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Sorted Privacy Policy

Effective Date: November 12, 2026

This policy covers the iOS app Sorted: Photo Clean & Search ("Sorted", "the app"). It is published by Bronix Yazılım A.Ş. ("Bronix", "we", "us"), the seller of the app on the App Store and the controller of the personal data described here. Our website and other apps are covered by the Bronix Privacy Policy.

1. In short

Sorted organises your photo library on your iPhone. Your photos, and anything worked out from them (thumbnails, sizes, duplicates, tags, places, dates), are processed and stored on your device and are never uploaded to us or anyone else. There is no account to create. What does leave your device is listed in section 3: app analytics, ad measurement if you allow tracking, a notification token, and your subscription. Nothing you type in the app is sent anywhere.

2. Your photos stay on your device

With your permission, Sorted reads your photo library through Apple's Photos framework to find duplicates and look-alikes, measure how much space photos take, and sort them into folders and albums. All of this is computed on your iPhone and kept in a database that only the app can read. If your library is in iCloud Photos, Apple may download originals to your device so they can be shown; that happens between your device and Apple.

Duplicates, look-alikes and albums use machine-learning models that run on your device. Folder titles and summaries use Apple Intelligence on your device when it is available. The app reads the location already stored in your photos to group them by trip and place; it never asks for your current location.

Nothing is deleted from your library until you empty Sorted's Trash and confirm the iOS deletion dialog.

3. What leaves your device

App analytics

The app records how it is used: which screens are opened, which features are used, how far onboarding goes, subscription events and error counts. These events go to Google Firebase Analytics and to Scate, the marketing and analytics partner whose SDK also runs the app's remote configuration. They carry app and device identifiers (such as the Firebase app instance ID and the identifier for vendor) and an approximate location (country or city) derived from your IP address. They never carry anything from your photos.

Ad measurement and tracking

On first launch, iOS asks whether Sorted may track you (App Tracking Transparency). If you allow it, Adjust and Google (On-Device Conversion Measurement) use your advertising identifier (IDFA) to measure which advertisement brought you to Sorted, and your subscription events are reported to them for the same purpose. If you do not allow it, the IDFA is not used for this and nothing in the app changes. You can change your choice at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

Sorted shows no advertisements.

Notifications

If you turn notifications on, the app gets a device token from Apple and Firebase Cloud Messaging and stores it, with an anonymous Firebase account identifier, in Google Firebase (Firestore) together with the reminders scheduled for you. The text of these reminders is general (for example "Photos are waiting in Trash") and contains nothing from your library. You can turn notifications off in iOS Settings.

Subscriptions

Purchases are made through Apple. Apple handles payment; we never see your payment details. RevenueCat manages the subscription status for us and receives your purchase history, an app user identifier and the screen the purchase started from. To attribute purchases, RevenueCat is also given the Firebase app instance ID and the Adjust identifier.

4. Service providers

We share data only with the providers below, and only for the purposes in section 3:

We do not sell your personal data.

5. Why we process data

  • To provide the app and the subscription you bought (performance of a contract).
  • To understand how the app is used, fix problems and improve it (our legitimate interests).
  • To measure our advertising with your advertising identifier, only if you allow tracking (consent).
  • To send the notifications you turned on (consent).

6. How long we keep data

Data on your device is removed when you delete the app. Scheduled reminders are replaced each time the app updates its schedule and removed once they are sent or withdrawn. Analytics, attribution and subscription data are kept for as long as needed for the purposes above, in line with each provider's retention settings, and subscription records as long as the law requires.

7. Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you can ask to access, correct or delete your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, or to receive it in a portable form, and you can withdraw consent at any time. Write to info@bronixengineering.com and we will respond within one month. Because Sorted has no account, please tell us roughly when you installed the app and, if you subscribed, the date of the purchase, so we can find the data linked to your installation.

You can also: refuse or withdraw tracking in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking; turn notifications off in iOS Settings; remove the app's photo access in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos; and delete the app to remove everything stored on your device. You may also lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

8. International transfers

Our providers may process data in the United States, the European Union, Turkey and other countries. Where required, transfers rely on safeguards such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

9. Children

Sorted is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child has used the app, contact us at info@bronixengineering.com and we will delete the related data.

10. Changes to this policy

If we change how Sorted handles data, we will update this page and its effective date before the change takes effect and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent again.

11. Contact

Bronix Yazılım A.Ş. — info@bronixengineering.com

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