The basics

Privacy at a glance

No account, no cloud, no tracking. Your photos stay on your home network.

Aardy was built so your family photos stay at home.

What stays on your network

There is no Aardy account and no Aardy cloud.
Photos move between your own devices over your local network: phone to TV, or Mac to TV.
Importing copies photos into Aardy's library on your Mac. Your original folders are never changed, and your Photos library is never changed.
Pairing needs a code shown on the screen in front of you, so nobody else on your network can send photos to your TVs.

Weather comes from MET Norway. No account or key is needed.
Place names. Photos are placed offline from their GPS first. If you choose to refresh places, the Mac asks free online map services for a better answer and for landmark names.
Shared Albums reach your Mac through Apple's iCloud, exactly as they do in Photos.

The iPhone app uses a photo's location only to find a place name. The copies sent to a TV do not contain GPS coordinates.

The complete wording is in the Privacy Policy at aardy.aardvarksoftware.com/privacy.html.