MINTED uses the photos you choose to create personal AI images. This policy explains what stays on your device, what is sent for processing, and how to delete it. Studio features described here apply to MINTED 3.2 and later.
Studio starts with seven original photos that you confirm are of you. With your permission, MINTED sends those photos through its Google Cloud/Firebase backend to Phota Labs to train a reusable likeness. This involves processing your appearance and facial features, which may be biometric information. Phota uses that likeness and OpenAI image generation to create the Studio photos you request.
Classic features may send the source photos, reference images, prompts, and settings you approve to OpenAI or Google Gemini through MINTED's backend. The consent shown in the app describes the processing for the feature you choose.
Your version creates a photo of you inspired by photos you choose, such as screenshots of posts you like. Before anything is uploaded, MINTED prepares each photo on your iPhone: it crops out app interface, splits a screenshot of a profile grid into separate photos, and blurs every face it finds. You can view each prepared photo before you create.
When you create, and after you agree in the app, MINTED sends the prepared photos through its Google Cloud/Firebase backend to Google Gemini, which writes a short description of each shot: the place, light, framing, pose, outfit, and look. The description does not identify the person in the photo. MINTED then sends only that description to Phota, which creates the photo with your trained likeness. The image model never receives the original photo or anyone else's face. Photos that appear to show nudity, a minor, violence, or hate, or that show no person, are not recreated, and their credit is returned.
The prepared photos are deleted from MINTED's storage when your shoot finishes. The written descriptions are kept with the shoot record, which expires after about a day. Google processes the photos under its API terms. Only choose photos you have the right to use this way.
You can choose photos manually without giving MINTED broad access to your photo library. If you choose Help me choose, iOS asks you to allow access to selected photos or your library. Apple Vision then finds faces in your selfies and recent photos on your device, compares them to work out which person is you, and checks face visibility, image quality, and duplicates. If it can't tell, it asks you to tap your face or choose one photo of yourself. These comparisons stay on your iPhone: they are kept only in memory while the search runs and are not uploaded or saved. Suggestions can be wrong, and MINTED may suggest fewer than seven photos when matches are uncertain. You review and can remove every suggestion before uploading the final seven photos.
You can limit or revoke library access in iOS Settings. Photos available only in iCloud may need to be selected manually. Revoking library access does not delete a likeness you have already trained.
We use this information to provide the service, recover purchases and shoots, return undelivered credits, prevent abuse, understand purchase and feature usage, improve reliability, and answer support requests. We do not sell your photos, prompts, or generated images or use them for advertising.
In MINTED 3.2, choose Settings & support → Delete MINTED account, or Delete MINTED account on the Photo credits screen before purchasing. This requests removal of your MINTED account, trained likeness, uploaded photos, and saved MINTED gallery. Deletion can take a few hours; accepted requests continue when the app is closed, and the app retains a receipt so you can check completion. MINTED waits for in-progress shoots and provider deletion before confirming completion. Copies exported to your iPhone or shared elsewhere are not removed.
Deleting your account removes unused purchased credits. It does not cancel an Apple subscription; manage or cancel that subscription in your Apple account. Required billing, subscription-usage, fraud-prevention and deletion records may be retained. Provider retention and backup practices are described in their policies; deletion does not necessarily remove all provider logs or backups immediately. For help with a request or data not covered by the in-app controls, contact outreach@onpointfresh.com.
Phota's published policy describes processing API-client data on the developer's behalf to provide the requested services. It also describes sharing with its image providers. Please review those policies alongside the permission shown in MINTED.
You can choose photos manually, change photo-library permission, decline face training, delete your trained likeness, delete saved gallery images, turn off notifications, and manage any existing Apple subscription in your Apple account settings. Contact us for access, correction, or deletion requests concerning data held by MINTED.
Studio face training is for adults aged 18 or older. Only upload photos of yourself for face training. Photos you choose for Your version may show other people; their faces are blurred on your iPhone and are never used to create an image.
We update the date above when this policy changes and provide additional notice where required. Privacy questions: outreach@onpointfresh.com.