AKI GAZETTE

Aki Gazette for iPhone and iPad

Privacy policy

Last updated: 11 November 2026

Your photographs and compositions are edited on your device. Advertising, consent and support involve separate services, explained here.

Aki provides Aki Gazette. For privacy questions or requests, email akistudio.mobile@gmail.com.

Your photographs and projects

The app imports the images you choose through the system photo or file picker, or the camera when you choose to use it. Imported image copies, composition text, collage arrangements, crops, paper choices and editable projects are stored locally in the app, including its WebView’s IndexedDB storage. Gazette processes this content on your device and does not upload it to an Aki server or send it to the advertising SDK as ad content.

Gazette has no user account, hosted project library or project synchronization service. Device backups and any file or cloud provider you choose are controlled separately by iOS and that provider.

Exporting and permissions

You choose where each PNG or JPEG goes: Photos, Files or the system share sheet. Saving to Photos requests permission to add images, rather than broad permission to read your photo library. Camera access is requested only when you choose a camera import. If Photos access is denied, you can use Files or Share instead.

An exported image is a separate copy. A destination app or cloud file provider you select handles that copy under its own policies. Deleting a Gazette project does not delete exports from Photos, Files or another app.

Advertising and consent

Gazette is free with advertising. Version 1.3.0 adds a banner on Home when the artwork and controls fit the screen. The banner is hidden while editing or when a dialog covers Home. Earlier versions use export advertising. The single Watch ad to export action may show a rewarded ad before the destination chooser. Dismissing an ad, or an ad being unavailable or failing, still allows export. Cancelling the export itself or leaving the app before the save handoff can end that attempt; your open composition remains unchanged.

The iOS app includes Google Mobile Ads 13.11.0 and Google’s User Messaging Platform 3.1.0. Google’s SDKs may process:

Google uses applicable data for advertising, measurement, analytics, service operation and diagnostics. Gazette requests nonpersonalized ads, disables publisher first-party IDs and does not request App Tracking Transparency permission. These settings do not mean that Google’s SDKs process no identifiers or other data.

Consent information and available choices depend on region, Google’s configuration and the choices you make. When applicable, Google presents a consent form. Available options can be reopened in About → Privacy → Advertising choices. Advertising requests proceed only when the consent SDK permits them; unavailable consent or ads do not remove your editing or export tools.

Google’s SDKs and network services are used when ads are available. See Google’s iOS SDK data disclosure and Google’s privacy policy for its handling, retention and choices.

Keeping and removing data

Saved projects remain in local app storage until you remove them or the app’s data is removed. Deleting a project removes its project record; image copies still used by another project or the current undo history may remain. Deleting the app removes its local data; offloading an app can retain its data. Export anything you want to keep before deleting the app. A PNG or JPEG export is a finished image, not a backup of an editable project.

Aki cannot remotely retrieve or erase projects that remain only on your device. Google’s advertising and consent records, system backups and files held by providers are managed through those services and their policies.

Reporting an advertisement

In version 1.3.0, open About → Privacy → Report an inappropriate ad. If a mail account is available, the app opens an email draft for you to describe the advertiser, where the ad appeared, the approximate time and your concern. You review and send the message yourself. The app does not automatically attach your photographs, compositions or project files. If mail is unavailable, you can copy the support address or open the support page.

Contacting support

If you email support, we receive your email address and the message or attachments you choose to send through our email provider. We use them to answer your request and troubleshoot the issue. Please avoid sending private photographs or sensitive information unless it is necessary to explain the problem. Support correspondence is kept as needed to handle the request and any related obligations; you can contact us to ask about access, correction or deletion of information you sent.

This website

These pages are hosted on GitHub Pages. Aki adds no analytics scripts, advertising, upload forms or tracking cookies to them. GitHub may process technical request data, including IP addresses and browser/request information, to operate its hosting services. See GitHub’s privacy statement. Following an external link or sending email uses that service under its own policies.

Questions and changes

Privacy rights and available requests depend on where you live and the information involved. Contact akistudio.mobile@gmail.com with questions, including a parent or guardian’s privacy concern. Changes to this policy will be posted here with an updated date.