What we store, where it lives, who can open it, and for how long. In plain words.
Stabble never holds your RAW files.
Your originals never leave your Mac. What we store is a web-sized JPEG preview of each image, plus what your client does with them — ratings, color tags and comments. Nothing else.
Servers and preview storage both run in Frankfurt, Germany. We never transfer your data outside the European Union, and an account can only ever reach its own galleries, images and clients.
Three things guard a gallery — and you hold all three.
| What | How it is protected | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Your client's selection | Automatic restore points: one when your client sends their selection, one before every republish. Roll back in one click from your console. | At every key moment |
| Accounts, galleries, settings | Backed up with the whole server every 12 hours; backups are kept for one week at our hosting provider. | Twice a day |
| Your studio logo | Copied onto that same server, so the server backups cover it too. | Daily |
| Image previews | Rebuildable at will: the session on your Mac is the master copy. Republishing puts a gallery back online as it was. | On demand |
The one thing nobody could rebuild — your client's choices — is also the one thing with its own dedicated history.
The clock starts the day a gallery is published.
| Plan | Gallery retention |
|---|---|
| Solo | 90 days |
| Studio | 180 days |
| Production | 365 days |
Archiving frees a slot without shortening anything: previews stay until the retention date, and one click brings the gallery back. Past that date they are deleted for good — archiving never extends the clock.
We work with a small number of providers. Each one only receives what it needs to do its job:
| Provider | What for | Where |
|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | Hosting and preview storage | Frankfurt, EU |
| Cloudflare | DNS and protection against attacks | Global network |
| Elastic Email | Transactional emails (gallery invitations, account) | EU / United States |
| Paddle | Payments — Merchant of Record, handles VAT and invoicing | EU / United Kingdom |
We use no advertising trackers and no third-party analytics.
For the data of your own studio and users, the data controller is:
You may request access, correction, deletion or a portable copy of your data by writing to that address. We answer within one month.
When you publish a gallery for a client, you remain responsible for the images and the reviewer contact details you enter — Stabble processes them on your behalf, for the duration you set.
Found something that looks wrong? Write to [email protected]. We read every report and answer, including the ones that turn out to be false alarms.