Privacy Statement
Last updated 15 June 2026
Your photos never leave your machine. PhotoDewey keeps your library, catalog, tags, and edits in a local catalog on your own computer. There is no account and your photos are never sent anywhere unless you choose to connect your own cloud storage. The app does send a single anonymous usage ping when you close it — no personal data, no photos, just a signal that the app was used, to help us understand how many people use PhotoDewey. We also receive privacy-friendly, anonymous visit counts on this website.
01 Who we are
"PhotoDewey", "we", and "us" refer to Lars Bo Wassini, the developer of the PhotoDewey application and this website, who is the data controller responsible for the limited data described here. This statement explains what data we handle when you use the application or visit this site, and what your rights are.
02 Your photos stay local
PhotoDewey is a local-first desktop application. By default, your photos, the catalog, your tags, albums, edits, and GPS data are stored on your own computer. We have no access to them and they are never sent to us.
Storing photos in the cloud is entirely optional and off unless you turn it on. If you choose to connect your own cloud storage, your files travel directly between your machine and your provider, under that provider's terms — not through us. Whether to use the cloud, and which provider, is always your decision.
03 Website analytics
This website uses Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics tool, to count visits and see which pages and buttons are used. Umami is cookieless, does not track you across other sites, and does not collect personal information. It records aggregate, anonymous data such as page views, referrer, and rough device type.
04 Third-party services
Some links on this site take you to services run by others, each with its own privacy policy:
- GitHub — hosts our downloads, releases, and issue tracker.
- Buy Me a Coffee — handles optional donations.
- Facebook — hosts the community group.
- Google Fonts — serves the fonts used on this site.
We don't control how those services handle your data once you visit them.
05 Cookies
This site does not set tracking or advertising cookies. Our analytics are cookieless, and we don't run ad networks or cross-site trackers.
06 Data retention
Aggregate website analytics are retained in anonymous form indefinitely.
07 Your rights
If you're in the EU/EEA or another region with similar laws, you have rights over personal data we hold about you — including access, correction, and deletion. Because we collect so little, this usually means your feedback messages and any e-mail you gave us. To make a request, contact us through the channels below.
08 Changes to this statement
We may update this statement as PhotoDewey evolves. The "last updated" date at the top always reflects the current version.
09 Contact
Questions about privacy, or want to make a data request? Open an issue on GitHub.