Privacy Policy

1. Overview

This Privacy Policy explains how Pressly (“we”, “our”, or “the app”) handles data when you use our mobile application on Android. We believe in minimal data handling: you trust Pressly with your personal photos, and we treat that trust with utmost seriousness.

2. Your Photos & Image Processing

All photo compression, resizing, and format conversions happen locally on your phone’s processor.

• No Cloud Uploads: Photos are never transmitted over the internet or sent to external servers for processing.
• System Photo Picker: Pressly uses Android’s native photo picker. The app only accesses the specific photos you select. We never scan, index, or browse the rest of your gallery.
• Originals Are Untouched: Original images are opened strictly in read-only mode. Pressly will never modify, overwrite, or delete your original camera photos.
• Safe Output Location: Compressed copies are saved as new files into your gallery's Pictures/Pressly folder.

3. Internet Access & Advertising

Pressly is free to use and supported by advertising. The app requires internet connectivity to load and display advertisements.

• We partner with reputable third-party advertising networks (such as Google AdMob) to serve ads within the app.
• These advertising providers may automatically collect standard device information, including your device type, approximate geographic location, IP address, and advertising identifiers (such as the Google Advertising ID) in order to serve contextual or personalized ads.
• Your photos are never accessed by or shared with advertising partners. Ad SDKs operate strictly within their own isolated context.
• You can manage, reset, or opt out of personalized ads at any time via your phone’s settings under Settings → Google → Ads.

4. GPS Location & Metadata (EXIF)

Smartphones routinely attach hidden EXIF metadata to camera photos, including exact GPS latitude/longitude coordinates, capture dates, and camera serials.

Pressly automatically strips GPS location coordinates and EXIF metadata by default when saving compressed copies. This protects your personal location privacy when sharing pictures online. You can also view metadata in the app before saving or toggle metadata preservation in Settings if you choose.

5. Data Stored on Your Device

Pressly retains a minimal amount of state locally in your phone’s private app sandbox:

• Preferences: Your theme selection (dark/light), default compression preset, and metadata settings.
• History: Past batch counts and space saved, stored locally in history.json to power the History screen.
• Preview Cache: Temporary cached thumbnails so recent batches load quickly.

6. App Permissions

Pressly requests only the permissions necessary to deliver reliable mobile compression:

• Internet Access: Used exclusively by the advertising SDK to display advertisements and load ad assets.
• Notifications (Android 13+): Used to show an active progress notification while compressing large batches of photos, and to let you know when they are done.
• Background Service: Ensures that multi-photo batches complete smoothly if you lock your screen or switch to another app.
• Storage (Android 9 and older only): Required strictly on older Android versions that lack Scoped Storage to save output files into Pictures/Pressly. Not used or requested on Android 10+.

7. Children's Privacy

Pressly is a general utility tool and is not intended for or directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect operational or legal updates. Any changes will be posted directly on this page with an updated modification date.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@itsaqeel.dev.