Privacy Policy — Android

Effective 18 October 2026 · Applies to FairDocs: PDF Scanner & OCR for Android, on Google Play

The short version: FairDocs has no account and no sign-in, and your documents never leave your device. Scans, imported files, recognised (OCR) text, document names and signatures are processed and stored only on your phone. The app contains no code that uploads them — there is no analytics, no crash reporting and no server of ours that it talks to. FairDocs shows no ads at all, to anyone, free or Pro, and it does not read your device's advertising ID. Exactly one thing involves another company: buying Pro (Google Play and RevenueCat, which see the purchase). We never sell data. Every detail is below.

This page is for the Android app. The iPhone and Mac versions of FairScan are a different build with different data practices — they use Firebase analytics, crash reporting and push notifications, none of which exist in the Android app. Neither build shows ads. If you use FairScan on iPhone or Mac, read the iOS and Mac policy instead.

1. What stays on your device

All of the following is created, processed and stored only on your phone, in the app's own private storage, and is never transmitted anywhere by FairDocs:

Scanned pages and the PDFs built from them.
Files you import from your device.
Recognised text (OCR). Text recognition runs on-device through Google's ML Kit; the page images are not sent to a server for recognition.
Document names and any other details you type.
Signatures you draw and the documents you stamp them onto.
Your App Lock preference.

Uninstalling the app deletes all of it. Because none of it is on a server, there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf and no way for us to see it.

2. Buying Pro

Pro is a one-time purchase. It removes ads and lifts the limit on how many documents you can save. It unlocks no additional features — scanning, OCR, import, export, signing and App Lock are free.

Google Play processes the payment. We never see your card, your billing address or your Google account.
RevenueCat is the service that records whether this installation owns Pro, so it can be restored. It receives the Play purchase details (product, purchase date, price, status), an anonymous identifier it generates for this install, and basic device and app information. It does not receive your name or email, and it never receives your documents.

This is why FairDocs' Google Play Data safety section declares Purchase history and Device or other IDs as collected and shared.

3. Permissions the app asks for

Camera — to scan pages. Images go straight into the app's private storage.
No photo or storage permission — importing uses Android's own file picker, which hands FairDocs only the files you choose. The app never asks for access to your photo library.
Biometrics — for App Lock, if you turn it on. Your fingerprint or face is handled entirely by Android and is never seen by, or sent to, FairDocs. App Lock is off until you enable it, and it is free.
Internet and network state — used only to complete and restore a Pro purchase. Your documents are never sent anywhere.

4. What the Android app does NOT do

No account, no sign-in, no password.
No ads, for anyone. There is no advertising SDK in the app.
No advertising ID. The app does not request or read it.
No analytics and no crash reporting. The Android build contains no Firebase, no Crashlytics and no analytics SDK of any kind.
No push notifications, and no server of ours that the app contacts.
No uploading of your documents, OCR text or signatures — the app contains no code to send them anywhere.
We do not sell your data, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

5. Service providers

Google Play services / ML Kit — provides the document scanner and on-device text recognition.
Google Play Billing — processes the Pro purchase.
RevenueCat — records Pro ownership so it can be restored (section 2).

6. Children

FairDocs is intended for people aged 18 and over and is not directed to children. It is not part of Google Play's Families programme.

7. Changes to this policy

If the Android app's data practices change — for example if a feature is added that sends something new — this page is updated before that version ships, and the effective date above changes with it.

8. Contact

FairDocs is made by Moath Othman. For questions about this policy or a privacy request, email kenz@kenzapps.com. We aim to reply within two business days.