InstaBud 3D — Privacy Policy

When you complete a scan, the App creates a capture bundle and uploads it to us. That bundle contains:

• Video frames of the property you are scanning — the building, and whatever is visible around it while you walk.
• Depth measurements, on devices that have a depth sensor (for example the LiDAR scanner on iPhone Pro models). On devices without one, depth is estimated from the camera and motion instead.
• Motion and orientation data from the phone — accelerometer, gyroscope, gravity direction, and compass heading. The compass is used to work out which way each wall faces.
• The property address you enter on the first screen, and the identifier Google returns for the address you pick.
• Your device's precise location (latitude and longitude) ONLY if you choose the "use my location" option on that first screen instead of typing an address. If you type the address, no device location is recorded.
• Basic technical facts about the phone: platform, model, operating system version, which sensors it has, and whether it was overheating during the scan.
• A record that you were shown the disclosures and accepted them, with the date and time.

• It does not record audio. The microphone is not used.
• It does not continuously track your location. Location is only read at the moment you ask the App to find your address, and only if you choose that option.
• It does not read your contacts, photo library, calendar, messages, or other apps' data.
• It does not build an advertising profile. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers.

• Camera — required. Without it there is nothing to measure.
• Motion and fitness — required. The drawing's scale comes from how the phone moved, so the drawing cannot be produced without it.
• Location — optional, and only if you want the App to find your address for you. On iOS, compass heading does not require location permission and is used whether or not you grant it.

Capture bundles are uploaded to storage we control in Amazon Web Services (region us-east-1, United States) and processed there. Uploads are encrypted in transit and the stored data is encrypted at rest.

Your video frames, photographs and depth measurements are processed only inside our own Amazon Web Services account, by software and machine-learning models that we run on our own machines. They are not sent to any outside company, and in particular they are not sent to any external AI or image-recognition service.

This is enforced, not merely promised. The machines that process your scan hold no credential for any external AI service, so the software running on them is unable to send your images anywhere even if it were asked to. If the part of our system that names features such as doors and windows is unavailable, your drawing is produced with fewer labels and says so — we do not fall back to an outside service.

The models that read your images — for depth, and for finding walls, doors and windows — run on our hardware from copies we host ourselves, and they send nothing back to the people who built them. We do use scans to improve our own measuring — checking a drawing against reality, and developing and training our own models — exactly as the App's terms describe when you accept them. That work happens inside our own account, on the same machines, and never hands your images to anyone else.

We keep this list short deliberately, and it is accurate to what the software actually sends — it is checked against the code, not written from memory. Everyone below acts on our instructions and may not use your data for their own purposes:

• Amazon Web Services hosts the storage and the computers that produce your drawing. AWS does not use your data for its own purposes.
• Google receives the property address, and nothing else. It is used twice: for the autocomplete suggestions as you type on the first screen, and afterwards to look up the property's roof outline and which way it faces from Google's aerial imagery. What Google receives is the address text, or the property's coordinates. Your photographs, your video and your measurements are never sent to Google — aerial imagery travels the other way, from Google to us.
• Twilio receives your mobile phone number, and the verification code sent to it, when you sign in. Twilio delivers that message on our behalf and is not permitted to use your number for its own purposes.
• That is the whole list. No outside company receives your photographs, your video, your depth measurements or your drawing.
• We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers.

We keep your scans, their capture files and their results for 7 years, unless you delete them sooner.

You do not have to wait for that. You can delete a scan from inside the App at any time, which removes it from our storage as well as from your phone, and you can ask us to delete all of your scans using the contact address below. We will do so unless we are required to keep something by law.

The App records whatever the camera sees while you walk. That can include neighbouring properties, vehicles, and people who happen to be present. Please scan only properties you own or are authorised to survey, and be considerate of anyone nearby. We use the frames solely to produce your drawing and to improve the accuracy of that process.

Depending on where you live you may have the right to see the personal information we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or receive a copy. Write to us at the address below and we will respond. You can also delete a scan from within the App, revoke any permission in your phone's settings, or stop using the App entirely.

InstaBud 3D contains no objectionable content, but it is a tool for property owners and for people surveying property on their behalf: the App's terms require you to be at least 18 to use it. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

We may update this policy. Changes take effect when posted here, and we will update the "Last updated" date above. If a change materially affects what we collect or who receives it, we will make that clear in the App before your next scan.

Questions, or a request about your data? Contact DigsFact, Inc. at info@digsfact.com (Dover, Delaware, USA).