Studio privacy.

Effective 13 October 2026 · Studio 2.0 and forthcoming modes

This policy explains how the Modern Condition Art Studio app for iPhone, iPad and Mac handles information. The app is published by Modern Condition Art, operated by Auto Culture Society. Questions or privacy requests can be sent to contact@modernconditionart.com.

The short version: poster editing and file export happen on your device. We do not run advertising or analytics in the app, we do not track you, and the editing modes do not automatically upload artwork to Modern Condition Art. Artist application emails you choose to send are described below.

Image styling in Studio 2.0

Release status: Studio 2.0 is publicly available with image styling and poster editing. The next update adds Digitise Physical Art and Artist Submission; those new modes are in testing.

Make Art processes your imported image and ten MCA looks on your device. The app keeps its local source copy, framing choices, look stack and named recipes in its app storage. Finished JPEG files are written to Documents → Art Studio, which you can access in Files or Finder. The imported image is not uploaded to our servers by the styling feature.

The ten included Make Art outputs use a local output record separate from Make Posters. Apple handles the optional Unlimited Art Studio Outputs purchase and restoration through StoreKit. We do not receive your source image or finished file through this local styling feature, your local output count, or your full payment details. Sharing a file with a destination you choose uses that destination's privacy practices.

Artist submissions in the next update

Artist Submission is being tested and is not in the current public download. When available, it will let you enter your name, contact email and biography, then choose up to eight artwork images for consideration. The app keeps a local draft and local copies of the selected images so you can review or edit your application. Your original files remain where you selected them. You can remove images or discard the local draft in the app. Closing the email composer does not remove the draft.

The app does not upload or send a draft in the background. When you choose to compose an application email, the Mail composer prepares your message and selected images for artist@modernconditionart.com. If Mail is unavailable, a sharing option opens and you must address the message yourself. You can edit or cancel before pressing Send in your chosen mail app. If you send the application, Modern Condition Art receives your email address, name, biography, message and artwork attachments through its email service. Your chosen mail provider and our email service process delivery and storage under their own terms.

We use submitted information to consider and respond to your application. An email alone does not publish, sell or license the art. Any customer pricing, artist payments and other commercial terms would be discussed individually and require a separate written agreement before a listing. We do not use application details for targeted advertising or sell your contact information. We keep received correspondence while reasonably needed for review, related communication or legal requirements, then delete or anonymise it. For access, correction or deletion, contact artist@modernconditionart.com or contact@modernconditionart.com. Discarding the local draft does not delete an email already sent.

Local image editing and device permissions

Make Art, Make Posters and the forthcoming Digitise Physical Art mode process source images on your device. These editing modes do not automatically send source or finished files to Modern Condition Art. Digitise opens the iPhone or iPad camera only when you tap Camera and grant permission. Photos and Files pickers give the app the items you choose. Finished files go to your chosen destination. If you deliberately send an image through Artist Submission or a Share destination, that recipient and service receive it.

Information kept on your device

The app stores the information needed to run the studio locally, including poster and output preferences, complete copies of fonts you import, the export-allowance journal, Apple-verified purchase entitlement and—in the Mac app—a security-scoped bookmark for the output folder you choose.

Restore Studio settings returns design and output preferences to their defaults. It deliberately preserves imported fonts, exported artwork, the selected output-folder permission, purchase state and the export allowance. The reset screen explains this before you confirm it.

Your source images, phrases, custom fonts and generated posters are processed locally. Finished files are written only to the folder, Photos library or sharing destination you choose.

Information we receive

The local editing modes do not send us source artwork, poster text, imported fonts, generated files, selected output-folder paths or free-export counts. Artist application details and artwork you choose to email us are the exception described above. The app has no account system and does not send us analytics, advertising identifiers or behavioural profiles.

When you contact support

If you email us, Auto Culture Society receives your email address, message and anything you choose to attach. Support may ask for your device model, operating-system and app versions, the exact error and the steps that produced it. Please do not send private source artwork unless it is necessary and you choose to share it.

We use support correspondence to answer your request, troubleshoot the app, protect the service and meet legal obligations. Our basis is providing support you request and our legitimate interest in operating a reliable app. Email providers process the message to deliver and store it. We keep correspondence only while it is reasonably needed for those purposes or a legal requirement, then delete or anonymise it.

Apple services

App Store and StoreKit: Apple handles product availability, payment, receipts and refunds for Unlimited Lifetime Exports, Unlimited Art Studio Outputs and, when available, Unlimited Digitise Art Outputs. The app reads Apple-verified product and entitlement information so it can display the localised price and unlock or restore the purchase. We do not receive or store your full payment details.
Photos: if you choose Photos import or saving, Apple presents the system picker or permission prompt. The app requests add-only access when you explicitly save a finished poster.
Files and folders: system pickers provide access only to files and output locations you select. On Mac, the app may retain a protected bookmark so it can reopen your chosen folder.
Sharing: when you use Share, the file is passed to the service or person you select in Apple’s share sheet. That destination’s privacy terms then apply.

Apple handles these services under Apple’s Privacy Policy.

External links and fonts

The app can open Modern Condition Art policy pages and Google Fonts information in your browser after you choose the relevant link. It does not automatically upload your designs to those sites. If you follow an external link, that website’s privacy and cookie practices apply. This website serves its Libre Caslon Display and Libre Franklin font files itself. These pages do not request Google Fonts when they load.

Retention and your choices

You control the app’s local artwork and output files. You can remove generated files from their destination and revoke Photos access in system Settings. Files you deliberately save outside the app remain where you place them. Deleting the app on iPhone or iPad ordinarily removes its local app container; on Mac, moving the app to the Bin may leave its sandbox container until you remove that separately. Contact support if you need platform-specific removal instructions. Apple retains App Store transaction records under its own legal and account requirements.

Diagnostics

The app contains no third-party analytics or advertising SDK. Apple may provide Auto Culture Society with crash or diagnostic information when a device owner has chosen to share it with app developers. This can include device and OS information, app version, crash logs and performance details. We use it only to diagnose reliability problems and retain it only while needed for that work. Apple controls the original collection and sharing choice.

Your privacy rights

Auto Culture Society, trading as Modern Condition Art, is the controller for artist application and support correspondence, and any optional Apple developer diagnostics it receives. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict or object to our use of your personal information, and to complain to a data-protection authority. Email us to exercise a right. In the United Kingdom, the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Children

The app does not create user accounts, run targeted advertising or knowingly collect children’s personal information.

Changes

We may update this policy when the app or its services change. The effective date above identifies the current version.

Contact

For an app privacy question or request, contact:

contact@modernconditionart.com