Privacy Policy

Last updated October 11, 2026. Applies to the Safety Goggles apps for iOS and Android and to safetygoggles.app.

Safety Goggles exists to stop you from sharing more than you meant to. It would be a poor way to do that if it collected your photos itself, so it doesn’t. This page says exactly what stays on your device, what reaches our servers, and why.

The short version

Photos are checked on your device. They are never uploaded. The Safe Copy is made on your device too, and your original is never changed.
You can use everything in the app without an account.
If you sign in, we store your email address, your preferences, the people you ask us to protect, and counts of what the app did for you.
Video clips you choose to check in the cloud are uploaded for that one job, processed, and deleted as soon as you download the result or after 24 hours at the latest.
We count how often checks run, signed in or not, as numbers only. We never see what was found.
No advertising, no tracking, no third-party analytics, and we never sell data.

Photos and what we find in them

When you check a photo, the app looks for faces, names, house numbers, street signs, licence plates, QR codes and the hidden data inside the file (such as GPS coordinates and the camera model). All of that happens on your phone or in your browser. The photo, the text that was read, and the things that were found stay on the device and are discarded when you leave the screen. The app never writes them to a log, and they are never sent to us.

A Safe Copy is a new image built from pixels only. It carries no location, device or date data from the original, and a note that it was made with Safety Goggles. Your original photo is not modified.

Your account (optional)

Signing in uses the Kinnectd identity service (Google Firebase Authentication) with your email address, Google account or Apple ID. We store your email address, display name, when the account was created, your plan, and the preferences you set in the app. Checking photos never requires an account; an account is for protected people, household sharing, cloud video and keeping your settings on every device.

Protected people

You can ask the app to always recognise and hide certain people, such as your children. To do that it keeps a mathematical description of their face (a “template”) made from photos you choose, with your explicit consent, and never from photos you merely check. Templates and the other things you ask us to always look for are encrypted on your device with a key that belongs to your household before they are stored with us. We hold the encrypted copies so your household can share them, and we cannot read them. Names, relationships, birthdays and nicknames you enter are stored as ordinary account data so the app can explain its findings.

You can remove a person, a photo of them, or all of it at any time from the app, and it is deleted from our servers immediately.

Cloud video (Plus)

Clips up to a minute are checked on your device. Longer clips can be checked in the cloud if you choose to, and only when you choose to. The clip goes directly from your device to a private storage bucket, is processed by our service, and is deleted the moment you download the Safe Copy, when you cancel, or after 24 hours, whichever comes first; the storage itself also deletes anything older than a day. The app shows you every step, ending with the clip’s deletion. The findings kept for that job describe where things are in the clip and what kind they are, never the text that was read. If you have protected people, their encrypted templates are sent with the job and held only in memory while it runs.

Usage counts

To run the service we count how many checks happen, how many fail, how many things are found and hidden, and how many Safe Copies are made, along with the platform, app version and how long a check took. These are numbers only. They never include a photo, a name, text, a location or a description of what was found. Each app launch makes up a random session identifier that is kept in memory and never stored on the device; if you are signed in, the counts are associated with your account so we can tell signed-in use from anonymous use. We do not record IP addresses or device identifiers with these counts, and we use no third-party analytics software.

Payments

Subscriptions, when offered, are handled by Apple and Google. We receive a receipt that tells us your plan and its expiry so the app can unlock Plus; we never see your card details.

Where data lives and who sees it

Account data is stored on Google Cloud in the United States, in a project used only by Safety Goggles, encrypted at rest and in transit. Access is limited to the Kinnectd engineers who operate the service, and operational dashboards show counts only. We do not sell, rent or share your data with advertisers or data brokers. We share data only with the providers needed to run the service (Google Cloud, Firebase Authentication, Apple and Google for payments), or when the law requires it.

Children

Safety Goggles is made for adults, often parents, and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly create accounts for children. Photos of children that you check stay on your device like any other photo; a protected person’s template is created only by the adult account holder.

Your choices and your rights

Use the app without an account. Nothing about you is stored.
Delete your data. In the app, Settings → Delete my data, or on the account page on the web. This removes your profile, plan, protected people, templates, watchlist, household membership and counts linked to you. Your Kinnectd identity itself is untouched; see the support page to delete that too.
See what we hold. The account page shows your profile, plan and counts; the people and household screens show everything else. Write to us for a copy.
Leave a household. Your protected people go with you; the shared key is rotated for the others.

Depending on where you live you may have rights under laws such as the GDPR or the CCPA to access, correct, delete or export your data, and to object to certain processing. Write to us and we will honour them without charge.

Changes

If we change what the app sends off your device, we will update this page, change the date at the top, and tell you in the app before the change takes effect.

Contact

Kinnectd, LLC operates Safety Goggles. Privacy questions and requests: privacy@safetygoggles.app. General help: see the support page.