Privacy
- Effective from: 14 November 2026
- Publisher of the app: Dennis Siersma
Farcon Lens scans paper documents with your iPhone's camera and turns them into PDFs. Documents are often personal: invoices, letters, insurance policies. That is why everything happens on your iPhone and the app itself sends nothing to the publisher. This page says what the app does with your data, and what it does not.
In short
- No account. You don't need to sign up for anything.
- No analytics, no ads, no tracking.
- No server of its own. The app itself does not connect to the internet.
- Your scans are on your iPhone and, when iCloud Drive is on, in your own iCloud Drive.
- A scan only goes to someone else when you share or mail it.
The camera
The app only uses the camera when you tap Scan, through Apple's document camera. The images are turned into a PDF on your iPhone. If you don't allow camera access, you can't scan; the rest of the app works as usual.
While you review a scan, the pages are only in the app's memory. The PDF is made when you tap Save. If you tap Cancel, the pages are gone.
Where your scans are
- With iCloud Drive: in the Farcon Lens folder in your iCloud Drive. Apple stores and syncs that folder under Apple's privacy policy. The publisher has no access to it. You see the folder in the Files app and on your Mac.
- Without iCloud Drive: on your iPhone, in Files › On My iPhone › Farcon Lens.
To delete a scan, delete it in Files. If you delete the app, the scans on your iPhone are deleted with it. Scans in iCloud Drive stay; you delete those in Files or in Settings › your name › iCloud.
Sharing and mailing
When you tap Share or Mail, the iOS share sheet opens. What you choose there (Mail, Messages, another app) is up to you. What that app or service does with the PDF is governed by its own rules. Farcon Lens itself sends nothing.
Quick start: widget, Control Center, Action button and Siri
The widget, the control in Control Center, the Action button and the Siri phrase only open the app with the camera. They pass on nothing from your scans. Siri and Shortcuts belong to Apple; Apple's privacy policy applies to them.
What the publisher receives
The app sends the publisher nothing. What the publisher can receive:
- Through TestFlight: when you test a beta version, Apple shares crash reports and the feedback you send with the publisher, as Apple arranges it. Feedback can include a screenshot; make sure no personal document is on it.
- Through the App Store: what Apple shares with developers, such as crash reports when you allow that in iOS.
- By email: when you email the publisher, they see your email address and what you write. It is only used to reply to you and is not shared with anyone.
Changes
If the app starts doing something different with your data, the publisher updates this page before that version comes out, with a new date at the top.
Contact
Questions about privacy: info@farcon.cloud.