Privacy Policy for Clean Scanner
This Privacy Policy describes how Clean Scanner ("the app") handles information when you use the Android application package cleanscanner.gante.
Overview
The app is designed to scan physical documents using your device camera and convert them into PDF files. It also offers optional text recognition (OCR) as a premium feature.
The app does not require you to create an account and does not ask you to submit your name, email address, contacts, photos, or location directly to the developer.
All document processing, including scanning, PDF generation, and text recognition, happens entirely on your device. The app does not transmit your documents, images, or extracted text to any server.
Information stored on your device
To provide its features, the app stores the following data locally on your device:
- scanned document PDF files in the app's private storage;
- thumbnail preview images of your scanned documents;
- document metadata such as title, creation date, and page count;
- purchase state needed to unlock premium features when reported by Google Play Billing.
This information is used to make the app work and display your scanned documents. All files are stored in the app's private storage directory, which is not accessible to other apps.
Permissions used by the app
- BILLING — to process Pro subscription purchases through Google Play Billing.
- INTERNET — included by the Google Play Billing library to communicate with Google Play for purchase verification. It is not used to upload your documents or scanned content.
The app itself does not declare a camera, storage, contacts, precise location, or microphone permission. Document capture is performed by the Google Play services document scanner in its own secure interface, so the camera is handled by Google Play services and not by a camera permission held by this app. Importing existing pictures uses the Android photo picker, which lets you grant access only to the images you select without a broad storage permission.
Document scanning and text recognition
Document scanning uses Google ML Kit Document Scanner, which runs entirely on your device through Google Play services. Camera frames are processed locally for document detection, cropping, and image enhancement. No images are sent to Google servers during scanning.
Text recognition (OCR), available as a Pro feature, uses Google ML Kit Text Recognition. Text extraction from your PDF pages is performed on-device. The extracted text is held in memory and is not stored permanently unless you choose to share it.
Purchases and Google Play Billing
Premium purchases and subscriptions are processed through Google Play Billing. When you make or restore a purchase, Google may process purchase-related and technical data under its own terms and privacy policies.
The app uses this purchase information only to determine whether premium features should be available on your device.
Data sharing
The developer does not sell your personal data. The app is not designed to upload your documents, images, or personal files to the developer's servers.
When you use the share or open function, the app provides the selected PDF file to the app you choose through the Android share system. The handling of that file is then governed by the receiving app.
Third-party services provided by Google, such as Google Play Billing and Google Play app distribution infrastructure, may process data as needed to deliver their services.
Analytics and advertising
The app does not include any analytics, crash reporting, or advertising SDKs. No usage data, device identifiers, or behavioral information is collected or transmitted.
Data retention and deletion
Scanned documents, thumbnails, and metadata are stored locally on your device and are retained only for as long as they remain in the app's local storage.
You can delete individual documents at any time from within the app. You can also remove all app data by clearing the app's data in Android system settings or by uninstalling the app.
Because the developer does not operate a server for this app, the developer does not maintain any server-side copy of your documents or data.
Purchase status is handled through Google Play Billing and may remain associated with your Google account according to Google's systems and policies.
On some supported Android devices, system-level backup features may back up app data as part of the device owner's Android backup settings. That behavior is controlled by Android and your device or Google account settings, not by the developer.
Children
The app is not directed to children under 13. If your target audience selection in Google Play changes in the future, this policy should be reviewed and updated accordingly.
Changes to this policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. Material updates will be reflected on this page by changing the "Last updated" date.
Contact
For privacy questions or support requests, use the developer support contact listed on the Google Play store page for Clean Scanner.
The Google Play listing is the authoritative contact point for the current version of this app. If the support contact changes in the future, the updated contact information will appear on that store listing.