Privacy policy
Last updated 21 August 2026
Nunya does not collect or transmit your data off your device. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no server of ours for anything to be sent to. Some features process information locally on your iPhone, as explained below.
Who we are
Nunya is made by Lavender Tech Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 10622785, registered office 50 Micklegate, Selby, England, YO8 4EQ. You can reach us at [email protected].
What stays on your device
The messages you write, the artwork Nunya draws from them, and your settings are held on your device and nowhere else. The Nunya app and its Messages extension share a group container on that same device so both behave the same way. Nothing is synced to another device, to iCloud, or to us. When you share a message, iOS may write a temporary image file locally so the receiving app can pick it up.
Deleting the app removes all of it.
TrueDepth and face data
Nunya offers an optional automatic setup that uses the front camera and Apple's ARKit face tracking. Manual setup is always available and provides the same app functionality.
While automatic setup is open, ARKit processes the live camera and TrueDepth input on the device and displays a live preview. Nunya reads only the position of one ARKit face anchor relative to the camera, which it uses to calculate a temporary estimate of the distance between your face and the screen. Nunya does not identify or recognise you and does not read or use facial geometry or topology, expressions, blend shapes, depth maps, or other biometric characteristics. It does not capture or save photographs, video, or camera frames.
Temporary face-position and numerical distance samples are held only in memory during the setup flow and are discarded when setup finishes or is abandoned. The measured distance is converted to a Close, Medium or Far privacy setting. Only that setting is saved locally on your device. It is an ordinary app preference, not face data, and cannot identify you.
No camera image, video, TrueDepth data, face data, facial position, or measured distance is sent off your device, stored on our servers, shared with third parties, or used for authentication, identification, profiling, analytics, advertising, marketing or data mining. Lavender Tech Limited does not receive or retain any of this information.
You can skip automatic setup, use manual setup, deny or revoke camera access in iOS Settings, or change the saved privacy setting at any time. Deleting Nunya removes the saved setting. Because Lavender Tech Limited receives and retains no face data, there is no face data held by us for you to request deletion of.
Messages you send
Nunya creates a message and hands it to whichever app you choose. Where it goes after that is up to you and to that app: an iMessage travels through Apple's Messages service, and a message shared to another app is handled by that app under its own privacy policy. Nunya is not in the middle of any of it.
A Nunya message sent through iMessage carries the information needed to redraw it on the recipient's device, so that someone who also has Nunya can read it at their own preferred distance. That travels with the message through Apple, not through us. For technical reasons the message also carries a link to marckerstein.com as a fallback destination for platforms that cannot display it. The app never requests that address, and no message content reaches that website's server.
Third parties
The released app contains no analytics, advertising, crash reporting or other third-party software development kits of any kind.
Your rights
Because Nunya sends us no personal data, we hold nothing about you to access, correct, export or delete. If you have a question about that, write to the address above and we will answer.
Children
Nunya does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.
What Nunya is not
Nunya is a visual privacy aid, not encryption, secure storage or access control. It makes a message harder to read at a glance from a distance. Someone close enough can still read it, and so can anyone you send it to. Please do not use it as a substitute for encrypted messaging, device security, or ordinary care with sensitive information.
Changes
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date at the top.