How #Gallery handles information on your device and through the services it uses.
In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” mean the developer and operator of #Gallery (com.sl.one.gallery.smart), as shown on the app’s Google Play page. Privacy questions and requests can be sent using the developer contact details listed there.
This policy covers the #Gallery Android app. The app combines a photo and video gallery (albums, memories, optional People and Places, quick editing, Bin) with a home screen (launcher), an app drawer and a Recent apps page. It uses Google Mobile Ads with Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP), Firebase Analytics, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Google Play Install Referrer and our own settings server. You do not need an account or sign-in to use it.
The app does not read SMS, call logs, contacts or your live GPS location, and it has no camera of its own.
Many features only read information that is already on your phone, such as your photos, the location saved inside a photo and the list of installed apps. Reading something on the device is not the same as sending it to a server: these features work locally and do not upload your photos, videos, face data or app list to us.
The app is not offline-only, though. Ads, analytics, crash reporting, push messages, settings downloads, the one-time face-model download and place-name lookups use the internet. These send technical information (for example identifiers, device details, events and network details such as your IP address), not the contents of your photos. Each of these is described below.
Reading this policy or continuing to use the app does not count as your consent where the law requires separate consent; the app asks for that through Android permission prompts and the consent form.
If you email us for support or a privacy request, we receive what you choose to send: usually your email address, your message and any attachments. We use it to answer you, fix problems and keep a record of the request. Please do not send passwords, identity documents or private photos; a photo you attach to an email is no longer only on your device.
With your permission, the app reads the photos and videos Android lets it access, together with their details such as file name, folder, date, size, dimensions, duration and embedded metadata. This powers browsing, albums, favourites, search, video playback, memories and stories, creations and the Bin.
On newer Android versions you can allow only selected photos; features that need the whole library will then show less. Quick edits are saved as a new copy on your device. Moving items to the Bin, restoring them and deleting them for good go through Android’s own confirmation. The app is not a cloud backup.
People is off until you turn it on. When it is on, the app detects faces in your photos and creates face measurements (numeric descriptors) to group photos of the same person, plus any names you add. Face information can be sensitive, so all of this happens on your device and is stored only in the app’s private storage.
Face grouping only organises your own library. It does not verify identity, does not compare faces with any outside database, and its results are not sent to us, used for advertising or used to train models.
You can switch People off and delete all face data from the app’s settings. Deleting face data removes the groups, names and descriptors but not your photos. Switching the feature off alone does not erase data already created; use the delete option for that.
If you allow photo-location access, the app reads the coordinates your camera stored inside a photo to show Places and trips. These can show exactly where a photo was taken.
To turn coordinates into a place name such as a city, the app uses Android’s built-in Geocoder, which may send the coordinates to the device’s location provider (usually Google). Place names are kept on the device. This is not live location tracking, and photo coordinates are never sent to advertisers. Revoking the permission stops further reading but does not erase place names already saved; clear the app’s data for that.
As a home screen app, it reads the names, icons and package names of your installed apps to show them on the home screen, in the drawer, in search and on the Recent page. Your layout, folders, hidden apps and the list of apps you opened from our home screen are stored only on your device and are not uploaded to us.
The app also shows a short summary when an app is installed or removed and a charging screen with battery status; both use information only on the device. Apps are uninstalled only through Android’s own confirmation, your wallpaper changes only when you choose to set a photo as wallpaper, and Quick Clean only removes cache and temporary files created by this app. You can change your default home app in Android settings at any time.
If you allow notifications, the app can remind you when a new memory is ready and show service messages. Firebase Cloud Messaging gives the app a push token so that we can send these messages.
When you share a photo, open a web search or open another app, the chosen content goes to the destination you pick, which handles it under its own privacy policy. Deleting a photo in the app does not remove a copy you already shared.
The app is free and shows ads from Google Mobile Ads (AdMob). Which ads appear can depend on the app version, its settings, how the app was installed, your region and your consent choices.
Google Mobile Ads processes your IP address (which can indicate an approximate location), the Android advertising ID or other app identifiers, device and app information, and ad views and clicks, to deliver and measure ads and to prevent fraud. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Where required (for example in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland), the app shows Google’s consent form through UMP, which stores your choices on the device. You can change them later from Privacy options in the app’s settings.
Google Play Install Referrer tells the app where it was installed from. The app uses this on the device to decide which settings and ads apply to the install; it is not a record of any payment.
You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or turn off personalised ads, in your device’s Google or Privacy settings. This does not stop all ad requests, non-personalised or contextual ads, or fraud checks. Ad choices are separate from analytics; see the next section.
Firebase Analytics sends Google information about how the app is used: an app-instance ID, device model, Android version, language, approximate location, sessions and app events, including ad events such as an ad being loaded, shown, clicked or failing. We use this to understand usage, measure ads and find problems.
If the app crashes, Crashlytics sends Google a crash report with the error details, device information, the app state at the time and a Crashlytics installation ID. We use it to find and fix bugs.
Analytics and crash reports are not sent your photos, videos, face data, photo locations, people names or installed-app list. They start automatically when the app opens, and the app has no in-app switch to turn them off. Refusing a permission, declining personalised ads or clearing the app’s data does not erase records Google already received. Firebase privacy information: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy
Face grouping uses Google ML Kit face detection and the TensorFlow Lite (LiteRT) runtime, both provided through Google Play services. Your photos are processed on the device and are not sent to Google for this. Google Play services may send Google technical information about these components, such as device and app details, performance and error metrics. See https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/terms
The first time People runs, the app downloads a face-recognition model file (by default from GitHub, raw.githubusercontent.com). The host receives normal request details such as your IP address. The download request contains no photos or face data. GitHub privacy statement: https://docs.github.com/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement
The app downloads its settings (for example which ads and features are on) from our settings server over HTTPS. Like any web request, this reveals your IP address, the time and basic request details, which our hosting provider may keep in its security logs. These requests contain no photos, face data or app list.
Some ad spaces may show our own promotions. If you tap one, or tap the search bar, a web page opens in your browser or in a browser tab inside the app. The website you open receives your request and handles it under its own privacy policy and cookie choices. The app itself does not set web cookies.
We use information only for the purposes in this policy: running the features you use, remembering your settings on the device, showing and measuring ads, understanding usage, fixing crashes, keeping the app secure, answering support requests and meeting legal obligations.
Where the law needs a legal basis, it depends on the activity: providing the app you asked for, your consent (for example for personalised ads where consent is required), our legitimate interests in security, reliability and improving the app where they do not override your rights, and legal obligations.
Information can go to:
We do not sell or rent your personal information for money. Some laws may still treat advertising-related transfers as a “sale” or “sharing”; your rights under those laws remain. Your photos, face data, photo locations and installed-app list are never given to advertising partners.
There is no single retention period; it depends on the information and where it is kept.
There is no account to close and no single button that removes every remote record. To ask about or delete information linked to your app installation, contact us using the developer contact details on the app’s Google Play page with the app name and your request. We may need some information to find the records, and we will explain anything we cannot delete and why. Deleting data on your phone does not by itself delete records held by Google or other providers.
The app asks for these Android permissions:
You can review or revoke permissions, allow only selected photos, change your default home app, manage your advertising ID and clear the app’s data in Android settings. Revoking a permission stops further access but does not delete information already created; see the previous section.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or get a copy of your personal information, to object to or restrict its use, to withdraw consent, and to opt out of certain advertising. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that already happened. You may also complain to your local data protection authority. To use these rights, contact us using the developer contact details on the app’s Google Play page; we answer within the time the law requires and may need to verify the request.
The app is meant for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us using the developer contact details on the app’s Google Play page and we will look into it and delete it where required.
We use reasonable measures to protect information: the app’s private storage is protected by Android, and the app’s settings requests and Google’s SDK traffic use encrypted connections (HTTPS). No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, and we cannot protect content after you share it elsewhere.
Google, GitHub and our hosting provider may process information in countries other than yours. Where the law requires it, these transfers rely on appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses.
We may update this policy when the app, our providers or the law change. We will post the new version on this page with a new “Last updated” date, notify you in the app where required, and ask for your consent before any new use that needs it.
For questions or privacy requests, use the developer contact details on the app’s Google Play page. Please include the app name (#Gallery) and what you are asking for, and do not send unnecessary sensitive information.