Privacy Policy

1 Your Photos and AI Creations

Past Journey only ever opens the specific photos you hand it through Apple's built-in photo picker — nothing is read from your library on its own. An image you choose may be reduced in size and sent to our processing providers, where automated AI systems turn it into the past-life portrait, card, or video you asked for.

Only upload pictures you are entitled to use, and keep highly sensitive details out of an image unless it is genuinely required for what you want to create.

When a photo includes a face

Some features allow you to submit a photo to create a stylized image or video. A photo you select may contain a face. Past Journey processes the facial and visual characteristics visible in that photo solely to generate and deliver the image or video you request.

Past Journey does not use the photo to identify, authenticate, recognize, or track a person, compare a face against a database, or create a faceprint, facial embedding, facial feature template, biometric profile, or facial-recognition identifier.

Before a selected photo is uploaded, the app displays a disclosure identifying the information that will be transmitted, the service providers that will receive or host it, the purpose of the processing, and the applicable retention period. The photo will not be uploaded unless you provide explicit consent.

Selected photos, including photos containing faces, are transmitted using encrypted connections to our cloud processing environment hosted on Google Cloud Platform. Our self-hosted AI models process the photos solely to generate and deliver the content requested by the user.

Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services act as infrastructure and data-processing providers on our behalf. They may process the photo only as necessary to provide hosting and processing services to us and may not use it for their own purposes or for AI model training.

Photos are not used for advertising, tracking, identity verification, facial recognition, or AI model training. We do not sell photos or information derived from them.

Uploaded original photos, including photos containing faces, and temporary processing files are deleted from our active processing systems within 24 hours after the generation request is completed or fails. Temporary backup copies, if any, are automatically deleted within 7 days. We do not retain biometric face data because we do not collect or create it.

2 What We Collect

Things you give us

• Images and media. The picture you select to reveal a past life or build a video is processed and uploaded so we can carry out that request.
• Messages you send us. When you reach out with feedback, we keep the text of your message along with what we need to link our reply to your account.
• Payment details. In-app purchases run through Apple. We may learn the product, transaction, currency, price, and purchase status, but never your full card number.

Things gathered for us

• Identifiers. Identifiers may be generated or received to support device-based sign-in, keep your account consistent, guard against fraud, and keep the Service running.
• Activity and creation records. This can cover generation task IDs, the eras and roles you reveal, the features or templates you pick, processing states, your credit balance, collection and history entries, timestamps, and technical logs.
• Measurement and attribution. Through Adjust we look at installs, ad attribution, campaigns, and purchase events. Depending on your device settings and the law, this can include device, advertising, network, campaign, and event details.
• Diagnostics. We may record your app version, operating system, connection status, errors, and comparable technical signals.

3 Why We Use It

The information above lets us:

• generate AI past-life images and videos and hand the finished content back to you;
• set up and keep your device-based account, collection, and creation history;
• keep things secure, head off abuse and fraud, and fix problems;
• gauge attribution and make the Service better; and
• meet legal duties and uphold our terms.

4 Who We Share It With

Sharing happens only where it is necessary, and only with:

• infrastructure and AI providers who host, store, and power generation and delivery;
• Adjust, for attribution, analytics, and purchase-event measurement;
• Apple, for distribution on the App Store, in-app purchases, and platform features;
• advisers or authorities, where reasonably needed to follow the law, protect rights and safety, look into abuse, or answer lawful requests; and
• any successor entity, as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or asset sale, with suitable protections in place.

When you submit a photo for AI generation, we share that photo only with the cloud infrastructure and AI-processing providers needed to host, process, and deliver the requested creation, including Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services. These providers act on our behalf and may use the photo only to provide those services to us; they may not use it for their own purposes or to train their models. We do not share biometric facial data with third parties because we do not collect or create it.

We never sell your personal information for money.

5 Your Controls and Rights

Where you live may give you rights to see, correct, or delete your personal information, or to object to or limit how it is handled.

• The app provides controls to remove supported generation records and saved creations.
• Your iOS privacy settings let you restrict advertising tracking.
• You can write to us with a privacy request, though we may first need to confirm your identity.

Send any request to [email protected].

6 How Long We Keep Information

Original photos you upload, including photos that contain faces, and the temporary processing data associated with them are retained only for the period reasonably necessary to complete and deliver your generation request, then deleted from our active processing systems. We do not retain biometric facial data because we do not collect or create it.

We hold on to information only as long as it is reasonably needed to run the Service, stay secure, settle disputes, and satisfy legal requirements. Your generation history may appear in the app for a limited window, while creations you save into your collection can stay on your device until you delete them or uninstall the app.

How long we keep something depends on its type and the systems that handle it. Copies held in backups may linger for a short while longer before they are erased.

7 Keeping Information Safe

We apply sensible administrative, technical, and organizational measures meant to safeguard information. Even so, no transmission over the internet or means of electronic storage is ever perfectly secure, so we cannot promise absolute protection.

8 Data Handled Across Borders

The providers we rely on may handle information outside the country you live in, where data protection rules can differ. When the law calls for it, we put appropriate safeguards around these international transfers.

9 Children

Past Journey is not meant for children under 13, or under whatever higher minimum age the law sets. We do not knowingly gather personal information from anyone below that age. If you think a child has shared information with us, let us know and we will review and remove it where appropriate.

10 Updates to This Policy

This Policy may change over time. When it does, we will publish the new version here and refresh the effective date, and for significant changes we will give any extra notice the law requires.

11 Reach Us

Have a privacy question, request, or concern? Email us at [email protected].