Privacy Policy

Overview

Scanvue ("Scanvue", "we", "us", or "our") is a free QR and barcode scanner from Echozat. It shows you the real destination and a safety check for a code before you act on it, keeps a searchable history of your scans, and can create QR codes. This Privacy Policy explains what information the app handles and the choices you have.

Scanvue has no sign-in, no account and no user profile. We do not ask for your name, email (except in the optional license-code flow in Section 7), phone number or contacts.

By using Scanvue, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our practices, please discontinue use of the app.

What Stays on Your Phone

The following is stored only in the app's private storage on your device:

• Scan history: The content of each code you scan, its type and format, when you scanned it, how many times, and its Safe Scan verdict. Scans are saved automatically by default, and you can turn that off in Settings.
• Labels, tags and stars: Anything you add to a scan.
• Link previews: The title, description and a small thumbnail of pages you previewed.
• Optional location: A rounded, city-level location, only if you turn it on (Section 3).
• Settings and purchase status: Your preferences, and a cached copy of whether ads have been removed.

Codes can contain sensitive things such as Wi-Fi passwords, payment IDs or contact details. If you scan them with history on, they are stored on your phone. QR codes you create with Wi-Fi passwords or UPI details are not saved to history unless you tap "Save to history". On Android, the app's data is excluded from automatic cloud backup.

Camera, Photos & Location

• Camera: Needed to read codes. We explain why before the system asks. Camera pictures are processed on your device to find codes and are never saved or uploaded. If you say no, "Scan from photo" still works.
• Photos: "Scan from photo" uses your phone's system photo picker, so Scanvue receives only the image you choose and does not request access to your whole gallery. The image is decoded on your device. Saving a generated QR code to your photos may ask for permission at that moment on some older Android versions.
• Location (optional, off by default): If you turn on "Scanned near" in Settings, Scanvue asks for approximate location once per scan, never continuously, never in the background and never in a way that delays the result. It stores a rounded position and, if available, a place name from your phone's own geocoder. You can remove it from any scan. The Create tab's "use current location" asks for permission once, only when you use it.
• Not requested: Contacts, calendar, microphone and notifications. When you add a contact or event, Scanvue opens your phone's own editor pre-filled, and you decide whether to save.

Link Previews

Link previews are the one place Scanvue contacts a website because of what you scanned. After a scan, the app can load the page once, on your device, to read its title, description and image. There is no Scanvue proxy or server in between.

• What this means for you: the site's server can see a request from your connection (including your IP address) right after you scan, even if you never open the link.
• Only safe-looking links: previews are fetched only for https links. They are never fetched when Safe Scan shows "Be careful" or "Don't open", for plain http links, for raw IP addresses or local network addresses.
• Kept minimal: a short timeout, a size cap, no cookies sent or stored, a generic browser-style identifier with no app name, and no referrer. Images are shrunk to a small thumbnail before saving.
• You choose: previews are on by default. Set them to Off, Wi-Fi only or Always in Settings, or in onboarding. Batch scans never fetch previews.

Safe Scan itself runs entirely on your phone with no network. It is a set of warning-sign checks, not a malware database, and it never claims a link is verified safe.

What Leaves Your Phone

The content of your scans, your history, your location and your camera pictures are never sent to us. Payment codes are read on your phone, and Scanvue never moves money. It hands off to your own payment app.

Ads & Consent

Scanvue is free and supported by ads from Google AdMob. We keep ads away from the moments where you decide whether to trust a code:

• Never on the scan screen, the result screen, batch or count modes, onboarding, settings or any safety warning, and never between a payment verdict and its button.
• Only in a clearly labelled row in your history list, a banner on the Create tab's type picker, an occasional full-screen ad after you save or share a code you created, and optional rewarded videos for premium exports.

AdMob may use your device's advertising ID to serve and measure ads, under Google's own policies. Where the law requires it (for example the European Economic Area and the UK), Google's consent form is shown before ads load, and on iPhone the system's tracking prompt is used. If you decline, you see non-personalised ads or no tracking. You can reopen your ad choices from Settings, and you can reset or limit your advertising ID in your phone's system settings. If you buy "Remove ads", ads and ad requests stop.

Purchases & License Codes

"Remove ads" is a one-time purchase handled by Google Play or the App Store. We use RevenueCat to verify it with an anonymous identifier and the store receipt. We never see your payment details. Your entitlement is cached on your phone so the app works offline.

After you buy, you may optionally ask for a license code by entering your email address. This is the only place Scanvue can ask for an email. We store it with the app name on Echozat's licensing service, only to send the code and let you restore your purchase on a new phone. Restoring through your store account needs no email.

What We Never Do

• We never require an account, so there is no profile of you to build.
• We never upload your scans, history or camera pictures.
• We never open a link, start a payment, join a Wi-Fi network or add a contact automatically. Every action needs your tap.
• We never sell your data. No data brokers, no third-party data sales, of any kind.
• We do not use analytics that identify you. Scanvue has no third-party analytics SDK. If we ever add crash reporting, it will be set up to contain no personal data and this policy will be updated first.

How We Share Data

We do not sell, rent, or trade your data. Data reaches a third party only in the situations listed in Section 5: the website for a link preview, Google (AdMob ads) and RevenueCat (purchase verification).

Exporting your history (as CSV or JSON), sharing a result, or sharing a QR code you created happens through your phone's own share sheet, so you choose where it goes. Exports can include any location you saved, and never include thumbnails.

We may disclose data if required by law, regulation, or court order, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Scanvue, our users, or the public.

Data Retention & Deletion

• History: Kept on your phone until you delete it. Choose to keep it for 30 days, 90 days, a year or forever (the default). Starred items are never auto-deleted.
• Delete one item: Swipe an item in History, or use the detail screen.
• Clear everything: Settings, then Data, then Clear history, deletes all history and cached previews in one tap. Your settings and purchase are kept.
• Uninstalling the app removes all app data from your phone. We hold no copy.
• License-code email: Kept for as long as needed to restore your purchase. You can ask us to delete it using the contact details below.
• Ad and purchase data: Held by Google and RevenueCat under their own policies.

Your Rights & Choices

You can also review ad choices in Settings and remove ads altogether. To ask about, or request deletion of, any data we hold, such as a license-code email, email us at hello@echozat.com with the subject line "Scanvue Privacy Request". We will respond within 30 days.

Security

• Your history, previews and settings are stored in the app's private storage, protected by your phone's operating system.
• Link previews use https only and are never loaded for links Safe Scan flags.
• Content is shown as plain text and is never rendered as a web page inside the app.
• Connections to our services and providers are encrypted (HTTPS). Payments are handled entirely by Google Play or the App Store.

No method of storage or transmission is 100% secure, and Safe Scan cannot catch every unsafe link. Please stay careful with codes from sources you don't trust.

Children's Privacy

Scanvue is a general-audience utility and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and the app has no accounts. If you believe a child has used the app in a way that concerns you, please contact us.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this page always reflects the most recent revision. Continued use of the app after a revised policy is posted constitutes acceptance of the changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how Scanvue handles data, please get in touch.

• Email: hello@echozat.com
• Jurisdiction: India