GPS Pro Camera privacy policy
Effective: 6 October 2026 ยท NishadDev (Arvind Nishad)
GPS Pro Camera ("the app") is made by NishadDev (Arvind Nishad) ("we"). This policy explains what the app does with your information. In short: your photos stay on your phone. There are no accounts and we never receive your photos. The only thing that can reach our own server is the signed capture record of a photo you protect with a verify code (Full Access), described below, and you can switch that off.
What stays on your phone
- Photos, videos and voice notes. Everything you capture is saved on your phone: inside the app, and in your phone's gallery if you leave "Save to phone gallery" on. The app doesn't upload them. If you share a photo, report or backup, it goes only where you send it.
- Location. While the app is open it uses your phone's location to print the place, address, coordinates and a map on your photos, and to write GPS tags into each photo's EXIF data. Anyone you share a photo with can see that location. The app doesn't track you in the background and keeps no location history. Route tracking records a route only while you have it running in the app, and the route stays on your phone.
- Projects, notes, settings and your logo are stored on your phone only.
- Text recognition, document scanning and QR codes run on your phone (Google ML Kit on the device). The images aren't sent anywhere.
- Private vault (Full Access). Vault photos stay inside the app, are never copied to your gallery and are never published to the verify site.
- Content Credentials (Full Access). Each photo and video can be signed with a key kept in your phone's secure hardware. The signature, stored inside the file, records when and where it was taken, the app version and the edits the app made (crop, stamp). Anyone you share the original file with can read it, like the EXIF location. The key never leaves your phone.
What leaves your phone, and why
| Service | What is sent | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your phone's address lookup (Google on Android, Apple on iOS) | Your coordinates | To turn coordinates into a street address |
| Map tiles: Esri (esri.com) for satellite and hybrid maps; MapTiler (maptiler.com) or OpenStreetMap for street maps | Which map tiles are needed, which reveals the approximate area; your IP address | To draw the map on the stamp and in the app |
| MET Norway (api.met.no), only if you turn on Weather | Your location rounded to about 1 km; your IP address | To print the temperature and conditions |
| Your phone's speech recognition (Google on Android, Apple on iOS), only when you tap the microphone to dictate a note | Your voice while you dictate; the phone's recognizer may process it online | To turn speech into text |
| Our verify site, verify.nishaddev.com (run by us on Cloudflare), only for Full Access photos with "Public verify page" on | The signed capture record: time, place, address, coordinates, accuracy, altitude, app version; the file's SHA-256 hash; your phone's public signing key; the timestamp proof; your IP address (kept only as a hash for about two days, to stop abuse) | So anyone with the code printed on the photo, or its QR code, can check the photo is genuine. The photo itself is never sent |
| OpenTimestamps calendars (opentimestamps.org, eternitywall.com), only with Blockchain time proof on (Full Access) | One SHA-256 hash covering a batch of photos, each first mixed with a random number; your IP address | To prove the photos existed at that time by anchoring the hash in Bitcoin. The hash can't be turned back into a photo |
| Google AdMob, Free plan only | Device and advertising identifiers, IP address, approximate location from IP, ad interactions | To show ads; see below |
| Google Play / Apple App Store | Your purchase, handled entirely by the store | To sell and restore Plus, Pro and Full Access |
The verify site
A record on the verify site is public to anyone who has its code (GC-XXXX-XXXX), which is printed on the photo and in its QR code. The page shows the time, place, address and coordinates of the photo, the same details the stamp already shows. It does not show the photo, your name or your phone's identity beyond its public key. Records are kept so the code keeps working for as long as the photo is used as proof.
To stop new records being published, turn off **Settings > Authenticity > Public verify page, or Verify code on the stamp**. To delete a record, email support@nishaddev.com with the code from a photo you took; we delete it within 30 days.
Ads (Free plan)
The Free plan shows ads from Google AdMob. Google may use device identifiers and cookies to show and measure ads, and, where you allow it, to personalise them. Where the law requires consent (for example in the EU, UK and Switzerland), the app asks before any ads load, and you can change your choice any time from Settings > Ad privacy choices. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings. Google's use of data is described at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Plus, Pro and Full Access have no ads; the ads SDK is then not started.
Purchases
Payments are processed by Google Play or the App Store. We never see your payment details. The app only learns which plan you own.
Permissions
- Camera: to take photos and videos, and scan documents and QR codes.
- Microphone: for sound in videos (if Record sound is on), voice notes and dictation.
- Location (while using the app): for the stamp, EXIF tags and routes.
- Photos / storage: to save to your gallery and to pick a logo or a photo to import.
- Fingerprint / face: to unlock the private vault, if you turn it on.
- Internet: for maps, addresses, weather, the verify site, timestamps, ads and purchases.
You can turn any of these off in your phone's settings. The app keeps working without location; photos then carry no place or coordinates.
Children
The app is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.
Your choices and deleting data
Everything the app stores is on your phone. Deleting photos in the app removes them; uninstalling the app removes everything it stored, except copies already in your gallery and records on the verify site. To delete a verify-site record, email us its code. Requests about data held by Google, Apple, Esri, MapTiler or MET Norway go to those companies.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.
Contact
NishadDev (Arvind Nishad)
support@nishaddev.com