🔐 Privacy Policy – QR Code Generator & Scanner
This policy explains how the QR Code Generator & Scanner mobile app ("the App"), developed by Sogepps, handles data.
In short
- The app has no account or sign-in and no server of our own; as the developer we cannot access your data. It shows ads through Google AdMob, offers one optional one-time in-app purchase ("Remove ads") and needs an internet connection to load ads.
- The codes you create and scan, your label jobs, designs and settings are stored only on your phone and are never sent to us.
- You export PNG, SVG and PDF files, label sheets, CSV files and backup files yourself; they go only to the app or folder you choose in Android's share menu.
- The app uses the camera only while the Scan screen is open, to look for codes (images are not saved or sent), and the vibration permission only to give feedback when a code is read. It does not ask for location, microphone, contacts or storage permissions.
- Uninstalling the app or clearing its data deletes all your records. In case you lose your phone, share a backup file now and then.
1. We don't collect personal data
We (Sogepps), the developer of QR Code Generator & Scanner, do not collect your personal data, do not store it on our own servers and do not share it with anyone. The app has no account or sign-in, so we do not know who uses it. The only data handled outside your device is the ad-related data Google processes under its own policy (see section 5); we do not receive it.
2. Information that stays on your device
The codes you create (including whatever you type into them, such as a Wi-Fi name and password, contact details, links or notes), the codes you scan, the designs (colours, shapes, frame text and a small resized copy of any logo image you pick), saved label jobs and your settings are stored only on your phone, in the app's own storage. They are not sent to us or to anyone else.
If Android's device backup is turned on on your phone, Android may back up the app's data to your Google account under its own rules. Android does this, not us; we cannot access that backup and we do not see your data.
3. Files you export
You export PNG, SVG and PDF files, label-sheet PDFs, CSV files and backup files yourself. They go only to the app or folder you choose in Android's share menu; the app does not upload them anywhere.
When you restore a backup, import a CSV file or pick an image from the gallery (for a logo or to read a code), only the file you choose is opened by the app.
4. Permissions
Camera: used only while the Scan screen is open, to look for QR codes and barcodes in the live picture; frames are analysed on the phone and are never saved or sent. If you decline, you can read codes from a gallery image instead. Vibration: a short buzz when a code is read (you can turn it off in More). The app does not ask for location, microphone, contacts or storage permissions. For ads, the connection check and the purchase the app also declares these permissions: INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE (to load ads and check the connection), com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID (advertising ID, used for ads) and com.android.vending.BILLING (Google Play purchase).
5. Ads and purchases
The app shows interstitial (full-screen) ads through Google AdMob (Google Mobile Ads SDK), only at natural breaks (for example after you share or export a file or close a screen) and at most about once every 3 minutes. In the EEA, UK and Switzerland, Google's consent message (UMP, User Messaging Platform) asks for your consent first; you can change that choice at any time under "Ad privacy options" in the app's Settings. Google/AdMob may collect and process your advertising ID, device and app information, IP address (and the approximate location derived from it), ad interactions and crash/diagnostic data to deliver, measure and personalise ads and to prevent fraud, under Google's own privacy policies: <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy">Google Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites">how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services</a>. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in Android settings. The app also offers one optional one-time in-app purchase, "Remove ads", through Google Play Billing. Google processes the payment; we (Sogepps) never receive your card or payment details. The app only checks with Google Play whether the purchase is owned.
6. Internet access
The app needs an internet connection, to load ads and to check the connection (it checks whether www.gstatic.com and sogepps.tr are reachable). Without a connection it shows a "connection required" screen. We have no server that stores your data: your codes, designs and label jobs stay only on your phone and are never sent to us. If you choose to open a link from a scanned code, it opens in your browser or the related app only after you confirm, and that app's own privacy rules apply.
7. Children
QR Code Generator & Scanner is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
8. Data deletion
All of your data stays on your device. You can delete your records permanently by uninstalling the app, by clearing the app's data in your Android settings, or with "Delete all data" in the app's More tab.
9. Changes to this policy
When this policy is updated, the new text is published on this page.