CullerPrivacy policy
Effective 10 November 2026
Culler collects nothing. Your photos, videos, ratings and marks stay on your Mac and on your own cards and drives. Alto Orchards, the publisher of Culler, never receives them.
Who this covers
This policy covers Culler, a Mac app published by Alto Orchards ("we"), and this website. It describes version 1.0 of the app.
What the app collects
Nothing. Culler has no account or sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party code that reports back to anyone. The app does not have permission from macOS to open network connections of its own.
Your photos and videos
- Culler reads photos and videos from the cards, drives and folders you choose to open. macOS asks for your permission the first time you open each one.
- Nothing you open is uploaded, shared or sent anywhere.
- Blur and closed-eye hints (Culler Pro) are worked out on your Mac using Apple's Vision framework. To judge sharpness and whether eyes are closed, Culler finds where faces are in a photo. It does not recognise or identify anyone, and it creates no face templates. What it keeps is a few numbers per photo: a sharpness score, how many faces were found, whether eyes looked closed, and a coarse colour layout used to tell which frames belong to the same burst. These are stored only on your Mac.
What is stored on your Mac
Culler keeps the following in its own private folder in your Library. None of it leaves your Mac.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Marks for deletion, star ratings and picks | So your work is still there when you reopen a card |
| A list of shots already added to Photos | So the same shot isn't added twice |
| Small thumbnails and capture dates | So a card you've opened before shows up quickly |
| Blur and closed-eye results | So a card isn't analysed twice |
| Permission records for cards and folders you opened | So macOS only has to ask once per card |
| Your settings, and where you left off on each card | To remember how you like Culler set up and return you to the same shot |
You can delete the thumbnails and analysis results at any time in Settings ▸ Storage. Deleting the app's data removes everything else.
What Culler writes, and where
Culler changes files only when you ask it to:
- Deleting the shots you marked, from the card they are on.
- Copying your keepers to a folder you choose.
- Adding to Photos (Culler Pro). Culler asks for permission to add to your Photos library only. It cannot see, read or change what is already in your library.
- XMP sidecar files (Culler Pro) holding your ratings and picks, next to your copies, and on the card only if you turn that setting on.
Purchases
Culler Pro is bought through the Mac App Store. Apple handles the payment; we never see your name, your payment details or your Apple Account. To unlock Pro, the app asks macOS whether the purchase exists on your account. Apple's handling of your information is described in Apple's privacy policy.
If you have chosen in macOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple may give us anonymous, combined figures such as sales totals and crash reports. They do not identify you, and they contain none of your photos or file names.
This website
This site has no cookies, no trackers, no analytics scripts and no forms. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, processes the technical details of each request (such as your IP address and browser type) to deliver the pages and protect the service. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
If you email us
If you write to us for support, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to include. We use it only to answer you, and we don't add you to any list. Ask us to delete the correspondence and we will.
Children
Culler is not directed at children, and it collects no information from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If Culler ever changes in a way that affects your privacy, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change.
Contact
Questions about this policy: hershman@gmail.com