🛡️ Google Play User Data & Privacy Policy Compliant

Privacy Policy

App Name: ScanFree (Document Scanner & PDF Tools) Package ID: com.scanclone.scan_clone Effective Date: August 30, 2026

⚡ Google Play Data Safety & Privacy Summary

ScanFree is engineered with a strict 100% On-Device Privacy Architecture. The app does not collect, harvest, store, transmit, or share any personal, financial, or document data with any cloud servers, advertising networks, or third-party analytics services. All machine learning OCR, image processing, and PDF encryption occur strictly on the user's physical hardware.

1. Data Safety Section (Google Play Declarations)

The table below reflects our official submission in the Google Play Console Data Safety questionnaire:

Data Category	Collected?	Shared with 3rd Parties?	Processing Type
Photos & Videos (Camera)	No	No	100% On-Device
Contacts (Address Book)	No	No	Local Write-Only
Documents & Files (PDFs/Images)	No	No	Sandboxed Storage
Personal Info (Name, Email)	No	No	None
Device Identifiers & Telemetry	No	No	None

2. Android Runtime Permissions & Purpose Disclosures

In compliance with Google Play's Prominent Disclosure and Consent Requirement, ScanFree presents in-app disclosure dialogs before requesting sensitive device permissions:

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Camera Permission (android.permission.CAMERA)

Purpose: Allows the app to photograph physical documents, receipts, business cards, whiteboards, and IDs for document scanning.
Disclosure: The camera feed is processed in real time on your phone for automatic edge detection and quad-crop alignment. Images are never streamed, stored remotely, or transmitted to any server.

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Contacts Permission (android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS / READ_CONTACTS)

Purpose: Used exclusively when you scan a physical business card and choose to tap "Save to Contacts".
Disclosure: ScanFree only writes the specific contact details you inspect and approve into your local address book. ScanFree never harvests, synchronizes, or transmits your existing contacts list.

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Scoped Storage Compliance (Target SDK 37 / Android 13+)

Purpose: All scanned documents, generated PDFs, and OCR results are stored within the app's private sandboxed application directory (getApplicationDocumentsDirectory).
Disclosure: ScanFree does not require or request dangerous legacy READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE or WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions.

3. On-Device Machine Learning (OCR) & AI Processing

Text extraction from images is powered by Google ML Kit On-Device Text Recognition.

Model inference is executed entirely by your device's local CPU/GPU/NPU neural accelerator.
No scanned images, captured text, or OCR data are ever transmitted to cloud AI APIs.
OCR operates with 100% capability even in Airplane Mode (offline).

4. PDF Security & AES-256 Encryption

When utilizing ScanFree's PDF security utilities (Password Protection and Encryption):

Password encryption uses industry-standard AES-256 cryptographic standards calculated on-chip.
Passwords entered by the user are used ephemerally in memory to encrypt/decrypt the document and are never persisted or logged.

5. User Data Rights & Data Deletion

Under GDPR, CCPA, and Google Play policies, users retain absolute ownership and control over their content:

Immediate Local Deletion: Deleting any scan or folder inside ScanFree permanently wipes the files and thumbnails from device storage immediately.
App Uninstallation: Uninstalling ScanFree completely and permanently deletes all sandboxed files and databases from the device.
No Cloud Retention: Because we operate no cloud infrastructure, no residual data remains after local deletion.

6. Third-Party Libraries & Zero Analytics Commitment

ScanFree does not contain:

Zero Advertising SDKs (No AdMob, Unity, AppLovin, etc.).
Zero Analytics or Tracking Frameworks (No Firebase Analytics, AppsFlyer, Mixpanel, etc.).
Zero Crash Tracking SDKs that upload user logs.

7. Children’s Privacy

ScanFree complies with COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) and the Google Play Families Policy. ScanFree does not collect any personal information from any user, including children under 13 years of age.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may periodically update this policy to reflect application enhancements or regulatory changes. Any updates will be published on this page with a revised "Effective Date".