Card Vault

Privacy Policy

Last updated 11 September 2026

Card Vault keeps the greeting cards people send you. It collects nothing about you. There is no server behind the app, no account to create, and no analytics of any kind.

What the app handles, and where it lives

When you add a card, the app stores the photos of it, a thumbnail of each one, the occasion, the date, the sender's name, any notes you type, and the text that was recognised in the images. All of it is written to the app's own database on your iPhone.

If you are signed in to iCloud, that database also syncs to the private database of your personal iCloud account, so your cards appear on your other devices. That copy sits in your Apple account under Apple's terms. The developer of Card Vault has no access to it and cannot read your cards.

Text recognition runs entirely on your iPhone, using Apple's Vision framework. Your cards are never uploaded anywhere for processing.

What is not collected

• No analytics, crash reporting, advertising or tracking of any kind.
• No account, sign-up, email address or profile.
• No third-party SDKs. The app uses only Apple's own frameworks.
• Nothing is sent to the developer, and nothing is sold or shared.

Permissions the app asks for

• Camera. To scan a card with Apple's document scanner. The images go straight into your card library.
• Photos. Only if you choose to import a card photo you already took. The app uses Apple's photo picker, so it receives just the images you select and never browses your library.
• Face ID. To lock the app, so your cards are not visible to anyone who picks up your phone. Authentication is handled by iOS, and the app is only told whether it succeeded. Your device passcode works as the fallback. You can turn the lock off in the app's settings.
• Notifications. For anniversary reminders. These are scheduled on your device by iOS and delivered by your device, and they mention the sender and occasion of the card. You can turn them off in the app's settings or in iOS Settings.

Deleting a card, and deleting the app

A card you delete goes to Recently Deleted for 30 days, where you can restore it, and is then removed permanently. You can also delete it permanently straight away.

Deleting Card Vault removes the copy of your cards on that iPhone. If you were syncing with iCloud, the copy in your iCloud account stays there until you remove it, which you can do under Settings, then your name, then iCloud, then Manage Account Storage.

Sharing a card yourself

Exporting a card as a PDF or as images hands the files to the iOS share sheet, and where they go from there is up to you. The app writes those files to a temporary folder and deletes them once the share sheet closes, or at the next launch if something interrupted it.

Children

Card Vault is rated 4+ and is suitable for all ages. It collects no personal information from anyone, children included, and has no ads, no in-app purchases and no links out to other services.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever handles data differently, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will change.