There is no advertising, no tracking and no analytics in the app.
- We never remove a photo from your library without iOS asking you to confirm first.
- You can erase your account and everything on our servers from inside the app, at any time.
1. Who is responsible
Gallerio Swipe Clean (the "app") is published by Ali Gürkan Sevilmiş ("we", "us"), acting as the data controller for the processing described here.
Privacy questions and requests: gallerio.app@gmail.com
2. What we collect
| Data | Why | When |
|---|---|---|
| An anonymous account identifier | To hold your profile without asking you to register | Created automatically on first launch |
| Display name | To greet you and label your profile | When you set up or edit your profile |
| Profile photo | To show on your own profile inside the app | Only if you add one |
| Birthday, vibe and favourite things, all optional | To tailor the app to you | Only if you fill them in |
| Email address, and name if the provider supplies it | To keep your account recoverable and let it move to a new device | Only if you connect Apple or Google |
That is the whole list. We do not ask for your address, phone number or payment details, and we do not buy data about you from anyone.
3. What we do not do
- We do not upload, copy or read your photo library off the device.
- We do not track you, across apps or anywhere else, and the app contains no advertising SDK.
- There is no analytics and no crash-reporting SDK in the app. We receive no record of which screens you open or how you use the tools.
- There are no push notifications, so no notification token is created or stored.
- There is no friends list, no feed, no messaging and no shared content. Nothing you make in the app is visible to another person unless you export it and share it yourself.
- We do not collect your location. The app never asks for location access.
4. Your photos
This is the part that matters most, so it is spelled out in full.
Photo library access
When you open a tool that works with your gallery, iOS asks for permission to read your photo library. That access is used on your device only. Swipe Clean reads photos to show them to you one at a time and to add up how much space you could free; Photo Templates reads them so you can drop them into a layout; Gallery Wrapped counts dates and hearts; Story Templates picks frames to fill a card. None of it is uploaded, and none of it is sent to us.
What the app creates
Photo Templates, Gallery Wrapped and Story Templates render an image on your device and save it to your own Photos library when you ask them to. If you tap Share instead, iOS hands the image to whichever app you choose — from that point it is covered by that app's own privacy policy, not ours. Nothing is uploaded to us either way.
Deleting photos
Swiping a photo away inside Swipe Clean does not delete it. It is moved to a trash that exists only inside the app, on your device, and you can restore anything from it. A photo is removed from your library only after you select it in that trash and confirm, and only through the iOS deletion dialog, which puts it in Photos → Recently Deleted where the system keeps it for 30 days. Deleting your Gallerio account never touches your photo library.
The one image that does leave your device
Your profile photo, if you set one. It is stored so that it survives a reinstall and travels with you if you connect an Apple or Google account, and it is deleted when you delete your account. Nobody else can see it — the app has no surface on which another person could appear. No other image ever leaves your device.
Before that one photo is uploaded, the app rebuilds it. The picture you picked is decoded, its rotation is baked into the pixels, it is scaled down to no more than 512 pixels on its longest side, and it is written out again as a fresh JPEG. The metadata the original carried does not survive that step: the GPS coordinates, the capture date and the camera model are all gone from the file we receive. This is worth spelling out because the iOS photo picker hands an app location data by default — without this step, a profile photo would arrive carrying the coordinates of wherever it was taken. A photo you take with the in-app camera never carries that information in the first place.
We check this rather than assume it. A test image deliberately stamped with GPS coordinates, a capture date and an iPhone 15 Pro camera tag comes out the other side with none of the three, and we have pulled an uploaded file back off the device to confirm that is what actually reaches storage.
5. Where your data is stored
We use Google Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions and App Check) as our processor. Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics are not part of the app. The database, file storage and server functions for Gallerio are hosted in europe-west3 (Frankfurt, Germany), inside the European Union.
Google may process limited diagnostic and delivery data outside the EU. Where that happens it is covered by the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
6. Who can see what
- You can see everything in your own profile.
- Nobody else can see your profile, your photos or anything you make. Gallerio Swipe Clean is a single-player app: there is no friends list, no feed, no messaging and no shared album.
- Nobody can browse your gallery. There is no mechanism in the app or on the server that would allow it.
We do not sell your data and we do not share it with advertisers.
7. Legal basis
Under the GDPR we rely on:
- Contract — to give you an account and a profile that survives a new device.
- Consent — for photo library access. You can withdraw it at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos.
- Legitimate interests — to keep the service working and to stop our servers being abused, which is what Firebase App Check is for.
8. How long we keep it
- Profile fields and your profile photo: until you delete your account, or until you replace them.
- Your anonymous account identifier: until you delete your account.
- Everything else the app makes — your trash, your kept list, your exports — lives on your device and goes when you delete the app.
9. Deleting your account
Open the app, go to Profile → Settings → Delete account and confirm. This removes your profile and your profile photo from our servers and closes your login.
Photos in your device's library are not touched.
If you cannot reach the app, write to gallerio.app@gmail.com and we will erase the account for you.
10. Your rights
You can ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, erase it, restrict or object to processing, or receive it in a portable format. Write to gallerio.app@gmail.com and we will respond within 30 days. You also have the right to complain to your national data protection authority.
11. Children
Gallerio Swipe Clean is not intended for children under 13, and you must be at least 13 to use it. In countries where the age of consent for data processing is higher than 13, you must be at least that age. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact us and we will delete it.
12. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a way that affects you, we will update the date at the top and, where the change is significant, tell you in the app before it takes effect.
13. Contact
Ali Gürkan Sevilmiş — gallerio.app@gmail.com