Privacy Policy
1. Your data stays on your phone
Filmsy uses your camera to show a live film-look viewfinder and to take photos and short film clips. Camera frames, the photos you take, the photos you import with the system Photo Picker and the audio of film clips are processed entirely on your device. Your photos and videos are saved to your phone's photo library (Pictures/Filmsy and Movies/Filmsy) and in the app's private storage for your rolls; they are never uploaded, and no photo, video, audio or location is sent to us or to anyone else. We operate no servers that process your content. The microphone is used only while you record a Film Clip. When you import a photo, its original capture date (EXIF) is read on the device only to print the date stamp. Cloud backup of the app's storage is disabled. Photos only leave the phone if you share them yourself.
2. Permissions
- Camera — asked the first time you open the viewfinder; needed to take photos. If you decline, you can still apply film looks to imported photos.
- Microphone — asked only the first time you record a Film Clip; if you decline, clips are recorded without sound.
- Notifications — optional: tells you when a roll has finished developing, plus an occasional reminder you can turn off.
- Photos — Filmsy uses the Android Photo Picker, so it only sees the photos you pick; saving to your gallery needs no storage permission on Android 10 and newer (older versions ask for storage access to save).
- Internet — ads, analytics, purchases and consent. Your content is never sent.
3. Analytics and crash reports (Google Firebase)
With your consent where required, we use Google Analytics for Firebase and Firebase Crashlytics to understand how the app is used and to fix crashes. We log anonymous events such as “paywall viewed” or “purchase completed”, plus device model, OS and app version, approximate region and an app-instance identifier. We never log your content; the app enforces this with an allow-list of event parameters. Crash reports contain the error type and stack trace only. Firebase Remote Config is used to tune paywall and ad settings.
4. Advertising (Google AdMob and Unity Ads)
The free version shows ads: one slim banner on a list screen, an occasional full-screen ad after you save something, and optional rewarded ads you choose to watch to unlock a Pro tool for a while. Ads never cover a live tool, onboarding or the paywall, and never appear in the first two minutes of first use. Filmsy Pro removes all ads.
Ads are served by Google AdMob, with Unity Ads competing through AdMob mediation and serving the banner directly. These partners may collect the advertising ID, device and usage information and approximate location derived from your IP address to serve and measure ads. See Google's and Unity's privacy policies.
5. Your choices (GDPR, UK GDPR, Swiss FADP, US state laws)
In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Filmsy asks for your consent through Google's consent message (IAB TCF) before personalised ads or analytics are used. If you decline, ads are non-personalised and analytics stays off. In US states with privacy laws (such as California, Virginia, Colorado), you can opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information and targeted advertising. You can change your choice at any time in Settings → Privacy choices.
Legal bases (GDPR): consent for analytics and personalised ads; performance of a contract for the features you use and for purchases; legitimate interest for crash diagnostics where consent is not required. You may request access, deletion, correction or portability of data we control, object to processing, or lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority. California residents (CCPA/CPRA): we do not sell personal information for money; ad partners may receive identifiers as described above, which you can opt out of in Privacy choices. We do not discriminate against users who exercise their rights.
6. Purchases
Subscriptions and the lifetime purchase are processed by Google Play. We never receive your payment details; Google tells the app whether Pro is active.
7. Retention and deletion
Your content remains on your device until you delete it or uninstall the app. Analytics data is retained by Google for up to 14 months. See how to delete your data.
8. Children
Filmsy is not directed to children under 13 (under 16 in the EEA) and we do not knowingly collect their data.
9. Changes
We will update this page if our practices change and revise the date above.