Privacy Policy
Restina · Last updated 15 September 2026
Restina restores old photographs, and can turn one into a short video. This page explains what the app collects, what it sends elsewhere, who receives it, and how long anything is kept.
Photos you upload
The photograph you choose is sent to fal.ai, our processing partner, which passes it to the company that runs the model doing the work:
- Restore, colourise, repair and lighten send the photograph to OpenAI, which returns an edited photograph.
- Animate sends the same photograph to PixVerse, which returns a short video made from it.
We ask for your permission before the first photograph leaves your phone, and the screen that asks names these companies. You can withdraw that permission at any time – see Your choices.
- You choose each photo through the system picker. The app does not read your photo library. Only the individual images you pick are processed.
- You must have the right to upload any photo you submit, including the permission of anyone depicted in it.
Retention. We keep no copy of your photographs on our own servers. Elsewhere in the chain the photograph lives for different lengths of time, and it is worth being exact about each:
- fal.ai stores request inputs and outputs for 30 days by default. We switch that off for every request we make, so the photograph you send is not kept there. The finished photograph or video sits on fal.ai's storage and is deleted after 7 days – that period is a setting we choose, not a fal.ai default.
- OpenAI states that data sent to its API is retained for up to 30 days in abuse-monitoring logs and is not used to train its models.
- PixVerse, which receives the photograph only when you use Animate, states that it keeps personal data no longer than is necessary, but publishes no retention period for material processed through this kind of integration, and we have not established one. This is the one link in the chain where we cannot give you a number, and we would rather say so than invent it.
- We keep a record of the job – times, which operation you ran, our provider's request id and any error – for 90 days. It contains no image.
We never hand our provider's own link to your image out to anyone. Every result is delivered through our own endpoint, after we check that the request belongs to the device that created it.
Face data
Photographs of people are the point of this app, so it is worth being exact.
- We do not identify anyone, and we never use a photograph to recognise or authenticate a person.
- We do not create, collect, or store biometric templates, faceprints, or face geometry.
- A photograph can of course identify the people in it. The companies above process the faces in your photograph in order to produce the result you asked for; whether their models derive facial landmarks while doing so is not something we can verify from outside, and we do not claim they do not.
Other information we collect
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| A random identifier created by the app for your device | to know whether this device has already used its free restoration, to keep your subscription working, and to group analytics events. It is generated by the app, is not derived from any identifier belonging to your device or to Apple, and is not an advertising identifier |
| Apple transaction identifier for your subscription | to know whether a subscription is active |
| Job records: timestamps, processing version, provider request id, error codes | to deliver your result, and to see when processing breaks |
| Usage counts and daily totals | to enforce fair-use limits and keep our own costs predictable |
| Your IP address | rate limiting and abuse prevention only. It is not used to build a profile |
| Product analytics events, such as which screens you open and whether a restoration succeeded | to find where the app fails people |
We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, or location. There is no account and no registration.
Who else receives data
| Partner | What it receives | What for |
|---|---|---|
| fal.ai (United States) | the photograph you submit, and the restored result | it runs the image model and holds the result until you download it |
| OpenAI, through fal.ai (United States) | the photograph you submit, and the edited result | it operates the model that restores, colourises, repairs or lightens the photograph |
| PixVerse, through fal.ai (United States) | the photograph you submit, and the video made from it | it operates the model that turns the photograph into a short video, when you use Animate |
| Adapty | purchase and subscription events, and the device identifier | subscription management |
| Mixpanel (EU servers) | product analytics events, and the device identifier | understanding how the app is used |
| Cloudflare | traffic to our service, including IP | hosting and protection |
| Apple | payment details | Apple handles the payment. We never see card data |
We hold data processing terms with fal.ai, Adapty, Mixpanel and Cloudflare, which bind them to handle this data only for the purposes above. OpenAI and PixVerse receive the photograph through fal.ai, and their own published terms govern what they then do with it; the points that matter to you are set out under Photos you upload. Our own storage settings at fal.ai do not decide how OpenAI or PixVerse treat their copies.
Processing a photograph means sending it outside the European Union: fal.ai, OpenAI and PixVerse all process it on servers in the United States.
We do not sell your data, and we do not share it for advertising.
Children
Restina is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Your choices
Because there is no account, most data is tied to a device rather than to a person.
- You can withdraw your permission to send photos at any time, in the app under Sending photos → Withdraw permission. Nothing is sent after that until you agree again. Photos already sent cannot be recalled.
- Restored images disappear on their own, on the timetable set out under Photos you upload above.
- Deleting the app stops all further collection.
- Write to [email protected] with a request about your data and we will answer.
Changes
If this policy changes materially, we will update the date at the top and, where the change is significant, say so in the app.