Privacy policy

Peel (formerly Collagearonis) reads the photos and videos you choose from your photo library, and the photos you take with its camera to make stickers. It edits them on your device and writes the result back to your photo library when you save or export. Working copies and your stickers are kept in the app's own private storage so they can be reopened; deleting the app deletes them.

Your photos, videos, text and stickers are never uploaded to us. Three exceptions, all at your own asking: a sticker sheet you ask us to print, which is sent to us so that we can print it (see Print requests below); a sticker you share with a friend or put in a space, which is sent to us so that that friend, or the friends in that space, can see it (see Spaces below); and a sticker set you ask us to publish on LINE, which is sent to us so that we can review it and submit it to LINE (see LINE sticker requests below). iCloud sync, if you turn it on, does not send anything to us either: it keeps a copy in your own iCloud (see iCloud sync below).

How the app is used, in numbers. The app tells our server when it is opened, which screen is in front and for how long, and that a sign-in happened. These are labels, counts and durations only: never a photo, a name, or anything you typed. They carry a random identifier the app makes up the first time it runs (it is not your phone's own identifier, and deleting the app erases it), the app's version, whether the phone is an iPhone or an Android, and the language and look the app is set to. If you are signed in, they are kept with your account. Our server does not store your IP address with them: it keeps a scrambled value that changes every day, only to count how many different people opened the app.

An account, if you choose one. Signing in is optional and the app works the same without it. If you sign in with Google, LINE or Apple, we receive your name and email address from them (Apple lets you hide your address) and keep them in a Tsumida AI account, the same one our other apps use. We use them only to sign you in and to run your account. The account does not sync or upload your work: your stickers stay on the phone whether you are signed in or not. (iCloud sync, below, has nothing to do with the account: it goes through Apple, to your own iCloud.) You can delete the account in the app, under Settings and then Account, which deletes it in every Tsumida AI app.

iCloud sync, only if you turn it on. On iPhone and iPad, Peel can sync your stickers (with the photos and other files they use, and your sticker collections, sticker videos and saved sheets) through your own iCloud: Apple's CloudKit, in your private iCloud database. It is off until you turn it on in the app, under Settings and then iCloud sync, and each device that should take part needs it turned on there. Your settings, purchases and account are not part of it. The data goes from your device to your iCloud account and back to your other devices; it never passes through our servers, and Tsumida AI cannot see or access it. Storing it in iCloud is governed by Apple's iCloud terms and privacy policy, and it counts toward your iCloud storage. Turning it off stops syncing on that device and keeps everything on it. To delete Peel's data from iCloud, open the Settings app, tap your name, then iCloud, then Storage (Manage Account Storage on some versions), then Peel, then Delete Data from iCloud; the words can differ a little between versions of iOS. Your devices then stop syncing and keep everything that is on them.

A launch report, only when signed in. Once per launch the app sends: the phone's model and system version, the app's version, the language and look in use, how many stickers and sheets exist on the phone (the numbers, never the things themselves), how long the launch took, and whether the app stalled. We use it to find slow or broken builds.

Spaces and friends, only if you use them. The Me tab needs an account. If you invite a friend by email, the address you type is sent to us and we email that person a link on your behalf; we keep the invitation (who sent it, the address, whether it was accepted). If you share an invite link instead, no address is involved. Your friends list and your spaces (their names and who is in them) are kept on our server so that your friends' phones can see them. A sticker you share with a friend or put in a space is uploaded, as an image with its name and size, and kept privately until you or the space's owner take it out, the space is deleted, or your account is deleted; the people in that space can download it onto their phones. A sticker you share with a friend goes into a private space of just the two of you: only that friend sees it, and sharing with everyone sends it to each of your friends that way, one by one. If you stop being friends, that space is hidden from you both, and it comes back if you are friends again. We also keep which stickers in a space you have peeled, so the space can show you what is new. Where a sticker was made goes with it only if you say so: the first time you make or open a space, the app asks once whether to share it, and Share where stickers were made, under Settings and then Account, changes that later. While it is on, a sticker you share with a friend or put in a space that has a place carries that place's name and its coordinates; they are kept with the sticker and only the people it went to see them. Stickers you share while it is off carry no place. None of this happens for stickers you do not share with a friend or put in a space.

Print requests, only if you send one. When you ask us to print a sticker sheet, the app sends your email address (the one you typed, or your account's), the sheet as an image, and what you chose for it: paper, finish, quantity and country. Our server also records the IP address the request came from, to stop abuse. We use all of it to make the print and to write back to you.

LINE sticker requests, only if you send one. When you use Request publish on LINE, the app sends us, with your account: the stickers in the set as images, drawn to LINE's sizes (with nothing else of the sticker: not its place, not the photo it was cut from), its main and tab images, the name you chose, how many stickers, the collection's name, the app's language, and when you agreed and to which wording. A person at Tsumida AI looks at the images to review them. If the set passes, we submit the images, the name and the price to LINE (LY Corporation), which then has them under its own terms. We keep the request and its images for as long as the set is under review or on sale, and after that for as long as we need them to answer questions about it; a set that is turned down or withdrawn is deleted within 90 days. Deleting your account deletes your requests that have not been submitted to LINE; a set already submitted to LINE, approved or on sale stays, without your account attached to it.

Where a sticker was made stays on the phone, unless you share it with a space. If you allow location, the app notes where the phone is when you make a sticker with the camera, and reads the place a photo from your library already carries. It is kept with the sticker, on the phone, and shown on the sticker's back and on the map in the Globe tab. It is not sent to us, unless you choose to share where your stickers were made with your spaces (see Spaces and friends above), and then only with a sticker you share with a friend or put in a space. If you turn on iCloud sync, it travels with the sticker to your own iCloud and your other devices, as the rest of the sticker does. The map itself is drawn by Apple's map service (on iPhone) or Google's (on Android), who therefore see which area of the map is being looked at; the app never shows or tracks where you are. To show the name of a place rather than bare coordinates, the phone asks Apple's map service (on iPhone) or Google's (on Android) to name those coordinates.

On Android, one more. On Android, background removal uses Google's ML Kit, which runs on the device. ML Kit sends Google basic diagnostics about these features: the device model and Android version, the app's name and version, a per-install identifier, timings and error codes. Your photos are never sent. Google describes this in its ML Kit data disclosure. The iPhone app has no equivalent: Apple's Vision sends nothing.

Peel Studio on the same phone. If you also use Peel Studio, our app for collages, photobooks and printing, and both apps are signed in to the same account, they share your stickers through a folder on the phone that only our two apps can open. Collages and photobooks made in Peel before it moved them to Peel Studio go there the same way. Nothing in this goes through our servers.

What we do not do. No advertising, no advertising identifiers, no tracking, no third-party analytics or tracking kits, and nothing is sold or shared for marketing. This website uses no cookies: the look and the language you choose here are remembered in your own browser and sent nowhere.

Photos, on iPhone. Requested so the app can show your library for picking, and save what you make. You can limit or revoke it any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos; the app keeps working with whatever selection you allow.

Photos, on Android. Photos are picked with the system photo picker, so the app never asks to see your library: it only receives the photos and videos you choose. On Android 10 to 12, saving asks once for storage access, because those versions need it to add a file to your gallery.

Camera. Requested the first time you make a sticker with the camera. The photo is cut out on the device and stays there. The microphone is never used. You can refuse the camera and make stickers from photos you already have.

Location. Requested the first time you open the sticker camera, so the back of a sticker can say where its photo was taken and the Globe can show it on a map. It is read only while the app is in use, never in the background. You can refuse it and everything else works; stickers then carry no place.

Media & Apple Music, on iPhone and iPad. Requested only if you choose a song from your music library to play while you read a photobook, or, with iCloud sync on, the first time a photobook from your other device plays a song from your library (the app then looks for that song by its title and artist). The song plays on the device, and nothing about what you listen to is recorded or sent to us.

Sticker bags and template packs, where the app offers them, are bought through the App Store or Google Play. Apple or Google handles the payment; the app only learns whether you own a pack, and keeps that on the phone.

On iPhone, cutting out a subject uses Apple's Vision framework, on the device. On Android, cutting out a subject uses Google's ML Kit (see the exception above), on the device. Your photos and videos stay on the phone either way.

Everything you make lives in the app's storage on your phone and goes when you delete the app. If you turned on iCloud sync, a copy also stays in your iCloud, and on your other devices that sync, until you delete it there (see iCloud sync above). Deleting your account removes your name and email address from our server, with the usage numbers and launch reports kept with it: how to delete an account. To have a print request, or anything else we hold, removed, write to the address below.

The app is not aimed at children and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date.

Tsumida AI, Canada. hello@tsumida.ai