In short: Blurbit processes your photos and videos exclusively on your device. The app has no permission to access the internet. No videos, images or any other data are transmitted to us or to third parties. There is no user account, no advertising and no analytics or tracking services.
1. Controller
Snackbits UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Heinrich-Wildung-Weg 8
21224 Rosengarten
Germany
Represented by: Mischa Brammer (Managing Director)
Email: postmaster@snackbits.dev
2. What the app processes on your device
- Selected photos and videos: Using Android's media picker you choose a video or a photo – or several photos at once (up to 50). The app only gets access to the files you select, not to the rest of your gallery.
- Sharing to Blurbit: You can also hand photos or videos to Blurbit from other apps (e.g. gallery, files or a messenger). Blurbit then only gets read access to exactly those files.
- Face detection: The app looks for faces in your photo or in every frame of the video in order to blur them. It uses Google's ML Kit and MediaPipe libraries, whose detection models are included in the app and run on the device. People are not identified; no facial features are stored or matched against other data. The detected positions are only kept in memory or in the app's temporary storage during processing and are discarded afterwards.
- Result: The result is saved to your gallery: videos in the folder “Movies/Blurbit”, photos in the folder “Pictures/Blurbit”. PNG files stay PNG, everything else is saved as JPEG. You can delete the result at any time in the app or in your gallery. Temporary files are deleted after processing.
- Metadata: Results are saved without location data: photos without location and camera data (EXIF), videos without the recording location.
- Settings: Your settings (e.g. blur strength) are stored locally in the app.
- Notification: While processing, Android shows a notification with the progress; processing continues in the background and reports “Done” or “Failed” at the end. The notification stays on your device, nothing is transmitted. From Android 13 the app asks once for the “Notifications” permission; you can decline it and the app still works.
- Sharing to other apps: When you share a result, the app hands it over to the app you choose (e.g. a messenger). That app is then responsible for any further processing.
All of this happens exclusively on your device and under your control. We have no access to your photos, videos or results.
3. No data transfer by the app
The app is not allowed to access the internet (no Android “INTERNET” permission). Your photos and videos never leave your device. The only exception is an error report that you trigger yourself and that is sent via your browser (see section 4).
4. Voluntary error reports
If an error occurs while editing, you can send us an error report via “Report error”. This only happens if you tap the button and then tap “Send” in the following dialog, where “Details” shows the complete content beforehand.
Content: manufacturer, model and Android version of your device, processor, free memory and storage, app version and language, technical data of the processed file (file size, format, resolution, and for videos additionally length, frame rate and codecs), the processing step, your settings in the app (e.g. blur, “remove audio”, selected time range) and the technical error message. Not included: the photo or video itself, its file name, your location, accounts or device identifiers. If you process several photos, the report refers to the first photo that failed.
Transfer: The app opens a page on snackbits.dev in your browser, which sends the report to our server. Our hosting provider Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany, processes your IP address for technical reasons. We only use it briefly to prevent abuse (limiting the number of reports) and do not store it with the report.
Storage: We store the report as an entry in a non-public project repository at GitHub (GitHub, Inc., 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). The transfer to the USA is based on the EU Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, under which GitHub is certified.
Purpose and legal basis: finding and fixing errors in the app, based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future by not sending further reports. For reports already sent, email us at the address above, stating the date and time.
Retention: We delete reports as soon as the error has been fixed, at the latest after 12 months.
The report contains no information that allows us to identify you directly.
5. Google Play
The app is distributed via Google Play. When you download and update it, Google processes data under its own responsibility, see Google's privacy policy. If you have agreed in your Android settings to share usage and diagnostic data with app developers, Google provides us with aggregated statistics and crash reports (e.g. device model, Android version, location of the error in the code). These contain no videos and are used only to fix bugs (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
6. Your rights
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection (Art. 15–21 GDPR). As we do not receive any personal data about you through the app, we usually hold no data about you. You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Data Protection Commissioner of Lower Saxony.
7. Contact by email
If you contact us by email, we process your details only to answer your request (Art. 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR) and delete them as soon as they are no longer needed.
8. Changes
We update this privacy policy when the app or the legal situation changes. The version published here applies. The German version is legally binding.