Privacy

What Piku Print Club is

Piku Print Club is a camera app for kids, for iPhone and iPad. Kids take photos, videos and four-shot booth strips, add effects, decorate photos with stickers and drawing, and keep them on the Prints page. Anything for grown-ups, such as buying, settings and saving pictures out, sits behind a grown-up check.

What it collects

Nothing is sent to us, so we collect nothing. There is no account, no sign-up and no login.

On the iPhone or iPad itself, Piku keeps only what it needs to work:

• a nickname and a cartoon avatar for each kid, plus a random ID
• the photos, videos and booth strips the kids make
• a small file beside each print with its parts (the picture, frame, colour, stickers and drawing), so Decorate can change them later
• notes about when each one was taken and which are starred
• a few settings, such as the daily limit and the longest video

The nickname is a free text box, so we suggest a made-up name or initials rather than a real full name. A kid can change their own nickname and avatar from the camera. Piku does not ask for an email address, a birthday, a location or contacts, and it does not use an advertising ID.

Where the pictures live

Inside Piku, in the app’s own storage on the iPhone or iPad, in a separate folder for each kid. They are not in your Photos library. Every photo also keeps a clean copy without effects, which a grown-up can see in the Grown-ups area.

What can leave the device

Piku itself never uploads anything. Piku has no servers of its own, and its code makes no network connections except to Apple’s App Store. Four things are worth knowing.

• Sharing and saving. A grown-up, behind the grown-up check, can share pictures with the usual share sheet or save them to Photos. Kids cannot share or save out of the app.
• The App Store. To show the price, check whether the Print Club is already bought, take the one-time purchase and restore it, the app talks to Apple’s App Store. No pictures and no kid details are involved, and Piku never sees your card or Apple Account.
• Links. Two rows in the Grown-ups area, Privacy Policy and Support, open this website in your browser, and a Rate row shows Apple’s own rating box. Piku sends nothing along.
• Device backups. As with any app, your own iPhone or iPad backup, including iCloud backup, may include Piku’s files if you have backups switched on. That is your device backing itself up, not Piku uploading anything.

What Piku asks your iPhone or iPad for

The microphone is used only while a video is recording. Piku never asks to read your Photos library, it can only add to it. It does not ask for location, contacts, Bluetooth, Face ID or notifications, and it shows no tracking prompt because it does not track.

“Never shared” in those messages means Piku never shares anything by itself. A grown-up can still choose to share or save a picture, as described above.

No analytics, ads, accounts or outside code

Piku has no analytics, no advertising, no advertising ID, no accounts or logins, no chat or comments, and no third-party code. It is built from our own code and Apple’s own frameworks. Its privacy manifest, the file Apple asks apps to ship, lists no collected data, no tracking and no tracking domains.

Face effects

Effects such as hats, costumes and warps need to know where a face is in the picture. For that, Piku uses Apple’s face detection (the Vision framework), which runs on the iPhone or iPad itself.

• What it finds. Where each face is in the picture, and where its eyes, nose and mouth are, as positions on the picture. Nothing more: Piku does not use Face ID, the depth camera or a 3D face map, and it does not work out who anyone is or tell one person from another.
• What it is used for. Only to place and shape the effects on the face, in the live camera picture and in the little effect previews.
• Where it is kept, and for how long. Only in the app’s working memory on the iPhone or iPad. The positions are updated with every camera frame, a face that leaves the picture is dropped within a moment, and they are cleared from memory when Piku is closed. They are never written to storage, so there is nothing to keep, back up or delete.
• Who it is shared with. No one. Face positions are never sent to us or to any third party, and they never leave the iPhone or iPad.

The photo itself, with its effects, is kept like any other print (see Where the pictures live and Deleting things).

Deleting things

• One print. A kid can press and hold the bin on the Prints page. A grown-up can select prints in the Grown-ups area and delete them. Either way there is a short undo, about 4 seconds long, and then the file is gone. There is no Recently Deleted folder.
• One kid. In the Grown-ups area, open the kid and choose Delete. If the kid has prints, Piku offers Save to Photos and Delete, Delete Without Saving or Cancel. Save to Photos and Delete saves the decorated prints and videos. The plain real-photo copies are deleted with the kid. There is no undo. If saving to Photos fails or is refused, nothing is deleted.
• Everything. Deleting every kid returns Piku to a fresh start, keeping only your settings. Deleting the app removes Piku’s files from the device. Anything you saved to Photos stays in Photos, and copies in your own device backups are controlled in your device settings.

This website

This page sets no cookies, has no forms, and loads no fonts, scripts or pictures from anyone else. Every picture is a drawing, and there are no photos of children. Like any website, it is served by a hosting company, which may keep ordinary technical logs of requests. Those logs are the host’s. This site has no code that collects anything.

Changes

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.

Who makes Piku

Piku Print Club is made by Not Another Studio (notanother.studio), a product studio in the UK. The App Store page shows the name it is sold under.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Write to hello@pikuprintclub.com. Please do not send pictures of your child.

For help using the app, see the support page.