Siyaya DigitalPrivacy Policy
CleanX is a photo and storage cleaner for iPhone and iPad, developed by IP Strategy UG (haftungsbeschränkt), trading as Siyaya Digital, Niederrheinstraße 46f, 41472 Neuss, Germany. This policy explains how CleanX handles your data. The short version: your photos are analysed on your device and never leave it.
CleanX does not collect any personal data. There is no account, no sign-up and no email address. We operate no servers for CleanX, so there is nowhere your data could be sent.
CleanX asks for access to your photo library so it can find similar shots, duplicates, blurry photos, screenshots, screen recordings and large videos. You can grant full access or limit CleanX to selected photos, and change this at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos.
All analysis — similarity, sharpness and size — runs entirely on your device using Apple’s built-in frameworks (PhotoKit and Vision). Photos, videos and their metadata are never uploaded, copied to a server or shared with anyone. CleanX only analyses photos that are already stored on your device; it does not download originals from iCloud Photos to scan them.
To avoid re-scanning your whole library every time, CleanX keeps a local cache of analysis results (for example sharpness scores, similarity groups and file sizes) in the app’s private storage on your device. Your settings (such as detection sensitivity) are stored locally as well. CleanX can continue a scan in the background using iOS background tasks; this also happens entirely on your device.
To enforce the free limit of 20 deletions, CleanX stores a single number — how many items you have deleted — in the iOS Keychain on your device. It is device-only, is not synced via iCloud and contains no personal information.
CleanX never deletes anything without your confirmation. When you confirm, iOS asks you once more and moves the selected items to the “Recently Deleted” album of the Photos app, where they stay for 30 days before iOS removes them permanently. You can restore them from there at any time within that period. Favourites, hidden and shared photos are never pre-selected for deletion.
CleanX can be unlocked with a one-off in-app purchase handled by Apple through StoreKit. Apple processes the payment under Apple’s Privacy Policy. We receive no personal details, payment information or Apple ID. Your purchase status is checked on your device. If you use Family Sharing, Apple shares the purchase with your family group.
After a clean-up you can share a card showing how much space you freed. The card is created on your device and contains only that figure — no photos. It is shared only if you choose to, through the iOS share sheet, with the app or person you pick.
CleanX contains no analytics, no crash-reporting services, no advertising, no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting and no third-party SDKs of any kind. The app’s privacy manifest declares that no data is collected and no tracking takes place.
We do not sell, rent, trade or share any user data with any third party, because we do not collect any.
Deleting CleanX from your device removes its analysis cache and settings. As is standard on iOS, the Keychain entry holding the deletion count may remain on your device after uninstalling; it contains only a number and never leaves your device. Photos you deleted with CleanX can be recovered from “Recently Deleted” in the Photos app for 30 days.
CleanX is not directed at children under 13. It collects no data from anyone, including children.
As a German company, we comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because CleanX processes your photos only on your device and we receive no personal data, we hold no data about you from the app. You still have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection (Art. 15–21 GDPR), and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority — in North Rhine-Westphalia the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit NRW. See also our general privacy policy.
We may update this privacy policy if CleanX changes. Any changes will be published on this page with an updated date.
IP Strategy UG (Siyaya Digital)
Niederrheinstraße 46f
41472 Neuss, Germany
Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Neuss HRB 23546