Privacy policy

Who this policy is from

Papr is published by Pixel Potions ("we", "us"). If you have a question about anything below, write to support@papr.app.

What we collect

Two things, both through Google Firebase, and both switchable off in Settings → Privacy → Send crash reports:

• Crash reports. When the app stops unexpectedly, Firebase Crashlytics records where in the code it happened, along with your device model, Android version and the app version. This is how a fault that only happens on one kind of phone gets found at all.
• Anonymous usage counts. Firebase Analytics records that a tool was used — that a document was opened, that a page was rotated — so we can tell which parts of the app matter and which are broken. It counts events; it does not describe them.

What is never included: your documents, their names, their contents, their locations on your device, or any list of what you have opened. The code that sends this has no way to describe a document even by accident — it accepts only counts, durations and the app's own fixed labels.

There is no account system, so we do not receive your name or email address. Papr shows no adverts, and it deliberately drops the Android advertising ID that the analytics library would otherwise attach, so nothing here follows you into another app.

The app requests a single Android permission — internet access — and it exists only to deliver the two things above. Nothing in the editor uses it: opening, changing and saving a document all happen through your device alone.

Turning it off

Open Settings in Papr and switch off Send crash reports. It takes effect immediately, not at the next launch, and it stays off. Nothing else in the app changes.

What stays on your device

Papr keeps a small amount of information in its own private storage area, where no other app can read it. None of it is ever sent anywhere:

• Your document list — the name, size, page count and a small thumbnail of the first page of each document you have opened, plus a link back to where that document lives.
• Your bookmarks and annotations that have not yet been written into a file.
• Unsaved edits, so that work in progress survives if Android closes the app to free memory.
• Your settings, such as the theme and reading preferences.

All of it is removed when you uninstall the app. You can also remove individual documents from the list at any time, from the menu beside each row.

How Papr reaches your files

Papr uses Android's own document picker. You choose a file, and Android grants the app access to that one file. There is no permission that gives Papr a view of your storage as a whole, and it cannot go looking for documents you have not handed it.

When you open a PDF from another app — an email attachment, a chat message, a share sheet — Android grants access only for that visit. That is why a document opened this way may ask you to find it again later; nothing has gone wrong, and no access has been taken behind your back.

When you share a document

If you use Share or Export, Android hands your file to the app you pick — mail, messaging, cloud storage, a printer. From that moment the file is in that app's hands and its own privacy policy applies. Papr is not part of what happens next, and cannot be.

Google Firebase and Google Play

The crash reports and usage counts described above are processed by Google Firebase on our behalf, under Firebase's privacy terms and Google's privacy policy. Firebase assigns your installation a random identifier so that ten reports of the same crash can be told apart from ten different people hitting it once; that identifier is reset if you clear the app's data or reinstall, and it is not linked to your name or your Google account by us.

If you installed from Google Play, Google separately collects information about the installation under the same policy. We see only the aggregated statistics Google shows every developer.

This website

This site is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics and embeds no third-party scripts or fonts. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs (IP address, time, page requested) for security and reliability, as any web server does.

Children

Papr is suitable for all ages. It collects nothing that identifies anyone, and nothing that could describe what a child has been reading.

Your rights

Data protection laws such as the GDPR give you the right to see, correct or delete the personal data a company holds about you. What we hold is crash reports and event counts tied to a random installation identifier, with nothing in them that names you — so in practice the fastest way to exercise those rights is to switch Send crash reports off, which stops any further collection at once. Write to us if you would like reports already received to be deleted, and say roughly when you used the app so they can be found.

The information Papr stores on your device is yours already: you can remove any of it from within the app, or all of it by uninstalling.

Changes to this policy

If Papr ever gains a feature that changes any of the above, this page will be updated before that feature ships, and the date at the top will change with it.

Contact

Questions, corrections or concerns: support@papr.app.