Privacy policy: Safe Share [NAME]
1. In short
The app does not collect, transmit or share any personal data. Your files are read, cleaned and checked on your phone. The app has no account, no ads, no analytics and no crash reporting. The Android app has no internet permission, and the app itself makes no network requests.
2. Who is responsible
Provider of the app and controller within the meaning of the GDPR: Plain Apps, Residenzstr. 5, 80333 Munich, Germany, plainapps@tuta.com
Contact for privacy questions: plainapps@tuta.com
The full provider details are in the .
The data the app keeps on your phone is not sent to us. We do not receive it.
3. What the app stores on your phone
What the app does with your files. You choose a photo, video or PDF (with the system picker, the Files app or a Share menu). The app reads it on your phone, writes a cleaned copy in its temporary folder, reads the copy again to check it and, when you tap Share or Save, hands the copy to the app or folder you choose. Your original is never changed. The temporary copies are deleted when you leave the result screen and every time the app starts. The app keeps no history of your files.
What the app stores. Only your settings (default cleaning profile, file-name choice, appearance), on your phone. On iPhone, files you share into the app wait in a folder shared between the app and its share extension until you open the app.
4. Permissions
- Android: “media location”, asked only when you tap “Show the original location”, so Android can reveal where a photo was taken. It is used only to show you that location and to remove it.
- iPhone: add-only access to Photos, asked the first time you tap “Save to Photos”. The app cannot see your other photos.
The app does not use your camera, microphone, contacts or general storage access.
5. Links and hand-offs
“Show on map” opens your maps app with the coordinates when you tap it; the maps app then follows its own privacy rules. Share and Save hand the cleaned copy to the app or folder you choose; that app then follows its own rules. The app itself sends nothing.
6. Backups
Android Auto Backup is switched off for the app. iPhone device backups may contain the app's settings, as for any app.
7. Limits of the cleaning
The app removes the hidden data it finds and checks the copy. It cannot change what a picture shows and cannot promise to find every kind of hidden data. The result screen says what was checked and what could not be.
8. Third-party code and services
The app is built with Expo and React Native and their open-source libraries, which run inside the app; the full list is on the app's Licences screen. None of them collects or sends data; the app contains no advertising, analytics, crash-reporting, login or remote-configuration code. Some of the libraries contain networking code that the app never calls.
9. No tracking, ads or analytics
The app has no account, no advertising, no analytics, no crash reporting and no tracking. It does not use an advertising ID. We do not build profiles and make no automated decisions about you.
10. Legal basis
Nearly everything the app does happens on your phone, and we never receive it. Where that is processing of personal data for which we are responsible, the legal basis is:
- Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR: the app functions you ask for (the app is used under the terms of the store you got it from).
- Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR: your consent, for optional features that are off until you switch them on and for which your phone asks your permission. You can withdraw consent at any time by switching the feature or the permission off in the app or in your phone's settings. Processing that already happened stays lawful.
11. How long data is kept, and how to delete it
The app keeps no history of your files, and the temporary working copies are deleted as described above. The only thing it keeps is your settings, on your phone, until you uninstall the app. We keep no copy. Uninstalling the app removes its settings.
12. Children
The app is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children.
13. Your rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have the right to:
- information about and access to your data (Art. 15),
- correction (Art. 16),
- erasure (Art. 17),
- restriction of processing (Art. 18),
- notification of recipients about corrections, erasure or restriction (Art. 19),
- receive your data in a common format and pass it on (data portability, Art. 20),
- object to processing (Art. 21), and
- withdraw a consent you gave (Art. 7(3)).
You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77), for example the one where you live. The app makes no decision about you based only on automated processing (Art. 22).
We receive no personal data through the app, so we normally hold nothing about you that we could give out, correct or delete. Uninstalling the app removes its settings.
If you still want to use one of these rights or have a question, write to the contact address in section 2. We answer within one month (Art. 12(3) GDPR).
14. App stores
If you install the app through Google Play or the App Store, the store processes your download and account under its own privacy policy. We receive only aggregated statistics from the store, no personal data.
15. Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is published at this address with a new date. If a future version of the app starts to access more than described here, this policy is updated before that version is released.
16. Contact
plainapps@tuta.com
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