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Trust & Privacy

This page is maintained by the FotoFairy team to answer common security and privacy questions about the app. It describes our current practices — not an independent certification or audit result.

What FotoFairy does

FotoFairy helps you curate camera-roll batches into a cleaner final collection. The app runs fast local checks in your browser, then may use server-side AI analysis to improve scene understanding, duplicate handling, ranking, captions, and final order.

Access & authentication

FotoFairy currently requires an account for private saved collections. Email confirmation, magic links, and password reset links are handled by FotoFairy's secure sign-in flow.

Data we store

For saved collections, FotoFairy stores project metadata, uploaded photo records, analysis metadata, duplicate/group decisions, removed/restored states, final ordering, pinned cover photo, captions, and selected preferences. This lets you leave and come back without losing a completed draft.

Photo files for saved collections are stored in private cloud storage. FotoFairy creates fresh, short-lived display links when you reopen a collection.

AI processing

FotoFairy uses local/browser analysis first where possible. When deeper analysis is needed, optimized previews may be reviewed through secure server-side AI. Private keys stay on the server and are not exposed to the browser.

Cookies & analytics

FotoFairy uses essential browser storage for sign-in state and short-lived workflow handoff state. Local browser storage is not treated as the permanent source of truth for saved collections.

Retention & deletion

Saved collection rows remain until you delete them. Deleting a collection should remove the associated collection records and request cleanup of associated private photo files. Older drafts with missing photo files may show a specific fallback message rather than silently restarting the flow.

Security contact

To report a security or privacy concern, contact the FotoFairy maintainer through the project repository or support channel. We will respond as soon as we are able.