Screenside is a help network for UI/UX designers. You post a design problem, an AI writes the first critique, and other designers add theirs. This page says exactly what that involves for your data.
Screenside does not track you across other apps or websites, does not sell your data, and contains no advertising or third-party analytics SDK.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Email address | To create and sign in to your account. If you use Sign in with Apple and choose Hide My Email, Screenside only ever receives the relay address. |
| Handle and display name | Shown on everything you post. Critique in Screenside is not anonymous by design. |
| Profile details you enter — role, experience, tools, topics you can help with, bio, avatar | To route requests to designers who can actually help with them. |
| Screens you upload | They are the thing being critiqued. |
| Text you write — requests, critiques, pinned notes, messages in a live session | It is the content of the service. |
| Availability windows, when you mark yourself free to critique | To show who is available now. These expire by themselves. |
| Reports and blocks you make | Safety. Reports are visible to moderation; blocks are private to you. |
| Records of AI requests — timing, token counts, which model | To meter cost. It records that a critique was requested, not a second copy of its content. |
Screenside does not collect your location, your contacts, your device identifiers for advertising, your browsing history, or your phone number. There is no phone number field anywhere in the app.
When you post a request, its text and any screens you attached are sent to Google's Gemini API to generate the first critique. This happens once, at the moment you post. The compose screen tells you this before you upload anything.
Screenside uses Gemini's paid tier. Google's terms for the paid tier state that they do not use prompts or responses to improve their products, and that prompts and responses are logged only briefly, to detect abuse. Your screens are not used to train Google's models and are not read by human reviewers.
They do still leave your device and are processed by Google, and that is the fact to weigh if you are working under an NDA. Two things are in your hands: you can post a request with no screens at all, and any screen you do attach can be given a shelf life at the moment you upload it, after which nobody but you can open it.
Your account, your posts and your uploaded screens are stored on Supabase, which provides the database, file storage and authentication. They process this data on Screenside's behalf.
If you sign in with Apple, Apple tells Screenside your email (or a relay address) and, on the first sign-in only, the name you choose to share. Screenside stores an Apple token solely so that deleting your account can also revoke Screenside's access to your Apple account.
Requests, critiques, pinned notes and daily-prompt wall entries are visible to anyone signed in to Screenside. They are not public on the open web and are not indexed by search engines.
Screens can be given a shelf life. When you attach a screen you may set it to stay visible to other designers for a day, a week, or indefinitely. After that window only you can open it. To be precise about what that does: it withdraws other people's access to the file. It does not erase the file from storage, and any critique already written about it remains in the thread.
Messages in a live session are visible only to the two designers in it. Nothing in Screenside is recorded as audio or video.
You can delete your account from inside the app, under Settings. It is a real deletion, not a deactivation, and it happens immediately.
It removes your profile, your requests, your critiques, your pinned notes, your kudos, your uploaded screens and avatars, your notifications and your AI usage records. Where you use Sign in with Apple, Screenside also asks Apple to revoke the token, so Screenside's access to your Apple account ends with the account itself.
Two honest limits. Critiques other designers wrote on your requests are their words, and are removed along with the request they were written on. And where content has been reported, a record of the report may be retained for safety purposes.
Screenside is not directed at children and is not intended for anyone under 13.
If this policy changes in a way that affects what Screenside collects or who it is shared with, the date at the top will change and the app will say so.
Questions about this policy, or about your data: ux.ui.saleh@gmail.com.