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  PrivacyFirst Photo Organizer  1.1.3
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ABOUT THE DEVELOPER
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PrivacyFirst Photo Organizer is made and published by ITFanatic.

    Website:  https://itfanatic.com

It is built on a single principle: your photographs are nobody's business but
yours. The program does all of its work -- finding faces, recognising people,
grouping duplicates, reading text, writing captions -- entirely on your own
computer, using models that ship inside the download. It has no account to
sign up for, sends no telemetry, and makes no network connection of its own
while you use it. Your photographs never leave your machine.

The only times it will ever use the network are ones you start yourself: the
optional first-run downloads of extra models, and an optional setting that
points captioning at an AI server you have chosen to run. Both are off until
you turn them on, and the program tells you plainly before anything leaves
your computer.

© 2026 itfanatic.com. All rights reserved.

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WHAT YOU DOWNLOADED
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Two forms of the same program are published. Either is fine; pick one.

    PrivacyFirstPhotoOrganizer-macos-silicon.dmg
        the usual install: drag the app to Applications
    PrivacyFirstPhotoOrganizer-macos-silicon.zip
        a portable folder that keeps its data beside the app

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HOW TO INSTALL
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A) THE .dmg  --  the usual install

   1. Open the downloaded .dmg.
   2. Drag PrivacyFirst Photo Organizer onto the Applications folder shown
      beside it. The disk image's own window shows this instruction and an
      arrow between the two icons.
   3. Eject the disk image, then run the app from Applications.

   The first time you open it, macOS may say it cannot check the app for
   malicious software, or that it is from an unidentified developer. If so,
   right-click (or Control-click) the app and choose Open, then confirm. That
   prompt is about how widely known the download is, not about anything the
   app does -- and you can verify the download yourself, below.

B) THE .zip  --  a portable folder

   1. Unpack it anywhere you like -- including an external disk.
   2. Run the PrivacyFirst Photo Organizer app inside the unpacked folder.

   This build keeps its projects, settings and any downloaded models in a
   PrivacyFirst_Photo_Organizer_data folder BESIDE the app, so the whole
   folder can be moved between Macs and carries your work with it. (The copy
   installed from the .dmg keeps its data in your home folder instead, which
   is what you want for a normal install.)

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VERIFYING YOUR DOWNLOAD
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Every file published at https://itfanatic.com comes with two companion files:

    <filename>.sha256   a checksum, proving the download is not corrupted
    <filename>.asc      a GPG signature, proving it came from us

Checking them is optional. It is worth doing if you care that the file you
received is the file we built -- and it is the real answer to the SmartScreen
or Gatekeeper warning above.

1. CHECK THE DOWNLOAD IS INTACT

   Download the .sha256 file next to your download, put it in the same folder,
   and run:

          shasum -a 256 -c PrivacyFirstPhotoOrganizer-macos-silicon.dmg.sha256

2. CHECK THE DOWNLOAD IS GENUINELY OURS

   GnuPG is not part of macOS. Install it with Homebrew (brew install gnupg)
   or from https://gpgtools.org if you want to check signatures.

   a) Get our public key from the download page at https://itfanatic.com
      and import it:

          gpg --import itfanatic-release-key.asc

      Take the key from the website, NOT from inside this archive. A signature
      only proves that the file matches the key you checked it against, so the
      key has to reach you by a route an attacker who replaced your download
      could not also have replaced.

   b) Confirm the key you imported is the right one. Its fingerprint must be
      exactly:

          1A50 0CD8 A965 DF29 A108 E40A B373 44E4 387F 38E8

      Signed by: ITFanatic (release signing) <releases@itfanatic.com>

   c) Download the .asc file next to your download, put it in the same folder,
      and verify:

          gpg --verify <filename>.asc <filename>

      You want to see "Good signature", and a primary key fingerprint matching
      the one above.

      GPG will probably also print "WARNING: This key is not certified with a
      trusted signature". That is expected and is not a failure. It only means
      you have not personally vouched for the key -- which you have no reason
      to have done. The fingerprint check in step (b) is what matters.

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LICENSING
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Without a licence the program runs with every feature available, but processes
at most 300 photos and will not modify or export any of your files. It is
a way to try the whole program on your own photographs, not a crippled mode.

If you bought a licence you will have received a .lic file. Open the program,
go to the About page, and choose "Install license file". It is checked on your
own machine -- installing a licence does not contact us, and the program still
makes no network connection of its own.

Your licence covers every 1.x version of the program.

    Buy a licence, or find your licence file again:  https://itfanatic.com

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HELP
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The full user guide is built into the program: open it from the "?" button at
the bottom of the left-hand bar, or from the About page.

    Guide, downloads, support and contact:  https://itfanatic.com

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