Privacy Policy

Effective November 13, 2026

Point and Rate ("the app") is made by GrainHour. The short version: the app has no accounts and no servers of its own. Your photos, titles and scores stay on your iPhone. The only things that leave it are the searches you choose to open, and what Google's ad service collects to show ads.

Camera and photos

The camera is used only while the app is open. When you take a shot, the photo is cropped to what you see in the viewfinder and the text in it is recognized on your iPhone (Apple's Vision framework). Photos are not uploaded anywhere. If you choose a picture from your photo library or save a shared picture, that happens through Apple's system screens and only for the picture you pick.

What is stored on your iPhone

My List keeps the titles you looked up, a small crop of the photo around each title, the scores you record, and the photos you took with their title boxes. This stays in the app's storage on your iPhone. Items without a recorded score are deleted automatically after 7 days; deleting the app deletes everything. We cannot see any of it.

Searches

When you tap a title (or type one), the app opens a Google search for that title inside the app. Google receives that search like any web search from your phone, under Google's Privacy Policy. Pages you open from there are run by their own sites. The app does not read those pages or run anything on them.

The app is free and shows a full-screen ad from time to time, served by Google AdMob. To show and measure ads, Google may collect information such as your IP address (used for approximate location), device and app information, ad interactions, and diagnostic data, as described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. The app does not ask to track you across other companies' apps and websites, so it does not give Google your device's advertising identifier. Where required (for example in the EEA, the UK and some US states), the app asks for your consent choices through Google's consent tool; you can change them anytime from Ad privacy settings at the bottom of My List.

What we don't do

No accounts, sign-in, or contact details collected.
No analytics of our own; no selling or sharing of personal information by us.
No access to your contacts, location, or microphone.

Children

The app is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Your choices and rights

You can delete any item in My List, or delete the app to remove everything. For ad-related choices use Ad privacy settings in the app, or your iPhone's settings. California and other residents may contact us about their privacy rights at the address below.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date above. Questions: support@pointandrate.com.