Effective 13 August 2026. How Caturday (iOS app + widget) sources, curates, and displays third-party photo content, and how removal requests are handled. For end-user data, see the Privacy Policy.
#cat, #caturday, and #catsofmastodon. Followers-only, unlisted, and direct posts are never ingested.Before a photo joins the shared cache, an on-device vision step confirms it really shows a cat, and near-duplicates are grouped and filtered out. Posts that do not pass stay in the curation tool and are never published.
Both the app and the widget offer a direct link to the original Mastodon post for the photo on screen. This is the primary attribution mechanism and the primary way a rights holder can identify their own content.
Photo Library images have no attribution or external-post action; they never leave the device.
Mastodon images are copied into the shared cache rather than hotlinked, so the app and widget can display them reliably, including offline.
Photos are not kept indefinitely. The shared cache holds a limited number of photos (currently 100); as new ones are ingested, the oldest are deleted, so a photo is typically gone again within days.
To request removal of your photo, contact Oliver Michalak (werk01) — [email protected] with a link to the original Mastodon post, or enough detail to identify the photo. Target response time: 5 business days. Removal deletes the photo's record from the shared cache, which propagates to all users on their next sync.
Current limitations: there is no self-serve report feature in the app or widget, and deletion of a source post is not detected automatically.
This policy covers the current two-source, cats-only configuration. Adding sources, instances, or content categories requires revisiting it first.
Questions or removal requests: Oliver Michalak (werk01) — [email protected]
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