Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 31, 2026

This policy explains what Dear Scrapbook (https://www.dearscrapbook.com) collects, why, and the choices you have.

What we collect

• Account data, username, email address and a hashed password (we never store plain-text passwords).
• Content, the scrapbooks, photos, videos and notes you create. They are private to your account.
• Security data, one-time verification codes, and the IP address and approximate country at signup (used for fraud prevention and aggregate location statistics).
• Payment data, when you buy a plan through PayPal we receive your payer email, the product and amount. Card and bank details never touch our servers.
• Usage basics, standard server logs (IP, browser, pages) kept briefly for security and debugging.
• Aggregate visitor analytics, we use a first-party cookie to count visits (including from people who haven't signed up), and log which pages and editor tools are used and an approximate country from IP address. This is first-party only, never shared or sold, and used solely to understand and improve the product, not to build an advertising profile.

How we use it

• To operate your account, store your scrapbooks and enforce plan limits.
• To send verification and two-factor login codes, and important service emails.
• To communicate with you at your registered email address, this includes essential account, security and billing messages, and occasional updates about the service, new features or your plan. You can opt out of non-essential updates at any time by emailing support@dearscrapbook.com; essential account and security emails are part of running your account.
• To link your PayPal purchase to your account and activate benefits.
• To show advertising on ad-supported plans (see Cookies below).
• To understand traffic and product usage in aggregate (visits, popular pages, tool usage, and how the free trial converts to signups) — never to identify or advertise to an individual visitor.

We do not sell your personal data.

Business operations, improvement & legitimate interests

In the ordinary course of operating and advancing the service, and in reliance on our legitimate business interests, we may also process account, usage and related information for a range of complementary purposes. These include, without limitation: analysing engagement, performance and aggregate trends to inform product research, development and service improvement; deriving insights that help us understand our audience and tailor, personalise and measure communications and marketing relating to Dear Scrapbook and associated offerings; and supporting internal governance, planning, quality, risk, security, fraud-prevention and compliance activities in accordance with our internal policies and applicable frameworks. Where we rely on legitimate interests, we endeavour to do so in a manner that is proportionate and consistent with your reasonable expectations, and you may contact us to learn more about, or to object to, any specific processing described here.

Cookies & advertising

We use essential cookies to keep you logged in. Free and Premium plans also show banner ads served by our advertising partner, Adsterra, which may use cookies and similar technologies to do so. The cookie notice explains this on your first visit, and the Ad-Free add-on and Lifetime plan remove ads entirely. See the Cookie Policy for details.

• Third-party vendors, including Adsterra, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website and other websites.
• When an ad loads, Adsterra and the advertisers and ad partners it works with may process your IP address, device and browser information, approximate location and the page being viewed. They use this to deliver and measure ads, limit repeats and prevent fraud. We rely on our legitimate interest in funding the free plan through advertising; you can object at any time by contacting us.
• We don't share your scrapbooks, photos, email or account details with advertisers. Ads are loaded on our pages by Adsterra's script, and our sign-in cookie is set so that no script, including ad code, can read it.
• You can block third-party cookies in your browser, and opt out of interest-based ads from participating companies at aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.eu.
• How Adsterra uses data: Adsterra Privacy Policy and Adsterra Cookie Policy.

Sharing

• Payment processing: PayPal (their privacy policy applies to the checkout).
• Advertising: Adsterra and the ad partners it works with, on ad-supported plans (see Cookies & advertising above).
• Infrastructure: hosted on secure servers located in the EU and North American region.
• Authorities, only where the law requires it.

Retention

• Free-plan scrapbooks are automatically deleted 14 days after creation (10-day life + 4-day grace).
• Media removed from a scrapbook is deleted from our storage.
• Account data is kept until you delete your account. Deletion has a 24-hour grace period, logging back in within 24 hours cancels it; after that your profile, scrapbooks, media and details are permanently erased and any subscription is cancelled.
• Verification and login codes expire within minutes.

Your rights

You can access, correct, export or delete your data at any time, most of it directly in the app, or by emailing support@dearscrapbook.com. If you are in the EU/EEA/UK you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your data protection authority.

Contact

Privacy questions: support@dearscrapbook.com