PicCopy Privacy Policy

Effective 2026-09-24 · package com.piccopy.pic_copy · 한국어

PicCopy collects no personal data. Your photos and the index never leave your device. The only time the app talks to the outside is to check your purchase with Google Play (§4). There is no server, no account, no advertising and no analytics. This document states that, item by item.

1. What the app does

It copies the photos on your phone to a USB flash drive that you connect yourself. That is all.

2. Permissions and why

Permission	Why	Scope
Read photos `READ_MEDIA_IMAGES` / `READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`	To find photos that are not yet on the drive	Read-only. There is no function that modifies or deletes photos
USB storage (SAF)	To write photos into the USB folder you chose	Only the folder you selected. The app does not access other locations
USB device detection	To open the app when a drive is plugged in	Connection state only
Notifications	To show that a backup is running	On-device only

Internet permission is used only for payment. The app talks to Google Play to buy "Move everything" or to check whether it was already bought. Your photos are never part of that traffic. The app contains no code that sends photos or the index off the device.

3. What is written to the USB drive

Besides the photo files, the app writes an index file to a hidden folder on the drive (.사진백업/) so that the next backup can skip photos already copied. The index contains:

photo file name, size, capture time and its path on the drive
a random identifier generated by the app to tell phones apart (unrelated to device serial numbers, phone numbers or accounts)
the phone name you typed (e.g. "Dad's phone")

This file exists only on your USB drive. It is not sent to anyone, including the developer. Formatting the drive or deleting that folder removes it.

4. Payment

You can move up to 300 photos for free; after that a single payment unlocks the rest. It is not a subscription. Getting your photos back is always free — plug the drive into a PC and they open as ordinary photo files without this app.

Google Play handles the payment. The app never sees, receives, or stores card numbers or any other payment details.
The only thing the app asks Google is whether this Google account has purchased. It uses that answer to unlock the screen.
The app does not store the purchase itself. Google holds the record, so it restores on a new phone or a reinstall with the same account.
Information Google Play processes during payment is governed by Google's own privacy policy.

How many photos you have moved for free is written to the index file on your USB drive (§3). It is not sent to the developer.

5. What is stored on the phone

App settings only (language, the last chosen USB folder, a copy of the phone name), in the app's private storage. Uninstalling the app deletes them.

6. What is not collected or shared

Name, email, phone number, contacts, location
Photo content — the app copies files without opening or analysing them
Advertising identifiers, analytics, crash reports
Any data sent to third-party SDKs

7. Children

The app is not directed at children and collects no information from anyone, regardless of age.

8. Changes

2026-09-24 — Payment was added, so Internet use and a payment section are now documented.

If a feature that transmits data is ever added (for example crash reporting or ads), this policy will be updated first and the effective date changed. This page is always the current version.

9. Contact

Use the developer contact shown on the Google Play listing.