Eagle Image Stacker Privacy Policy
Effective date: May 17, 2026
Eagle Image Stacker is an iPhone app for capturing, importing, processing, calibrating, aligning, stacking, and exporting astronomy and RAW image files.
This policy explains how the app handles privacy. Replace the placeholders in brackets before publishing this page.
Developer: Almatusm Salim
Contact: almaadi30@gmail.com
Privacy Policy URL: https://sites.google.com/view/eagle-image-stacker-privacy2/
Summary
Eagle Image Stacker is designed to process your images on your device. Based on the current app implementation:
The app does not require an account.
The app does not use advertising.
The app does not use third-party analytics.
The app does not use App Tracking Transparency tracking.
The app does not upload your photos, RAW files, masks, calibration frames, settings, or processing results to a developer-operated server.
Your images and project data remain on your device unless you choose to export, share, save to Photos, store through Apple services such as iCloud Photos or iCloud Drive, or send files to someone else using iOS sharing features.
Information We Do Not Collect
We do not collect personal information from the app, such as your name, email address, phone number, contacts, precise location, advertising identifier, browsing history, or account credentials.
We do not collect your photos, RAW files, processed images, masks, regions of interest, calibration files, or stacking results.
We do not sell personal information.
Photos, RAW Files, and Image Processing
When you select images from Photos or Files, Eagle Image Stacker uses those selected files for features such as:
RAW and DNG decoding
Astro image stacking
Planet and Moon image stacking
Alignment analysis
Calibration tools such as flat-field and hot-pixel workflows
Mask and ROI tools
RAW conversion and export
These operations are performed locally on your device. The app may copy selected files into its app storage so it can process them, show previews, cache decoded TIFF files, and generate output images.
If your selected files are stored in iCloud Photos, iCloud Drive, or another Apple or third-party file provider, iOS may download those files to your device so the app can access them. That download is handled by the operating system or file provider, not by a developer-operated Eagle Image Stacker server.
Camera Access
The app asks for camera access so you can capture photos, including RAW, DNG, Apple ProRAW, JPEG, and HEIF captures where supported by your device.
Camera access is used only for capture features inside the app. Captured files are processed locally. If you enable saving to Photos, the app asks iOS to save the captured image to your Photos library.
Photo Library Access
The app may ask for access to your Photos library for two purposes:
To read photos and RAW images that you select for stacking, conversion, calibration, or analysis.
To add captured or processed images to your Photos library when you choose to save them.
The app only uses Photos access for these image workflows. It does not upload your Photos library to us.
Files and Local Storage
Eagle Image Stacker stores app data locally on your device. This may include:
Imported image files selected from Photos or Files
Decoded image caches, including TIFF intermediates
Stacking outputs and exported images
Calibration frames such as master darks and master flats
Masks and regions of interest
App settings, RAW decoder options, presets, onboarding state, and cached entitlement state
Some settings are stored using iOS UserDefaults. Some entitlement or trial-related state may be stored in the iOS Keychain. These are local device storage mechanisms.
You can remove app-local files by deleting them from within the app where controls are available, clearing caches where the app provides that option, or deleting the app from your device.
Purchases and Subscriptions
Eagle Image Stacker offers Apple-managed in-app purchases, including recurring subscriptions and a lifetime unlock.
Purchases are processed by Apple through StoreKit. We do not receive or store your full payment card number or Apple ID password. The app reads Apple-verified purchase entitlement information so it can unlock paid features and restore purchases.
Apple may process purchase, subscription, refund, tax, and billing information under Apple's own privacy policies and App Store terms.
Third-Party Libraries
The app includes third-party image-processing libraries, such as RAW and computer vision libraries, to provide decoding, alignment, calibration, and export functionality. These libraries run inside the app for local processing. The current app implementation does not use them to send your image files to a developer-operated server.
The app may include links to third-party websites for open-source license notices. Opening those links leaves the app and is subject to the privacy practices of the destination website.
Diagnostics
iOS may create device diagnostics, crash reports, or logs depending on your device settings and Apple's systems. Eagle Image Stacker does not include a separate third-party crash reporting or analytics service in the current app implementation.
If you contact support, you may choose to send screenshots, files, logs, or other details. We will use that information only to respond to your request, troubleshoot the issue, and improve the app.
Children
Eagle Image Stacker is not designed to collect personal information from children. Because the app does not require an account and does not collect personal information through a developer-operated service, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Your Choices
You can control app permissions in iOS Settings:
Camera access
Photos access
File provider access
Cellular data and network settings, where applicable
You can manage or cancel subscriptions in the App Store or iOS Settings under your Apple ID subscriptions.
You can delete app-local data by deleting the app from your device. Deleting the app may remove files stored only inside the app's local container.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when the app changes or when legal, platform, or operational requirements change. The effective date at the top of this page shows when this policy was last updated.
Contact
For privacy questions or support requests, contact:
Almatusm Salim
almaadi30@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/view/eagle-image-stacker-help/