The short version: FirstPass collects nothing, and makes no network connections at all. Not for analytics, not for updates, not for licence checks. It works with the Wi-Fi turned off, and it works the same way whether it is connected or not.

What we do not collect

FirstPass does not collect, transmit, store or share any information about you or your work. There is no account, no sign-in, and no way to create one.

• No personal identifiers of any kind

• No device identifiers

• No usage data, analytics, telemetry or crash reporting

• No photographs, thumbnails, previews or anything derived from them

• No file names, folder paths, camera serial numbers or card contents

• No payment information — purchases go through Apple, and we never see them

FirstPass contains no advertising, no third-party SDKs, and no tracking framework. It will never ask permission to track you, because there is nothing to track with.

Your photographs

FirstPass copies files from your cards and cameras to folders you choose on your own disks. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Your images are never used to train anything, never inspected by us, and never leave your Mac unless you move them yourself.

Ratings and colour flags are written as XMP alongside your files, so other applications can read them. Transfer reports — CSV manifests, PDF summaries and ASC MHL sidecars — are written to the folder you nominate and to nowhere else.

Permissions FirstPass asks for

macOS will ask your permission before FirstPass can read removable volumes or folders such as Pictures, Downloads or Desktop. That permission lets FirstPass read the files you point it at. It grants us nothing: we have no way to see what you granted, or what was in it.

The App Store

FirstPass is sold through the Mac App Store, and Apple handles the purchase. We receive only the aggregate sales reports every developer gets, which say how many copies sold in which country and nothing about who bought them. FirstPass itself performs no licence check and contacts no server of ours, because there is no server of ours.

Your rights

Regulations such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal data a company holds about you. We hold none. There is nothing to access, export, correct or delete, and we are glad to confirm that in writing if you need it for your records.

Changes

Any change to this policy will be posted here with a new effective date. Because FirstPass collects nothing, no change will ever introduce data collection without a separate and prominent notice in the application itself.

Contact

Questions about this policy: privacy@lightoncanvas.com. Help with the app: FirstPass support.