Privacy Policy

Introduction

InstaBlend: AI-Image Enhancer app provides mobile applications on Google Play. We provide number of applications on the Google Play and We provide this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies regarding the collection, use, disclosure and protection of information regarding this application.

This app requests some sensitive permission to make the in-app functions work properly. Photos/Media/Files, Storage and other permissions may only need for enhancing, editing, or saving photos or other media files with the application.

• Photos/Media/Files permission: To get the photos or other media files to be enhanced or edited on your device as needed.

• Storage permission: To save the enhanced or edited photos in your local media as needed. Please note that we never automatically obtain any photos from your device, nor will we save your photos on our server.

We assure our users that any user data obtained through these permissions will not be shared or distributed without the user's express consent, except as required by law. We take the privacy and security of our users' data very seriously and are committed to complying with all relevant data protection laws and regulations.

You can read more about the details of our Privacy Policy in the following sections.

1. Acceptance

Please read the policy carefully before you use or access our Services. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree with our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your information as described in the following sections. Please note that if you disagree with anything in this Privacy Policy, you must not use the Service.

2. Amendments to this Policy

We will notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the amended terms on the Service. By continuing to use the Service after those changes are posted, you agree to be bound by the revised Policy. To find out when we last updated this Policy, please refer to the date listed after “Last Modified” at the top of this Policy. If you do not agree to the changes, you should discontinue your use of the Service immediately.

In addition, we may provide you with “just-in-time” disclosures or additional information about the data collection, use and sharing practices of specific parts of our Service. These notices may provide additional information about our privacy practices, or additional choices about how we process your information.

3. Information We collect from you

By installing this mobile application from Google Play, you are authorizing the application to collect, store, and use in accordance with this Privacy policy.

Our app needs to have access to your photo gallery. You may choose to grant us the permission to access to your photo gallery to obtain your photo in your mobile device. Only if you confirm the permission, will we gain access to your photo gallery.

How do we handle face data?

We use artificial intelligence technology to automatically create highly realistic facial transformations base on the portrait photos user uploaded.

We use a third-party cloud provider – specifically Google Cloud/Compute Engine as the server for image processing and editing.

Only the selected photos are uploaded to the cloud for editing.

Photos are temporarily cached on the cloud servers during the editing process.

Photos remain in the cloud for a very short period of 60 minutes after you have last edited the photograph, so that you can access the image and make additional modifications if you choose to do so.

We do not use the photos you provide for any reason other than to provide you with the portrait editing functionality.

For some specific features like Enhance and Cartoon, we need to share with 3rd party (https://cutout.pro) via api connection to process. And we make sure this 3rd party also comply with privacy policies. You can see details here

4. Customer Support Correspondence

When you ask for assistance from our Customer Support team, we may collect and store contact information you provide (generally your name and e-mail address), as well as information about your usage of the application, so that we can appropriately respond to inquiries. We will also store the correspondence and any related information.

We Don’t Collect Information of Children

Our mobile applications comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13, and if in the event that a user identifies himself or herself as a child under the age of 13 through a support request, we will not collect, store or use, and will delete in a secure manner, any personal information of such user.

Location Information

We do not use or collect your precise geographic location.

5. Third Party Analytics Providers And Ad Servers

Our applications use several third party API providers for Ads and Analytics. They may use/store some of your usage and other data. The storage of such data is beyond the scope of this Privacy policy.

Google Analytics (Google Inc.)

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.

Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Analytics collected: Cookie and Usage data.

Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

You can disable Google Analytics with this add-on tool.

Firebase (Google Inc.)

Firebase is a hosting and backend service provided by Google Inc. Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy

Advertising

This type of service allows user data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes displayed in the form  of banners and other advertisements on this Application, possibly based on User interests. This does not mean  that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below. Some of the  services listed below may use Cookies to identify Users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside this Application. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services. In addition to any opt-out offered by any of the services below, the User may opt out of a third-party service's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.Information and conditions of use are shown below.

AdMob (AdMob Google Inc.)

AdMob is an advertising service provided by AdMob Google Inc.

AdMob collected: Cookie and Usage data.

Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy

Facebook Audience Network

Facebook Audience Network is an advertising service provided by Facebook, Inc. (US) that may collect or receive information from our apps and other apps and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads. Facebook does not require opt-in or opt-out signals from users in our Services, relevant signals are collected directly from the user upon creating an account in such service.

Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update/printable

You can manage your personalized ad preferences in relation to Facebook directly from your Facebook account.

6. Security of Your Information.

Our applications implements reasonable security measures to protect the security of your information, and we are committed to the protection of customer information.

While we take reasonable precautions against possible security breaches of our application, however no application or Internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe.

7. Application Use

You are using the applications on your own risk. While we follow reasonable procedures to create error free software, however, we cannot guarantee that the applications are error free.

You are solely responsible for any loss, damage, financial charges etc while you use our apps. We are not responsible for any loss, damage, financial charges etc.

8. California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you have certain rights with respect to your personal data under the CCPA. These rights include the right to request access to or deletion of your personal data, as well as the right to know whether your personal data is being sold or disclosed and to whom. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at worthitappstep@gmail.com. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by the CCPA. Please note that we may require additional information from you in order to verify your identity and process your request.

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know whether we share your personal data with third parties and, if so, the categories of third parties with whom we share it. To exercise this right, please contact us at worthitappstep@gmail.com. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by the CCPA. Please note that we may require additional information from you in order to verify your identity and process your request.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Other State Privacy Laws: If you are a resident of a state with a privacy law that requires it, you have the right to know whether we sell your personal data and, if so, the categories of personal data that we sell and the categories of third parties to whom we sell it. To exercise this right, please contact us at worthitappstep@gmail.com. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law. Please note that we may require additional information from you in order to verify your identity and process your request.

If you are a resident of a state with a privacy law that requires it, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal data. To exercise this right, please contact us at worthitappstep@gmail.com. We will respond to your request within the timeframes required by applicable law. Please note that we may require additional information from you in order to verify your identity and process your request.

For more info, please check APPENDIX A and B.

9. Policy Changes/Contact Us

InstaBlend: AI-Image Editor app may update this policy from time to time. If you have any questions about the Service or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to obtain a previous version of the current document, feel free to contact us at worthitappstep@gmail.com.

APPENDIX A - Advertising networks and their partners

The below companies assist us by providing services relating to advertising and marketing. If you reside in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the advertising networks, analytics providers, and other companies listed below request your consent to collect or receive device information from our apps on your browser or device for advertising purposes, including personal and non-personal information, such as advertising (or ad) identifiers, IP address, or other information regarding the delivery of advertisements and your interaction with them, the inventory of installed apps and/or other tracking technologies to provide measurement services, personalization, ad selection, delivery, reporting, and optimize targeted ads. Ad identifiers are non-permanent device identifiers such as the Android advertising ID . you can learn more about how each handles your data or provides opt-outs by accessing their respective privacy notices using the hyperlinks below.

Facebook Audience Network

Facebook Audience Network is an advertising service provided by Facebook, Inc. (US) that may collect or receive information from our apps and other apps and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads. Facebook does not require opt-in or opt-out signals from users in our Services, relevant signals are collected directly from the user upon creating an account in such service.

Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

You can manage your personalized ad preferences in relation to Facebook directly from your Facebook account.

Google AdMob and their partners

AdMob by Google is provided by Google Inc. (US)

For more information on how AdMob uses the collected information, please visit the Privacy Policy of Google: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

For more information on AdMob Partners, please visit: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/9012903

You can opt-out from AdMob by Google service by following the instructions described by Google: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en

APPENDIX B - Analytics and other service providers

We use your information to perform our own analytics and to enable analytics provided by third parties and other essential functions. We use analytical information for supporting business analysis and operations, business intelligence, product development, improving the Services, personalizing content, providing advertising, and making recommendations. In order to learn about how your information is used by our analytics service providers, you can follow the hyperlinks in the list below to each provider’s privacy notice.

Facebook Ads conversion

Facebook Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. (US) that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on the Services.

Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

Facebook Analytics

Facebook Analytics is an analytics tool provided by Facebook, Inc. (US) that may collect or receive information from our apps and other apps and use that information to provide measurement services.

Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

Firebase

Firebase is an analytics service provided by Google Inc. (US)

You may opt-out of certain Firebase features through your mobile device settings, such as your device advertising settings or by following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Google reCAPTCHA

Google reCAPTCHA is a spam protection service provided by Google LLC. (US)

It is primarily used to distinguish whether an input is made by a natural person or abusive by automated processing. The service includes sending data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google. Additional information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google's privacy policy can be found at https://policies.google.com/privac

Last updated: 15 August 2023