Last updated: September 2, 2026
Tayka is a photo-a-day app: everyone in the world gets the same prompt at the same moment, and you can't see anyone else's answer until you post your own. This page explains what we collect, why, and how to reach us.
Tayka shows at most three ads a day: one at the end of the feed, and, on a day with a long feed, one after every fifth Tayk. An ad is only ever shown on a day you have posted and after at least one friend's Tayk is on the page. Ads are what pay for the servers that store and deliver everyone's photos; that is the entire reason they are here.
Ads are served by Google AdMob. By default they are contextual: AdMob is told nothing about you, and the advertising identifier on your device is not used. In that mode nothing about you leaves the app for advertising purposes.
Once you have been using Tayka for a few days, iOS may ask whether you allow Tayka to track you across other companies' apps and websites. If you say no, or never answer, nothing changes: you keep getting the same contextual ads. If you say yes, your device's advertising identifier is shared with Google so the ads can be more relevant, which earns more and so covers the hosting bill sooner. You can change this at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
Extra accent colors and app icons are a one-time purchase made through the App Store. Apple handles the payment and we never see your payment details. Apple tells us the transaction happened, and we record that transaction id against your account so the purchase can be restored on a new phone and a refund can be honored.
We don't sell or rent your personal data, and we have no analytics SDK. There is no email/password login, so we never see or store a password. We don't collect precise location, we never read your address book or contacts list, and we do not ask for or store your phone number.
Tayka's backend runs on Supabase, hosted in the US East region. Photos, posts, comments, and account data are all stored there, protected by row-level security rules that determine exactly who is allowed to read what. For example, a day's photos are invisible to you until you've posted your own that day, and blocked users cannot see each other's content regardless of who is friends with whom.
We also keep backups of the database and photos on hardware we control in the United States, so that an outage at our hosting provider cannot lose everyone's photos. Database backups are kept for 30 days and used for nothing but recovery, so data you delete may remain in a backup for up to 30 days after it disappears from the app. The copy of your photos is brought into line with the app within the hour, so a deleted photo leaves it the same day. Any copy of a backup that leaves that hardware is encrypted with a key that is not stored with it.
Your photo and caption for a given day are visible to people who (a) are your friends and (b) have posted their own photo for that day. Comments on a post are visible to whoever can see that post. Four things reach further, each by your own choice:
You can delete your account at any time from Settings inside the app. This permanently removes your photos, posts, comments, follows, blocks, and account record. It cannot be undone.
If you see something on Tayka that shouldn't be there, whether abusive content, harassment, or anything else, you can report it directly from the app (on a photo or a comment), or reach us by email. We review every report and respond within 48 hours.
Email: support@tayka.app
Blocking someone in Tayka removes any friendship or request between you and that person, and hides their content from you and yours from them, including in Hot Tayk and Discover. You can review and undo your blocks at any time in Settings.
Tayka is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from anyone under that age.
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page.
Questions about this policy or your data: support@tayka.app.