# Privacy Policy for Adios for Flickr

> What data Adios for Flickr processes: license, purchase, reviews, usage statistics, updates and the map.

This page as HTML: https://mikelieser.dev/apps/adios-flickr/privacy

This is a translation for your convenience. The [German version](https://mikelieser.dev/de/apps/adios-flickr/privacy) is legally binding.

This policy covers the app Adios for Flickr and the pages that exist on this website because of it. The controller, your rights, and the hosting, server log files and audience measurement of this website are described in the [general privacy policy](https://mikelieser.dev/privacy). Send questions and objections to [hello@mikelieser.dev](mailto:hello@mikelieser.dev).

Adios for Flickr works locally on your computer. Your photos, videos, Flickr export data and Flickr login are never transferred to us or to third parties. What the app does send, and to whom, is described below.

## License and purchase

### Purchase through Lemon Squeezy

License keys for Adios for Flickr are sold by Lemon Squeezy, LLC (a Stripe company, USA) as merchant of record. When you click the purchase link, you are taken to the Lemon Squeezy checkout. From that point on, only Lemon Squeezy's privacy policy applies, available at [lemonsqueezy.com/privacy](https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/privacy). We only receive from Lemon Squeezy the information needed to process the purchase.

When you activate it and at every start, the app checks the license key through Lemon Squeezy's license interface. The license key and the name of your computer are transferred, so that an activation can be assigned to a device. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

### Affiliate attribution

On the Adios for Flickr pages we load Lemon Squeezy's affiliate script. If you open such a page through an affiliate link with an identifier in the address, Lemon Squeezy uses an anonymous identifier to attribute a later purchase to that affiliate. The attribution lasts for the period set in the affiliate programme, currently 60 days. The script is not loaded on the other pages of this website. More information is available in [Lemon Squeezy's privacy policy](https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/privacy).

### Older licenses: Gumroad

Until August 2026, license keys were sold through Gumroad, Inc., 548 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA. These keys remain valid and are still checked at app start through Gumroad's license API; only the license key is transferred. Gumroad's privacy policy is available at [gumroad.com/privacy](https://gumroad.com/privacy).

## Usage statistics and error reports

From version 3.0, Adios for Flickr reports individual events to this website, so that we can see which features are used, where the app fails and how many trial runs lead to a purchase. The app does not ask for consent for this but reports pseudonymously: instead of your name, every report carries a random installation number that the app creates once on your computer. Reported are: the app starting, a Flickr export fully downloaded and unpacked, the start of an update (getting the latest from Flickr), the start of a trial run, an archive created or updated, a web version created or updated, the activation of a license, and unexpected errors.

Every report contains the type of event, the installation number, the app version, the operating system, the language setting and whether the app runs with a license. For an export, the number of files, its size and the number of albums are added. For an archive, whether it was built with archive pages or only as album folders, whether it was a trial run, whether it was a first run, an update or a rebuild of the pages, and the number of albums and photos; for a web version, the number of albums and photos and whether it was newly created or rebuilt over an existing one. On activation, the app sends a checksum of your license key (not the key itself, see the reviews below) and the sales channel (Lemon Squeezy or Gumroad). Only this makes it possible to assign the installation number to a purchase. For an unexpected error, the app reports the step in which it occurred (such as download, analysis or album build), an error code, the operating system version, the processor architecture, and an error text and the call chain of the program locations where the error arose (only function and file names of the app). The app anonymises both beforehand: it removes paths, names and links, and our server replaces anything that still looks like a path, an email address or a link.

Not transferred are your photos, album or photo titles, file and folder paths, your Flickr ID, your license key and your email address. We do not store your IP address or your program's identifier (user agent) with these reports, not even as a hash.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in developing the app based on how it is actually used and in finding and fixing errors. The reports are stored in a database of Turso Inc. within the European Union (data centre in Ireland), with which a data processing agreement is in place. After 13 months we combine the usage reports into monthly totals without installation number and checksum and delete the individual reports. Error reports are deleted after six months. You can object to this processing at any time; an email to [hello@mikelieser.dev](mailto:hello@mikelieser.dev) is enough. If possible, include your license key so that we can find and delete the related reports.

## Update and price check

At every start, the app asks `assets.mikelieser.dev` whether a new version is available and which price currently applies. Behind it is Cloudflare R2, a service of Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (data processing and transfer to the USA as described in the general privacy policy under "Downloads and demo video"). Only the technically necessary connection data is transferred, in particular your IP address; this request contains no data about your archive or your license. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in offering you fixes and new versions and showing the current price.

## Names of commenters

If you want, the archive shows who commented on your photos on Flickr. Flickr's export only contains member IDs for this; the app asks Flickr (SmugMug, Inc., USA) for the matching display names through publicly accessible pages. The member IDs and your IP address are transferred to Flickr in the process. The app stores the names only locally in your archive; they are not sent to us. You can switch this step off in the app. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; the legitimate interest lies in a complete archive of your comments.

## Map tiles

The finished archive contains a map page. If you open the archive by double-clicking it from your disk, this page loads its map tiles through our own cache at `tiles.mikelieser.dev`. Behind it is a Cloudflare Worker of Cloudflare, Inc. (address, data processing and transfer to the USA as above). Your IP address and the requested tile (zoom level and map section) are transferred. The service does not store or log IP addresses; to limit abusive requests, Cloudflare holds them briefly in memory.

The tiles come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). The detour through our cache is a technical necessity, not our wish: a page opened from the disk sends no origin information, and OpenStreetMap answers such requests only with a notice image instead of the map. The cache adds the origin information and passes the tiles through; we have no interest of our own in your data, and OpenStreetMap does not learn your IP address this way. Tiles are only loaded when you open the map page. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in displaying the map.

The web version is different: if you publish a web version of your archive with Adios on your own web server, its map page loads the tiles directly from OpenStreetMap, not through our cache. Visitors' IP addresses then go to OpenStreetMap, not to us. You yourself are responsible for that website; it does not run on our servers.

## Reviews

### Reviews from the app

After a completed export, Adios for Flickr offers you to leave a review. This is voluntary; nothing is transferred unless you actively send it. Only the information that the form in the app lists is sent: your star rating, your text, the name you give (a pseudonym is fine), your decision on publication, the number of albums and photos of this run, the app version, the language setting and – from version 3.0 – a checksum of your license key (not the key itself). The checksum serves to assign a review to a purchase and not to ask buyers who have already reviewed again. We keep one review per purchase: if you send again, the new version replaces the previous one. Through the same checksum we add the operating system (macOS, Windows or Linux) to a review and – where missing – the app version and the number of albums and photos from the usage data of your purchase described above; this mainly concerns reviews through the reminder email, which do not carry this information.

Not transferred are file and folder paths, album or photo names, your Flickr ID, your license key and your email address.

The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, which you give by sending and can withdraw at any time for the future. To prevent automated abuse, your IP address is not stored; it is only kept as a non-reversible hash for at most one hour (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), after which the entry is deleted.

Reviews are stored with Turso Inc. in a database within the European Union (data centre in Ireland). We are notified of new reviews by email; we use Brevo (Sendinblue GmbH) for sending. Data processing agreements are in place with both providers.

A review is only published on this website if you chose the publication option when sending – it is preselected and can be deselected before sending – and we have also approved it. In that case your star rating, your text, the name you gave and the number of albums and photos are published. The checksum of the license key is never published. You can object to publication at any time without giving reasons and ask for your review to be deleted; an email to [hello@mikelieser.dev](mailto:hello@mikelieser.dev) is enough.

### Reviews on this website

Adios for Flickr places a file in the finished archive that links to a review form on this website. The link contains information about your archive: the app version, the language, the number of albums, photos and videos, the period in years and the checksum of your license key. This information sits in the part of the address after the "#" and is not transferred to the server when the page is opened. Only when you send the form do we receive your star rating, your text, the name you give (optional, a pseudonym is fine), your decision on publication, the information about your archive mentioned above and the fact that the review came through this file. We do not receive your license key or email address here either.

For legal basis, rate limit, storage, notification and publication, what is said above about reviews from the app applies.

### Review reminder by email

If you agreed to receive emails from us when buying through Lemon Squeezy, we ask you by email for a review seven days after the purchase and, if none has arrived by then, a second and last time after fourteen days. For this, we retrieve once a day through Lemon Squeezy's interface your order, your name, your email address, your country (for the language of the email), the status of your consent and your license key. From the license key we form the checksum described above to see whether you have already reviewed. Name, email address and license key are not stored, only used for sending. Stored are the order number, which of the two emails was sent, the checksum and a log of the daily runs with order number and result, which is deleted after 90 days.

The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You can withdraw it at any time through the link at the end of every email; we then store your customer number at Lemon Squeezy so that you receive no further reminder. The emails are sent through Brevo (Sendinblue GmbH), with which a data processing agreement is in place.


## Other languages

- [Deutsch](https://mikelieser.dev/de/apps/adios-flickr/privacy.md)