FileVia Android Privacy Policy

1. About the Android app

FileVia is a local-first productivity utility for managing files, scanning a single document page, recognizing text, and transferring selected files. The Android app does not require an account or sign-in and contains no advertising, subscriptions, or in-app purchases. If offered as a paid download, checkout is handled by Google Play, not by an in-app payment form. Google's own account and payment processing is governed by its policies.

2. Files and processing on your device

Files, photos, and videos you import or receive, scan images, recognized text, thumbnails, edited results, and app settings are processed and stored locally by default. FileVia does not provide a developer-hosted cloud file library. Local editing, conversion, and ordinary image or PDF saving do not require uploading your content to a FileVia server.

Scan originals and derived images may be kept in temporary app storage to support editing, re-cropping, restoration, and recovery from a failed save. Temporary storage is not a backup and may be cleared by Android. You decide whether to export or share your files.

3. On-device text and QR recognition

The Android app uses bundled Google ML Kit Chinese text recognition and barcode scanning. At this policy date, the direct dependencies are text-recognition-chinese:16.0.1 and barcode-scanning:17.3.0. Recognition runs on your device. Input images, text, and recognition results are not sent to Google merely to perform these recognition operations. You can save an ordinary image or PDF without successful text recognition.

On-device recognition does not mean that the Google SDKs never communicate with Google. Their operational and diagnostic data is described below. See the ML Kit Terms & Privacy.

4. Google SDK operational and diagnostic data

ML Kit sends operational, usage, and diagnostic information to Google. Google's SDK disclosure describes the following data:

• Device information, such as manufacturer, model, operating system version/build, and available ML hardware accelerators.
• Application information, including package name and app version, and SDK feature versions.
• Per-installation identifiers, which are not intended to uniquely identify a person or physical device.
• API configuration, such as input image format/resolution and input/output sizes, rather than the image or recognized text itself.
• API events, such as feature initialization, detection, and resource release, performance measurements such as latency, and error codes.

Google uses this data for diagnostics and usage analytics, including maintaining and improving its APIs. The SDK transmits this data using HTTPS. Google handles it under the Google Privacy Policy; further details are available in the ML Kit Android data disclosure.

FileVia currently has no separate switch that disables this SDK telemetry. We do not control Google's retention periods, do not promise that these records are immediately deleted, and cannot promise to delete Google-held SDK records on your behalf. Deleting local files or uninstalling FileVia does not itself delete data already received by Google.

5. Transfers you choose and HTTP security limits

When you start a file-sending session, receive through a QR code, start computer import, or use a system share action, the selected content can leave your device for the recipient or app you choose. Device-to-device transfers exchange file contents, names, types and sizes, together with connection/session information such as addresses, ports, and access codes. These transfer flows do not use a FileVia-hosted file relay.

FileVia's transfer tools are intended for trusted devices on the same Wi-Fi or hotspot. The actual connection is made to the address selected through the user-provided QR code or transfer session. The app does not enforce private-network-only addresses, so we do not guarantee that every connection remains within your local network.

Current device-to-device and computer-import connections use HTTP, not HTTPS. File contents, metadata, and session information are not protected by transport encryption or end-to-end encryption in these flows. Access codes limit access but do not encrypt traffic. Use only networks and recipients you trust, avoid transferring sensitive content over untrusted networks, do not scan untrusted transfer codes, and close transfer sessions when finished. A recipient or another app may retain a copy under its own controls and policies.

6. Android permissions and selected access

• Camera: photographing documents and scanning transfer QR codes.
• Network, Wi-Fi state, and nearby Wi-Fi devices: finding available connection information and operating transfers, including computer import. Runtime permission requirements depend on the Android version.
• Photos, videos, and documents: Android system pickers and share/open actions give FileVia access to items you select. The app does not request broad all-files storage access.

Where Android provides permission controls, you can manage them in system settings. Refusing camera or nearby-device access can prevent the related feature from working. Standard network permissions are not necessarily presented as a runtime permission prompt.

7. Local retention, deletion, and hidden content

You can delete local library items within FileVia. Uninstalling the app generally removes its private app data. Exported files, system-gallery copies, and copies already received by another device or app are separate: deleting the FileVia copy does not delete those copies. App-private temporary files may also remain until a workflow is completed or discarded, or until Android clears them.

Hidden-content and password features provide local access control within the app. They are not a system-level encrypted vault, do not encrypt network transfers, and should not be treated as a guarantee against access outside the app.

There is no FileVia account to close. Local deletion is separate from any Google-held SDK or Google Play records. Refer to Google's policies for its retention and privacy controls; we cannot guarantee deletion of those records through FileVia support.

8. Audience and children

FileVia is a general productivity utility. The intended product audience includes users of different ages, including children; this is separate from an official content rating. Before a release is offered to children, its SDK data practices, transfer features, and applicable child-safety requirements must be reviewed. An intended audience is not a statement that the current pre-release build has completed that review.

The current Android build does not operate an age-verification or parental-consent flow and does not create child user profiles. Parents and guardians should review the SDK data practices above and supervise file transfers. Do not send children's personal information to support. Contact the support address below with privacy questions without including private documents or identifying details about a child.

9. Policy updates and contact

We may update this policy as the Android app or its SDKs change. The date above identifies the latest revision; where appropriate, material changes will also be described in app release information. For privacy questions, local-data deletion guidance, or support, contact 15871731171shuao@gmail.com. Please do not send private documents or sensitive transfer contents in a support request unless needed and explicitly requested.

中文摘要（Android 版）

更新日期：2026 年 10 月 23 日。完整说明见以上英文政策；本摘要对应 Android 应用 com.fileassistant.app，不适用于 iOS 版。

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• 文件、单页扫描、编辑与中文 OCR 默认在本机处理。ML Kit 不因识别操作上传输入图像、文字或识别结果；但会通过 HTTPS 向 Google 发送设备/应用信息、安装级标识、API 使用、性能和诊断数据，并按 Google 隐私政策处理。应用当前没有独立遥测关闭开关，开发者不承诺 Google 零保留或代为删除其记录。
• 主动传输会把所选文件、文件名/类型/大小及连接信息发给您选择的地址或接收方。工具面向可信同网使用，但不强制只连接私网；当前设备间传输及电脑导入使用未加密的 HTTP，访问码不等于加密。
• 相机用于文档拍摄和二维码；网络、Wi-Fi/附近设备权限用于连接与传输；照片、视频及文件通过系统选择器等按需访问，不请求全文件访问权限。
• 本地副本可在应用内删除，卸载通常移除私有数据；临时原片/编辑图可能用于重裁和失败恢复。导出或已接收副本不会联动删除。隐藏内容只是应用内访问控制，不是加密保险箱；本地删除也不等于删除 Google 已收到的数据。
• 产品拟面向包括儿童在内的不同年龄用户，但这不等于内容分级，也不表示当前预发布版本已完成儿童适用性审查。面向儿童发布前须核查 SDK 数据处理、文件分享和儿童安全要求；当前版本不实施年龄验证或家长同意流程。家长应了解 SDK 数据处理并监督文件传输，请勿向客服发送儿童个人信息。隐私与支持联系：15871731171shuao@gmail.com。