Amber Sift
Amber Sift is an offline photo organiser: it comes with its own library of frames, which you tag, rate, file on shelves and caption, all on your phone. This page explains what the app does and does not do with your data.
Amber Sift does not collect, transmit, or share any personal information.
Information we collect
Nothing. The app never asks for an email address, phone number, contacts or photos from your gallery, and there is no account to create. The display name on the profile screen is optional, typed by you, and kept on the device.
Data stored on your device
To make the app work, Amber Sift stores the following only on your device, using the operating system's local storage:
- The tags on each bundled frame, plus its star rating, favourite mark and whether you have already sifted it.
- Your shelves: their names, order and cover, and which frames are filed on each.
- Captions you save, with their tone and hashtags.
- Milestones you have earned and a per-day count of tagged frames (it feeds the seven-day chart).
- Preferences: display name, accent colour, grid density, "untagged first", "hold still", confirm-before-removing and the default caption tone.
This data never leaves your device. It is not uploaded to Amber Sift or to any third party. Uninstalling the app or clearing its storage deletes all of it permanently.
Permissions
The Android build declares INTERNET because the standard Flutter template includes it. It is a normal permission, so you are never prompted for it, and the app does not use it: there is no networking code. No camera, microphone, location, contacts, storage or photo-library permission is requested on Android, and the iOS build carries no usage-description keys at all. There are no notifications.
Network use
None. The photo library is drawn by the app itself rather than downloaded, and no feature talks to a server, so the app works the same in aeroplane mode. When you copy a caption, it goes to your device clipboard and nowhere else.
Third-party services
No analytics, crash-reporting, advertising or attribution SDKs, no Firebase and no social login. Apart from Flutter itself, the app uses open-source packages for local storage (sqflite, shared_preferences), charts (fl_chart), state (flutter_riverpod), a confetti effect and small layout helpers. None of them sends data anywhere.
Children's privacy
Amber Sift is a general-audience app. Since it collects nothing from anyone, it collects nothing from children either. It has no chat, no user-to-user features, no purchases and no ads.
Your rights
You control the data directly. In the app you can remove tags, take frames off shelves, delete captions and delete shelves, and each change is saved immediately. Uninstalling the app erases everything it stored; no copy exists anywhere else, so there is nothing for us to export or delete for you.
Changes to this policy
If this policy ever changes, the date at the top of this page will be revised. Material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
If you have any questions about this policy, please reach out at [email protected].