Privacy Policy
Tackpic · Last updated 9 October 2026
Tackpic is a map of photographs, so a photograph you publish carries where it was taken. That is the product, not a side effect, and this page is mostly about which parts of “where” other people see and which parts never leave your phone.
There is no advertising and no tracking. Your permanent copy of every photograph you take lives in your own iCloud, which the developer cannot read. Tackpic does use Google's Firebase Analytics to see how the app is used; what that covers, what it never includes, and how to turn it off are under Usage statistics.
Two copies, and only one of them is ours
Every photograph you take exists twice, and the difference governs this whole page.
- Your own record. The photograph and everything captured with it. It is kept on your iPhone and, if you turn iCloud on, in your own private iCloud storage. It is permanent until you delete it. The developer never receives it.
- The public moment. A smaller copy, published to Tackpic's server for 24 hours from the moment it was taken, so it can appear in other people's feed and map. After that it is deleted.
Publishing needs an account. Signed out, you can still take photographs, and nothing you take is published or sent anywhere.
What is published for 24 hours
When you confirm the share sheet, these go to Tackpic's server:
- The photograph, as a 1620 × 2880 copy, plus two smaller versions for map marks
- The area it was taken in: its name, city, country, and the centre point of that area
- The exact coordinate, only if Share exact location was on. See below
- Who took it: your account identifier and your handle
- When it expires. Not when it was taken: your iPhone works out the deadline and sends only that
What is never published: the time of capture, your device model, the original full-size frame from the camera, and anything the app worked out about the picture on your phone.
Exact location, and turning it off
Tackpic will not take a photograph it cannot place on a map, so an area is always needed. What other people see is up to you.
- Share exact location on. The real coordinate is published, and the photograph appears as a pin at the spot.
- Off. The coordinate is withheld and the area's centre is published instead. The photograph appears as a mark on the neighbourhood, with no detailed place name, no street and no building.
The setting is remembered, and you can change it for a photograph already published, in either direction, while it is still live. Your own record keeps the coordinate either way so you can find the place again; turning the setting off removes it from the server, not from your copy.
Location is used for this and for pointing the map at you when it opens. That opening position is used for the camera view and is not stored.
Your account
Sign in with Apple is the only way in. Apple tells Tackpic an identifier for you and an email address, which is a private relay address unless you chose to share your own. Tackpic keeps that, the handle you choose, and a profile photo if you set one.
Your profile photo is kept twice on your phone: the small square that other people see, and the picture you cut it from, so you can re-frame it later. Only the small square is uploaded. The original and its framing stay on the device.
If you allow notifications, a push token for this device is kept so the server can tell you when somebody likes one of your photographs.
Likes, reports and blocks
A like is one row saying that an account liked a photograph. Nobody is shown who liked what. Only the total, and only to someone who taps the heart. The total is kept after the photograph expires, so the author can still see what it reached.
If you report a photograph, it disappears from your feed at once, and the report, with the photograph itself, is relayed to the operator through Telegram so it can be acted on quickly. Three reports from three accounts take a photograph down on their own.
If you block someone, neither of you sees the other's photographs anywhere in the app. Blocking is recorded on the server because it has to be enforced there.
Where your data goes
Tackpic's server is Supabase, which hosts the database and the photograph files on the developer's behalf.
Apple is involved in several places: Sign in with Apple, CloudKit for your own private copy, APNs for notifications, MapKit for the map and place search, and WeatherKit for the weather shown beside a place. Apple's own Privacy Policy governs those.
Two other services are asked about places, and nothing about you travels with either request:
- Wikimedia: the name of a place you opened, to show a short description of it
- Nager.Date: a country code and a year, to show whether a day is a public holiday there
Telegram carries reports to the operator, as described above.
Google receives the usage statistics described below.
Nothing is sold, and nothing is given to anyone for advertising. There is no advertising network in this app, and the advertising identifier is never read.
Usage statistics
Tackpic uses Google's Firebase Analytics to understand how the app is used, so it can be improved. It is on by default and can be turned off at any time.
What Tackpic records. Six things, and this is all of them:
- A photograph was taken, and whether the phone had an exact position or only an area, and whether Share exact location was on
- A photograph could not be published, and which of three reasons: no network, the server refused it, or its 24 hours ran out first
- The tenth photograph of the day was taken
- A photograph was reported
- An account was blocked
- The iCloud switch was turned on or off
What is never sent: coordinates, place names, your handle, anything you type, photographs, who you reported or blocked, and the text of error messages. None of these events carries free text at all. That is enforced by how the app is written, not only promised.
What Firebase collects automatically: app opens and first open, session starts and time spent in the app, screens viewed, app version, device model and operating system version, a random identifier for this installation of the app, and basic diagnostic information about it. An approximate location, such as country or region, may be derived by Google from the connection's IP address.
This information is sent to Google's servers and is handled under Google's Privacy Policy. It is not linked to your Tackpic account, not used for advertising, and not used to track you across other companies' apps or websites.
Turning it off: Settings → Privacy → Share usage statistics. This stops both what Tackpic records and Firebase's automatic collection.
In Europe you are asked first. If your iPhone's region is in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, Tackpic asks when you first open it, and nothing at all is collected until you answer, not even the automatic events above. Refusing is one tap and changes nothing else about the app. Everywhere else it starts on and the switch above is how to stop it.
What happens on your phone and stays there
When a photograph is saved, Apple's on-device Vision framework looks at it and picks an emoji for the scene, so a pin on your own map can carry one. The picture is examined on your iPhone and the result is not uploaded.
If you allow it, the frame from the camera is also saved to your own photo library when you confirm the share sheet. The permission is add-only: Tackpic cannot see what is already in your library and never reads from it. Refuse it and everything else works the same.
When things are deleted
- A published photograph is removed from the server when its 24 hours are up. A sweep runs on the hour, so a file may outlive the window by up to an hour.
- A notification lasts the same day the photograph does.
- Deleting a photograph yourself removes it from your record and from the server at once.
- Deleting your account, in Settings, empties your files from storage first, then removes your account and everything attached to it: your handle, your published photographs, your likes, your blocks and your push tokens. It cannot be undone.
- Your own copies in iCloud are yours. Turning iCloud off in Settings removes them from iCloud and keeps them on the phone. Deleting the app leaves them in iCloud until you remove them in iPhone Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage.
Children
Tackpic is not meant for anybody under 16, and accounts are not knowingly created for them. If you believe a child has an account, write to the address below and it will be removed.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. A change that affects what is published or who it is shared with will be said in the app as well.
Contact
See also the Terms of Service and Support.