Privacy

Effective ⟨date of publication⟩ · covers www.koenji.cam and the KOENJI app for iPhone

The short version. KOENJI is a camera. Your photographs are yours. The app collects no analytics, shows no ads, contains no third-party SDKs, requires no account, and sends none of your data to us. This website sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from anyone else. The only thing we ever hold about you is your email address, and only if you give it to us for the newsletter.

who is responsible

Away from Earth GbR, represented by the partners Klaudija Mai and Linh Mai
Pfalzburger Str. 69
10719 Berlin
Germany
support@awayfrom.earth

this website

Hosting and server logs

The site is served by statichost.eu (c/o Knackeriet, Sankt Paulsgatan 25, Stockholm, Sweden), whose servers, network and DNS run on European infrastructure. To deliver a page, a web server necessarily receives your IP address, the page requested, the time and your browser's user agent. Our host keeps access logs for at most 7 days and states that it stores no personal data in them. We do not use them to identify anyone and do not combine them with other data. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in a secure, working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

The host processes this on our behalf under a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR).

No cookies, no analytics, no third parties

The site sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. It has no analytics, no tracking pixels, no embedded videos, maps or social buttons. The typeface is served from this domain, not from a font service. Viewing this site sends no request to anyone but our host.

If you enter your email address and press NOTIFY ME, we use it to send you news about KOENJI, including when it launches. Nothing else, and it is never sold or shared for anyone else's purposes.

Double opt-in. You receive one email asking you to confirm. Only after you confirm is your address on the list. If you don't confirm, you receive nothing further.
What is stored. Your email address, the language of the form, and the time and IP address of sign-up and confirmation — the latter only so we can prove you consented.
Provider. The list is run by Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, 106 boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, France), which processes the data on our behalf under a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR).
No open or click tracking. We have switched off the tracking of whether you open an email or click a link in it.
Leaving. Every email has an unsubscribe link, or write to us. Your address is then removed from the list; we keep only the record of your earlier consent, for as long as we may need to prove it.

Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time with effect for the future.

the app

What the app processes, and where it stays

Photographs and RAW negatives. Photos you capture are processed on your device and stored in two places you control: the app's private container (previews, RAW negatives, rendered images and the roll index) and your Apple Photos library, if you grant Photos access. Nothing is ever uploaded to us — there is no "us" to upload to.

Location (optional). If — and only if — you grant location access ("While Using"), KOENJI tags each frame with an approximate location (about 100 m) and asks Apple's geocoding service to turn the coordinates into a place name for the roll. This is the one moment coordinates leave your device, to Apple, under Apple's privacy policy. Decline or revoke the permission and the app simply doesn't tag; everything else works identically.

Purchases. Payments are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store; we never see your payment details. The app keeps a small local record of what you've unlocked, so purchases work offline. Purchase history and receipts live with Apple.

Settings. Your preferences (selected film, dial positions, one-time onboarding flags) are stored locally, in the app's own storage.

What the app does not do

No analytics or telemetry, first- or third-party.
No tracking, no advertising, no fingerprinting. The app's privacy manifest declares no tracking and an empty list of collected data.
No accounts, no sign-in, no cloud of ours.
No third-party SDKs of any kind.

Camera and Photos permissions

The camera permission exists to take pictures; no video or audio is recorded or transmitted. Photos access is used to save your pictures and, if you choose, to show them in the roll. Both are asked for only when needed and can be revoked in iOS Settings at any time.

Your data, your control

Delete a photo in KOENJI or in Apple Photos and it is gone from that store; deleting a frame in KOENJI also removes its local files.
Delete the app and iOS removes its entire private container — index, negatives, caches, settings.
Backups: your device backup (iCloud or local) may include the app's data, under Apple's backup terms and your settings.

Legal basis: processing happens on your device to provide the product you asked for (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR); optional location tagging rests on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), revocable in Settings.

your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection, and to withdraw consent at any time. For anything the app holds, everything is already on your device and under your direct control. For the newsletter, write to support@awayfrom.earth. You may also complain to a data protection supervisory authority, in particular the one where you live or, where we are based, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit).

children

KOENJI is not directed at children and processes no personal data of its own accord; the App Store age rating applies.

changes

If this policy changes, the updated version is published at this address with a new effective date.