HIDE

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 November 2026

HIDE edits your videos and photos on your iPhone. They are never uploaded: not to us, not to anyone. This page says exactly what does leave the device, which is crash, performance and usage reports, and what they contain.

Who is responsible

HIDE is operated by IE Pavel Ilin, an individual entrepreneur registered in Georgia. For anything in this document (questions, access or deletion requests, complaints) write to hello@h1de.app. We answer within a few working days, and always within one month.

Your videos and photos

• Photos access. HIDE asks for access to your Photos library so that it can show your videos and photos for you to choose what to edit, and so that it can save your export back to the library when you tap Save. You can allow full or limited access and change it at any time in Settings.
• Audio files. When you add audio from Files, HIDE copies the file you picked into its temporary folder for the import and deletes the copy once the import is over.
• On the device. Editing, face detection, blurring, the watermark and the export all run on your iPhone. Faces are found with Apple's on-device Vision framework; HIDE does not recognise who anyone is and keeps no record of the faces it found.
• iCloud Photos. If a video or photo you pick is stored in iCloud Photos, Apple's Photos framework downloads the original to your device. That download is between your device and Apple; HIDE sends nothing.
• Sharing. An export goes only where you send it: to your Photos library when you tap Save, or to the app or person you choose in the share sheet.

HIDE contains no code that uploads your media, and there is no HIDE server that could receive it.

What HIDE keeps, and for how long

HIDE has no account and no cloud storage, and it does not save projects. A project lives in the app's memory while it is open; closing it or quitting the app discards it. The working copies a project needs (copies of the media you imported, previews, the exported file before you save or share it) sit in the app's temporary folder on your device. They are deleted when you close the project or are done with the export, and anything left behind (for example after the app was closed during an export) is deleted the next time HIDE starts. Thumbnails are made from those copies: the editor's timeline thumbnails sit in the same temporary folder and are deleted with the project, and other thumbnails are kept only in the app's memory. HIDE also empties its image cache on disk every time it starts. Deleting the app removes everything it stored; exports you saved to Photos stay in your library.

Crash, performance and usage reports

The App Store version of HIDE uses three services of Google Firebase. They start when the app opens:

• Google Analytics for Firebase: app opens and sessions, the screens you visit, device model, iOS version, language and approximate country (derived from the IP address), and whether you allowed, denied or skipped Photos access on the screen that asks for it.
• Firebase Crashlytics: when the app crashes, a crash report with the stack trace and the state of the device and system (for example free memory and disk space, iOS version), sent the next time you open HIDE.
• Firebase Performance Monitoring: how long the app takes to start, how smoothly screens render and how long its network requests take.

These reports are tied to identifiers Firebase creates for your installation of the app and, for Google Analytics for Firebase, also to Apple's identifier for vendor (IDFV), which iOS gives to the apps of one developer on your device. They are not tied to your name, email or Apple Account. They never contain your videos, photos, audio, file names, text you type, or anything about the faces in your media. HIDE shows no ads and does not collect the advertising identifier (IDFA): Apple's advertising framework (AdSupport) is not part of the app. HIDE does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

Today this collection runs in every App Store installation of HIDE, and the app has no setting to turn it off. We use the reports to find and fix crashes and to understand which parts of the app are used, which is our legitimate interest in keeping HIDE working. If we add a choice in the app, this page will say so.

Google processes this data as our service provider, on its servers in the United States and elsewhere, under its own terms and safeguards for international transfers. Crashlytics keeps crash reports for 90 days. Google Analytics keeps event-level data for the period set in the Analytics property, 2 months by default. Performance Monitoring data follows Google's own retention rules for Firebase.

Purchases

HIDE Premium is bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; we never see your card or your Apple Account. The app checks whether your subscription is active with Apple's StoreKit, on your device.

This website

h1de.app is hosted on Firebase Hosting (Google), which receives your IP address and browser details in order to deliver the pages. The site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads its fonts and images from h1de.app itself. The Instagram link takes you to Instagram, which has its own privacy policy.

Who else is involved

• Google: Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics and Performance Monitoring in the app, and Firebase Hosting for this website.
• Apple: the App Store, payments, iCloud Photos and the frameworks HIDE runs on, under Apple's own privacy policy.

We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with anyone else.

Your choices and rights

• Change or withdraw HIDE's access to Photos at any time in Settings › HIDE › Photos.
• Delete the app to remove everything HIDE stored on your device (exports you saved to Photos stay in your library).
• Ask us for access to, correction or deletion of the data described here, to restrict its processing or to receive it in a portable format, or object to its processing: write to hello@h1de.app. The reports carry no name or email, so we may ask you for details that let us find them (for example the date and time of a crash).
• If you are in the EU or the UK and think we handled your data wrongly, you may complain to your national data protection authority, but please write to us first: it is usually faster.

Children

HIDE is not intended for people under 16.

Changes

If this document changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it.