Privacy
Last updated: 1 October 2026
Piku Print Club sends us no data. On the iPhone or iPad itself, it keeps a nickname and a cartoon avatar for each kid, plus the photos, videos and booth strips they make. It has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party code. This page explains that in plain words, including the few places where something can leave the iPhone or iPad.
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 in My Prints. 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
- 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. 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. Three 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, take the one-time Print Club 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.
- 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
| Permission | When it is asked | The exact words your iPhone or iPad shows |
|---|---|---|
| Camera | The first time a kid’s camera opens. | Piku Print Club uses the camera to take photos and videos. They stay on this device and are never shared. |
| Microphone | The first time a kid records a video. If you say no, the clip is silent and nothing else changes. | Piku Print Club uses the microphone so your videos have sound. Everything stays on this device and is never shared. |
| Photos, add only | Only when a grown-up chooses Save to Photos and Delete. | Lets a grown-up save photos from Piku Print Club to Photos. |
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 use Apple’s on-device face tracking to find where a face is. It works on the live camera picture on the iPhone or iPad. The tracking data stays in memory while the camera runs, and is never saved or sent. Piku does not work out who anyone is.
Deleting things
- One print. A kid can press and hold the bin in My Prints. A grown-up can select prints in the Grown-ups area and delete them. Either way there is a short undo, 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. 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, 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.
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.