PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: October 23, 2026
Phantom Force, LP ("Phantom Force", "we", "us") makes the Hyperspektiv app (the "App") and runs the website www.hyperspektiv.com (the "Site"). This policy explains what information the App and the Site collect, what we do with it, and the choices you have. It does not cover other companies' websites or apps that we link to; their own policies apply there.
The short version: Hyperspektiv has no accounts, never uploads your photos or videos, never asks to track you across other apps and websites, and never uses the advertising identifier. The App sends us a small, fixed set of usage events and crash reports so we can improve it, and tells Meta that it was installed so we can measure our advertising. Everything is listed below.
1. What stays on your device
Your camera, microphone and photos. Hyperspektiv processes the camera and microphone feed on your device to show and record filtered photos and video. What you capture is saved to your own photo library (in a Hyperspektiv album) and to nothing else. Photos and videos you import are processed on the device and the originals are never changed. The App never uploads, copies or analyses your photos, videos or audio off the device.
Person and background masks. Some filters apply differently to a person and to the background. To find the person, the App uses Apple's Vision framework on your device. It produces a rough outline of the person in the frame, uses it for the current frame, and discards it. No face data, no identity, no measurements of your body are created, stored or sent anywhere. The App no longer uses ARKit or the TrueDepth camera for this.
Your own filters. Filters you save and edit are stored on your device. If you use iCloud, the App also keeps a copy in your iCloud account through Apple's key-value storage so your filters follow you to your other devices. That copy is yours, held by Apple under Apple's privacy terms; we cannot read it.
Permissions. The App asks for camera, microphone and photo-library access only when the related feature needs it, and you can change each one at any time in iOS Settings.
2. What we collect, and why
Usage events. The App collects a small, fixed set of usage events so we can see which filters people use, how often they capture and share, where people meet the store screen, and which purchases complete. Each event carries only a few named details: for example the name of a built-in filter, whether a photo or video was captured, how long a recording was, whether HD was on, or which screen opened the store. We never collect your photos, videos, or anything you type, including the names you give your own filters.
No accounts, no identity. Hyperspektiv has no accounts. Usage events are tied to a random identifier created on your device when the App is installed. We do not collect your name, email address, contacts, precise or coarse location, or the advertising identifier (IDFA), and we do not ask permission to track you across other apps and websites.
Crash reports. If Hyperspektiv crashes or is stopped by the system, a crash report is sent to us: the state of the App's code at that moment, the device model, iOS version, App version, memory and battery state, and the App's own recent event names. Crash reports never include your photos, videos or anything you typed.
Purchases. Purchases and subscriptions are handled by Apple. We record that a purchase or restore completed and which product it was. We never see your payment details.
Remote settings. When the App is open it periodically downloads a small settings file from our server, so we can adjust things like which store screen is shown without releasing an update. Downloading it sends only what any web request contains (your IP address and the standard device description), which we do not store.
Email you send us, and the newsletter. If you email us, or sign up for news or a beta test on the Site, we keep your email address and what you wrote so we can reply and send you what you asked for. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter with the link in any issue.
3. Who processes it for us
We use three service providers. Each receives only what is described here and may not use it for their own purposes beyond providing the service to us, except as their own policies state.
- Mixpanel, Inc. processes the usage events (mixpanel.com/legal/privacy-policy). With each event Mixpanel also records the device model, iOS version, App version and build, screen size, mobile carrier and connection type, and the time. We have switched off Mixpanel's location lookup from IP address.
- Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.) receives the crash reports (sentry.io/privacy).
- Meta Platforms, Inc. We advertise Hyperspektiv on Facebook and Instagram. To measure whether those ads work, the Meta software in the App tells Meta that the App was installed and opened, together with the device model, iOS version, App version, language and time zone. We do not share the advertising identifier with Meta, we do not ask permission to track you, and we do not send Meta what you do inside the App. Conversions are measured through Apple's SKAdNetwork and Meta's Aggregated Event Measurement, which report in aggregate. Meta's use of this data is described at facebook.com/privacy/policy.
Apple processes purchases, subscriptions and iCloud storage under Apple's own terms (apple.com/legal/privacy).
Earlier versions of the App. Hyperspektiv 2.7 and earlier, which some people still have installed, were built with other analytics and advertising software (including the advertising identifier) as described in our previous policy. None of it is in the App from version 3.0 onward. If you are on an earlier version, updating the App removes it.
We do not sell your information, and we do not share it with anyone for their own marketing.
4. The Site
The Site is hosted by a standard web host, which keeps ordinary server logs (IP address, browser, pages visited) and may set cookies for its own analytics. The newsletter form stores the email address you enter. The Site does not use pixel tags or container tags of ours.
5. Where your information goes
We are in the United States, and our service providers process information there and in other countries where they operate. Those places may have different privacy laws from yours. By using the App or the Site you consent to that transfer. If Phantom Force is sold or merged, the information we hold may pass to the new owner under this policy.
6. How long we keep it
Usage events and crash reports are kept for as long as we need them to understand and improve the App, after which they are deleted or reduced to aggregates. Email you send us is kept while we are dealing with it and for as long as the law requires. Because the App has no accounts, we cannot connect usage events or crash reports to you by name; if you ask us to delete the data tied to your device, we will need the device's random identifier, which the App can show you on request.
7. Security
We take reasonable measures to protect the information we hold, and our service providers do the same, but no system is perfectly secure and we cannot guarantee the security of information in transit or at rest.
8. Children
The App and the Site are not directed at children under 13 (or the age your country sets). We do not knowingly collect information from them. If we learn that we have, we will delete it.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live you may have the right to know what information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict how we use it, and to complain to a privacy regulator. We do not sell personal information, so there is nothing to opt out of in that sense. To exercise any right, write to us at the address below; we will respond within the time your law allows. For usage events and crash reports we will need your device's random identifier, since nothing else connects them to you.
10. Do Not Track
Browsers can send a "Do Not Track" signal. There is still no agreed standard for responding to it, so the Site does not change its behaviour when it receives one.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. We will post the new version on www.hyperspektiv.com with a new "last updated" date, and the App will link to it. If a change means we collect something new, the App will not collect it until the updated policy is published.
12. How to reach us
Phantom Force, LP
6310 S. San Vicente Blvd., #501
Los Angeles, CA 90048
us@hyperspektiv.com