Privacy Policy

Camera Quests is a photography game. This policy describes exactly what the app collects, why it needs it, and how to get rid of it. Questions: cameraquests@yahoo.com.

What we collect

• Account details: your email address and a securely hashed password, or the Apple sign-in identifier if you use Apple. We never see or store your plain password.
• Profile: the username you choose, an optional avatar image reference, and your Quest Style preference.
• Quest photos: the photo you capture in the app for each Quest, plus a small thumbnail we generate.
• Game records: your matches, submissions, votes you cast while judging, results, win/loss record, streaks and notifications.
• Safety records: reports you file and players you block.

What we do not collect

• No location data. We never request location permission, and photos are re-encoded in the app, which strips camera metadata such as GPS coordinates before upload.
• No photo library access. Entries can only be captured live with the camera.
• No microphone, contacts, calendar, health or Bluetooth data.
• No advertising identifiers, ad networks or cross-app tracking.
• No third-party analytics or marketing SDKs.
• Push notification tokens are not collected today. Notifications are delivered inside the app. If device push is enabled in a future version, this policy will be updated first.

How your photos are used

Quest photos are stored privately. They are shown to a small number of other players for judging, always anonymously — judges see the Quest and the two photos, never who took them. Your own photos are visible to you in your Trophy Case. Photos are not public, not indexed by search engines and not sold.

Camera permission

Camera Quests uses the rear camera so you can photograph and submit your Quest entry. The camera is only active on the capture screen. If you deny camera access the app explains what happened instead of failing silently, but you will not be able to submit a Quest entry.

Who processes your data

We use managed cloud infrastructure for authentication, database and encrypted photo storage, and standard cloud hosting to serve the app. These providers process data strictly on our behalf. We do not sell personal information.

Retention and deletion

You can delete your account at any time from Profile → Settings → Delete account. Deletion permanently removes your login, profile, Quest photos, submissions, votes, reports, blocks and results. Anonymous aggregate counts (for example, how many Quests have been played) may remain, and we may retain limited records where the law requires it. Deletion cannot be undone.

Children

Camera Quests is not intended for children under 13. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will remove it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live you may have rights to access, correct, export or erase your data. Email cameraquests@yahoo.com and we will respond.