Privacy Policy

Last Updated : 20/08/2023

Welcome to  Gallery - Album, Photo Vault The Application is provided and controlled by 'Handy Tools Apps ' (“company” , “we” or “us” ).  We value your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your personal information you provide when you use our applications and services.

Please take the time to read and understand our Privacy Policy before using our app and services. It will help you make informed choices.

1. What kinds of information do we collect?

To ensure your smooth experience and enhance the quality of our services, we may collect the following non-personally identifiable information or request specific permissions from you when you use our application and services.

Device information

When You access the Services by or through Your mobile device, We may automatically collect certain information, Include :

•  Your Mobile Device Model Name

•  Your mobile OS

• Your mobile device OS Version

• System Language

Application information

• Application’s Name

• Application’s Version Number

• Application’s Build

Mobile System Permission

• Storage permissions (for Android 5.0 and above)
  
  When you use the photo and video organizing feature, we require access to your storage in order to scan and encrypt the photos and videos on your device. This permission is only for the purpose of scanning and saving files to your device. We assure you that we will not acquire or collect any videos, photos, audios, or other files from your device. Furthermore, we will not make any automatic modifications or deletions to the content stored in your local media storage
  
  

• Email Address information
  
  When you use the feature of encrypting private photos and video with a PIN number, we may request access to your email address. This permission is only used to link our app with one of your email addresses in case you forget your PIN number.
  
  

• Customer Service
  
  When you send feedback via email or provide us with an error report, we will obtain your email address, and email content, so that we can communicate with you about problems encountered during the use of our products and services. We will only use this information to respond to your inquiries and provide assistance when you reach out to us.

2. How do we use this information? 

We use and analyze all available information to improve and provide our services.

Third-party service providers may also use this information to enhance their advertising and measurement systems, enabling them to display relevant ads on   and off our services. However, you have the option to opt out of Ads Personalization in the settings.

Please rest assured that we take all necessary measures to ensure the secure handling of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.   We will not transfer your personal information to other organizations or countries unless appropriate controls are in place.

In certain situations, we may be obligated to disclose your personal information if required by law or in response to a valid request from a public authority, such as a court. Except as stated in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose any of your personal information to third parties.

Furthermore, we do not store, sell, or transfer any user content, such as private photos and videos, etc.

3. How do We Store and Protect Your Personal Data 

• Data Retention
  
  We will retain and use Your Personal information to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce Our legal agreements and policies or for the carrying out of the purposes referred to in this Privacy Policy Statement. We will also retain personal data for internal analysis. so we can collect.
  
  

• Data Security
  
  We have implemented appropriate technical and security measures to protect the security of any personal data We process. We will try Our best to prevent accidental loss, unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, and destruction of Your personal data. However, please remember that the internet itself cannot be 100% secure. We recommend that You access the Service in a secure environment.

4. How do We Use Cookies? 

Cookie refers to a string of data stored on Your device’s internal storage when using our application. Cookies are typically used to optimize Our Services, communicate with users or manage their accounts, develop content, or for research and analysis purposes. Certainly, You can set the application to refuse or accept cookies, or to indicate whether to send cookies on the application settings. Please note that if You choose to refuse, You may not be able to access certain Services.

Additionally, we allow our business partners, advertising vendors and service providers (including analytics vendors) to collect information about your online activities through Cookies. These third parties may use this information to display advertisements on our application to your interests, preferences, and characteristics. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties, and the privacy policy about these third parties can be seen at Article 5.

5. Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Information 

Service Providers have access to Your Personal information only to perform their tasks on Our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

• Analytics

In order to provide a better user experience, We use third parties, like Google Analytics, to help Us analyze how Our Services are used. They collect information from You only to help Us improve Our Services. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. We mainly use Google Analytics to collect data from You to monitor and analyze the use of Our Service.

You can modify Your mobile device’s settings to opt out of certain Google Analytics features, such as Your device advertising settings. Following the instructions in Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Visit Google Privacy & Terms for more information on the privacy practices: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

• Advertising

We use third-party Service Providers to display advertisements to You in order to support and maintain Our Service.

These providers may use information about Your visits to the Application that are contained in cookies. They also use and analyze the data You interact with advertising to show more targeted ads in the Application. We will never share any data about Your track in the Application with third-party advertisers and Your personal information will never be used for any commercial purposes.

• AdMob by Google
  
  AdMob by Google is provided by Google Inc.
  
  You can opt-out from the AdMob by Google service by following the instructions described by Google: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
  
  

For more information on how Google uses the collected information, please visit the "How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or app"

page: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Privacy Policy of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy

6. Payments Processors 

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

• Google Play In-App Payments
  
  Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

7. GDPR Privacy 

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

• Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.

• Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.

• Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.

• Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.

• Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.

• Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.

In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Your Rights under the GDPR

The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:

• Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We have on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of Your Personal Data directly within Your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.

• Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.

• Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.

• Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.

• Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.

• Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.

Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights

You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.

8. CCPA Privacy 

Your Rights under the CCPA

Under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:

• The right to notice. You must be properly notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.

• The right to access / the right to request. The CCPA permits You to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of Your Personal Data that has been collected in the past 12 months by the Company or its subsidiaries to a third-party for the third party's direct marketing purposes.

• The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data. You also have the right to ask the Company not to sell Your Personal Data to third parties. You can submit such a request by visiting our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section or web page.

• The right to know about Your Personal Data. You have the right to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of the following:

  • The categories of Personal Data collected

  • The sources from which the Personal Data was collected

  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data

  • Categories of third parties with whom We share Personal Data

  • The specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about You

• The right to delete Personal Data. You also have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data that have been collected in the past 12 months.

• The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your Consumer's rights, including by:

  • Denying goods or services to You

  • Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties

  • Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You

  • Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights

In order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, You can email  us

The Company will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonable necessary and with prior notice.

9 The Rights of Users 

• Information about your Personal Information Delete
  
  Please be aware that your personal information will only be stored on your device while you are using our application. If you wish to remove your personal information stored on your device, please  go to the settings of your device and delete it accordingly.
  
  

• Do Not Sell your Personal Information - California Resident
  
  We guarantee that we will never sell your personal information for any commercial purposes. However, the third-party Service Providers we collaborate with (such as our advertising partners) may utilize technology that qualifies as "selling" your personal information according to the CCPA law. If you do not wish for your personal information to be used for interest-based advertising or be subject to these potential sales as defined under the CCPA law, you have the option to opt out.
  
  

• "Do Not Track" Policy as Required by California Privacy Protection Act (CPPA)
  
  The "Do Not Track" Policy is mandated by the California Privacy Protection Act (CPPA). Our Service does not track your browsing activity. However, certain third-party websites might track such activity. If you visit these websites and desire to prevent them from tracking your browsing, you can modify the settings in your web browser accordingly.
  
  

10. Children's Privacy 

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers. 

11. Links to Other Websites 

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy 

With the extension of the scope of Our products and Services, We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time and You are advised to regularly review this Privacy Policy for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective as soon as they are posted on this page.

Before the change becomes effective, We will notify You by a prominent notice on Our Services and update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

13. Contact Us 

Your privacy matters to Us. Please note that whether to send Us Your feedback or bug report is entirely a voluntary act. If You have any questions or comments about Your Personal Data, or if You want further information about Our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact Us at handytoolsteam@gmail.com, We will try Our best to provide clear answers to Your questions as quickly as possible. Thanks for Your support.