Your photos stay yours.

Your photos and videos never leave your device

This is the core of how SpaceUp works and it has not changed. All scanning, analysis, and organizing of your photos and videos — finding duplicates, similar photos, blurry shots, screenshots, and large videos — happens entirely on your device. Your photos and videos, their contents, and their file names are never uploaded, transmitted, or sent to us or to anyone else. The on-device machine-learning model is bundled in the app and runs locally; it does not send your images anywhere.

When you delete items, they go to your device’s recoverable trash (recoverable for up to 30 days through your device’s gallery), not to us.

Contacts

SpaceUp can scan the contacts on your device to find duplicate and incomplete contacts. This processing happens entirely on your device: your contacts are never uploaded, transmitted, or shared, and SpaceUp’s analytics and crash reports never contain contact data — only counts (for example, how many duplicates were found).

SpaceUp modifies or deletes contacts only when you explicitly confirm a merge, deletion, or restore. Contact backups you create are stored as .vcf files in SpaceUp’s private storage on your device, are removed if you uninstall the app, and leave your device only if you yourself choose to share or export them.

Contacts access is optional: the feature asks for permission when you first use it, and the rest of SpaceUp works fully without it.

What we collect

To keep the app stable and understand how it’s used so we can improve it, SpaceUp uses two Google Firebase services — Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics. These collect a limited amount of data, described below. This data is transmitted off your device to Google, who processes it on our behalf as our service provider.

App activity (usage events). We log a small, fixed set of in-app events — for example, that a scan was started or completed, that a cleanup finished, how many items were cleaned, and how many bytes were freed. These events contain only counts, byte totals, and fixed category labels (such as which feature was used). They never include your file names, file paths, or any image or video content.

Crash logs and diagnostics. When the app crashes or misbehaves, Crashlytics collects technical diagnostic information (such as the type of error, device model, operating system version, and app state at the time) so we can find and fix the problem. These reports do not contain your photos, videos, file names, or personal content.

Device identifiers, including the Advertising ID. Firebase collects device identifiers, including your device’s Advertising ID (AD_ID). We use these to measure and optimize our advertising campaigns that promote SpaceUp, and to support analytics.

Approximate location. Firebase Analytics infers an approximate, coarse location (for example, country or region) from your device’s IP address. We do not collect precise or GPS location.

We do not collect your name, email address, contacts, accounts, or precise location, and SpaceUp does not require you to create an account. Contacts are read on your device only, as described under Contacts above, and are never collected by us or transmitted off your device.

Subscriptions and purchases

SpaceUp offers optional paid subscriptions. Payments are processed entirely by Google Play — we never receive or store your payment card details.

To manage subscriptions, we use RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc.), a service provider that processes purchase information on our behalf. When you make or restore a purchase, RevenueCat receives and processes:

• Purchase history (which subscription you bought, when, its renewal and trial status)
• A randomly generated, anonymous app user ID that identifies your app installation — not your name, email, or Google account
• Basic device information (device model, OS version, app version, locale)

RevenueCat processes this data solely to provide subscription management to us and does not sell it or use it for its own advertising. See RevenueCat’s privacy policy at https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy for details.

We also record subscription events (such as a purchase or trial start) in our analytics as counts and plan types only — never linked to your identity, and never including payment details.

How we use this data

We use the data above to:

• keep the app stable by diagnosing and fixing crashes;
• understand which features are used so we can improve the app;
• measure and optimize advertising campaigns that promote SpaceUp.

Sharing

We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with third parties for their own purposes. Google processes the data described above on our behalf as our service provider, under Google’s terms. We have not enabled Google’s data-sharing features (such as sharing with other Google products, benchmarking, or ads personalization). RevenueCat, Inc. — subscription and purchase management — acts as our service provider; your purchase data is collected, not shared for third parties’ own purposes, and is processed under RevenueCat’s terms.

Encryption

All data collected by the app is encrypted in transit using TLS.

Your choices and rights

• Advertising ID: You can reset or limit your Advertising ID at any time in your Android device settings (Settings → Privacy → Ads, or Settings → Google → Ads), including opting out of ad personalization.
• Request deletion: You can request that we delete the data associated with your app installation — including analytics, crash, and purchase-related data — by emailing support@spaceupapp.com. We will action your request.
• Stop collection: Uninstalling SpaceUp stops all further data collection by the app.

Data retention

We retain analytics and diagnostic data only as long as needed for the purposes above, in line with Google Firebase’s retention controls, after which it is deleted or anonymized.

Children

SpaceUp is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

We will update this policy if our data practices change — for example, if we add subscriptions or new features. When we add the ability to subscribe, we will update this policy to describe any purchase and subscription data handled at that time. Material changes will be reflected here with an updated date.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: support@spaceupapp.com