Privacy policy

Introduction

Send Light is an Android app published by Daniel Médy, sole trader (entrepreneur individuel), whose contact details are available in the Legal notice accessible from the app.

This policy describes the processing of personal data related to the use of Send Light.

1. Your photos and how they are processed

Send Light lets you compress photos to reduce their size before sharing or sending them.

You select your photos using the native Android photo picker (Photo Picker). Send Light does not request general permission to access your storage or your entire gallery.

The app only accesses the photos you explicitly choose in the Android picker. It does not access any other photos or videos in your gallery.

Selected photos are compressed exclusively on your device. They are not sent to the publisher, Google, Firebase, AdMob or any other server to be processed, analysed, stored or compressed.

Compressed copies are saved locally in the Albums/SendLight folder, usually shown in your gallery as “SendLight”. Original photos are never modified or deleted by the app.

By default, Send Light removes certain EXIF metadata from compressed copies, including GPS coordinates and the device model. The orientation needed to display the image correctly is kept. You can turn off metadata cleaning in the app settings.

2. Internet connection and the ad-funded version

The free version of Send Light is funded by advertising and limits each compression to a maximum of 20 photos.

An internet connection is required to start a compression as long as ads are active. This connection is used to load and show an ad provided by Google AdMob before compression.

Once the ad is closed, the compression itself runs entirely on your phone. Send Light does not use the internet connection to send your photos or their metadata in order to compress them.

If you buy the “Remove ads” option, ads are no longer shown, compression becomes usable without an internet connection, and the limit increases to 100 photos per compression.

3. Advertising and technical identifiers

Send Light uses Google AdMob to serve, measure, secure and cap the frequency of ads.

In this context, Google AdMob and, depending on the applicable configuration, its advertising partners may process certain personal and technical data, including:

• the Android advertising ID, when available;
• technical identifiers related to the device, the app or the installation;
• device and system information, such as the device model, Android version, language and app version;
• network information, including the IP address and information used to estimate an approximate location;
• data relating to the display, delivery, interaction, measurement, security, fraud prevention and frequency capping of ads.

Send Light does not collect the user’s precise location. The app does not request permission to access the device’s location.

4. Personalised advertising and consent management

In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, Send Light uses Google User Messaging Platform (UMP) to present an advertising privacy form and collect your choices where required by law.

When you accept the purposes that require your consent, Google AdMob may use the relevant data to serve personalised ads.

When you refuse ad personalisation, Send Light may continue to serve non-personalised or limited ads. These ads are not selected based on your past behaviour or interests. Some technical processing may nonetheless remain necessary for ad delivery, security, fraud prevention, frequency capping and measurement.

You can review, change or withdraw your advertising choices at any time from:

Settings → Privacy options (ads)

You can also reset or delete your device’s advertising ID in the Android settings, where this feature is available.

The legal basis for ad personalisation and for any access to or reading of information on your device that requires consent is your consent. You can withdraw it at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.

5. “Remove ads” in-app purchase

Send Light offers a single, non-consumable in-app purchase called “Remove ads”.

This feature is not yet available in the current version of the app: it will be introduced in an upcoming update. The information below describes how it will work once it is enabled.

This purchase removes ads from the app, lets you use compression without an internet connection, and raises the limit of photos processed in a single compression from 20 to 100. It is linked to your Google Play account and can be restored when you reinstall the app or change device, provided you use the same Google Play account.

Payment is handled entirely by Google Play Billing. Send Light never receives or stores your bank details or payment card data.

To verify and restore your purchase, the app may process technical confirmation information provided by Google Play, such as purchase status and the transaction information needed to validate it. This is used only to activate, restore and secure the “Remove ads” feature.

The legal basis for this processing is performance of the contract relating to your purchase.

The terms applicable to price, payment, withdrawal, refunds and support are described in Google Play’s general terms applicable at the time of purchase.

6. Crash reports and usage measurement

Send Light uses Firebase Crashlytics, a Google service, to identify, analyse and fix crashes and technical errors in the app.

When a crash occurs, Firebase Crashlytics may process, in particular:

• crash-related logs and technical data;
• the stack trace;
• the Send Light version;
• the Android version;
• the device model;
• technical information about how the app was running;
• a technical installation identifier.

Send Light also uses Firebase Analytics, a Google service, to measure the general usage of the app, including the number of app opens, sessions and active users. A dedicated screen, separate from the advertising one, asks for your consent to this use when you first launch the app; Firebase Analytics is only enabled once you agree.

In this context, Firebase Analytics may process technical information and identifiers related to the device or the app installation, as well as data relating to the general usage of the app. Send Light does not ask for your name, first name, email address, phone number or the creation of a user account for this measurement.

The publisher does not knowingly send any photo, thumbnail, image, photo URI, file path, file name, EXIF metadata or user content to Firebase Crashlytics or Firebase Analytics.

Data processed for usage measurement is not necessarily anonymous in the legal sense. It may be associated with pseudonymous technical identifiers. The publisher does not, however, seek to directly identify users from this data.

The legal basis for crash reports is the publisher’s legitimate interest in ensuring the security, stability, maintenance and technical improvement of the app.

The legal basis for Firebase Analytics is your consent. You can accept, refuse or withdraw your consent at any time from Settings → Usage statistics (Firebase).

Diagnostic and usage measurement data are kept for as long as necessary to analyse the app, fix errors and improve it, within the retention periods configured in Firebase.

You can object to the processing related to crash reports by contacting the publisher using the details given in section 9, subject to any compelling legitimate grounds that may justify continuing the processing.

7. Third-party services and international transfers

Send Light uses the following Google services:

• Google AdMob, for ad delivery, measurement, security and frequency capping;
• Google User Messaging Platform (UMP), to present and manage your advertising privacy choices;
• Google Play Billing, to manage the “Remove ads” in-app purchase;
• Firebase Crashlytics, for crash reports and technical diagnostics;
• Firebase Analytics, to measure the app’s general usage, in particular opens, sessions and active users, using technical identifiers linked to the device or the app installation.

These services may process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States.

International data transfers are governed by appropriate safeguards implemented by Google in line with applicable regulation, which may include an adequacy decision, the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where applicable, or the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

For more information about Google’s practices, see Google’s privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy) and the “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” page (policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites).

8. Data retention

Send Light has no app server, creates no user account and does not store your photos on the publisher’s servers.

Selected photos, compressed copies and photo-processing settings are kept locally on your device until they are deleted by you or by the Android system.

Data processed by Google services is retained in accordance with those services’ own retention periods and settings, including:

• advertising choices, for as long as necessary to manage them and in line with the applicable validity rules;
• technical data and transaction information related to the purchase, for as long as necessary to activate, restore and manage the purchase and to comply with legal obligations;
• diagnostic data, for the period configured in Firebase Crashlytics and necessary to analyse errors;
• usage measurement data, for the period configured in Firebase Analytics and necessary to analyse the general usage of the app and improve it.

9. Your rights and contact

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the French Data Protection Act (loi Informatique et Libertés), you have the following rights, under the conditions set out by law:

• right of access;
• right to rectification;
• right to erasure;
• right to restriction of processing;
• right to object;
• right to data portability;
• right to withdraw your consent at any time where processing is based on your consent.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.

You can manage your choices regarding personalised advertising from Settings → Privacy options (ads), and your choices regarding usage statistics from Settings → Usage statistics (Firebase).

To exercise your rights or ask a question about this policy, you can contact the publisher:

You can also lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority (cnil.fr), or with the supervisory authority of your country of residence.

For data processed directly by Google, you can also use the privacy tools provided by Google.

10. Children

Send Light is not specifically designed for children and is not particularly intended for them.

The app does not require creating a user account. The publisher does not knowingly seek to collect personal data about minors.

Settings relating to target audience, advertising and the protection of minors are configured in accordance with the applicable Google Play and Google AdMob rules.

11. Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated, in particular if the app, the services it uses or legal obligations change.

The date of the last update appears at the top of this page. In the event of a substantial change, the new version will be made available in the app.

This English version is provided for convenience. In case of discrepancy, the French version prevails.