City and Landscape Stock Photos

Last updated: November 2, 2026

This page is the privacy policy of the Anshar Images app. The app copies the photo galleries of this website to the Anshar Images account on Pinterest.

Who runs the app

Anshar Images, the owner of this website, runs the app. It runs only on the site owner's own computer, and only when the site owner starts it.

The app uses Pinterest's API. The site owner signs in to Pinterest and allows the app to use our account. The app works only with our own Pinterest account, ansharimages. Each time the site owner prepares, sends or checks a set of Pins, the app checks that it is signed in to that account. If it is not, it changes nothing on Pinterest. We do not offer the app to anyone else.

What the app does on Pinterest

• It creates Pins of our own photos. Each Pin has a photo from this website, a title, a description, alt text, and a link to the photo's page on this website. The link carries a tag with the city and the photo, so that our website statistics show where a visitor came from. The photo is the small preview file of the photo, not the large original.
• It creates a board for a country and a section for a city when our account does not have them yet. The new board is public and has no description.
• It makes at most 5 new Pins a day, and only for one city gallery in each run.
• The site owner starts every step. Before the app creates anything, the site owner sees the board, the section and every Pin of the set in full, and approves the set. The app creates nothing without this approval. A set has at most 5 Pins.
• It reads the boards, sections and Pins of our account. It does this to make sure that no photo gets a second Pin, and to check its own work after it creates Pins.

It does not edit, move or delete Pins, boards or sections. It does not read Pinterest statistics.

What data the app reads

• The username of our Pinterest account.
• The boards, sections and Pins of our Pinterest account, including secret boards. The app needs them to see which photos already have a Pin. It also lists which boards we own. It does not create Pins on, or change, a board that we only share with another person.
• The title, description, alt text and image file of our own photos, from the system that runs this website. For this, the app signs in to that system with the site owner's own access.

What data the app keeps, and where

• The app's secret key, its Pinterest sign-in tokens, and the time when each token ends. They stay in the Keychain, the password store of macOS, on the site owner's computer.
• A record of each run: the Pins that the app planned, the requests that it sent and the result of each request, and the time of each step. It also records the result of its checks after a send. The record is on the site owner's computer and in our private GitHub repository.

The app keeps no data that it reads from Pinterest, except its own sign-in tokens. No file that the app writes holds a Pin ID, a board ID, a section ID, or text read from Pinterest. While a run is going, the app holds such IDs in the computer's memory. It drops them when the run ends. The app does not save Pinterest statistics.

What the app may do with our account (permissions)

The app asks Pinterest for these seven permissions, called scopes, and for no others:

• boards:read and boards:write: read our boards and sections, and create new ones.
• pins:read and pins:write: read our Pins, and create new Pins.
• boards:read_secret and pins:read_secret: read our secret boards and the Pins on them. The app needs this to find a photo that already has a Pin there.
• user_accounts:read: read the username of the account, to check that it is ours.

Testing

Until Pinterest gives the app full access, the app creates its boards, sections and Pins only in Pinterest's Sandbox. The Sandbox is Pinterest's area for testing apps. Only the site owner can see what the app creates there. The app can still use the Sandbox later for tests. It keeps separate sign-in tokens for the Sandbox and for our real account, and sends each token only to the matching Pinterest server.

Personal data

The app handles this personal data: the username, boards, sections, Pins and sign-in tokens of our own Pinterest account.

When Pinterest lists a board that we only share with another person, the list shows the username of that board's owner. The app does not save it.

Visitors of this website

The app collects no data about the visitors of this website. This website itself, including this page, follows our main Privacy Policy. It explains what the website collects from its visitors.

How access ends

The site owner can stop the app at any time. To end its access, the site owner deletes the app's secret key and its sign-in tokens from the Keychain on that computer. Without them, the app cannot reach our Pinterest account.

Deleting the tokens on the computer does not cancel them at Pinterest. They stay valid at Pinterest until they expire. Pinterest's documentation explains how long they last.

If the app stops running, its access also ends when its tokens expire. To use the app again, the site owner must then sign in to Pinterest again. Before the tokens expire, the app renews them by itself when the site owner uses it.

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