This app use internet connection for fetching data from internet. The internet access permission is required for couple of reason. The app Contains Ads and In App Purchase. For showing ad and fetching in app purchase information access to internet is necessary.

The app also use couple of Firebase Services like Firebase Crashlytics (For logging crash info), Firebase Events (For logging user behavior with the app info), as well as a third-party in-app behavior analytics tool (see below). These services also required internet connection access.

The app allows user to trim audio, cut video, join audio by choosing audio files from phone's gallery. To choose audio from gallery the app requires permission of accessing device's photos and gallery.
According to Android Permission Information displayed on the PlayStore the app can:

• read the contents of your USB storage

• modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

This app takes the permission of writing the internal or external storage of your phone. For saving individual video audio trimming or joining to Gallery as file Writing Storage Permission is required. After trimming or joining audio the app allow user to save them at gallery. When user wish to save these output files inside Gallery then Storage Write Permission is required.

For Android 6.0 Marshmallow - Android 9 Pie, Storage Write Permission is required for saving video/audio inside gallery as these files are saved inside Public Folder.

For Android 10.0 and Onwards, No special permission is required for saving images inside gallery as these files are saved inside Movies and Audio Folder.

You may find these permission inside Google Play as:

• Audio / Media / Files: read the contents of your USB storage

• Storage: read the contents of your USB storage

To understand how users navigate the app and to improve the user experience, the app uses a third-party analytics tool that observes how you interact with the screens of this app, such as taps, gestures, and navigation between screens.

• Analytics is limited to this app's own screens. This tool cannot see or observe any other app, your home screen, or anything outside this app.

• Analytics automatically stops whenever the app is minimized, paused, or closed, and only resumes when the app is active again in the foreground.

• Sensitive fields are masked so that inputs such as purchase/payment related screens are not captured as readable text or images.

• No passwords, payment card numbers, or other sensitive personal data are intentionally collected through this feature.

Data collected through this analytics tool is processed by our third-party analytics provider in accordance with its own privacy practices.

The app shows different types of ads from third party ads provider which can includes Banner Ads, Interstitial Ads, Video Ads etc.

To show these ads the ads SDK may collect the Device ID and Ads Id for showing Audience Targeted Appropriate Ads is required. Please have a clear notice on the fact that STCodesApp does not collect any of these data.

The app also has the following access to your device according to Android Permission Information displayed on the PlayStore:

• run at startup

• full network access

• prevent device from sleeping

• view network connections