Chisel App Privacy Policy

This policy covers the Chisel app for iPhone and Android only, published by Known by One, LLC. Sections 1 to 12 describe the iPhone app; the Android app makes the same promises, and section 13 lists where it works differently. The The Face Report website has its own privacy policy, which applies when you use the website, including the free face scan.

The short version: everything the app creates stays on your phone. There is no account and no advertising. The one thing the app can send is a set of anonymous usage counts, and only if you say yes (see section 3a).

1. What the app stores, and where

Chisel stores your progress photos, your daily task completions, your plan settings (focus areas, face shape, time budget, reminder times), and your monthly check-in notes. All of it is stored only on your device, inside the app's private container.

• Photos are written with iOS file protection, so they are encrypted with your device passcode, and they are excluded from iCloud and iTunes backups.
• Photos are never uploaded, synced, shared, or analysed by us.
• The app does not detect faces, extract landmarks, or compute any scores from your photos. It shows them back to you and can render them into a time-lapse video on your device.

2. Face data

2.1 What face data the app handles

The only face data Chisel handles is (a) the progress photos you take with the front camera or choose from your photo library, which show your face, and (b) if you choose to import a result from The Face Report, your face shape and the scores for your focus areas. The app does not use Face ID, the TrueDepth camera, ARKit face tracking, or any face detection, landmark, measurement, or recognition technology. It creates no face geometry, face template, or biometric identifier, and it does not analyse or score your photos. The outline on the camera screen is a fixed guide, and the faint overlay is simply your previous photo.

2.2 How it is used

Photos are used only to show them back to you: in your photo history, as the overlay that helps you line up today's photo, in the side-by-side comparison, and, if you choose, in a time-lapse video rendered on your device. Your face shape is used to pick your haircut, beard, and eyewear guides, and your scores are shown on the Plan tab (you can hide them in Settings). Face data is never used for authentication, identification, advertising, marketing, profiling, or training any model.

2.3 Where it is stored

Only on your device. Photos are saved as image files in the app's private storage with iOS Complete file protection, so they are encrypted and unreadable while your phone is locked, and they are excluded from iCloud and computer backups. Your face shape and scores are saved in the app's local database on the device; like the app's other settings, that database is part of your own iCloud or computer device backup if you have device backups turned on. None of it is sent to us, and we cannot access your device or your backups. Chisel cannot read your photo library. The photo picker is run by iOS and gives the app only the photo you choose. If you tap Save in the share sheet, iOS asks once whether Chisel may add to your library.

2.4 Sharing and disclosure

We never receive your face data, and we do not share, sell, or disclose it to any third party. The app has no account and no advertising, and it makes no network request containing your photos, face shape, or scores. The only thing it can send is the optional anonymous usage counts in section 3a, which contain nothing about your face. A result from The Face Report reaches the app only when you paste its code or tap its link; the app sends nothing back to the website. A photo or video leaves your device only if you export it yourself: the time-lapse Share button opens the standard iOS share sheet, and you choose where it goes. Settings > Export my photos opens the same share sheet with copies of your photos, for example to move them to a new phone.

2.5 How long it is kept

Your face data stays on your device until you delete it. We keep no copy anywhere, so nothing is retained on our side. On the free plan, photos older than seven days are locked but not deleted. A time-lapse you render and photo copies you export are written to the app's temporary folder with Complete file protection. They are deleted when you replace or delete a photo, when you delete all data, and the next time the app opens, and iOS may also clear that folder on its own.

2.6 How to delete it

Open any photo in your photo history, including photos locked on the free plan, and tap Delete to remove it. Settings > Delete all my data removes every photo (including locked ones), your face shape, your scores, and all other records immediately. Deleting the app removes everything it stored.

3. What the app does not collect

We do not collect your name, email, contacts, location, or device identifiers. The app contains no third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs. The only data the app can send is the anonymous usage counts described next, which our App Store privacy label lists as "Usage Data, not linked to you". The Android app does not have this feature yet, so our Google Play data safety section says no data is collected or shared. This policy is what makes both true.

3a. Anonymous usage counts (optional)

Starting with version 1.1, Chisel asks once, after your first completed day, whether you would like to share anonymous usage counts. Nothing is sent unless you choose Share counts, and you can change your answer at any time in Settings > Privacy and data (Anonymous usage counts: Off / On). Deleting all your data forgets the answer too.

If you say yes, the app sends a short message when certain things happen in the app. Each message contains only:

• the name of the event, from a fixed list: for example "finished a day", "opened a guide", "opened the Pro screen" or "rendered the time-lapse";
• a few details, each from a fixed list of values: for example which guide, where in the app it happened, or how many days you have logged, as a range such as "4–7";
• the app version, and that it is the iPhone app.

It never contains a photo or any part of one, a score from The Face Report, your focus areas, your face shape, your check-in notes, or anything else about your face. It contains no name, account, device identifier or advertising identifier, and no location. Purchases are not included; Apple reports those to us separately and without identifying you.

The messages go to a server we run, hosted by Vercel, which adds each one to a count for that day. The counts are stored with Upstash, a database service. Like any web request, a message reaches the server with your IP address, which Vercel needs to deliver it; our server does not read, log or store it, or any other identifier. So the counts cannot be linked to you or to each other, and they are never combined with other data or used for advertising or tracking. Each day's counts are deleted after 400 days.

4. Age confirmation

The app is for adults 18 and over. During setup you enter your date of birth to confirm this. The date is checked once on your device and discarded; only the yes/no result is kept.

5. Importing a result from The Face Report

You can optionally bring a result from The Face Report into the app by pasting a code or opening a link from your result page. The code contains only your chosen focus areas, your face shape, and their scores. It contains no photo, no identifier, and no email. The transfer happens only when you paste the code or tap the link yourself, and the app makes no network request to do it.

6. Camera and photo library

The app asks for camera access to take your daily photo, and uses the camera only on that screen. You can pick a photo from your library instead: the iOS photo picker needs no permission and gives the app only the photo you choose. Either way, the photo is saved only into the app's private storage on your device. If you tap Save in the share sheet, for example to save your time-lapse, iOS asks once whether Chisel may add to your photo library.

7. Notifications

If you allow reminders, the app schedules local notifications on your device for your morning tasks and, optionally, an evening photo reminder. These are generated on the device; no notification service or server is involved.

8. Subscriptions

Chisel Pro is an auto-renewing subscription sold through Apple. Apple processes the payment and holds your billing details; we never see them. The app checks your subscription status with Apple's StoreKit on your device. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings.

9. Links to other apps and websites

Some tasks link to the The Face Report website (for a rescan) or to our separate face-yoga app. Those are governed by their own policies once you leave Chisel. Opening a link is always your action.

10. Deleting your data

Settings > Delete all my data removes every photo and record from the app immediately. Deleting the app from your phone does the same. We hold no copy of your photos or records, so there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf, and no request to make. The optional usage counts in section 3a carry no identifier, so we cannot tell which of them came from you; each day's counts are deleted after 400 days.

11. Children

The app is not directed at anyone under 18 and does not knowingly accept users under that age.

12. Changes

If the app ever collects anything beyond the optional usage counts in section 3a, this page and the store privacy labels will change first, and the app will ask before anything is sent.

13. The Android app

Chisel for Android stores and handles the same things as the iPhone app, as described above. These are the differences:

• Storage and backups. Photos are saved as image files in the app's private storage, which Android encrypts and no other app can read. Everything the app stores, including your face shape and scores, is excluded from Google backups and from transfer to a new phone. Settings > Export my photos is the way to move your photos.
• Choosing a photo. “Choose from gallery” opens Android's system photo picker, which gives the app only the photo you choose. The app has no permission to read your photos or files.
• Sharing. A time-lapse or photo copies leave the app only through the Android share sheet, when you tap Share or Export. They are written to the app's cache folder first and deleted when the photos they were made from change, when you delete all data, and the next time the app opens; Android may also clear that folder on its own.
• Subscriptions. Chisel Pro on Android is sold through Google Play. Google processes the payment and holds your billing details; we never see them. The app checks your subscription with Google Play on your device. Manage or cancel it in the app under Settings > Manage subscription, or in the Play Store under Payments & subscriptions.
• Internet access. The app declares Android's internet permission because Google Play's billing and rating services need it. The app's own code makes no network requests and sends nothing to us. After some milestones the app may ask Google Play to show its rating card; Google decides whether it appears, and the app does not learn whether or how you rated.
• Reminders. Reminders are alarms scheduled on your phone. On Android 13 and later the app asks before sending notifications. If you allow exact alarms, reminders arrive at the time you set; the app sets them again after your phone restarts or the time zone changes.

14. Contact

contact@thefacereport.com

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