Privacy policy: Plaincard: Business Card Scan

Provider: Plain Apps, Residenzstr. 5, 80333 Munich, Germany, plainapps@tuta.com

In short

Plaincard works entirely on your phone. There is no account, no server of ours, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. The app makes no network requests; the Android version has no internet permission.

What the app stores

On your phone only: the photos of the business cards you scan or pick (re-encoded without camera or location metadata), the text read from them, the fields you checked, events, tags, notes, follow-up reminders and your settings. "My card" (your own details for the QR code) is stored the same way. Deleting a card in the app removes it and its photo for good shortly after the undo message. Uninstalling the app removes everything.

Permissions

Camera: only when you scan a card or take a photo for it; the photos stay on the phone. Photos: picked through the system picker; the app does not read your photo library. Contacts: asked only when you add several cards at once or look for people who are already in your contacts, after the app has told you what it will do. The app then compares names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses on the phone, creates the contacts you chose and adds only new details to a contact you chose; it never deletes or overwrites a contact and never uploads your contacts. Saving one card uses the phone's own "new contact" form, which needs no permission. Notifications: only when you set a follow-up reminder.

Google components on Android

On Android, Google Play services may download Google's document scanner and text-recognition language models once. These are Google's components; recognition runs on the phone. Google's terms apply to Play services.

Exports and sharing

A vCard or CSV file, your own card's vCard and the QR code leave the phone only when you share them through the system share sheet, with the app or person you choose.

Phone backups

Android: the app is excluded from Google's cloud backup, so the cards are not copied to your Google account. iPhone: the phone's own iCloud or computer backup includes the app's data when you have it switched on.

Other people's data

The cards you scan contain other people's contact details. You store them on your phone for your own use; the app does not transmit them anywhere. Handle them as you would a paper card.

Children, ads, sharing of data

The app is not directed at children. It shows no ads and shares no data with anyone.

Your rights

Since no data is collected by us, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete; all data is on your phone and under your control. Questions: plainapps@tuta.com.

Changes

Changes to this policy are published at this address with the date.

Last updated: 2026-10-16