PixCompress: Photo Compressor — Privacy Policy
This policy covers PixCompress: Photo Compressor, 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
Photos and local processing
In PixCompress, compression, resizing, format conversion, cropping, duplicate scanning, metadata cleanup, manual refinement, and final export are performed locally. We do not upload photos for these local workflows.
PixCompress accesses the photos and export destinations you select through Android’s media or document controls. Camera access is used only for camera features you choose. Older Android versions may require storage permission for the related file operation. You can manage permissions in Android settings.
When PixCompress 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.
Optional cloud background removal
Some PixCompress versions offer cloud-based automatic background removal. When you explicitly start this operation, the App prepares a temporary working copy of only the selected photo. It applies the photo orientation, limits the longest side to 1600 pixels, and re-encodes the copy without the original EXIF metadata, including embedded GPS metadata.
The App uploads the working copy to Firebase Storage and sends a processing request to Firebase Cloud Functions. The request includes a generated request identifier, storage location, a cleaned version of the original filename, file type, size, and dimensions. The App downloads the generated PNG foreground mask and performs manual refinement and final export locally. These uploads are used to provide the requested background-removal result.
The App requests deletion of the temporary input and generated mask after download and also attempts cleanup when processing fails. It retries failed deletion requests a limited number of times. A network or service failure can delay deletion; we do not promise a fixed automatic-deletion deadline. You can contact us to request assistance with deletion. Manual cutout and versions that use on-device segmentation do not upload the photo for background removal.
Usage, diagnostics and configuration
The production app includes Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics, Remote Config and Performance Monitoring. Depending on the enabled services, Google receives usage and session events, app and device details, installation identifiers, advertising identifiers where available, crash/ANR details and stack traces, performance timing, and configuration requests. Processing follows the production service configuration, applicable privacy choices and device settings. The separate test configuration disables production reporting. Local photo editing does not mean that diagnostics, advertising, purchases or an explicitly chosen cloud operation never communicate online.
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 PixCompress: Photo Compressor 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:
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 PixCompress: Photo Compressor 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.