Privacy Policy
The short version. Pixcelate collects nothing. Your photos are processed by a model bundled inside the app, on your own device — there is no account, no backend and no analytics. On Android this is enforced rather than promised: the release build does not request the INTERNET permission, so the system itself blocks any connection.
This Privacy Policy explains how Flowlab Apps (“we”, “us”) handles information in Pixcelate (the “app”). It is written to be read, not to be survived.
1. What we collect
Nothing. There is no sign-up, no login, no email address collected, no advertising identifier, no usage analytics and no crash reporting. No SDK in the app reports your behaviour to anyone.
Flowlab Apps operates no server that holds your Pixcelate data, because no such data ever reaches us. That is not a policy decision we could quietly reverse in an update — there is no backend to send it to.
2. What the app stores, and where
Everything Pixcelate saves is stored on the device you are using it on.
| What | Where | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Photos you export | Your device's photo library, in a Pixcelate album | Because you tapped Save — this is the only thing the app deliberately keeps |
| A photo you take inside the app | Your device's photo library, and the app's temporary folder while you work on it | So you can cut it out; the working copy is swept once it is a day old |
| Working files — an extracted Live Photo frame, the file handed to the share sheet | The app's own temporary folder on your device | So a cutout survives long enough to be shared or saved; swept automatically once it is a day old |
| A diagnostic log, only if something goes wrong | The app's own temporary folder on your device | So you can read the error under Diagnostics and paste it into a bug report; swept on the same schedule |
3. Permissions
Pixcelate asks for the following, and nothing else. Every permission marked optional can be declined, and the app keeps working without it.
- Photo library (read) — To open the photo or Live Photo you pick. Pixcelate only ever receives the single item you chose in the system picker — it cannot browse your library.
- Camera (optional) — Only when you choose “Take a photo” instead of picking from your library. Pixcelate never opens the camera on its own, records nothing, and keeps the shot on your device like any other photo. Decline it and the library still works.
- Photo library (add) — Only when you tap Save, to write the finished image into a Pixcelate album. Decline it and everything else still works; use the share sheet instead.
- Storage on older Android (optional) — Android 10 and below required this to write a saved image to shared storage. It is capped at API 29 and is never requested on newer versions of Android.
4. Network activity
None. There is no networking code in the app, no analytics, advertising, crash-reporting or attribution SDK, and no server for anything to be sent to. Background removal runs against a model file compiled into the app itself, which is why it behaves identically in airplane mode. On Android the release build declares no INTERNET permission at all, so Android blocks any connection whether or not code attempts one.
5. Third parties
None. No third-party SDK, advertising library, tracker or analytics framework is compiled into the app. The open-source components it does use — the system image picker, the TensorFlow Lite runtime, the share sheet and the photo-library writer — all run locally, and none of them report anything to anyone.
We do not sell, rent, share or disclose your personal information, because we do not hold any of it.
6. What we declare to the app stores
Apple and Google each require a privacy declaration alongside the app listing. These are the answers we give for Pixcelate, reproduced here so you can check them against the rest of this policy.
| Store declaration | Our answer |
|---|---|
| Apple App Store — App Privacy | Data Not Collected. Nothing is collected from this app, by us or by anyone else, so no data type is linked to you and none is used to track you. |
| Google Play — Data safety | No data collected. No data shared with third parties. No data is transmitted off the device, so there is none to encrypt in transit. Users can erase everything the app holds by deleting it. |
| Account deletion | Not applicable — the app has no account. See Data & Account Deletion. |
One qualification, for completeness: the development and profile builds used while the app is being written do declare Android's INTERNET permission, because Flutter's hot-reload tooling needs it. That permission is absent from the release build, which is the only build that ever reaches a store or a phone.
7. Children
Pixcelate is not directed at children under 13, and it collects no personal information from anyone of any age. Because nothing is collected, nothing is collected from children.
8. Additional notes
Nothing you do in the editor survives closing the app. The cutout, the adjustments and the undo history are all held in memory only — quit Pixcelate and they are gone, and only what you deliberately exported to your photo library remains. Pixcelate does not request your microphone, location, contacts or calendars.
9. Your rights and your choices
Privacy laws including the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export and delete personal data a company holds about you. Flowlab Apps holds no personal data about Pixcelate users, so there is nothing for us to produce, correct or erase on request.
You remain in full control of the data on your own device:
- Delete individual items from inside the app.
- Remove the app to delete its local data, subject to your device's own backup and restore settings.
- Revoke any permission at any time from your device's system settings.
We do not sell personal information and never have. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising.
10. Security
Because your data stays on your device, its security rests on your device's own protections — your passcode, your biometric lock and your operating system's storage encryption. Keep your device updated and locked.
11. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the revised version will be published at this address with a new date at the top. If a future version of Pixcelate ever begins collecting data, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the app will ask for your consent in-app.
12. Contact
Questions about this policy, or about privacy in any Flowlab Apps app:
- Email: dev@flowlabapps.com
- Support: flowlabapps.
com/ apps/ pixcelate/ support/
We aim to answer within a few business days.