Privacy Policy
Effective date: May 14, 2026
Last updated: May 14, 2026
Operator: wondoll (Wonsok Choi)
Privacy contact: privacy@memver.app
General contact: hello@memver.app
memver is a personal gallery AI that helps you organize your photo library and find memories later. Because memver may process photos, places, people, conversations, and memory-related information, we aim to collect only what is necessary, keep you in control, and separate guesses from things you confirm.
This Privacy Policy applies to the memver website, beta waitlist, Apple TestFlight beta, and the memver beta app.
memver is a beta project operated by wondoll (Wonsok Choi).
1. Our principles
memver follows these principles:
- We do not start whole-library analysis unless you explicitly start it.
- In the beta version, we do not upload your original photos or videos to memver servers.
- Photo analysis starts on your device by default.
- memver does not auto-delete your photos.
- Inferred information is not treated as confirmed fact until you confirm it.
- People and face-related data are handled as sensitive. Raw face crops, face embeddings, and upper-body embeddings are not stored on our servers by default.
- We may use external AI providers, but during the beta we do not send original photos or videos to external AI providers.
- You can request deletion or opt out of beta emails at any time.
2. Information we collect
2.1 Beta waitlist
When you join the beta waitlist, we may collect:
| Information | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Email address | Managing the beta waitlist, sending a TestFlight public link, and sending product updates |
| Signup timestamp | Managing signup records and preventing duplicate submissions |
| Language or region | Sending the appropriate language version |
| Access logs | Security, abuse prevention, and service reliability |
We collect your email address only when you provide it.
2.2 Website usage
The memver website may be hosted on Vercel. As part of hosting and operating the website, Vercel or our hosting infrastructure may process IP address, browser information, device information, timestamps, and request logs.
We currently do not use advertising cookies, advertising pixels, or ad network tracking.
If we later enable Vercel Web Analytics or a similar privacy-friendly analytics tool, we may process aggregated statistics such as page views, device type, browser type, and approximate region. We will not use this for advertising tracking.
3. Apple TestFlight beta
The memver beta may be distributed through an Apple TestFlight public link.
If you join through a public link, Apple may not display your name or email address to memver. However, Apple may collect and share certain TestFlight data with us, such as crash logs, usage information, device information, app version, OS version, language, and feedback.
Apple's privacy terms and TestFlight terms also apply to data processed through TestFlight.
4. Information processed in the memver beta app
If you grant photo access and start analysis in the app, memver may process the following categories of information:
| Category | Examples | Processing |
|---|---|---|
| Original photos and videos | Photos and videos on your iPhone | Not uploaded to memver servers during beta |
| Media metadata | Media type, capture time, resolution, album hints | Used for organization, search, and grouping |
| Metadata signals | Time hints, location hints, edit status, file properties | Used for organization, search, and grouping |
| On-device analysis results | Similarity signals, OCR text, cleanup candidates, event/place inferences | Some results may be stored on our servers |
| Conversations | Search queries, cleanup requests, confirmation responses | Used to provide the service and maintain your memory workspace |
| Confirmed information | People names, event names, place names, group names, notes | May be stored on our servers |
| Inferred information | Event groups, place groups, cleanup candidates, search indexes | May be stored on our servers |
| Error and security logs | App errors, request status, abnormal access records | Used for reliability, security, and debugging |
In the beta version, memver does not upload your original photos or videos to memver servers. However, conversations, information you confirm, text or metadata generated through on-device analysis, inferred results, and text-based indexes for search and organization may be stored on our servers.
5. Photos and videos
During the beta, memver does not upload your original photos or videos to our servers.
Photo analysis is performed on your device by default. This may include recent photo grouping, similarity detection, basic metadata analysis, OCR, and cleanup candidate generation.
The following data may be stored on our servers:
- Conversations
- People, places, events, groups, and notes you confirm
- Text-based results generated from on-device analysis
- Search and organization indexes
- Inferred results that do not include original photos
We do not send original photos or videos to external AI providers unless you explicitly allow it.
6. People and face-related data
memver treats people and face-related data as sensitive.
During the beta, face detection, people grouping, and person-related embeddings are processed on your device by default.
memver does not store the following on its servers by default:
- Raw face crops
- Face embeddings
- Upper-body embeddings
- Person exemplar dictionaries
- Automatic contact-based identity matching results
memver does not automatically assign real names to people. If memver finds photos that appear to contain the same person, that person's name is saved only if you confirm or enter it.
memver does not perform cross-user face matching or automatically infer sensitive relationships.
7. External AI providers
memver may use external AI providers to support conversation understanding, search explanations, organization assistance, and summarization.
During the beta, memver does not send original photos or videos to external AI providers.
External AI providers may process:
- Your questions
- Conversation text
- Information you confirm
- Text summaries generated from photo analysis
- Inferred results that do not include original photos
In the future, if you select a specific photo and explicitly allow an advanced visual explanation feature, the selected photo or a reduced preview may be sent to an external AI provider. This will be presented with separate notice and consent.
8. How we use information
We use information to:
- Manage the beta waitlist
- Send TestFlight public links and product updates
- Provide photo organization, search, recall, and grouping features
- Suggest duplicate, similar, or cleanup candidate photos
- Reflect people, places, events, notes, and groups you confirm
- Provide conversational search and explanations
- Improve reliability, security, and debugging
- Respond to user inquiries
- Prevent abuse
- Comply with legal obligations
We do not use your photos, face-related data, or conversations for advertising tracking.
9. Retention and deletion
We keep personal information only as long as needed.
| Information | Retention |
|---|---|
| Beta waitlist email | During beta operation or until you request deletion |
| Conversations | During beta use or until you request deletion |
| Confirmed information | Until you delete it or request account deletion |
| Inferred/search/organization indexes | During service use or until you request deletion |
| Security and error logs | As needed for security and reliability |
| Backups | For a limited backup retention period |
If you request deletion, memver will delete the relevant information from active service data within 7 days.
Some logs or backup data may be retained for a limited period when necessary for legal obligations, security investigations, abuse prevention, or backup recovery. Such data will not be used for ordinary service purposes.
Data processed by Apple through TestFlight, such as crash logs, usage information, and feedback, is subject to Apple's own policies and retention periods.
10. Service providers
We do not sell your personal information.
We may use the following service providers:
| Provider | Purpose | Information |
|---|---|---|
| Vercel | Website hosting, waitlist storage, hosting logs | Email address, access logs, IP address, browser/device information |
| Apple / TestFlight | Beta app distribution, crash logs, feedback | Device information, app version, OS version, crash logs, feedback |
| Email delivery provider | Beta and product emails | Email address, delivery status |
| External AI providers | Conversation understanding, summaries, search/organization support | Conversation text, confirmed information, text summaries, inferred results |
| Cloud database/storage providers | App data storage | Conversations, confirmed information, inferred information, indexes |
We will update this policy once specific email delivery, AI, database, and storage providers are finalized.
11. International processing
memver may use global providers such as Vercel, Apple TestFlight, email delivery providers, AI providers, and cloud database services. As a result, some information may be processed outside your country of residence.
We will update this policy with more specific provider and transfer details as our beta infrastructure is finalized.
12. Your rights and choices
You may request to:
- Access your personal information
- Correct your information
- Delete your information
- Stop or restrict processing
- Unsubscribe from beta emails
- Withdraw consent
- Delete your account
- Revoke photo access permission
You can contact us at privacy@memver.app.
On iPhone, you can change photo access permissions here:
Settings → Apps → memver → Photos → change or revoke access
13. No automatic deletion
memver does not automatically delete your photos.
memver may suggest duplicate photos, blurry photos, similar photos, or cleanup candidates, but deletion requires your explicit confirmation.
Inferred information is not treated as confirmed fact until you confirm it.
14. Cookies and analytics
We currently do not use advertising cookies, advertising pixels, or ad network SDKs.
Our hosting provider may process basic access logs as part of operating the website.
If we later enable Vercel Web Analytics or a similar privacy-friendly analytics tool, we will use it only for aggregated statistics, not advertising tracking.
15. Children
memver is not directed to children under 14.
If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 14 without appropriate consent, we will delete it.
16. Security
We use safeguards designed to protect personal information, including:
- Data minimization
- No default server upload of original photos/videos during beta
- On-device first handling for people and face-related data
- Access controls
- Encryption in transit
- Restricted access to stored data
- Minimal logging and diagnostics
- Minimum-payload use of external providers
- Deletion request handling
- Security incident response procedures
17. Contact
Privacy requests: privacy@memver.app
General inquiries: hello@memver.app
18. Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy when our service, laws, providers, or data practices change.
If we make material changes, we will notify users through the website or app.
Effective date: May 14, 2026
Last updated: May 14, 2026