Privacy policy
Last updated: 12 November 2026
In short: Photo20 edits your photos on your phone. It has no account and no server, and it never uploads your photos, signatures or documents. We don’t collect any personal information. The app is free because it shows ads from Google AdMob after you save a file; AdMob collects some device data to serve them (below), and it never gets your photos.
Your photos and files
Every tool in Photo20 (resizing, compressing, cropping, background removal, text recognition, scanning, PDFs and the rest) runs on your phone. The photos and files you open are never sent to us or anyone else. Finished files go only where you put them: your gallery, or the app you share them to.
Photo20 doesn’t keep copies of your photos. Working files sit in the app’s temporary storage, which your phone clears.
What the app asks for, and why
| Camera | To take a photo, signature or document page when you choose to. Only when you tap the camera. |
|---|---|
| Photos | Your phone’s photo picker opens, and Photo20 sees only the photos you pick. It can’t browse your gallery. |
| Saving to gallery | To save the finished file when you tap Save. |
| Local network (Wi-Fi) | To find printers on your Wi-Fi and send them the page you print. This stays inside your home or office network. |
| Internet | To download a helper once (see below) and to load ads. Your files never go over the internet. |
| Advertising ID | Used by Google AdMob to serve and measure ads. You can reset or delete it in your phone’s settings. |
Helpers downloaded on first use
Three tools need a larger helper the first time you use them: Background Remover, Image to Text and PDF to Image. Photo20 downloads it once from public code libraries (jsDelivr, and Google’s storage for the background model), then keeps it on your phone so the tool works offline.
These downloads contain no information about you or your files. Like any internet request, they show your IP address to the service that sends the file, which may keep it briefly in its logs.
Printing
When you print, Photo20 sends the page straight from your phone to the printer you choose on your Wi-Fi. It remembers the printers you’ve used (their name and network address) on your phone, so it can reconnect next time. You can forget a printer in the app.
Ads (Google AdMob)
Photo20 shows ads only after you’ve saved, shared or copied your result: a banner under the result, and now and then a full-screen ad when you leave it. Ads never appear while you’re editing, and never on your first file.
Ads are served by Google AdMob, a service of Google LLC (Google Ireland Limited in the EEA and UK). To serve and measure ads and to prevent fraud, the AdMob software in the app may collect:
- your device’s advertising ID (or an app-scoped ID if the advertising ID is unavailable or deleted);
- your IP address, which can be used to estimate your approximate location (country or city);
- device and app information such as phone model, operating system, language and app version;
- ad interactions, such as which ads were shown or tapped;
- diagnostic data such as crash logs and performance information about the ad software.
AdMob never receives your photos, signatures, documents or anything you type into a tool. Google processes this data under its own policies: see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.
Your choices about ads
- Consent (EEA, UK and Switzerland): the first time you open the app, Google’s consent form asks whether ads may use your data. You can change your answer any time in Settings → Ad privacy choices.
- Personalised ads: on Android, open Settings → Google → Ads (or Settings → Privacy → Ads) to delete or reset your advertising ID.
- Ads in Photo20 are limited to content suitable for general audiences.
What we don’t do
- No account, sign-up or login.
- No analytics tools of our own.
- We don’t sell your data, and we don’t receive any: the only data that leaves your phone is what Google AdMob collects for ads, described above.
- No location access. The EXIF tool can remove location from your photos, and that happens on your phone.
Settings stored on your phone
Your appearance choice (light or dark) and remembered printers are stored only on your phone. Uninstalling Photo20 removes them.
Children
Photo20 is meant for people aged 13 and over and isn’t directed at children. We don’t collect personal information from anyone. If you believe a child’s data has been collected through the ads in the app, contact us and we’ll help to have it removed.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top of this page.
Contact
Questions? Email rox.nishant@gmail.com.