PhotoCircle is committed to privacy and security. We never share your name, contact information, photos and videos, or content of your albums with anyone. You also fully own any photos, videos, or other content you upload to PhotoCircle.
To help keep the app free for friends & family sharing and ensure a more relevant ad experience, we do pass advertising identifiers to our ad partners. Read below for more details.
What we never share
We do not sell or share any of the following with advertisers or ad networks:
- Your photos and videos
- Your name or email address (other than the hashed form described below)
- Your comments
- The contents of your Circles
You also own all of your content.
What we do share, and only on the free, ad-supported plan
When you use the free, ad-supported version of PhotoCircle, the app shares a limited set of advertising identifiers with advertising networks so the ads you see are more relevant and so advertisers can measure how their campaigns perform. These are:
- Your device's advertising ID (the GAID on Android or the IDFA on Apple devices)
- A "RampID" — an online identification code we obtain from our identity resolution provider, LiveRamp, Inc.
Because ad requests come straight from your phone, the ad partner also sees your phone's IP address, the same way any website or app you use does. We never send it from our servers.
If you have PhotoCircle+ or a premium plan
PhotoCircle+ and our premium plans are ad-free, so none of the advertising sharing described above applies to you.
How to opt out
You can turn off all sharing of these identifiers for advertising at any time, no matter where you live. This isn't limited to residents of a particular state or country. You can opt out by:
- Going to Settings → Your Privacy Choices in the PhotoCircle app or in your signed-in account on the web
- Visiting photocircleapp.com/your-privacy-choices
- Emailing privacy@photocircleapp.com with the subject line "Do Not Sell or Share." Include the email address on your PhotoCircle account. We process email requests within 5 business days.
- Enabling a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal in your browser. We honor GPC signals received on our website. A GPC signal applies only to the browser that sends it — the account setting above applies everywhere you're signed in.
You'll still see ads on the free plan, but they won't be personalized. Your opt-out is permanent — it won't be reversed by reinstalling the app, signing out, switching devices, or letting your session expire.
Users under 18
If we've identified you as under 18, we apply this setting for you automatically. The app doesn't send your advertising identifiers, and it tells ad partners you're under 18 so they show only non-personalized ads and don't pass your information on. You'll only see non-personalized ads, and the setting can't be switched off.
Questions? Contact us at privacy@photocircleapp.com.
For full details, see our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy — Sections 3, 4, and 10 cover advertising and your privacy choices.