Privacy Policy for AIO Reader: All Documents
What we collect
There is no account and no sign-up, and we run no server. Your documents are never sent to us.
Usage data
To learn which parts of the app help people and where they get stuck, the app sends anonymous usage data to Google Analytics for Firebase. It records what is done in the app, never what is in your documents: which screen is open, that a document was opened and from where (the file picker, another app or the Recent list), whether it opened or why it failed, roughly how many pages it has and how big it is, how long it was read, and which features and settings were used. With it comes a random ID that Firebase creates for this installation of the app, general information about the device (model, Android version, language, country) and the times the app was used.
It never includes the name, path or text of a document, what you type in a search, the notes you write, the pictures you capture, or anything else you create. Numbers such as page counts, file sizes and reading time are sent as ranges, not exact values.
Google processes this data for us under its privacy policy and the Firebase data processing terms. We use it only to improve the app. We do not sell it and do not share it with anyone else.
You can turn usage data off at any time in the app, in Settings, Share anonymous usage data. It stops at once and stays off until you turn it back on.
Where the law requires consent, for example in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, no usage data is sent until you agree in Google's consent form, the same form the app shows for ads. If you do not agree, nothing is sent. You can change that choice at any time in the app, in Settings, Ad privacy choices.
Advertising
The app shows a banner ad on its home screen, the list of recent documents, and only there. There are never ads on a page you are reading, and opening a PDF from another app shows no ad.
Ads are served by Google's Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob). To show and measure ads it may collect your device's advertising ID, general information about the device and the app, and whether an ad was shown or tapped, and it uses the network to do so. Google describes this in its privacy policy and in how Google uses information from apps that use its services. You can reset or delete your advertising ID at any time in Android Settings, under Privacy, Ads.
Where the law requires it, for example in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the app asks for your consent with Google's consent form before any ad is requested. You can change or withdraw that choice at any time in the app, in Settings, Ad privacy choices.
Permissions
The app asks for no permission that reads your content: no storage, camera, microphone, contacts or location. Every permission it declares is one Android grants without asking.
Most of them come with Google's ads software. It needs internet access, network state and the advertising ID. It also declares two for its own work: keeping the device awake while it finishes a task, and showing a notification while such a task runs.
Google's analytics software also asks the Play Store which store page an install came from, so that we can tell which listing or campaign brought people to the app.
One more permission is defined by the app itself, so that parts of the app can pass messages to each other that no other app can receive. It grants nothing and is never shown to you.
Your documents
- Everything about your documents happens on your device. The app does not upload them anywhere.
- A document you open from another app (email, Drive, a chat app, a file manager) is kept as a private copy on your device for 7 days, so it appears in Recent, and is then removed automatically. Documents you star are kept until you remove them.
- Recent documents, stars, notes you add to pages, and your settings are stored only on your device, in storage other apps cannot read. Notes are never written into the PDF.
Ratings
If you choose to rate the app from inside it, the rating card is shown and submitted by the Google Play Store app under Google's privacy policy. We receive nothing from it.
Retention and deletion
You can clear your recent documents and their copies from the app's Settings at any time, and uninstalling the app removes everything it stored. We hold no data that names you. Usage data is kept by Google Analytics for at most 14 months and then deleted, and none of it can be traced back to you by us. For any question, write to the contact address above.
Children
AIO Reader: All Documents is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under 13.
Changes
If a future version collects or shares anything more, this policy will be updated before that version is published, together with the app's Data safety section on Google Play.