Privacy Policy

Last updated 18 September 2026

The short version. RectoDate has no account, no ads, and no analytics about you. The photo you take and the text printed on it are read on your phone and never sent anywhere — not to us, not to Google, not to anyone.

One exception, stated plainly because it is still a network transmission: the Google ML Kit library that does the on-device text recognition reports technical diagnostics to Google. Details in section 6.

1. Who this covers

This policy covers the Android app RectoDate (com.josh.rectodate), distributed on Google Play. There is no website account and no server operated by RectoDate.

2. The camera

RectoDate asks for camera access only so you can photograph a piece of paper. When you take a picture:

The frame is held in the phone's memory for the length of one scan.
It is read by on-device text recognition.
It is dropped when you leave that scan. It is never written to storage, never added to your photo gallery, and never uploaded.

RectoDate keeps no copy of any picture you take.

3. Your photo library

If you choose "Choose photo", Android's own photo picker opens. RectoDate receives only the one image you pick, treats it exactly as a camera frame (above), and cannot browse, list, or read any other photo on your device.

4. Your calendar

RectoDate does not request calendar permission and cannot read your calendar. When you tap "Add to calendar", RectoDate hands a prefilled draft event to whichever calendar app you use, through a standard Android intent. Your calendar app opens it and you press Save. Nothing is ever written to your calendar without you pressing that button.

5. What is stored on your phone

Your settings — date order, default event length, reminder choices.
A short history — the title and date of up to the last 20 events you sent to your calendar, so you can find them again. No photos, ever.

All of it lives in the app's own private storage on your device. You can erase the history at any time with "Clear" on the home screen, and uninstalling RectoDate removes everything. Because none of it is on a server, there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf, and no account to close.

6. Google ML Kit diagnostics

Text recognition is performed by Google's ML Kit library, with the recognition model bundled inside the app. The image and the recognised text stay on your device.

However, ML Kit itself reports technical diagnostics to Google. Per Google's ML Kit data disclosure, this can include device manufacturer, model, OS version and build, available ML hardware, the app's package name and version, performance metrics such as latency, and API configuration such as image format and resolution. It also includes event types and error codes. Google states this data is encrypted in transit and is not sold or transferred to third parties.

This information is about the device and the library's performance, not about the content of your paper. Google does not provide an off switch for it, so rather than claim a purity RectoDate cannot deliver, it is disclosed here.

7. What RectoDate does not do

No account, no sign-in, no email address collected.
No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
No analytics or crash-reporting SDK of our own.
No location, contacts, microphone, call logs, or messages.
No selling or sharing of personal information. There is none to sell.

8. Payments

If RectoDate offers a paid upgrade, the purchase is handled entirely by Google Play. RectoDate never sees or stores your card, billing address, or any payment detail.

9. Children

RectoDate is a utility for adults, typically parents dealing with school paper. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

10. Your rights

Laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export, and delete personal data a company holds about you. RectoDate holds none: there is no server, no account, and no profile. The data described in section 5 is on your device and under your control.

11. Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the previous versions remain visible in this page's public revision history.

12. Contact

Questions about this policy: trusentryllc@gmail.com