Your photos and your privacy
Song Gift by Phone Smarts AI (Practical Business AI) · Updated September 22, 2026
The short version. Your photos are used for one thing: building your video. They are never sent to an AI, never used to train anything, never shared or sold, and they are deleted from our servers automatically 7 days after upload. Your finished video lives at a private link that only you hold. Email us and we delete everything.
Your photos and clips
- They stay on your phone until your first song is ready. Choosing photos does not send them anywhere. They are uploaded only when your song is finished and the video is being made.
- Photos are resized on your phone before upload. Resizing also removes the hidden data a phone camera stores inside a photo, such as the location where it was taken.
- They are used only to build your video. Our own server arranges them into the slideshow. No AI looks at them, no face recognition is run, and they are never used to train any model.
- They are deleted automatically 7 days after upload, from our private storage. That window lets you order another version of your song with the same photos.
- We never share, sell, or publish your photos, and we never use them in our advertising.
Photos of children
Many songs are for kids and grandkids, and their photos get the same care as everything above: private storage, no AI, no face recognition, deleted after 7 days. Song Gift is made for adults to create a gift. It is not meant for children to use, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.
Your finished video and song
- Your video and song are stored so you can play, download, and share them. Each one has a long random link that is not listed or searchable anywhere. Anyone you give the link to can watch it, so share it with the people you choose.
- Email us and we delete your video and song for good.
Your answers
The names and memories you type are used to write your lyrics. To do that they are sent to Anthropic (Claude), the AI that writes the words. The finished lyrics go to ElevenLabs, the AI that sings them. Neither service ever gets your photos.
Payments
Card payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card number.
Beta testers
This app is in beta. To save you time and trouble, we’ve built in Apptakes, our own feedback tool. It sends us feedback from your session and alerts us to any bugs or errors you run into. Tap the button anytime to talk or type a note to us, or record a video of your screen to show us an issue from start to finish.
Delete everything, or ask a question
Email info@phonesmartsai.com from the address you used, or tell us your song's title, and we will delete your photos, video, song, and answers. We will confirm when it is done.