Privacy policy
The short version: you upload your photos, videos and notes so you and the people you invite can see them. That's the whole deal. No ads, no analytics, no trackers, no selling anything, and nobody trains AI on your stuff.
Who we are
EZ Cut is made and run by n3rdlabs, an independent developer. To reach us about privacy, use the contact form.
What we collect, and why
- Your account: the username you pick and your password. The password is stored only as an Argon2 hash, so nobody (us included) can read it.
- What you upload: your photos, videos and notes, stored bit for bit as you sent them. Original files can carry metadata your camera wrote into them, such as the date, the camera model and sometimes the location. We keep those files exactly as they are so you get your originals back untouched.
- Things we make from your uploads: small thumbnails and lower resolution previews, plus basic facts like size, length and capture date, so the app can show your vault quickly.
- How you organise it: folders, favorites, tags, and who uploaded what and when, so everyone in a vault sees the same thing.
- Sign-ins: the name of the device you signed in from (for example "iPhone 17 Pro") so sessions can be told apart.
- Server logs: our web server and app server keep short rolling logs of IP addresses, times and the addresses requested. We use them only to keep the service running and secure, and they overwrite themselves as they fill up.
We use all of this only to run EZ Cut for you. The legal basis is the contract you enter by creating an account (we can't run your vault without your files) and our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure.
What we don't do
- No ads and no advertising IDs.
- No analytics, crash reporting or tracking SDKs. The apps talk to our server and nothing else.
- We don't sell, rent or share your data with anyone for their own use.
- We don't use your photos, videos or notes to train AI models.
Who can see your stuff
- The people in your vault. A vault is private. Only people you invite with a one-time code can join it, and everyone in it sees the same photos, videos, folders and notes. There's no public feed, no profiles, and no way for strangers to find you.
- Us, only when we must: to keep the service working, to look into a report someone filed, or when the law requires it.
- Our hosting provider: everything lives on a server we rent from netcup GmbH, a German hosting company. They run the hardware, not the app, and don't get access to your content for their own purposes.
Apps are delivered by Apple's App Store and Google Play under their own privacy policies.
How it's protected
Everything between the app and our server travels over HTTPS. Links to your files are signed and expire within 15 minutes. Passwords are hashed with Argon2id and too many wrong guesses lock an account for a while.
Heads up: we don't currently keep off-site backups of uploaded media. EZ Cut is a great second home for your camera roll, but keep your own copy of anything you can't replace.
How long we keep it
- Your uploads and notes stay until you delete them. Things you put in the trash are deleted for good after 30 days, or right away if you empty them yourself.
- When you delete your account, it's gone immediately: your login, sessions and favorites go with it. If you were the only one in your vault, the whole vault goes too. In a shared vault you choose whether your uploads are deleted or stay for the others.
- Reports and support messages are kept as long as we need them to handle the issue.
Your choices and rights
- Get your data: save any original back to your phone from the app, anytime.
- Delete things: trash any item, empty the trash, or delete your whole account in the app under Settings, then Delete account. You can also do it on the delete account page.
- Leave a vault: Settings, then Members, then Leave vault.
- Depending on where you live (for example the EU, UK or California) you also have the right to ask what we hold about you, to correct it, to object, and to complain to your data protection authority. Ask us and we'll answer within 30 days.
Kids
EZ Cut isn't meant for children under 13 and we don't knowingly collect their data. If you think a child has an account, tell us and we'll delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If a change matters, we'll also say so in the app.