Privacy Policy
GEN Cam is a camera app, and we've tried to keep the data footprint as small as possible:
- No accounts and no cloud sync. Photos and videos stay on your device.
- Optional beauty effects process facial landmark data locally on your device only.
- We do not look at the contents of your images. When you use optional beauty effects, facial landmark data is processed locally on your device only to render the selected visual effect. We do not use face data to identify, authenticate, track, profile, advertise to, or market to you.
- For diagnostics only, the app sends anonymized crash and usage data through Firebase.
The rest of this page covers the details.
What stays on your device
Everything you capture or import is written to your device's storage and never travels to us. We don't receive your photos, your videos, your audio, or the EXIF metadata attached to them. If you uninstall GEN Cam, anything already saved to your photo library stays there because we never touched it; if you delete a capture from your library, it is gone — we cannot help you get it back.
Face Data and Beauty Effects
GEN Cam includes optional beauty effects that run entirely on your device. When you enable these effects or preview them on a selected photo, the app may process facial landmark data locally on-device, such as landmark results for the face outline, eyes, lips, and cheek positions. These landmark results are used only to place and render the visual effects you choose, including skin smoothing, whitening, sharpening, face slimming, eye enlargement, lipstick, and blush.
Any facial landmark data processed by GEN Cam never leaves your device. GEN Cam does not store, upload, transmit, share, or retain face images, face landmarks, face geometry, or beauty-effect face data on our servers or with any third party. We also do not provide face images, face landmarks, or beauty-effect face data to third-party services used for app operations such as analytics, crash diagnostics, or payment processing.
GEN Cam does not collect Face ID data, biometric identifiers, face templates, faceprints, face blendshapes, or facial transformation matrices. The app does not use face data to identify you, authenticate you, track you, profile you, serve advertising, perform marketing, or perform data mining.
GEN Cam does not create a separate stored record of face data. Face landmark results are used in on-device memory only while rendering the live preview, processing a capture, or previewing an edited photo. They are not written to disk as face data and are not retained in a server-side database. Saved photos or videos may contain the final visual edits selected by you, but no face landmark data or face templates are stored separately.
Diagnostic data we receive
The only information that leaves your device for our benefit is anonymized telemetry sent through Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics. This includes things like your device model, OS version, a Firebase-assigned anonymous identifier, IP address (used briefly for region-level statistics and then discarded), and the timestamp and configuration around any crash event.
These services do not identify you by name, and we cannot reverse-engineer your identity from what reaches us.
Permissions GEN Cam may ask for
Each permission is requested on demand — the first time a feature actually needs it — and you can revoke any of them later from your phone's Settings.
- Camera — to take photos and record video. Without it, the shutter doesn't work.
- Photo Library — to write your captures into your library, and to read existing items you want to bring into GEN Cam.
- Microphone — used while you record video with sound. Decline this and your videos will be silent.
- Location — optional and off by default. Enable it only if you want GPS coordinates written into your photo metadata.
When you email us
If you write to support, your email client will hand us your address along with the message. We use that information to reply to you and, occasionally, to spot patterns in user feedback. It is not passed to advertisers, marketers, or any other third party.
Outbound links
A few screens in the app may link out to other websites — for example, this Privacy Policy itself, or a help article. Once you tap a link, you are on someone else's site, governed by their privacy practices rather than ours.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have legal rights to access, correct, or delete personal information held about you. Because the only personal-ish data we receive is anonymized Firebase telemetry we cannot tie back to you, we usually have nothing to show, correct, or delete on our end. For anything you have sent us by email, write to the address below and we will do what we can.
You can also cut off the diagnostic stream entirely by limiting analytics in your device settings, denying the relevant permissions, or uninstalling the app.
Updates to this policy
If we change anything material, we will bump the effective date at the top of this page. There is no other notification channel — we don't have your email unless you have written to us first.
Contact
For questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy: [email protected]