Prex · A Pocket Shadow Theatre

The Lamp's Confession

What the light sees, what it keeps, and — mostly — what it refuses to take.

Zero collection On-device only No trackers, ever

Confess it plainly. A shadow theatre should not cast one on your private life. This page is the lamp's confession: an honest accounting of everything Prex touches and, more importantly, everything it leaves alone. The short version is nothing leaves your device. The long version, told in nine vows, is just as reassuring.

1

I Do Not Ask Who You Are

Prex runs without an account. It never asks for your name, your email, your phone number, your birthday, your location, or a password to invent. There is no sign-up screen, no "verify your identity," and no profile that could be built about you. The curtain rises the moment you tap the icon, and the lamp is content to light a face it will never know.

2

I Do Not Phone Home

The theatre has no server to report to. Prex does not send your figures, your sunprints, your captions, or your preferences anywhere. There is no backend database wearing your name, no cloud vault, no usage ping that quietly lists what you traced last Tuesday. Where there is no transmission, there is nothing to intercept and nothing to breach.

A shadow that never leaves the room cannot be stolen from it.
3

I Do Not Watch You Wander

No analytics. No advertising networks. No third-party trackers, no fingerprinting, no "anonymous telemetry," no heat-maps of where your thumb taps. The lamp does not count how long you linger on a silhouette, and it certainly does not sell that number. The only tallies Prex keeps are the friendly ones you can see for yourself — figures forged, sunprints pressed, orb journeys taken — and those live on your device, not in a spreadsheet.

4

Your Photographs Stay Put

When you tap "choose a photo," your device offers you its library and hands Prex the single picture you selected — nothing more. Prex reads that image purely to guess its outline on the spot, using flood-fills and thresholds that run entirely on your own hardware. The chosen photo is not copied to a server, not added to any collection, and not used to train anything. The picture you didn't pick was never even offered.

5

What Lives Inside the Sandbox

The only things Prex remembers are written into small private files inside the app's own folder on your device: your cutout figures (as tidy lists of outline points and names), your pressed sunprints (a figure, an orb position, a backdrop, a caption), and your keeper preferences (favored backdrop, lamp warmth, dust toggle, and a few gentle tallies). These files are the theatre's prop room — sealed, local, and yours.

Even your captions — the little titles you give a print — never travel. They sit on the device and go where the device goes.
6

I Do Not Reach for the Camera Without Asking

Prex never opens your camera or reads your library on its own. The system only surfaces those requests when you deliberately start the "bring in an object" flow, and you may refuse at any time. Refusing is a complete answer — the rest of the theatre, including its seeded troupe of hand-drawn figures, keeps working without a single permission granted.

7

There Are No Third Parties in This House

Because there is nothing collected, there is nothing to sell, share, hand to an "analytics partner," disclose in a data marketplace, or forward under a subpoena about you specifically — the records simply do not exist on our side. No ad SDKs, no crash-reporting that ships your files, no social logins. The guest list is empty, and we intend to keep it that way.

8

Small Hands Welcome

Prex is a gentle toy for anyone who enjoys light and shadow, and because it collects nothing and shows no advertising, it is safe for curious children to play with. There is no chat, no contact with strangers, no purchases nagging at the corners of the stage, and no personal data to gather from a young keeper. Grown-ups can hand over the device with an easy mind.

9

You Hold the Eraser

Everything Prex knows is yours to unmake. Tear out a single print and it is gone. Dismiss a figure and its sunprints go with it. Delete the app and the entire troupe, album, and ledger vanish from the device at once — there is no copy on a server to request removal from, because no such copy was ever made. If we ever change the honest, local-only shape of this promise, you'll read about it here first, in these same plain words.