Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 12, 2026

1. Introduction

YELD (“the App”, “we”, “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how the App handles user data.

2. Data We Collect and Do Not Collect

YELD collects limited technical and usage data needed to improve app performance and reliability. You can turn this off at any time (see section 3).

  • No photos or videos are uploaded
  • No personal profile information such as name, email address, or phone number is required to use the App
  • No advertising tracking across other apps or websites is performed

3. Analytics

The App collects limited usage analytics to understand how users interact with the App and to improve its functionality and user experience.

This data may include events such as app launches, feature usage, and interaction flows. This data may include technical identifiers and is used only for product improvement, not advertising. It never includes your photos, videos, or the text read from your screenshots.

We use PostHog as an analytics processor, on its servers in the European Union. Data is processed according to PostHog’s privacy terms and infrastructure settings.

The App does not use IDFA, does not perform cross-app tracking, and does not use analytics data for advertising or marketing purposes.

You can turn off analytics and crash reports at any time in the App’s Settings (“Share anonymous usage data”).

If you send feedback from the App (“What's missing in Yeld?”), the text you write is sent to us through PostHog. With anonymous usage data turned off, it goes by email instead, from your own Mail app. Please don’t include personal information in it.

For more information, see PostHog’s Privacy Policy:
https://posthog.com/privacy

4. Crash Reporting

The App uses Sentry as a crash reporting service to monitor stability and diagnose technical issues.

Crash reports may contain technical diagnostics such as device model, operating system version, stack traces, and error context. This information is used solely to improve app stability and functionality.

Crash data is not used for advertising, marketing, or tracking across apps or websites. Crash reports are turned off together with analytics (see section 3).

For more information, see Sentry’s Privacy Policy:
https://sentry.io/privacy/

5. Photo Access

The App requests access to your photo library to let you review and manage your photos and videos. With your action, the App can also save new files to your library (for example, a compressed copy of a video, a still photo from a Live Photo, or a HEIF copy of a ProRAW photo) and delete photos. Photos are deleted only after you confirm the iOS deletion prompt.

All photo and video processing happens entirely on your device. Photos and videos never leave your device.

If an original is stored only in iCloud, the App asks iOS to download it when you use it. Apple handles the download. By default it happens only on Wi-Fi, unless you allow mobile data in the App’s Settings (“Use mobile data for iCloud”). With your action, the App can also hide photos in the Photos app (the Hidden album).

6. On-Device Features

  • Screenshot text. The App reads the text in your screenshots on your device (Apple Vision) so you can search them. The text and the results are stored only on your device.
  • Privacy check. The App looks through the text read from your screenshots, on your device, for private data such as card and bank account numbers, passwords, recovery phrases and ID document numbers, so you can delete, hide or keep those screenshots. What it finds stays on your device. Analytics only count how many screenshots were found and what you did with them, never their text.
  • Apple Intelligence. On supported devices, Apple’s on-device model (Foundation Models) writes a short title and a topic for screenshots. This runs on your device; nothing is sent to us. You can turn it off in the App’s Settings (“Smart features”). It also helps the Privacy check find screenshots of chats.
  • Trips and events. To show the name of the city where a trip took place, the App sends one approximate location from the photos of that trip to Apple’s geocoding service (CLGeocoder). Apple handles it under Apple’s privacy policy; nothing is sent to us. The App does not ask for access to your current location.
  • Notifications. Reminders are local notifications scheduled on your device. The App does not use a push notification server.
  • Sharing. When you choose to share (for example, a trip recap, a badge, a note, or an original video), the iOS share sheet is used and you decide where it goes.

7. Data Stored on Your Device

Your Yeld Trash list, reviewed photos, settings, progress and badges, and the screenshot text index are stored only on your device. They are deleted when you delete the App. Privacy check results and your choices in it are stored the same way.

8. Purchases

Purchases are processed by Apple via the App Store. Yeld Pro is a one-time purchase. We do not receive or store payment information.

Purchase status is checked in-app with the App Store to provide Yeld Pro features, including for people who subscribed to Premium earlier.

9. Children’s Privacy

The App does not knowingly collect data from children under the age of 13.

10. Changes

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. Material changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date.

11. Contact

If you have questions, contact us at:
dev.yeld@proton.me