Privacy policy

Updated November 8, 2026

The short version: your family’s photos are yours. Stillbound keeps them safe, shows them only to your family, and never sells them.

Stillbound is made by Tipton Designs in Houston, Texas. This page explains what Stillbound keeps, why it keeps it, and what it never does.

What Stillbound keeps

• Your account. When you sign in with Apple or with your email, Stillbound keeps your name and email so your family can find you.
• What you scan. Pictures of album pages, loose photos and the backs of photos, the photos Stillbound cuts out and fixes up, and the words it reads from them. Also the album names, dates and places you add.
• Your family shelf. Who is on it, and who scanned what.

Where it lives and who sees it

Your scans are stored on Stillbound’s servers, run by Supabase. In Stillbound, only the people on your family shelf can see them. When someone is taken off the shelf, they lose access.

Reading the writing

To read handwriting, captions and dates, Stillbound sends pictures of pages and photos to Anthropic’s Claude AI service. It reads them and sends the words back. Under Anthropic’s commercial terms, this content is not used to train their AI models.

Google Drive, only if you connect it

If you choose to connect Google Drive, Stillbound asks Google for two things: permission to create and update the files Stillbound makes in your Drive, and your Google email address.

Stillbound uses them for one job: keeping a folder called Stillbound in your Drive with a copy of your family’s albums. Each album gets its own folder with its photos, its page pictures and a text file of the writing. When an album changes, the copy updates. When your family removes a photo, it comes out of the copy too.

To keep the copy up to date, Stillbound’s server stores an encrypted Google sign-in token, your Google email, and a list of the files it made.

• Stillbound never opens, changes or deletes anything else in your Drive.
• Stillbound never sells Google data, never uses it for ads, and never shares it with anyone else.
• Nobody reads it unless you ask us to help with a problem, or the law requires it.

Stillbound’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

You can stop anytime, in Stillbound or in your Google Account settings. When you stop in Stillbound, it deletes the token. The folder in your Drive stays yours.

What Stillbound never does

• Sell your information or your photos.
• Show you ads, or share your information with advertisers.
• Use your photos to train AI.

Services Stillbound uses

Supabase for accounts and storage, Anthropic for reading the writing, Apple for Sign in with Apple, and Google only if you connect Google Drive. They handle your information only to run Stillbound.

Deleting your information

Email us and we’ll delete your account and everything you scanned. Copies already in your own Google Drive stay there, and you can delete them yourself.

Children

Stillbound is made for adults and isn’t meant for children under 13.

Changes

If anything here changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.

Questions

Email Matt at matttipton83@gmail.com.