Sweep privacy policy

Sweep is an app by the MazRemade studio. For any question about this policy or your data, write to us from the Contact page of the website (mazremade.com/en/support).

Sweep asks for access to your gallery to compare photos and videos with each other. You can allow your whole gallery or only selected photos, and remove that access at any time in Android settings.

The comparison runs entirely on the phone. No photo, video or thumbnail is uploaded to a server, ours or anyone else’s.

To speed up later scans, Sweep keeps the result of the last scan in its private storage: media identifiers, sizes, dates and fingerprints computed from the images. Fingerprints are only used to compare your photos; an image cannot be rebuilt from them.

Sweep also stores your settings (language, theme, detection level, reminder), counters (number and size of deleted files, free monthly allowance) and the state of your Sweep Pro purchase.

This data stays on the device. It is excluded from Google backup and from transfer to a new phone. It is erased when you uninstall Sweep or clear its data in Android settings.

Sweep uses no analytics or tracking tools, creates no account and collects neither your name, your email nor your location. We neither sell nor share any data, since we receive none.

Sweep Pro is a one-time purchase handled by Google Play. Payment happens at Google: Sweep never sees your payment method. The app only receives confirmation from Google Play that Sweep Pro was bought, to unlock or restore it.

Sweep may also show the Google Play review prompt. These services follow Google’s privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy). This is the only reason the app uses an Internet connection.

If you turn on the weekly reminder, Sweep schedules a notification on your phone. A notification may also tell you a background scan has finished. They are created locally and go through no server. You can turn them off in Sweep or in Android settings.

Sweep only deletes a file after you confirm. On Android 11 and later, photos and videos go to the gallery trash; on older versions, deletion is permanent.

Compression creates new, lighter copies in your gallery. Originals are only moved to the trash if you ask for it.

Sweep is not specifically aimed at children and collects no personal data, whatever the age of the person using it.

Since we receive no data about you through Sweep, we have nothing to send you, correct or erase on our side: everything is on your phone, and you can erase it by uninstalling the app.

For any question, or to exercise your rights under the GDPR, write to us from the Contact page. You can also lodge a complaint with your data protection authority (in France, the CNIL: www.cnil.fr).

If a future version of Sweep changes how data is handled, this page will be updated before that version is released, with a new date at the top.