Privacy policy: Photo & Video Privacy
Photo & Video Privacy has no user accounts. What you create in the app stays on your phone unless you choose to share it. The app is free and shows ads through Google AdMob; a one-time purchase removes them. We do not sell personal data.
Who is responsible
The controller of personal data for Photo & Video Privacy is:
- Business name
- Michal Jakubowski
- Address
- Stawy 11-11, 02-467 Warszawa, Poland
- Tax ID (NIP)
- 5261257404
- [email protected]
What the app processes
Photos and videos stay on your phone
You choose photos and videos with Android's photo picker or share them to the app; the app needs no storage permission. All checks, face and text detection, blurring, watermarks and video processing run on your phone. Photos and videos are never sent to us, never uploaded anywhere and never passed to the ads SDK. Working copies are kept in the app's temporary storage and are deleted when you leave the result screen, at the next start, or after 24 hours at the latest. The app keeps no history of your photos.
Location in your photos (optional)
If you allow “access media location”, the app reads the location stored in a photo only to show it to you on the check screen, as coordinates (no map and no address lookup), and then removes it from the copy. Without the permission the app cannot show it, but removes it anyway.
Camera (optional)
The privacy camera needs the camera permission. Faces are blurred in memory before the photo is saved to your gallery; unless you turn on “Keep original”, the unblurred photo never reaches the gallery. So that you can still change or undo the blur of your last shot, the app keeps one unblurred copy of it in its private storage, which other apps cannot read; it is deleted when you take the next shot, when you finish editing that shot, or after 24 hours, and it is never shared or uploaded. No location is ever written into the photos. Photos are saved on your phone in Pictures/Photo Privacy.
Clean copies
The copies the app creates are new files without EXIF, XMP or IPTC data and without the embedded thumbnail, with neutral file names. They are saved in Pictures/Photo Privacy or Movies/Photo Privacy, or go only where you send them through Android's share menu. The original changes only if you choose “Replace original” and confirm it in Android's dialog.
Google ML Kit
Face, head (pose), text and QR code / barcode detection use Google ML Kit, which runs on your phone with models built into the app. ML Kit may send Google diagnostic and usage data about the detection features (for example performance and errors), but never your images or the detected faces, people, text or codes. The content of a detected code is not read out, stored or shown.
Settings, presets and logo
Your settings, watermark presets and the logo you choose are stored only on your phone. The logo and the working copies are left out of Android backup.
Ads, purchases and Google services
Advertising (Google AdMob)
The app shows ads from Google AdMob. To show and measure ads, Google processes your device's advertising ID, IP address, device and app information and how you interact with ads. In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland we ask for your consent through Google's consent form before any personalised ads are shown; without consent, Google shows only non-personalised or limited ads. You can change your choice at any time in the app: Settings → Privacy options. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in Android settings. Google's use of this data is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
US residents
Under some US state privacy laws (for example in California), letting Google use your device's data to show ads based on your activity in other apps and websites can count as “selling” or “sharing” personal data. You can opt out at any time in the app: Settings → Privacy options. After you opt out, Google shows ads with restricted data processing. We do not sell personal data for money.
Purchases (Google Play)
The “Remove ads” purchase is processed by Google Play. We never see your payment details. Google gives us the order number, product, date, country and price, which we keep as long as Polish tax law requires (usually 5 years).
Ratings
The app may occasionally show Google Play's rating prompt. Your rating and review go to Google Play, not to us.
Backups
If Android backup is turned on, Android may back up the app's settings and saved data to your Google account. This is controlled by you in Android settings.
What we do not do
No accounts, no selling of personal data for money, and no analytics or crash reports sent to us from the app.
Your rights and legal details
Legal bases
Personalised ads: your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)). Purchases: performance of the contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) and our tax obligations (Art. 6(1)(c)). Non-personalised ads that fund the free app, and security of our services: our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)).
Who receives data
Google (Google Ireland Ltd. and Google LLC) for ads, consent, purchases and ratings. Transfers outside the EEA are covered by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
Your rights
You can ask us for access to, correction or deletion of your data, restriction of processing, data portability, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest. You can withdraw consent at any time (Settings → Privacy options) without affecting earlier processing. Most data exists only on your phone: uninstalling the app deletes it. You can also complain to the Polish data protection authority: Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych, ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warszawa, uodo.gov.pl.
Children
The app is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date below.
Last updated: 2026-11-14