Halo Privacy Policy

Halo asks for access to your photo library through the standard iOS prompt. You can grant access to your whole library or to a selection you choose, and you can change or withdraw that permission at any time in iOS Settings. What Halo looks at follows from that choice: a selection is curated in full, with no date limit; full access looks at the last 30 days.

When a photo's original is not on your device, Halo asks Apple's PhotoKit to download it from your own iCloud so it can be analysed. That transfer is between you and Apple, under Apple's terms — Halo does not upload your photos and we run no photo server of our own. This can also happen when iOS schedules a background refresh, not only while the app is open.

Analysis results, the collections you create and your in-progress session are kept in Halo's own storage on your device, together with the app's own preferences. Deleting Halo removes them from the device. If you use iCloud Backup or back your device up another way, a copy may remain in that backup until it is overwritten — that backup is yours, and we cannot see it.

Halo does not upload your photos, and it sends us nothing about what you do in the app automatically. There are two exceptions, and you start both. When you export a reel, Halo writes a temporary video file into its own temporary storage and hands it to the iOS share sheet; you choose the destination, and what happens next is governed by whichever app or service you picked. The temporary file is removed after sharing. The second exception is the beta report below.

This section applies only to TestFlight builds. App Store releases record none of it.

Stored on your device: a random install identifier, the date you installed, which days you opened the app, how far you got, and whether you finished your first reel.

If you choose to send the report, it contains the app version, the first eight characters of that random identifier, how many days since you installed, how far your first reel got and — if you exported it — which day after installing that happened, how many collections you made in the last 30 days, how many collections already existed before you installed the beta, and a week-by-week count of days used and collections created. It contains no photos, no photo metadata and no contact details.

Nothing is transmitted by the app. The report screen has a button labelled Copy report, and it also suggests taking a screenshot of the screen. Either way, the report reaches us only if you send it yourself — by pasting the copied text into TestFlight feedback or an email, or by sending the screenshot.

Separately, Apple gathers its own TestFlight information under Apple's privacy policy, and Apple makes some of it — tester, device and diagnostic information, and any feedback you send — available to us.

Apple, as the platform that distributes Halo and runs TestFlight and iCloud. For this website and for support email, our hosting provider and our mail provider act as processors; they are identified in our site privacy policy.

This page is served from shelakh.com. How the website itself handles data — server logs, the cookie that remembers your language, how long anything is kept, your rights and how to complain — is covered in our site privacy policy.

Halo is a general-audience app. It sends us nothing about what anyone does in it, children included. What is kept on your device, and what Apple makes available to us during the beta, are described above.

Halo itself sends us nothing, so there is nothing from the app for us to give you, correct or delete. If you write to us, we hold that correspondence, and during the beta your rights also cover whatever Apple's TestFlight makes available to us about you: you can ask for a copy, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, and we will. Our site privacy policy sets out the full list of rights and how to complain to the Spanish data protection authority, the AEPD.

If this policy changes, we update the date at the top of this page.

Halo is published by Adrián Arribas Lopera, trading as Shelakh Web Solutions. Write to support@shelakh.com. Our legal details are on our legal notice.