Privacy policy
Just PDF Scanner scans, imports and edits documents and makes PDFs, Office files and text from them. Your documents stay on your phone: there is no account, no cloud sync and no server of ours. A few optional tools use cloud services with your own API key, and each one asks before it sends anything. The free version shows ads from Google AdMob. Each part is explained below.
At a glance
| What | Who gets it | When |
|---|---|---|
| Your scans, imported files, recognized text, annotations, signatures and locked documents | No one. They stay in the app on your phone. | Always |
| Selected page images | Google (Gemini API), with your own key | Only when you choose Gemini text recognition and confirm |
| Recognized text | Google (Gemini API), with your own key | Only when you ask for an AI summary and confirm |
| The file you choose to convert | CloudConvert, with your own key | Only when you pick CloudConvert for a conversion and confirm |
| Device, app and usage diagnostics | Google ML Kit | When on-device scanning, text recognition, barcodes or translation run |
| Advertising ID, IP address, app and ad interactions, diagnostics | Google AdMob | Free version only |
| Payment | Google Play | When you buy Remove ads |
| Files you share, save, print or back up | The app, printer or folder you choose | Only when you tap Share, Save, Print or Back up |
What stays on your phone
- Your documents. Page images, the exact files you imported, recognized text, annotations, form answers and receipt details are kept in the app's private storage. Exported PDFs and Office files are made on the phone.
- Camera. The camera is used only while you scan. Guided scan uses Google's document scanner from Google Play services, which runs on the phone and may download once on first use.
- Location, only if you turn it on. Capture location details are off by default. If you turn them on, the app explains why, asks for Android's location permission, takes one current position for the next photo and stores it with that page's capture details. There is no background or continuous location. It leaves the phone only inside an export or backup you make.
- Locked documents are encrypted on the phone with a key Android releases only after your fingerprint, face or screen lock.
- PDF passwords are used to encrypt that copy and never stored.
- API keys for Gemini and CloudConvert are encrypted on the phone with Android Keystore. Saving a key makes no request.
- Backups. Android backup is off. A portable backup is a file you create and save where you choose.
On-device recognition (Google ML Kit)
Text recognition, barcode reading, language detection and translation run on the phone with Google ML Kit. Your documents and text are not sent to Google for this. Translation language models (about 30 MB each) download from Google only after you confirm, and can be deleted in Translate › Models. ML Kit may send Google device, app and usage diagnostics, such as the phone model, app version and how long a recognition took, to keep these features working. See ML Kit terms.
Optional cloud tools, with your own key
These tools are off until you add your own API key in Privacy › Cloud OCR settings. Each one asks for your confirmation every time before it sends anything, and the provider's own terms and charges apply. We never see your key or your files.
- Gemini text recognition sends the page images you selected to the Google Gemini API, which returns the recognized text. AI summaries send the recognized text. Google's Gemini API terms apply, including how Google may use data sent with a free key.
- CloudConvert uploads only the file you chose to convert to CloudConvert's API and downloads the result. CloudConvert's privacy policy applies. Local conversion works without it.
Ads in the free version (Google AdMob)
The free version shows one ad card at the end of the document library, below your documents. There are no full-screen ads and no ads in the camera, editor or tools. Buy Remove ads and there are none. The app sends nothing from your documents or text to AdMob. To show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google may collect and use:
- your device's advertising ID and other device identifiers;
- your IP address, from which an approximate location can be worked out;
- device and app information, such as the phone model, Android version and language;
- how you interact with the ads, and diagnostic information.
In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, Google's consent form appears before any ads load. Change your choice any time in the library › Privacy › Ad privacy. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's Android settings under Privacy › Ads. More: how Google uses information from apps that use its services and Google's privacy policy.
Purchases (Google Play)
Remove ads is a one-time purchase through Google Play. Google handles the payment; we never see your card or payment details. The app only receives the purchase's status and token from Google Play, to switch the ads off, also on a new phone.
What we don't do
- We don't run servers for this app, and we never receive your documents, text or keys.
- We don't sell your data.
- No analytics and no other trackers than the services on this page.
Keeping and deleting
| What | Kept | How to delete |
|---|---|---|
| Documents, text, annotations, signatures, locked documents | On your phone, until you delete them | Delete them in the app and empty Trash, clear the app's storage, or uninstall the app |
| API keys | On your phone, until you remove them | Privacy › Cloud OCR settings › Delete stored key, or uninstall the app |
| Translation models | On your phone | Translate › Models |
| Data sent to Gemini or CloudConvert | Under that provider's policy | With the provider, through your own account there |
| Ad data held by Google | Under Google's policy | Android ad settings or My Ad Center |
| Purchases | In Google Play's records | Google Play |
We hold no account or data about you for this app. Questions: [email protected]. We answer within 30 days.
Children
Just PDF Scanner is made for adults (18+). It is not directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect data from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its effective date.
Contact
JustDataPlease · [email protected] · justdataplease.com