Privacy Policy

Your photos and videos

Swipely asks for access to your photo library when you first open a photo tool. To find similar shots, duplicates, screenshots and large videos, it reads each item’s details on the phone — the file name, its size in pixels, the length of a video and when it was taken — and shows you thumbnails from your own library. If you allow access to only some photos, it sees only those.

Your photos and videos are never uploaded, copied off the phone or included in any report or ad request. The results of a scan are kept in memory while the app is open and are not saved; the next launch scans again.

Deleting

Swipely deletes only the items you selected, and only after you confirm. For photos and videos, your phone then asks you to confirm again. On iPhone, deleted photos and videos go to Recently Deleted, where they stay for 30 days.

Your contacts

Swipely asks for access to your contacts only when you open the contacts cleaner. It reads them on the phone to find duplicates and incomplete entries, and removes a contact only when you confirm. Contact details are never uploaded, never saved by the app and never included in any report or ad request.

What the app stores on your phone

In the app’s private storage on the device, and nowhere else:

• Your settings: appearance, sounds and reminder schedule, and whether you have finished the introduction.
• Which months you have finished in swipe review — the month only, never which photos.
• Your clean-up history: up to the last 100 clean-ups, each with its date, how many items were removed, an estimated size and which tool was used.
• A cached copy of the app’s remote settings, described below.

Reminders

If you turn on a clean-up reminder, it is a local notification scheduled on your phone. Swipely does not use push notifications and no server sends it.

Advertising

Swipely may show ads, served by Google AdMob, which is part of Google. Whether ads appear is controlled by the app’s remote settings. To select and measure an ad, AdMob receives your device’s advertising identifier, your IP address and coarse information about the device and app — for example the model, the operating system version and the app version — along with whether an ad was shown, viewed or tapped. Google acts as an independent controller of that information under its own privacy policy, at policies.google.com/privacy.

Your photos, videos and contacts are never part of an ad request.

If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, the app asks for your consent with Google’s consent form before it requests an ad, and you can change that choice in Settings → Ad privacy options. On iPhone, the app asks for permission to track before using the advertising identifier; if you decline, the advertising identifier is not used. You can also reset the advertising identifier, or turn off ad personalisation for every app, in your phone’s settings.

How the app reports on itself

Swipely uses three Google Firebase services to keep the app working. None of them ever receives your photos, videos, file names or contacts.

• Remote Config fetches a small settings file, so things like whether a tool is available, or whether ads are shown, can be changed without publishing an update.
• Analytics records that the app was opened, which screens and tools are used, and counts — for example how many items a scan found or how many you deleted — along with the appearance you chose. It never records what those items are.
• Crashlytics sends a report when the app crashes or hits an error: what went wrong, where in the code it happened, and the state of the device at the time.

What those reports contain

A Firebase installation identifier, your IP address, and basic information about the device and the app — the model, the operating system version, the app version, the language and the country worked out from the IP address. The identifier is specific to this installation of Swipely; it is not your Google or Apple account, and uninstalling the app ends it.

Google processes this on our behalf as a data processor, under its own terms at firebase.google.com/terms/data-processing-terms.

What we do not do

• We do not ask you to create an account, and we do not know who you are.
• We do not upload, store or see your photos, videos or contacts.
• We do not run analytics or crash reporting of our own — only Google Firebase, described above, and only about the app itself.
• We do not sell personal information — we hold none.

Children

Swipely is a general-purpose utility and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included.

Your choices

Decline photo or contacts access if you never use those tools, or allow only some photos. Turn reminders and sounds off in Settings, and change your ad choice in Settings → Ad privacy options where it applies. Uninstalling Swipely removes everything it has stored on your phone.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that affects you, the revised version will be published on this page with a new revision date. Continuing to use Swipely after that date means the revised policy applies.