Privacy Policy
Summary
Scan Nest Reader is a document scanner, PDF reader and Word editor that works on your device. It has no accounts. It shows ads (Google AdMob) to stay free. The documents you scan, open and edit stay on your device unless you choose to share them or save them somewhere else, and they are never sent to advertisers. The developer does not receive, store or sell your documents.
Information the app handles on your device
- Photos you take with the camera to scan documents, ID cards and QR codes, and pictures you choose from your gallery.
- PDF and Word files you open, and the edits, annotations, signatures, form entries, bookmarks and voice recordings you add to them.
- Text recognized from your scans (OCR) and text you translate.
- Your settings (language, theme, scanning and export preferences) and the list of recently opened files.
- If you allow all files access: the names, sizes, dates and folders of the PDF and Word files on your device, and small previews of their first pages, which are kept in the app's cache.
All of this is kept in the app's private storage on your device. Files you save or export are written to the Documents or Pictures folders of your device, where apps you allow can see them. Uninstalling the app deletes its private storage; files you exported stay until you delete them.
Permissions
- Camera: to scan documents, ID cards and QR codes. It is used only while a camera screen is open.
- Microphone: to record voice notes and lectures that you attach to PDFs. It is used only after you start a recording, and a notification is shown while a lecture is recorded in the background.
- Notifications: to show the recording controls while a lecture is recorded.
- All files access (optional): to list the PDF and Word files stored on your device in the "All files" view of the Library (PDF and Word), so you can open them there. It is requested only when you open that view, the rest of the app works without it, and you can turn it off at any time in Android settings. The files are read on your device only; they and their names are never uploaded.
- Internet: used by Google AdMob to show ads, by Google ML Kit to download translation models and for its diagnostics (see below), and by the HTML to PDF tool to load the web page whose address you type (the page is converted on your device). Your documents are never uploaded.
The app does not ask for your contacts, location or call log. Pictures are chosen with the Android photo picker, which gives the app only the pictures you pick.
On-device processing and Google ML Kit
Text recognition, barcode and QR code scanning, language identification and translation run on your device with Google ML Kit; text recognition for more languages runs with Tesseract, also on your device. The images and text you process are not sent to Google or to the developer.
The first time you translate into a language, ML Kit downloads that language's model from Google's servers. ML Kit may also send Google limited diagnostic and usage information, such as the device model, Android version, the app's package name and version, an identifier for this installation of the app, which ML Kit features were used, and their performance and errors. This information does not include your documents, pictures or recognized text. Google handles it under the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and the ML Kit terms (https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/terms).
If you tap "Open in Google Translate", the selected text is handed to the Google Translate app, which applies its own privacy policy.
Advertising (Google AdMob)
The app shows a banner ad at the top of most screens (not in the camera, QR scanner, crop and page editing screens, the PDF reader or the Word editor) shows a full-screen ad when you export or share a scanned document, run a PDF tool, or save a copy of or share a PDF from the PDF reader; you can close it after a few seconds and the export then continues (if no ad is available, the export continues right away). It may also offer an optional rewarded ad when you use some tools (PDF to Word, compress, split, merge, protect PDF, sign, image to text, OCR PDF). You can continue without watching that ad; declining the offer, closing the ad early, or an unavailable ad does not block your action. Earning the reward pauses these rewarded ad offers for 15 minutes; banner and export ads are unaffected. Saving a scan in the app never needs an ad. The ads are provided by Google AdMob. AdMob may use your device's advertising ID, app set ID, IP address (from which an approximate location can be derived), ad interactions, diagnostics and device and app information to select, show, limit and measure ads and to prevent fraud, and may show personalized ads if you allow it. Your documents, pictures and recognized text are never shared with AdMob.
Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom), the app asks for your consent before ads load, and you can change your choice later in Settings → About → Ad privacy settings. You can reset your advertising ID or opt out of ad personalization in your Android settings (Settings → Google → Ads). For how Google uses data from apps that use its services, see https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).
Sharing
The app shares a document only when you ask it to, through the Android share sheet, and you choose the app that receives it. Links found in QR codes or documents open only when you tap them.
Backups
To keep your documents on your device, the app's data is excluded from Android cloud backup. When you move to a new phone with a cable or a device-to-device transfer, Android can copy the app's data to the new phone.
Children
The app is a general-purpose productivity tool and is not directed at children under 13. The developer does not collect personal information from any user. The Google services described above process the data explained in this policy for every user of the app.
Security
Your documents are kept in storage that only the app can read. PDFs can be protected with a password you choose; the password is not stored and cannot be recovered.
Your choices
You can delete documents in the app, clear the cache in Settings, and remove all of the app's data by uninstalling it or clearing its storage in Android settings. Deleting a scan moves it to Trash (Library → Scans → Trash), where it stays on your device until you restore it or delete it permanently. Files you exported or shared to other apps or folders are not removed by the app or by uninstalling it. You can deny or revoke any permission in Android settings; only the features that need it stop working.
The developer keeps no data about you, so there is nothing to delete on the developer's side. Data handled by Google AdMob and ML Kit is kept and deleted by Google under the Google Privacy Policy; uninstalling the app does not delete it. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in Android settings (Settings → Google → Ads) and manage your Google data at https://myaccount.google.com.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at the same address and in the app, with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about this policy or the app: dyaa6a@gmail.com