Privacy, written plainly.

Lightning Deals LLC is an independent software studio. In this policy, "Lightning Deals," "we," "us," and "our" refer to Lightning Deals LLC. "Services" means our apps, websites, support channels, and related services, including StoneSnap.

You can contact us at [email protected].

This policy applies to StoneSnap, lightningdealsllc.com, our support communications, and future Lightning Deals mobile apps that link to this policy. Some products may include additional privacy notices if their data practices materially differ.

We may collect information you choose to provide, including support emails, screenshots, bug reports, product feedback, photos submitted for identification, collection notes, and any other content you enter into the Services.

If you contact support, we may receive your email address, message content, attachments, device details you provide, purchase context you provide, and follow-up communications.

StoneSnap uses camera and photo library access only when you grant permission and choose to capture or import an image. Photos may be processed to provide rock, mineral, or gemstone identification, confidence scoring, descriptive details, and related app functionality.

Photos submitted for identification may be sent to our backend services and AI providers for analysis. We use submitted photos to provide the requested result, maintain service reliability, investigate abuse or errors, and improve product quality where permitted by law and platform rules.

StoneSnap may generate and store identification results, saved collection entries, notes, favorites, timestamps, app settings, and related metadata. Some information may be stored on your device. Some information may be synced or processed through Apple services or our backend depending on enabled app features.

We may collect device and technical information such as device model, operating system version, app version, crash logs, performance events, diagnostics, approximate region, language, install source, session events, and feature usage. We use this information to operate, debug, secure, and improve the Services.

In-app purchases, trials, and subscriptions are processed by Apple through the App Store. We do not receive your full payment card number from Apple. We may receive subscription status, entitlement status, product identifiers, transaction identifiers, storefront or region, renewal state, and related purchase metadata needed to unlock paid features, prevent fraud, provide support, and understand business performance.

We may use analytics and attribution tools to understand how users discover and use our apps, measure ad performance, improve onboarding and paywalls, and diagnose product issues. These tools may include AppsFlyer, PostHog, Meta, Google, TikTok, Superwall, Apple services, and similar providers.

Depending on your device settings, consent choices, and platform rules, these providers may process identifiers, install events, app open events, trial or subscription events, attribution data, campaign information, device information, and coarse location or region information. We do not sell personal information.

Where required by Apple, we request permission before tracking across apps and websites owned by other companies. You can change tracking choices in iOS Settings. Some measurement may still occur using privacy-preserving or aggregated methods allowed by platform rules.

We use information to provide app functionality, generate identification results, manage subscriptions, maintain accounts or entitlements, respond to support requests, improve app quality, detect bugs, prevent abuse, analyze marketing performance, comply with legal obligations, and protect the rights and safety of users, Lightning Deals, and others.

We may share information with service providers that help us operate the Services, including hosting providers, AI providers, analytics providers, attribution partners, payment and subscription infrastructure, customer support tools, email providers, crash reporting tools, and security vendors.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect rights or safety, to prevent fraud or abuse, or as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets involving Lightning Deals LLC.

Some features may rely on third-party AI providers to analyze submitted images or text and return results. Information sent to AI providers is used to provide the requested feature and may be handled according to our agreements with those providers and their applicable policies.

We keep information for as long as reasonably needed to provide the Services, maintain business records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent abuse, and improve reliability. Retention periods vary depending on the type of information, feature, legal requirement, and operational need.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. No internet or electronic storage system is perfectly secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

You can deny or revoke camera, photo library, notification, and tracking permissions in iOS Settings. You can manage or cancel App Store subscriptions through your Apple account. You can visit our Privacy Choices page at lightningdealsllc.com/privacy-choices or contact us to request access, correction, deletion, or export of information we control.

We may need to verify your request before acting on it. Some information may be retained where required for legal, security, fraud-prevention, tax, accounting, or legitimate operational reasons.

We are based in the United States. If you use the Services from outside the United States, information may be processed in the United States or other countries where we or our service providers operate.

The Services are not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, or opt out of certain processing of personal information. To exercise rights available to you, contact us at [email protected].

We may update this policy as our products, vendors, or legal requirements change. The effective date above will show when the policy was last updated. Continued use of the Services after an update means the updated policy applies.

Questions, privacy requests, and support requests can be sent to [email protected].