Privacy
Last updated 2026-07-27.
ThenCam lets you take photos anchored to a place, come back later, and recreate the shot. This page explains what data we store and why.
What we store
- Account: your email address and a hashed password (or a one-time sign-in token). Used to sign you in and to link your captures to your account.
- Captures: the photo bytes, a thumbnail, capture time, GPS coordinates and camera pose, and the project you added them to. Stored so you can access your photos on any device and align new captures to old ones.
- Billing: if you upgrade, Stripe stores your payment details. ThenCam only sees a customer id and subscription status.
- Analytics: anonymous product events (photo captured, uploaded, signed in) via TelemetryDeck. No IP addresses, no device identifiers.
Who can see your photos
Your photos are private by default. Anyone you invite to a project can see the photos in that project — no one else. Row-level security on the database enforces this on every read.
Where the data lives
On a server in Europe (Hetzner), inside a self-hosted Postgres and object store. Backups run nightly and are encrypted at rest.
Deleting your account
From Account, choose Delete account. Your photos, projects, and account row are permanently removed within a minute. Backups roll off within 30 days.
Contact
Questions or requests (access, export, deletion): privacy@thencam.com.