Photo Cleaner Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 9, 2026

Effective date: November 9, 2026

Photo Cleaner ("the app") is published by Yoraba and runs on iOS and Android. This policy explains what the app does with your information. Contact: ali@yoraba.com.

Summary

  • Your photos and videos are analyzed on your device. They are never uploaded to us or anyone else.
  • There is no account and no sign-in.
  • We run no server that receives your data.
  • The app shows ads from Google AdMob, which collects some data (see "Advertising").
  • Purchases are processed by Apple or Google, not by us.

Photo library access

The app asks for access to your photos and videos only to scan your library for similar photos, duplicates, screenshots and large videos. Scanning, comparison and "best shot" suggestions all run on your device. No photo, video, thumbnail, or result of the analysis is sent off the device by us.

You can grant full access or limited access (only the photos you select). With limited access, the app scans only those items. You can change this at any time in system Settings.

The app does not use your camera, location, contacts or microphone.

Deleting photos

The app never deletes anything without your confirmation.

  • iOS: deleted items move to Recently Deleted in Photos and stay there for 30 days unless you remove them sooner.
  • Android 11 and newer: deleted items move to the system Trash for 30 days, after the system confirmation dialog. On older Android versions, deleted items cannot be recovered.

Space is only freed once the system permanently removes the items.

Information stored on your device

The app keeps a local scan history and review lists (for example, which groups you reviewed and totals shown in Insights). This stays on your device. You can clear it in Settings, which never touches your photos. Uninstalling the app removes it.

Advertising

The app is free and shows banner ads on the Clean and Library tabs, provided by Google AdMob. The AdMob SDK may collect and use, in connection with ads: your advertising identifier, ad interactions, approximate location derived from your IP address, and crash and performance diagnostics. This data is not linked by us to any account or identity. See Google's policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Consent. Where required (for example in the EEA and UK), a Google User Messaging Platform (UMP) consent form is shown before ads. On Android you can reopen it from Settings → Ad privacy choices. On iPhone and iPad, iOS may show the App Tracking Transparency prompt asking whether the app may track you; if you decline, the advertising identifier is not used for tracking. You can change this in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

Ads are removed permanently after any tip or Remove Ads purchase. The ad SDK is then no longer used to show ads.

Purchases

The Tip Jar (Coffee, Cake, Lunch, Feast) and Remove Ads are optional one-time purchases (non-consumable, no subscription). Payment is handled entirely by the Apple App Store or Google Play. We do not receive your payment details or name. The app only checks with Apple or Google whether you own a purchase, so it can remove ads and restore the purchase on a new device with the same Apple or Google account.

Sharing

We do not sell your data. The only third parties involved are Google (AdMob advertising, Google Play Billing) and Apple (App Store purchases), each under its own privacy policy.

Children

The app is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. It has no account system and does not target children with ads.

Your rights and choices

We hold no personal data about you on any server, so there is nothing for us to export or delete. You can:

  • clear local history in Settings, or uninstall the app;
  • change or withdraw ad consent (Settings → Ad privacy choices on Android; iOS Tracking settings on iOS);
  • reset or limit your advertising identifier in your device settings;
  • revoke photo access in system settings.

Depending on where you live (for example the EEA, UK or California), you may have rights of access, deletion, correction and objection regarding data held by Google as ad provider. Exercise those with Google, or contact us at ali@yoraba.com and we will help where we can.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update the effective date above. Material changes will be reflected in the app's store listings.

Contact

Yoraba, ali@yoraba.com