Amidol

Privacy · Effective November 6, 2026

Amidol collects no data. It has no account and no third-party code, and it doesn't talk to any server. Nothing you shoot leaves your phone unless you share it.

This policy covers the Amidol app for iPhone, its lock screen camera, and this website. "We" means DWS Engineering, LLC and Tanishq Dubey, who make Amidol.

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01What we collect

Nothing. We don't collect, store, sell or share personal data, usage data, diagnostics or identifiers. Amidol has no analytics, ads or tracking, and there's no server of ours for it to send anything to.

02What stays on your device

Amidol asks iOS for a few permissions to work as a camera. Everything they give it stays on the phone.

  • Camera. To take photos.
  • Photos. To save developed photos, show your latest photo, and display Amidol's photos in its gallery. If your library is in iCloud, iOS downloads full-size originals from Apple when you open one, the same way Photos does.
  • Location, only if you turn it on in Settings. It's written into the metadata of the photos you take, the same way the built-in Camera app does. Amidol doesn't keep or send it anywhere else. A photo you share carries its location with it unless you remove it in the share sheet.

The app also keeps its own settings and any shots still developing inside its private storage on your phone. Deleting the app deletes them. Photos already saved to your library stay there.

Amidol's settings, with a line under each option saying what it does.

03Apple

Amidol is distributed through Apple's TestFlight and App Store. If you send feedback or crash reports through TestFlight, or opt in to share analytics with app developers in iOS Settings, Apple collects that information and passes it to us under Apple's privacy policy. We use it only to fix Amidol, and never to identify, profile or contact you beyond replying to feedback you sent.

04Email

If you email us, we get your address and whatever you write. We use it to reply and to fix what you reported. We don't add you to a list or share it. Ask and we'll delete it.

05This website

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from third parties; its fonts are served from here. Like any web server, ours may log the IP address, time and page of a request to keep the site running and secure. Those logs aren't used to track you and aren't shared.

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06Your choices

You can turn off camera, photos or location access at any time in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security. Without camera access, Amidol can't take photos; without location, photos are simply saved without it.

07Children

Amidol collects no data from anyone, including children under 13.

08Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. If Amidol ever starts collecting data, this page will say what, why and how before an update that does so ships.

09Contact

Questions or requests: admin@dws.rip.