Version 1.0.0 · Effective date: 29 October 2026
Operator: MOSSFIRE PTE. LTD.
Then Again ("the App", "we", "us", "our") is published by MOSSFIRE PTE. LTD., a company registered in Singapore with its registered address at:
3 Fraser Street, #08-00, Duo Tower, Singapore 189352
We are the controller of the limited information described in this policy. You can reach us for any privacy question, request or complaint at google@mossfire.us.
Data Protection Officer. Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at google@mossfire.us. Please use the subject line "Privacy request" so that your message is routed correctly.
This policy explains what the App does with information when you use it. It applies to the App as distributed through Google Play.
The App is a time-alignment tool: you import an old photograph, overlay it on your camera, line the scene up, shoot a new frame, and export a comparison card.
It is built so that your photographs and your use of the App stay on your device. There is no account, no sign-in, no cloud service, no analytics service and no advertising. The App does not request the Android INTERNET permission, so it has no technical ability to transmit anything off your device.
The one exception is the operating system's own backup feature, described in section 5, which you control in your device settings.
Photos you select. You choose an old photograph through the Android system Photo Picker. The App receives only the single image you pick; it cannot read your gallery. That image is copied into the App's private storage on your device, where it is cropped and scaled for use as an alignment overlay and in the exported card.
Frames you shoot. When you open the alignment screen, the App uses the camera to show a live viewfinder. Live camera frames are reduced in memory to a small grid of brightness samples to drive the alignment guide and are never written to storage. When you press the shutter, the App captures a burst of three frames into its private temporary cache so that you can pick one. The frame you pick is moved into project storage; the other two are deleted at that point, and any leftover burst files are cleared the next time a burst starts.
Exports. When you export, the App composes the card on your device and writes it, together with any originals you chose to keep, to your own media collection through the Android MediaStore — by default Pictures/Then Again. Exports become ordinary files in your gallery, under your control and outside the App's storage.
Sharing. If you tap share, the App hands the exported file to the app you choose through the Android share sheet. We are not involved in, and do not receive a copy of, anything you share.
None of this content is transmitted to us. We operate no server that receives it, and the App has no capability to send it.
The App stores the following in its own private storage, which other apps cannot read:
Project records — a local database holding the title, year labels, place, caption, layout choice, split position, brightness and contrast values, export size and timestamps for each retake you create.
Project files — the imported old photo, the new frame you kept, and small thumbnails used in the home list, stored under the App's private projects/ directory.
Preferences — your settings, such as whether the grid is on by default, the default overlay opacity, watermark and keep-originals choices, and whether you have already seen the onboarding and privacy notices.
This information is created by your use of the App and stays on your device. We do not receive it.
Android includes a backup feature that can copy app data to your own Google account so that it can be restored on a new device. The App does not disable this feature.
The App's backup configuration explicitly excludes your photographs — the projects/ directory is excluded from both cloud backup and device-to-device transfer. Your images are therefore not included in any backup.
Your project records and preferences may be included in an Android backup, because they contain text you typed or selected (titles, years, places, captions) and your settings. If a backup runs, that data is stored by Google under your own Google account and governed by Google's terms and privacy policy, not by us. We have no access to it.
You can turn backup off, or delete existing backups, in your device's system settings under Backup. Deleting the App from a device does not necessarily delete an existing cloud backup; use your Google account's backup settings for that.
Camera (android.permission.CAMERA). Requested only when you first open the alignment screen. It is used to show the live viewfinder and to capture the frame you shoot. If you decline, the App does not crash: it explains the situation, offers a link to system settings, and provides an alternative path in which you pick the new photo from your gallery instead and align the overlay by hand. All features except live capture remain reachable.
No other runtime permissions are requested. The App does not request access to your location, contacts, calendar, microphone, SMS, call logs, your full photo library, or your device identifiers. Photo selection uses the Android system Photo Picker, which grants access to the single image you choose. Writing exports uses MediaStore, which requires no storage permission on the Android versions the App supports.
For the avoidance of doubt, and because these are verifiable properties of the current build:
No account. There is no sign-up, sign-in, profile, password or user identifier.
No network access. The App does not declare the Android INTERNET permission. It cannot make network requests.
No analytics or telemetry. No usage events, screen views, session data, crash reports or diagnostics leave the device.
No advertising. There is no advertising SDK, no advertising identifier, and no attribution or measurement SDK.
No third-party SDKs. The App is built from Android platform and AndroidX libraries only, including CameraX, Room, DataStore and Jetpack Compose. None of them transmits data on the App's behalf.
No cookies, no web views, no tracking pixels.
No AI, no generation, no face analysis. The App does not detect, analyse, generate, restore or replace faces or any other content. Brightness and contrast adjustment of the new frame is the only image modification it offers, and it is applied uniformly to the whole frame.
No selling or sharing of personal information. Because no personal information reaches us, there is nothing for us to sell, share, rent or trade.
We do not share information from the App with anyone, because we do not receive it.
The only circumstances in which data leaves your device are ones you initiate or that the operating system performs on your behalf:
Exports you save to your gallery, which other apps on your device may read if you grant them gallery access.
Files you share through the Android share sheet, to the app you pick.
Android backup, as described in section 5, which is controlled by your device settings and your Google account.
If we are required by law, regulation or a binding order to disclose information, we can only disclose what we hold. In practice that is limited to correspondence you have sent us by email.
On your device. Your retakes, their projects and your settings remain until you remove them.
Deleting a single retake from the home screen removes its record and its stored photos.
Settings → Clear all projects removes every project, every stored photo and the associated records from the App's private storage, after a two-step confirmation. It does not reset your preferences; you can change those individually in Settings at any time.
Uninstalling the App removes its private storage, including your preferences. Files you exported to your gallery are not affected and remain yours to delete in your gallery app.
Backups follow the retention rules of your Google account, not ours; manage or delete them in your device and account backup settings.
Correspondence with us. If you email us, we keep that correspondence only as long as needed to answer you and to meet any record-keeping obligation, and then delete it.
Deletion requests. Because the App creates no account and holds nothing about you on any server, there is no remote profile to delete. If you believe we hold something about you — for example an email you sent — you can ask us to delete it at google@mossfire.us and we will do so, subject to any legal retention requirement.
The App is published by a Singapore company and we handle personal data in accordance with the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act 2018 ("PDPA").
Where the PDPA applies, you may:
Request access to the personal data we hold about you, and information about how it has been used or disclosed in the past year.
Request correction of personal data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
Withdraw consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal data, with reasonable notice. Because the App functions without collecting personal data, withdrawing consent does not affect your ability to use it.
Ask us about how your data is managed or protected.
Lodge a complaint with us, and if unresolved, with the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore (PDPC).
To exercise any of these rights, email google@mossfire.us with the subject line "Privacy request". We may need to verify your identity before acting, and we will respond within the period required by the PDPA. We do not charge a fee for handling a request except where the law permits.
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act ("CCPA/CPRA") may apply to you.
Categories of personal information collected. In the preceding twelve months, the App has collected none through the App itself. The categories listed in the CCPA (identifiers, commercial information, internet or network activity, geolocation, biometric information, sensory data such as photographs, professional or employment information, education information, inferences and sensitive personal information) are not collected by us, because no information is transmitted from the App.
Sale and sharing. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising. We have not done so in the preceding twelve months. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 18.
Your rights. Subject to applicable exceptions, you have the right to know what personal information is collected, used or disclosed; to request access to it; to request deletion; to request correction; to opt out of sale or sharing; to limit the use of sensitive personal information; and not to be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights.
To make a request, email google@mossfire.us. You may use an authorised agent, in which case we may ask for proof of authorisation. We will confirm receipt and respond within 45 days, extendable once where reasonably necessary.
Notice at collection. The App collects no personal information, so no notice at collection beyond this policy is required.
The App is intended for users 18 years of age and older. It is not directed at children, and it is not designed or intended for use by anyone under 18.
The App does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. Because there is no account, no network access and no data transmission, we hold no personal information about any user of any age.
If you believe a child has used the App in a way that concerns you, write to google@mossfire.us. We will respond and, where any information exists in correspondence, delete it.
The App does not transfer data to any server, so no international transfer of App data occurs. Your photographs and settings remain on your device wherever you are.
The only cross-border element is correspondence: if you email us, your message travels to and is stored in our email systems, which may be located outside Singapore. Where that happens, we handle the correspondence in accordance with the PDPA's transfer limitation obligation.
If you enable Android backup, Google stores that backup in the locations described in Google's own terms.
Your photographs and settings are held in the App's private storage, protected by the Android application sandbox, which prevents other apps from reading them without your grant. Exports you save are protected by your device's own security.
We hold no server and store no user content, so there is no online account, database or credential of yours that could be breached on our side. We cannot recover photographs you have deleted from your device; keep any export you care about.
Email is not a fully secure channel. Please do not send us sensitive personal data by email.
We may update this policy when the App's behaviour changes or when the law requires it. The current version always appears at this address, with the version number and effective date shown at the top. Material changes take effect when the revised policy is published here.
Because the App has no network access, it cannot notify you in-app when this policy changes. The version number displayed inside the App identifies the policy text bundled with the build you are running; the page at this address identifies the current published version. If they differ, the page at this address is the current one.
We encourage you to review this page when you update the App.
Questions, requests and complaints about privacy:
MOSSFIRE PTE. LTD. 3 Fraser Street, #08-00, Duo Tower, Singapore 189352 Email: google@mossfire.us Attention: Data Protection Officer
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore (www.pdpc.gov.sg).