Privacy

Last updated: 31 October 2026

Your photos, videos and comments stay on your own devices and those of the people you share them with. This page lists the little information we do handle.

It covers the Maky Photos app for iPhone and Android, including its test versions, and this website.

Who we are

We, the makers of Maky Photos, are responsible for the information described here (the "controller" under the GDPR, the European privacy law). You can reach us at contact@getmaky.app.

What we don't have

Your albums, photos, videos, comments, reactions, name and profile picture are kept only on your devices and those of the people in your albums, end-to-end encrypted. We have no copy and can't open them. You don't need an email address, phone number or password.

What the people in your albums see

Your name and profile picture.
What you add and when: photos and videos, comments and reactions. Photos and videos are shared as taken, including details your camera stored in the file, such as the date and place.
When you have received and seen something.

Because devices connect to each other directly, the devices of the people in your albums also receive your device's internet address (IP address). The app doesn't show it to them.

What we and others handle

Notifications. To let your phone know something new has arrived, our servers handle a notification address for your phone and its internet address. Apple (iPhone) and Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (Android) deliver the notifications, under their own privacy policies. Our servers never handle your photos, videos or comments.
Connecting. Devices find each other through a public network, which sees your device's internet address.
This website. The server keeps standard logs (internet address, page, time, browser) for security, also when an invite link is opened in a browser. From the website's logs we also count visits, on our own statistics server, to see how many people come by and what they read. Internet addresses are shortened there, so they no longer lead to anyone. No cookies or trackers: nothing is stored or run in your browser for this.
Test versions. Test versions also send anonymous usage counts, and feedback you choose to send. The versions in the App Store and on Google Play send neither.
Crash reports. If you allowed it in your phone's settings, Apple or Google send us crash reports with technical details and your phone model.
What you send us. Emails, debug logs and reports, with whatever you choose to include.

Why we may use this information

To provide the app you asked for (GDPR article 6(1)(b)).
Our legitimate interest in keeping the service safe and working, improving test versions and the website, and handling reports (article 6(1)(f)).
Legal obligations, such as passing on illegal content to the authorities (article 6(1)(c)).

How long we keep it

Only as long as needed for its purpose: logs for a short time, for security; the website's visit details, with shortened addresses, at most six months, and only the totals after that; reports until they are handled. Longer only when the law requires it.

Where it is handled

Our servers are in the European Union. Apple and Google may handle notification addresses outside the EU, with the safeguards the GDPR requires.

Your rights

You can ask us what we hold about you, and to correct, delete or stop using it, or to receive a copy. Deleting your data in the app removes what is on your devices. For anything else, email contact@getmaky.app. You can also complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, or the one in your own country.

Children

Maky is meant for people aged 16 and over. Younger children may use it with permission from a parent or guardian.

Changes

If we change this policy, we update it here and change the date at the top. If a change matters for how your information is handled, we also say so in the app.