# Privacy Policy for Image Compressor
**Effective Date:** August 13, 2026
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at **Image Compressor** ("we", "us", or "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us.
When you use our mobile application (the "App"), you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy policy, we describe our privacy practices. We seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it.
## 1. Information We Collect
### A. Personal and Sensitive Information
The Image Compressor app primarily functions as a local utility on your device. **We do not collect, store, or transmit your photos, images, or files to our servers.** All image processing and compression are done locally on your device.
### B. Permissions
To function properly, the App requires the following permissions:
- **Storage/Media Access:** To allow you to select images from your gallery for compression and to save the compressed images back to your device.
### C. Automatically Collected Information
When you use the App, we may collect certain information automatically. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, device name, and other technical information.
## 2. Third-Party Services
The App does use third-party services that may collect information used to identify you. We use these services for analytics, crash reporting, and serving advertisements.
Link to the privacy policy of third-party service providers used by the App:
* [Google Play Services](https://policies.google.com/privacy)
* [Google Analytics for Firebase](https://firebase.google.com/policies/analytics)
* [Firebase Crashlytics](https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy/)
* [AdMob](https://support.google.com/admob/answer/6128543?hl=en)
## 3. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for various purposes:
* **To provide and maintain our App:** Ensuring the compression utility works efficiently.
* **To improve our App:** We use crash reports and analytics to fix bugs and enhance user experience.
* **To serve ads:** We use AdMob to display advertisements, which helps keep the App free. Ad networks may use device identifiers to provide personalized ads.
## 4. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. However, please be aware that no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
## 5. Children's Privacy
These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers.
## 6. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
## 7. Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at:
**Email:** official.tilakinfotech@gmail.com