BUTIFY PRIVACY POLICY & USER DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT
1. INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE
Butify ("we", "our", or "the Platform") is committed to delivering a transparent, privacy-centric mobile utility and creator platform. This Privacy Policy provides a comprehensive, explicit explanation of how we collect, handle, process, store, protect, and delete data when you interact with Butify on Android. This policy covers all functional modules, including the Timeline Video Editor, Status Cutter, Hardware-Accelerated Video Compressor, Animated GIF Converter, Audio Extractor and Audio Mixer, Document & PDF Tools (Images to PDF, PDF to Word DOCX, and Word DOCX to PowerPoint PPTX), OCR Text Scanner, AI Background Remover and Cutout Engine, Creator Academy, Daily Rewards Center, and Community Referral Contests.
2. CORE PRIVACY PRINCIPLE: 100% LOCAL ON-DEVICE MEDIA PROCESSING
- Local Execution: All user-selected photos, video recordings, audio tracks, camera captures, and document files are processed entirely within the private, sandboxed memory of your physical Android device. Operations such as video trimming, encoding, audio mixing, optical character recognition, and format conversion execute via your device's local CPU, GPU, and hardware codecs.
- No Cloud Media Uploads: At no point during any editing, conversion, compression, or scanning operation are your original media files or rendered outputs transmitted, uploaded, or backed up to any external cloud server or remote network endpoint.
- Machine Learning Privacy: Your personal photos, video content, and documents are never analyzed, stored, or utilized to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.
3. DATA WE COLLECT, PROCESS, AND RETAIN
We collect and process only the minimal data strictly necessary to deliver core features, secure transactions, and maintain application integrity:
A. Optional Account Information
Account registration is completely optional. You can use all core utility modules as an anonymous guest without providing personal credentials. If you choose to create an account to synchronize credit balances across sessions, preserve Academy learning records, or participate in the community referral leaderboard, we securely store your self-provided display name, email address, and optional phone number.
B. Device Identifiers and Anti-Fraud Tokens
To protect community contests and leaderboard integrity against automated bot abuse and vote manipulation, our security system generates a non-persistent, pseudo-random installation identifier. This token is used solely to verify legitimate referral actions and calculate contest rankings. We strictly do not collect persistent hardware identifiers such as IMEI numbers or hardware MAC addresses.
C. Advertising and Analytics Identifiers
We integrate the Google Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob) to display non-intrusive banner advertisements and facilitate optional rewarded video ads that award in-app utility credits. The AdMob SDK processes the standard Google Play Services Advertising ID (AdID), approximate geographic location (country/city level via IP address), and interaction events in full accordance with Google Play Developer Policies.
D. Diagnostics, Crash Reports, and Performance Telemetry
To ensure stability and diagnose errors across diverse Android devices, anonymous diagnostic crash logs and stack traces are collected. These reports contain operating system versions, device model specifications, and technical exception traces, completely detached from user personal identities or media files.
4. ANDROID SYSTEM PERMISSIONS AND USER CONTROLS
Every Android permission requested by Butify serves a specific, user-initiated functional purpose adhering strictly to Google Play least-privilege guidelines:
- Media and Storage Access: We use the modern, zero-permission Android Photo Picker for selecting photos and videos. For saving exported outputs (rendered videos, GIFs, PDFs), Butify utilizes scoped storage and standard MediaStore APIs to write files directly to your device's public media collections without requesting broad storage permissions.
- Camera Permission: Requested optionally and strictly on-demand when you explicitly choose to capture a live photo for OCR text scanning or image creation. The live camera feed is processed in real time in volatile device memory and is never transmitted over the network.
- Internet Access (INTERNET & ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE): Utilized strictly for network-dependent features, such as fetching real-time configuration settings, authenticating optional accounts, synchronizing credit balances, processing Google Play Billing, and serving AdMob advertisements.
- Push Notifications (POST_NOTIFICATIONS): On Android 13+, notification access is requested optionally to deliver reminders for daily reward credits, contest announcements, and notifications when long-running media rendering completes. You can manage or revoke notification permissions at any time in Android Settings.
5. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES AND DATA INTEGRATIONS
We integrate only certified, industry-standard third-party SDKs:
- Google AdMob: Delivers banner, interstitial, and rewarded video ads. Data collected is governed by Google's Privacy Policy.
- Google Play In-App Billing: Manages secure payments for credit bundles and premium upgrades. All financial and payment card details are handled exclusively by Google Play; Butify never collects, receives, or stores your financial information.
- Google Firebase & Cloud Services: Provides encrypted authentication, real-time database synchronization for credit balances and referral leaderboards, and crash diagnostics.
6. DATA SECURITY, ENCRYPTION, AND ZERO DATA SELLING
- In-Transit Security: All communication between Butify and backend cloud infrastructure is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3) protocols over HTTPS.
- At-Rest Protection: Account credentials, credit ledgers, and contest telemetry are stored in secure cloud databases protected by AES-256 encryption.
- Zero Commercialization: We strictly DO NOT sell, rent, lease, or monetize your personal information or contact credentials with third-party data brokers, marketers, or advertisers under any circumstances.
7. DATA RETENTION AND ACCOUNT LIFECYCLE
- Local Content: All rendered media outputs, extracted texts, and generated files remain stored on your physical device until you manually delete them or uninstall the app.
- Cloud Account Records: For registered users, account profile data and credit balances are retained during the active life of the account. Accounts inactive for more than 24 consecutive months are automatically queued for permanent data purging.
8. USER RIGHTS AND COMPLETE DATA ERASURE
You retain full control over your personal information. You have the right to access, update, or permanently delete your account and associated data at any time:
- In-App Deletion: Navigate to Settings -> "Delete Account & Wipe Data", or tap the "Delete Account" button in the footer to instantly and permanently wipe your cloud account records, credit balance history, and referral links.
- Web Portal Deletion: You can also request complete data deletion via our public portal or by emailing our Data Protection team at butifysupport@gmail.com.
9. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY COMPLIANCE
Butify is a general-audience utility suite and is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under 13. If we discover that personal data of a child has been collected, we will take immediate measures to permanently delete that information.
10. POLICY UPDATES AND CONTACT INFORMATION
We may periodically update this Privacy Policy to reflect application improvements or regulatory requirements. Material revisions will be posted in the app and on our official portal at https://butify-c6873.web.app/privacy. If you have questions regarding this policy, please contact us at butifysupport@gmail.com or visit our Support page.