Foldcut – Privacy Policy

1. Your Work Stays On Your Phone

Foldcut turns a photo into a torn-paper cutout animation and turns text into match-cut videos and paper headline animations. Every step runs on your phone:

• The photo you pick or take is copied into the app’s private storage, which other apps cannot read.
• The subject is cut out, animated and combined with the paper style, text and background on your phone.
• The finished video, GIF or image is drawn and encoded on the phone and saved to your gallery only when you export.

No photo, cutout, project, text or exported video is sent to a RiekApps server or to anyone else. Foldcut never records sound or converts spoken words into text. Creating and exporting work with the network off.

2. On-Device Processing

Foldcut uses the phone’s own subject-segmentation tools to find the main subject in a photo, then draws the cutout, paper effects, animation and export locally. On Android this uses Google’s on-device ML Kit; on iPhone it uses Apple’s on-device Vision framework. The photo is not sent to Google, Apple or RiekApps for processing, and there are no server rendering or generative-AI calls.

3. Analytics

To learn which features are used and where the app fails, Foldcut sends anonymous usage events to Earshot, our own analytics service run by RiekApps on our server. It receives:

• Screens and steps — for example that onboarding was finished, the paywall was shown and from where, or a maker was opened.
• Cutting and exports — which maker, export type, quality and shape were chosen, how long cutting or exporting took, whether a subject was found, whether an export succeeded, and a short technical error reason if it failed.
• Purchases — which plan was tried and whether the purchase finished, failed or was cancelled. Never your payment details.
• App and device facts — app opens, which screen is shown, sessions, the app version, operating system, device model, language, time zone, whether you have Pro, and the country or region worked out from your IP address — with a random identifier for this installation. Earshot uses the IP address only to look up the country and never stores it.

We use this data only to improve the app. We never sell it, never share it with advertisers and never use it for ads. Earshot does not read your phone’s advertising ID. None of the events contains your photo, cutout, project, text, exported video or file name.

4. Our Other Apps

If you do not have Pro, Foldcut may show other apps made by RiekApps: a “More from us” list in Settings, and now and then a card after you save a video. Earshot loads that list from our server; the request carries only the app’s name, and the device’s country setting is used on the phone to show apps available there. When one of our apps is shown or tapped, Foldcut tells Earshot which app and which spot, with the random installation identifier, so we can count views and taps. Tapping one opens its store page with a tag that tells us only which of our apps sent you there. No third-party ad network or advertising ID is used. Pro hides all of it.

5. Messages You Send Us

When you use Contact us or Request a feature in Settings, or tell us what went wrong after giving the app 1 to 3 stars, Earshot receives what you type, the topics you tick, the number of stars (for rating feedback). To help us fix problems, the message also carries the app version, your device model and operating system version, your language and country setting, whether you have Pro, and the random installation identifier, so we can tell that several messages came from the same person. If you give us an email address, we use it only to reply to you. Messages never include your photos, cutouts, projects, text or exported videos.

Messages are sent over an encrypted connection to our own server and stored in Earshot, which only RiekApps staff can access. We do not sell or share them and do not use them for advertising. They are kept for up to 24 months, then deleted; you can ask us to delete yours earlier at riekapps@gmail.com. After you have written to us, the app checks our server for replies when you open it.

If you give the app 4 or 5 stars, we open the store’s own rating sheet, which is covered by Google’s or Apple’s privacy policy.

6. Subscriptions

Foldcut Pro is an auto-renewing monthly subscription billed by Google Play on Android and by the App Store on iPhone. The store handles payment; RiekApps never sees your card, billing address or store account. The app asks the store whether this device has an active subscription and keeps only the answer on the phone.

7. Permissions

• Photos — only to pick the photo you want to cut out and to save a finished export to your gallery when you ask. The system picker gives Foldcut only the photo you choose where the operating system supports it.
• Camera — only when you choose to take the photo you want to cut out.
• Internet — for store billing, Earshot analytics, our other apps and messages you send us. Creating and exporting work with the network off.

8. What Is Stored On Your Phone

• Your projects: the photos and cutouts you use, the text you type, and the animation, paper, background and export choices you make.
• Your settings, how many free videos have been used, and whether Pro is active.
• The random installation identifier used for Earshot analytics, our other apps and support messages.

Deleting a project removes its photos, cutouts, text and choices from Foldcut. Uninstalling the app removes all of it. Files you have exported to your gallery or shared are outside the app and are not removed. Your phone’s own backup may include the app’s data; that backup goes to your Google or Apple account, not to us.

9. What RiekApps Never Collects

• No photo, cutout, project, typed text or exported video.
• No recorded sound or spoken words.
• No name, phone number, contacts or account. An email address only if you choose to give one in a message to us.
• No precise location.
• No advertising ID and no third-party advertising SDK.

10. Third Parties

• RiekApps’ own server (DigitalOcean, our hosting provider) — Earshot analytics (section 3), our other apps (section 4) and support messages (section 5). Nobody else has access to this data.
• Google Play and the App Store — app distribution, billing and ratings. See Google’s and Apple’s privacy policies.
• Apps you share to — when you share an exported video, GIF or image, your phone’s share sheet hands it to the app you pick, whose own policy applies.

RiekApps does not sell personal data or share it for advertising.

11. Your Choices And Rights

There is no account, so RiekApps holds no profile with your name. Earshot analytics data is linked only to the random installation identifier and is kept for at most 25 months. Uninstalling the app removes that identifier and everything the app stored. If you have a question or a request under a privacy law that applies to you — for example the GDPR, the CCPA or the Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act — write to riekapps@gmail.com and we will answer it, including deleting any support messages or analytics linked to your installation.

12. Children

Foldcut is a general-audience creative tool and is not directed at children under 13. It does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

13. Changes

If this policy changes, the revised version is published on this page with a new effective date. Your photos, cutouts, projects, text and exported videos will not start leaving your phone without this page saying so first.

14. Contact

RiekApps — riekapps@gmail.com. See also the Terms of Use and the Support page.