Privacy
Darkrooms, the desktop program, and its licence server (this site). Last changed 4 November 2026.
Your pictures
Darkrooms develops your RAW files on your own computer. No picture, and no file name, is ever sent anywhere.
What we keep, and why
When you sign in with Google, Google tells us your e-mail address, your name and your Google account id
(we ask Google for nothing else: openid, email, profile). We keep, with your account:
- what you bought (for life, or the monthly plan and until when it is paid), and the id Stripe gives you as a customer;
- the computers you're signed in on, at most two: a name such as "Anna's MacBook (Mac)", when you signed in, and a one-way hash of the computer's own id, so the same computer gets its own place back;
- today's free roll: one-way hashes of the roll and of its frames' files, so a roll isn't counted twice. They can't be turned back into names, and only that day's are kept (the next day's replace them).
We use them only to sign you in, to give you what you bought on your computers, and to count the free roll. We don't sell them, show you ads, or share them with anyone except as below.
Who else is involved
- Google signs you in (Google's privacy policy).
- Stripe takes the payment: your card goes to Stripe, never to us (Stripe's privacy policy). When you first buy, we give Stripe your e-mail address and name for your customer record; Stripe tells us when a payment, a renewal, a cancellation or a refund happens.
- Cloudflare runs this server and stores the account data above (Cloudflare's privacy policy).
Darkrooms on your computer keeps your sign-in and your settings in its own folder there. Once a day it asks this server whether your account still has Darkrooms Full; it looks once at start-up for a newer version on GitHub, and downloads the film library from GitHub when you ask it to.
Your choices
- Sign out in Darkrooms to free that computer's place.
- To have your account deleted, or to see what we keep about you, write to a reply to your purchase receipt e-mail. We'll do it within 30 days. Payment records stay with Stripe as the law requires.