Guide

Family photo sharing that stays in the EU

Check where your family album actually lives and the answer is usually the US or Japan - under laws that let authorities and companies reach data in ways EU law does not allow. For most apps that's a footnote. For a service holding thousands of photos of your children, it's the whole question.

What "hosted in the EU" means at QuietAlbum

• Your albums live on EU infrastructure, operated by a Swedish company under EU jurisdiction and the GDPR.
• The right to be forgotten works for real. Delete your album or account and it's gone - photos, comments, everything. Every member is warned first and reminded to export.
• Full export any time: every member, one zip of original files plus the words - posts, comments, reactions - in an open format.
• No AI is trained on your photos. Nobody analyses them. No face scanning. The service is paid for by its price - one plan per family, no ads - not by your family's data.
• An honest subprocessor list. Few services can claim literally zero non-EU vendors - we keep the list short, published, and photos are never part of it.

Privacy that shows instead of tells

There are no public profiles, no discovery, no previews. An album exists only for the people invited to it - to everyone else it's not blurred or locked, it simply isn't there. That is what quiet means.