Privacy Policy

Last updated · 18 April 2026

Short version: iLidar is built to be private by default. We do not collect your scans, your photos, your location, or any personal data. Nothing you capture leaves your iPhone or iPad unless you choose to export or share it. There is no account, no server, and no tracking.

This page is linked from inside the app (Settings → About → Privacy Policy) and reflects the commitments declared in iLidar's PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy manifest filed with Apple.

Who we are

iLidar ("the app", "we") is developed by Marcio Rodrigues. Questions about this policy or your privacy can be sent to mail@mrodrigues.net.

Data we collect

None. iLidar does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data on any server. The app's privacy manifest (NSPrivacyCollectedDataTypes) lists no data types — meaning there is nothing being gathered from you to be sold, shared, or analysed.

In particular, iLidar does not collect any of the following:

Contact information (name, email, phone number, address)
User content (scans, photos, videos, meshes, point clouds, floor plans)
Identifiers (device ID, advertising ID, account ID)
Usage data, diagnostics, or crash reports
Browsing history, search history, or purchase history
Contacts, messages, or other sensitive information

Tracking

iLidar does not track you. NSPrivacyTracking is set to false in the app's privacy manifest, and NSPrivacyTrackingDomains is empty. The app contains no third-party analytics SDKs, no advertising SDKs, and no attribution frameworks. We do not present an App Tracking Transparency prompt because there is nothing to track.

What stays on your device

Everything. When you scan a room, the resulting 3D mesh, point cloud, floor plan, photos, and any optional annotations are written to your device's local storage (via Apple's SwiftData persistence framework) and never uploaded anywhere by us. The app has no cloud account system and no background network activity related to your content.

Permissions iLidar requests

iOS will ask you to grant the following permissions the first time the app needs them. You can change your answers anytime in Settings → Privacy & Security.

Camera & LiDAR sensor

Required. The app uses ARKit to read the camera feed and LiDAR depth data so it can reconstruct surfaces in real time. Frames are processed entirely on-device and are never uploaded, saved as video, or sent to a third party.

Location (optional)

Optional. If you enable geo-tagging, iLidar records your approximate coordinates alongside each scan so you can tell captures apart across multiple sites. The coordinates are stored with the scan in your local library and are never transmitted off-device by iLidar. You can disable location at any time.

Photo Library (add only)

Optional. When you explicitly tap Save to Photos for an exported scan, iLidar writes the file to your Photo Library. iLidar only has add access — it cannot read, enumerate, or delete any of your existing photos.

Required-reason APIs

In compliance with Apple's privacy rules, iLidar declares its use of the following required-reason APIs in PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy:

User Defaults (reason CA92.1) — to remember app settings you've chosen (e.g. preferred units, mesh tier, visualisation mode).
File Timestamp (reason C617.1) — to display the capture date of each scan in your library.
Disk Space (reason 85F4.1) — to warn you before saving a large scan when storage is low.

These APIs operate only on your own device and do not transmit anything.

When you choose to share or export

iLidar lets you export scans as USDZ, OBJ, PLY, LAS, DXF, PDF, PNG, SVG, CSV, or JSON, and share them via the iOS share sheet. When you do this, you are in full control of where the file goes — AirDrop, iMessage, Mail, Files, a cloud drive, or a third-party app of your choice. Once a file leaves iLidar via the share sheet, it is governed by the privacy policy of whichever app or service you sent it to.

Children's privacy

iLidar is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under 13. Since we collect no personal data from any user, we likewise collect none from children.

Your rights (GDPR, CCPA, UK GDPR)

Because iLidar does not collect personal data, there is nothing stored on our side that we could access, correct, or delete on your behalf. All of your scan data lives in your device's local iLidar storage and in your own iCloud backup (if you have iCloud Device Backup enabled in iOS Settings). You can delete any of it at any time by deleting the relevant item inside the app, or by deleting the app itself.

If you have questions about your rights, you can still contact us at mail@mrodrigues.net and we will respond within 30 days.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change what iLidar collects or how it uses data, we will update this page and update the Last updated date at the top. Material changes will also be reflected in an updated PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file in the next App Store release.

Contact

mail@mrodrigues.net