Privacy Policy

Image Resizer for Android · Last updated 9 August 2026

Your photos never leave your device. All resizing and compression happens locally, and no image, filename, or file content is ever uploaded. The app has no accounts, no advertising, and no tracking for marketing purposes. It does send anonymous crash and performance diagnostics to Google Firebase so that bugs can be found and fixed — exactly what that covers is set out below.

What we never collect

Your photos and their contents. Images are decoded, resized and re-encoded entirely on your device. No image data, thumbnail, filename or folder path is transmitted.
Personal information. There is no sign-in, no account, no profile, no email address, no contacts and no advertising identifier.
Your location. The app requests no location permission and reads no GPS data.
Anything sold or shared for advertising. We do not sell data, and we do not share it with advertisers, data brokers, or any third party other than the diagnostics provider described below.

What is collected: diagnostics

Image Resizer includes two Google Firebase components — Crashlytics (crash reporting) and Performance Monitoring. They exist so that a crash or a slowdown on a device we do not own can still be diagnosed and fixed. They run automatically while the app is in use.

Collected	What it is	Why
Crash reports	The stack trace of the failure, the app's state at the moment it crashed, and the app version.	To identify and fix crashes.
Performance data	App start-up time, screen rendering times, and the app's CPU and memory use.	To find slow or memory-hungry code paths.
Device information	Device model, manufacturer, Android version, language, available memory and storage, orientation, and whether the device is rooted.	To tell whether a problem affects one kind of device or all of them.
An installation identifier	A random ID generated on your device when the app is installed. It is not your Android advertising ID, not your account, and is not linked to you. It is reset if you uninstall and reinstall the app, or clear its data.	To group several reports coming from the same installation.
IP address	Seen by Google's servers when a report is sent, and used to derive a coarse country/region. It is not used to locate you and is not exposed to us as a precise location.	Unavoidable side effect of any network request; used for regional grouping.

None of this contains your images or anything you typed. The app attaches no custom logs, no user IDs and no file information to these reports.

Permissions the app requests

Earlier versions of Image Resizer declared no Android permissions at all. Adding the diagnostics components above changed that, and it is only honest to be specific about it. The app now declares:

INTERNET — used solely to send the diagnostic reports described above.
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE — lets the diagnostics library check whether a connection exists before trying to send.
WAKE_LOCK — used by the diagnostics library to finish sending a pending report.

You can verify this list yourself at any time: Settings → Apps → Image Resizer → Permissions. The app still requests no storage, camera, location, contacts, or microphone permission, and none of these three can reach your photos.

How your photos are handled

You choose images through the Android photo picker, which grants the app access to only the images you select — never your whole photo library.
Resizing and compression happen locally on your device.
Results you save go to your device's Photos (the Pictures/ImageResizer album) or to a folder you pick yourself.
Nothing is copied to a server, and nothing is retained by the developer.
When you tap Share, the resized file is handed to whichever app you choose. What happens after that is governed by that app's own privacy policy, not this one.
A temporary copy of a shared file may be written to the app's private cache so the receiving app can read it. It stays on your device and is removed by Android when the cache is cleared or the app is uninstalled.

Metadata (EXIF)

Resized images are re-encoded from scratch. Camera metadata such as GPS location, device model, and timestamps present in the original is not carried over into the output file. Image orientation is applied to the pixels so the picture stays upright. This is a privacy benefit, but note it also means the original capture date and location are not preserved in the resized copy.

Who processes the diagnostics, and for how long

Crash and performance reports are processed by Google LLC through Firebase, acting as our service provider. They are transmitted over an encrypted HTTPS connection and are stored on Google's infrastructure. Crash reports are retained for approximately 90 days; performance data is retained for a limited period and then kept only in aggregate. Google's handling of this data is described in the Firebase Privacy and Security documentation and the Google Privacy Policy.

We use these reports only to fix defects and improve the app. We do not use them for advertising, profiling, or any automated decision-making, and we do not combine them with data from any other source.

Your choices

Uninstalling the app stops all further collection immediately.
Clearing the app's data resets the installation identifier described above, which disconnects future reports from earlier ones.
You may ask us to delete diagnostic data associated with your installation by writing to the address below. Because the reports carry no account or personal identifier, please include the installation identifier or enough detail (device model, approximate date, app version) for us to locate the records.

Children

Image Resizer is not directed at children and is not designed for use by children under 13. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If the app changes in a way that affects this policy, this page will be updated and the “Last updated” date above will change. This version reflects the addition of crash reporting and performance monitoring; versions of the app up to 1.0.1 contained neither and made no network connections of any kind.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the app: contact@cretiv.in