Privacy Policy — Mosaic: Pixelate Blur Censor

Last updated: 3 November 2026

The short version

Mosaic edits your photos on your phone. The photos you open are never uploaded to the developer. The app has no accounts and does not ask for your name, email or any other personal details. To show ads, count how the app is used and fix crashes, it uses Google services (AdMob and Firebase), which collect some device and usage data as described below. An optional purchase, Remove ads, is paid through Google Play: we never see your payment details. We don't sell your data, and you can opt out of personalised ads.

Your photos

• You choose a photo with Android's photo picker, so the app can only see the photo you pick, not the rest of your gallery.
• Mosaic, blur and color effects are applied on your phone. Your photos are not uploaded to the developer or to any ad or analytics service.
• When you tap Save, the edited copy is saved to your phone's Pictures folder (Pictures/Mosaic Pixelate Censor). Your original photo is not changed.
• When you tap Share, Android's share sheet opens and the photo goes only to the app you choose.

What stays on your device

• Your settings, such as the effect color and image quality, and simple counters such as how many photos you have saved, are stored in the app's own storage on your phone. They are not uploaded to the developer.
• Uninstalling the app deletes this data. Photos you saved stay in your Pictures folder until you delete them. If Android backup is on, app data may be included in your device backup, handled by Android and your Google account, not by this app.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

The app shows a banner ad below the editing controls and, occasionally, a full-screen ad after you save a photo (never on your first save, and at most once every few minutes). Ads are served by Google AdMob, which may collect:

• Your device's advertising ID and other device identifiers
• Your IP address, used to estimate your approximate location (country or city)
• Device information (model, operating system, language) and how you interact with ads

Google uses this to show ads, measure them and prevent fraud. In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, the app asks for your consent through Google's consent form before any ads load. You can reset your advertising ID or opt out of personalised ads in your Android settings (Settings → Google → Ads). See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.

Your privacy choices

• European Economic Area, UK and Switzerland: you can change your consent at any time. Open the app's menu and tap Privacy settings.
• US state privacy rights: if you live in a US state with a privacy law (such as California), you can opt out of the use of your data for personalised ads, which some of these laws call "selling" or "sharing" personal information. Turn off personalised ads in your Android settings (Settings → Google → Ads), or use Privacy settings in the app's menu where it appears.
• No ads at all: buy Remove ads (see Purchases below). The app then stops loading ads altogether.

Analytics and crash reports (Google Firebase)

The app uses Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics to understand how it is used and to fix problems. They may collect:

• App events, such as a photo opened or saved, which effect was used (mosaic, blur or color) with its color and strength, undo, rotate, reset and share, and opening the Remove ads offer. The content of your photos is never included.
• Completed purchases: the item, its price and currency
• How the app was installed (for example, from Google Play), an app instance ID created for this install, and device information (model, operating system, language, country)
• Crash reports, and error reports when a photo can't be opened or processed: what the app was doing, with technical details of the device

This data is not linked to your name or contact details, because the app never has them. See Firebase privacy and security.

Purchases (Google Play)

Remove ads is an optional one-time purchase that removes every ad and supports the app's development. Google Play takes the payment, so we never see your card or other payment details (see Google's privacy policy). For each order, Google gives us:

• The order number, the item, its price and currency
• The model of the phone it was bought on
• The country it was bought in and, in some countries, the state, city and postcode

We use these for accounting, tax and refunds. Each time the app starts, it asks Google Play whether your Google account owns Remove ads, so the purchase comes back on a new phone and ends if it is refunded. The last answer is remembered on your phone so ads don't flash up before Google Play replies.

Ratings

After you have saved a few photos, the app may ask Google Play to show its rating card. Google Play decides whether to show it, and any rating or review you leave goes to Google Play, not to the app.

What the app does not do

• No accounts, sign-in or cloud storage
• No uploading of your photos
• No access to your contacts, camera, microphone, messages or precise location, or to photos you don't pick
• No sale of personal data for money; ads may be personalised unless you opt out (see Your privacy choices)
• No access to your payment details: Google Play takes every payment

Permissions

• Internet and network state: to load ads and send analytics and crash reports
• Advertising ID and Android ad services: used by AdMob as described above
• Billing: to buy Remove ads through Google Play
• Install referrer: lets Firebase Analytics tell how the app was installed
• Wake lock and background work: used by Google's libraries to send analytics and crash reports reliably
• Storage (Android 9 and older only): to save your edited photo to the Pictures folder. Newer Android versions need no permission for this.

Data retention and deletion

Data collected by AdMob and Firebase is kept by Google under its own retention settings (Firebase Analytics keeps event data for up to 14 months; Crashlytics keeps crash reports for 90 days). Because the app has no accounts, the developer cannot look up or identify that data. Google Play keeps order records for tax and refunds; for help with a purchase, email us the order number from Google Play's receipt. To stop all collection, uninstall the app; you can also reset your advertising ID in Android settings.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this address with a new date above.

Contact

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