EZScanner — Privacy Policy
This policy covers EZScanner, published by the independent EZTools developer. It describes this product’s features and data practices. Privacy and deletion requests: eztoolsupport@icloud.com.
How this app handles data
Camera, images and documents
Where needed, we ask for camera access for scanning, and access to the photos, documents, or folders you select for processing, saving, importing, or backing up. Older Android versions may require storage permission to save files. You can manage these permissions in your device settings; denying a permission may prevent its related feature from working.
In EZScanner, camera-image recognition, barcode and QR-code generation, recognition of selected images and PDF pages, and optical character recognition (OCR) are performed on your device. We do not upload the images or PDF pages for these recognition operations. Online book and product lookups are described separately in the online-services section above.
When EZScanner uses Google ML Kit, recognition or segmentation of the input image happens on-device. ML Kit may contact Google for model downloads and updates, compatibility information, and performance or usage metrics; this does not mean the image is uploaded for recognition.
Scan history, clipboard and backups
EZScanner stores scan and creation history on your device, including code content, format, timestamps, and any names, notes, tags, folders, or other fields you add. Code content can include contact details, messages, Wi-Fi credentials, payment identifiers, or location coordinates. Processing information contained in a code does not by itself grant access to your contacts, messages, payment account, or current GPS location.
Clipboard features read text for pasting; the Plain Text creation screen also checks clipboard text to decide whether to show its Paste action. Copy commands and the automatic-copy setting can place result text on the system clipboard. Operating-system clipboard access rules then apply.
Private scan mode skips saving that scan to history and disables its automatic copying and automatic opening. It is not a network-anonymity mode: book or product previews and the technical service communications described in this policy can still occur.
Library imports and exports, including optional automatic backups, use files or folders you choose. A selected document or backup provider may synchronize them with your own cloud storage under that provider's settings and policy. Backups can contain scan content and Trash records. We do not operate an automatic cloud-sync service for EZScanner's library, and its JSON/ZIP backups do not add their own encryption.
Online book and product lookups
When EZScanner displays a recognized book or product result, it can automatically send the ISBN to Google Books or the product barcode (GTIN) to Open Food Facts to retrieve a preview. These services receive the lookup identifier and normal connection information, such as your IP address. The camera image is not sent with these preview requests.
If you use a search, map, website, email, calling, contact, payment-link, or sharing action, the relevant content is passed to the service or application that handles that action. Depending on your link-review setting, EZScanner may also automatically open a recognized web address after a scan, sending the web request to the destination site. Enabling link review lets you inspect the destination before opening it. Websites opened in the in-app browser can use cookies, including third-party cookies, and local web storage. Those websites and the applications you choose have their own privacy practices.
Usage, diagnostics and configuration
The production app integrates Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics and Remote Config. Analytics can process app-use and session events, app/device information, installation identifiers, advertising identifiers where available, and approximate region derived from connection information. Crashlytics processes crash and ANR diagnostics, stack traces and app/device information. Remote Config requests app and installation information to deliver feature settings and limits. Collection depends on the production configuration, applicable privacy choices and device settings; the separate test configuration is isolated from production reporting. These services do not upload camera images for barcode recognition.
Advertising and purchases
When advertising is enabled and a request is allowed, Google advertising services and the advertising partners identified for this app may process IP address, approximate location, app and device information, advertising or app-scoped identifiers, ad interactions, and diagnostics. These data support ad delivery, measurement, permitted personalization, and fraud prevention. Use the app’s available advertising privacy choices and Android advertising-ID controls. An ad-free purchase removes the ads included in the offer; it does not automatically turn off other online services.
Where purchases or subscriptions are available, Google Play processes the payment. The App receives product and purchase information, such as the purchase token, purchase state, and entitlement status, to acknowledge purchases and provide or restore access. We do not receive your full payment-card details. Google Play manages payment methods, subscriptions, and its transaction records.
Support, purposes and sharing
If you email us, we receive your email address, message, and any attachments you send. The App may prefill information such as its version, device model, operating-system version, language, or a rating you selected. You can review the message before sending it.
We use the data described for EZScanner to provide its features, respond to support requests, maintain the services and entitlements actually used by this app, and meet applicable legal obligations. Information is shared with the providers involved in those features, destinations you choose, and where required by applicable law or valid legal process. We do not sell your personal information.
The relevant providers describe their processing here:
- Google and Google Play
- Firebase privacy and security
- Google advertising services
- Google ML Kit
- Open Food Facts
Retention and deletion
Local history and settings are kept on your device, subject to any history limits, cleanup rules, or Trash-expiry rules provided by the App. You can also delete records, clear the App's data, or uninstall the App. Where Trash is available, moving an item there is not permanent deletion. Saved gallery images, exported files, shared copies, and backups can remain outside the App and must be removed separately from their locations; deleting a history record does not delete those copies. Your device, gallery, or chosen storage service may also back up or synchronize saved files according to your settings and that service's policy.
Support correspondence is retained as needed to answer the request, resolve related issues and meet applicable legal obligations. Where this app uses online providers, information already sent to them follows the relevant service’s retention settings and policies. We do not promise a fixed deletion deadline for provider-held information. Contact us to request deletion or help identifying the available controls. Deleting app data does not cancel a store subscription.
Security and international processing
We use reasonable safeguards appropriate to the data, including App-private storage for internal records and HTTPS/TLS for built-in cloud requests. Exported files and content you share are controlled by their destination and may not be encrypted. No storage or transmission method provides an absolute security guarantee.
Online services used by this app may process information in countries other than your own. The relevant providers describe their international processing arrangements in their privacy and data-processing terms.
Your choices and privacy requests
Depending on the law that applies to you, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or portability of personal information, object to certain processing, or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. You may also have the right to contact your local data-protection authority.
To make a request, email eztoolsupport@icloud.com and identify the App and the information or operation concerned. We may need limited additional information to identify the relevant data and verify the request. We cannot directly access or erase files that exist only on your device or copies held by a service you selected; we can explain how to manage them.
To request help with this product, identify EZScanner and the data concerned. Do not send passwords, payment credentials or private records that are not needed for the request. Local-only content and copies in a sharing or storage service you chose must be managed there.
Children’s privacy
This app is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If a parent or guardian believes a child has provided us personal information, contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate deletion steps.
Changes and contact
We may update this product policy as the app’s data practices change, with a revised effective date and any additional notice or consent request required for a material change. For privacy questions or deletion requests, contact the EZTools website’s privacy and support address: eztoolsupport@icloud.com.