Privacy Policy
Last updated 2 November 2026
Who Am I? asks one question and shows the world's answers. What you share in answer is public by design, so this page sets out exactly what's shared, what's kept, and how to take it back.
The short version. If you add a portrait, everyone using Who Am I? can see your first name, your town, your answer and your photo, plus your last name and age if you give them. Only your town is ever kept, never your exact location. You can delete a portrait you've added at any time. There are no ads, nothing tracks you across other apps, and your data is never sold.
Who we are
Who Am I? is made and run by Taiwo Omisore (Tai), an independent developer in London, United Kingdom, who is responsible for your data. You can reach a real person at whoami.iosapp@gmail.com, or in the app at Settings › Send feedback.
What's public
- Your portrait. Your first name, your last name and age if you add them, your town and country, your answer, your photo, the card made from them and the portrait's number. It appears in the gallery, on the globe and in Portrait of the Day widgets for everyone using Who Am I?, and anyone can share it as a card.
- Your advice. If you share something for One Thing Everyone: your advice, your name, what you do and your town if you add them, and your photo. Tai reads it first; once published it appears in Wisdom, on onethingeveryone.com and in the Of the Day app.
Nothing is published until you tap Add to the gallery or Share my advice. Until then your answer and photo stay on your iPhone, where an unfinished answer is kept so you can carry on later.
What we collect
| What | Why | When |
|---|---|---|
| Your portrait | To show it in the gallery and on the globe | When you add one |
| Your advice | To review and publish it | When you share advice |
| A device identifier | An ID iOS gives Who Am I? on your device. It shows which portraits are yours so you can delete them, makes reports and blocks work, and links Supporter purchases to your device | Automatically |
| An anonymous sign-in | So the app can add and read portraits securely. It isn't linked to your name or email | Automatically |
| Reports and blocks | To review reported portraits, and to hide people you block | When you report or block |
| Feedback | To read and reply to it. Sent with your app version, iPhone model, iOS version, language, device identifier, Supporter status and how many portraits you've added, plus your name and email if you give them | When you send feedback |
| A future icon | If you offer a portrait for a future app icon: which portrait, with its name, town and photo, so Tai can choose faces. Only with your say-so, after confirming you're 18 or over and it's you | When you offer it in Settings › App icon |
| Mailing list | To send a few emails a year about what's new: your email, and your first name if you give it | When you join |
| Purchases | To give Supporter thank-yous and keep records. Apple handles payment; we never see your card | When you buy |
| Usage events | To see which features are used and what goes wrong: screens opened and actions such as sharing, with app version, device type and approximate region | While you use the app |
Your location
If you tap Use my current location, your iPhone works out your town using Apple's location services and Maps. Only the town's name and its centre point are kept with your portrait, never where you are. You can search for your town instead, or skip it.
Your photos
You can take a photo or choose one. Who Am I? only sees the photo you pick, not the rest of your library, and it's only uploaded when you add your portrait or share your advice.
What we never collect
- Your exact location, or any location in the background
- Your contacts, browsing, or anything else in your photo library
- Your payment details
- Any advertising identifier: there's no ad tracking in Who Am I?
Who processes data for us
- Google Firebase: stores portraits, advice, places, reports, feedback and sign-ups (in the United States), runs the anonymous sign-in, records usage events, and sends Tai an email when something new arrives. Firebase privacy
- RevenueCat: records Supporter subscriptions and tips. RevenueCat privacy
- Resend: delivers emails, such as feedback to Tai and mailing list emails to you. Resend privacy
- Apple: App Store purchases, finding your town, and translating portraits when you tap Translate. Apple privacy
Some of these providers store data outside the UK. They do so under the safeguards UK law requires for international transfers. We don't sell or rent personal data to anyone.
Why we're allowed to use it
Under UK data protection law: your portrait, advice, feedback and mailing list sign-up are shared with your consent, which you can withdraw by deleting them or asking us to. Purchases are needed to give you what you bought. Usage events, reports and blocks are in our legitimate interest in keeping Who Am I? working, safe and improving.
Children
Who Am I? is for people aged 16 and over, and we don't knowingly collect information from anyone younger. If you think someone under 16 has shared a portrait or advice, email us and we'll remove it.
How long we keep things
- Portraits stay until you delete them or ask us to.
- Published advice stays until you ask us to remove it.
- Feedback is kept only as long as it takes to deal with it.
- Mailing list details stay until you unsubscribe.
- An offer to be in a future icon stays until you take it back in Settings › App icon or delete the portrait. If your face is already in a released icon, it's taken out in the next update.
- Usage events are kept by Google Analytics for no more than 14 months.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it. Email whoami.iosapp@gmail.com and we'll reply within a month. To delete a portrait yourself, go to Settings › Your portraits in the app; it's removed for everyone. For a portrait added with an earlier version of the app, use Settings › Send feedback › My portrait, or email us its name and town. To leave the mailing list, use the unsubscribe link in any email or reply "unsubscribe".
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Changes
If this policy changes, this page and its date will be updated, and any significant change will be mentioned in the app's release notes.