Privacy policy

The short version

Salon has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. It contains no third-party advertising or analytics software of any kind. Nothing you do in the app is recorded against your name, because the app never learns it.

Salon does download its pictures from a server we run, and like any server it can see the address your request came from. That is described in full below rather than glossed over.

What is stored, and where

Salon saves the following on your Apple TV, so the app works the way you left it:

• Your display preferences: clock style, position and 12/24-hour setting; whether a mat is shown, and its colour and width; the automatic-change interval and whether it shuffles; whether the screen is kept awake.
• The artworks you save to Favourites, and which artwork is currently on screen.
• Whether you have opened the collection yet, so the one-time hint explaining how to open it stops appearing.
• A cache of artwork images and the catalogue, so the frame keeps working when your connection does not.
• Copies of the picture on your wall and your favourites for the Top Shelf, the area above the top row of the Home Screen.

All of it stays on the device. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else, and all of it is removed when you delete the app.

Your favourites in iCloud

The list of pictures you save to Favourites from the collection is also kept in your own iCloud account, using Apple's iCloud key-value storage, so every Apple TV signed in to the same Apple Account has the same favourites. It holds only which pictures you saved. It is stored and synced by Apple under Apple's privacy policy, and we cannot see it. Your own photos are never part of it.

Your own photos

If you choose to, Salon can show the photos you have marked as favourites in iCloud Photos. It asks permission first, and only when you open Your Photos and choose Show My Favourites. With permission, it reads those photos on your Apple TV and shows them on screen. It never copies them anywhere, never uploads them, and never sends them, or anything about them, to us or to anyone else. It shows no other photos, and it never changes your library.

On the Apple TV it remembers which of your photos you have saved in Salon, and which you have chosen to fill the screen. You can withdraw permission at any time in Settings, Privacy & Security, Photos, on the Apple TV.

Network connections

Salon downloads its catalogue and its pictures from salon-art.salontvos.workers.dev, a server we operate using Cloudflare. As with any request to any website, that server receives your device's IP address and the name of the file requested, which means it can see which pictures your Apple TV asked for.

What we do with that:

• Your IP address is used at the moment of the request to limit how fast any one device can download, which is how the collection is protected from being copied wholesale. It is not stored by us afterwards.
• Cloudflare keeps ordinary short-term server logs on our behalf, as every web host does. We do not export them, build profiles from them, or combine them with anything else.
• There is no account, no device identifier and no cookie, so nothing recorded can be tied back to you as a person or followed between sessions.

If our server cannot be reached, Salon falls back to requesting artwork directly from the museums that published it. In that case those museums receive the request instead, and their own privacy policies apply:

• National Gallery of Art: api.nga.gov
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: collectionapi.metmuseum.org, images.metmuseum.org
• Cleveland Museum of Art: openaccess-api.clevelandart.org, openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org

No other server is contacted, in either case. Salon sends no identifier, no account and nothing about you. The one exception is Apple itself: syncing your favourites through iCloud, and fetching your favourite photos from iCloud Photos, are done by the Apple TV, not by Salon, under your Apple Account.

This website

Everything above is about the app. This section is about getsalon.app, the website.

getsalon.app uses no cookies and no advertising. To see which pages are read and how people find them, it uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts visits without cookies or any other storage in your browser, and without fingerprinting: it does not try to recognise the same person between pages or visits. It records the page, the site you came from, your country and the kind of browser and device, and we see only totals.

Its fonts and images are served from the site itself. Cloudflare, which hosts it, keeps ordinary short-term server logs.

Children

Salon collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it, and the revised policy is published here before the version of the app it applies to is released.

Contact

Questions: salon_support@icloud.com