Privacy policy

This policy covers the Piccove app for iPhone and Android and this website. Piccove is developed byExcitoDevs ("we", "us").

What Piccove accesses

• Camera, to take photos and videos. Piccove asks the first time you open the camera.
• Microphone, only while you record a video, so it has sound. Piccove asks the first time you switch to Video, and you can record silent videos without it.
• The photos and videos Piccove takes, which it saves into your phone's photo library, and the ones you choose to add to a topic.

On iPhone, Piccove asks for access to Photos so it can save into albums named after your topics and show them in the app. If you choose Limited access, it sees only the photos it took and the ones you select. On Android, Piccove needs no photo permission: it saves into its own folders, and you pick existing photos through Android's photo picker, which shares only what you select.

Piccove does not access your location, contacts or any other data, and it saves no location in your photos.

What happens on your phone

Piccove reads the text in your photos so you can search for it. That happens entirely on your phone: on iPhone with Apple's built-in text recognition, and on Android with Google's ML Kit, using a model that ships inside the app. Editing (crop, colour, markup, redaction and video trimming) also runs on your phone.

Piccove keeps a small database on your phone with your topics, the recognised text, your recent searches and your settings, plus thumbnails for speed. They are excluded from device backups, because they only make sense next to the photos on that phone.

What never leaves your phone

Your photos, videos, the text Piccove recognises, your topics and your searches stay on your phone. Piccove has no servers and contains no networking code: it never uploads, syncs or fetches anything.

On Android, Piccove doesn't even request the internet permission, so it cannot connect to any network. ML Kit normally reports usage statistics to Google; without network access those reports can't be sent, and they are discarded on your phone.

If you use iCloud Photos, Google Photos or another backup service, it may copy the photos Piccove saves, just like any other photo in your library. That is between you and that service, under its own privacy policy.

No accounts, analytics, ads or tracking

Piccove has no sign-up and no account. It contains no analytics, advertising, crash-reporting or tracking code, and no remote configuration. We don't know who uses Piccove or how.

Piccove keeps a short diagnostics log on your phone: error codes only, never photos, text or file names. It is shared only if you tick "Attach the diagnostics log" when you send us feedback from Settings, and then only in the email you send.

If Piccove crashes or hits an error it can't recover from, it may offer to send us a problem report. The report is an email from your own email app with a plain text file of error codes, the same kind of entries as the diagnostics log, which you can read before sending. Nothing is sent unless you send that email yourself.

Apple and Google may share crash statistics with developers if you allow it in your phone's settings. That happens through their systems, under their privacy policies, not through Piccove.

When you uninstall Piccove

Your photos and videos stay in your photo library, in their albums (iPhone) or in DCIM/Piccove, one folder per topic (Android). On iPhone, edits you made stay with each photo.

Piccove's own data is deleted: its database (topics, recognised text, recent searches and settings), its thumbnails and its diagnostics log.

How to turn off access

• iPhone: Settings › Apps › Piccove (Settings › Piccove before iOS 18), then Camera, Microphone or Photos. Under Photos you can also change which photos Piccove can see.
• Android: Settings › Apps › Piccove › Permissions, then Camera or Microphone. To stop Piccove using a photo you added from your gallery, remove it from its topic.

Piccove keeps working with less access and tells you what it needs when you try something that requires it.

This website

This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics, advertising or tracking scripts. It is a set of static pages served by Cloudflare, which processes the technical details of each request (such as your IP address) to deliver the pages and protect the site, as described in Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Children

Piccove doesn't collect personal information from anyone, including children. Nothing anyone captures in Piccove reaches us.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If a change affects what the app accesses or where your data goes, we'll also say so in the app's release notes before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email ExcitoDevs at excitodevs@gmail.com.