Effective 22 September 2026
HDR Story is an iOS app that turns your HDR photos into short videos for Instagram Stories. This policy explains what the app does with your data. The short version: your photos stay on your device.
Photos you pick are processed entirely on your device. The app has no server that receives your photos or the videos made from them. Videos are saved to your Photos library only if you allow it, using the “add to Photos” permission; the app does not read the rest of your library.
When you tap the share button, the app hands the finished video to the Instagram app on your device through the system clipboard and opens Instagram. The clipboard entry expires after five minutes. HDR Story does not sign in to your Instagram or Facebook account, does not use the Instagram API, and receives no data from Meta. What happens to the video inside Instagram is covered by Instagram’s own privacy policy.
The app asks once, after your first finished batch. Nothing is sent before you tap Share on that screen, and you can say no — the app works exactly the same.
All numbers are sent as ranges, not exact values: “12–24 megapixels”, “5–10 seconds”. Never sent: your photos and videos, file names, photo library identifiers, photo metadata, location, clipboard contents, error texts, your name, e-mail, Apple ID or advertising identifier.
To tell “one person with ten failures” from “ten people with one failure each”, the app creates a random number when you agree. It is not derived from your device or account. Settings → Privacy & Analytics → Reset Anonymous ID replaces it, after which new data cannot be linked to the old; turning both switches off deletes it. See What’s Sent on the same screen shows the exact events.
Events are stored in a Cloudflare D1 database operated by the developer. The server does not store IP addresses or user-agent strings. Events are deleted automatically after 13 months.
The app keeps a technical log on your device so problems can be investigated. Settings → Send Support Report builds a file on your iPhone and opens the system share sheet; you choose where it goes, and the app uploads nothing. The report contains the app log (it includes photo file names), recent events, app settings, iOS performance reports and your note. The source photo and the video are included only if you turn those switches on.
No accounts, no advertising, no tracking across apps or websites, no sale or sharing of personal data with third parties.
All app data lives on your device. Deleting the app removes it. Videos saved to Photos stay in your library until you delete them there. Anonymous statistics, if you turned them on, cannot be traced back to you, so we cannot find or delete “your” events on request; resetting the anonymous ID and the 13-month limit are the tools for that. If you have questions, write to the address below.
The app is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.
If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new date.
Ivan Netkachev — ivanskylog@gmail.com