Google Photos App Privacy Policy
This privacy notice covers the Kittl Google Photos Extension and supplements Kittl's main Privacy Policy at kittl.com/privacy. Both apply in full; this notice describes only what is specific to the Google Photos integration.
The Google Photos Extension uses the Google Photos Picker API and the Google Photos Library API to let you choose photos from your Google Photos library in Google's own picker window, add them to Kittl, and save your Kittl designs to your Google Photos library as new items. Kittl only receives the photos you pick in that window; it cannot browse, search, or list the rest of your library. It asks for permission to create new items in your library, which Kittl uses only when you choose Save to Google Photos, and it never changes or deletes existing photos. To show which Google account is connected, it also reads that account's email address. Kittl is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Google LLC. Google Photos is a trademark of Google LLC.
When you connect Google Photos, Kittl keeps OAuth credentials (an access token and a refresh token) so that the extension can call the Google Photos APIs on your behalf and you stay connected when you return. When you add photos you picked, your browser downloads each one from Google Photos and uploads it to Kittl's servers, where it is stored in your Kittl uploads like any other upload and is governed by the imported-content terms in our main Privacy Policy. If your browser cannot download a photo directly, the photo passes through Kittl's servers on its way to your browser without being stored there. A photo you add to a design gets a layer named after its file name. The extension does not send any other Google Photos content or photo metadata to Kittl's servers. To let you add recent imports again, the extension keeps a short list of them (a small thumbnail, the file name and a reference to the Kittl upload, up to eight items for 30 days) in your browser's local storage; this list is not sent to Kittl servers.
When you choose Save to Google Photos for an artboard or object in the Kittl editor, the image (a PNG or JPEG) and its file name (the name shown in the save form) are sent to Google Photos via its API and created as a new item in your Google Photos library; existing photos are not changed. Once saved, that item is governed by Google's terms; you can edit or remove it in Google Photos.
Kittl receives operational data back from Google Photos in connection with picking and saving, for example the picked photos' file names and file types, and the new item's ID, which we use to operate the integration.
Kittl's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Kittl does not resell or redistribute Google Photos content or Google Photos-derived data to any third party.
You can disconnect Google Photos at any time in the extension's account menu, and you can remove Kittl's access at any time in your Google Account under Security, then Third-party apps and services. To delete what is described above: photos you added, and layers named after them, stay in your Kittl uploads and designs, where you can delete them; you can clear the list of recent imports with Clear in the extension, and clearing your browser's cookies and other site data also removes it (disconnecting does not); and you can ask Kittl to delete your personal information as described in our main Privacy Policy. Google Photos content remains subject to Google's Terms of Service.