Quarry Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 November 2026

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Quarry helps you find, sort and clean up your screenshots. Screenshots can hold passwords, bank details and private chats, so the app is built to keep them on your phone. This policy explains, in plain language, what stays on your phone, the small amount of information that leaves it, and what you can do about it. It covers Quarry for Android.

The short version

Your screenshots, the text the app reads from them and what it recognises in your pictures never leave your phone. We can't see them.
There is no account. We don't ask for your name, email or phone number.
If you buy Pro, Google Play and our billing provider, RevenueCat, handle the purchase.
Quarry reads text and pictures with Google's on-device software, which is part of Google Play services. Google Play services downloads that software's models and sends Google anonymous technical statistics. It never sends your images, their text or what is in them.
We don't use any analytics or crash-reporting service.
We don't sell your data, show ads, or track you across other apps.

1. Who we are

Quarry is published by Arcvale Apps ("we", "us"), an independent developer based in Pakistan. Contact: arcvale.apps@gmail.com.

2. What stays on your phone

With your permission, the app reads the images in the places you choose (all your screenshot folders, or the albums you pick). It then creates and keeps the following only on your phone, in the app's private storage:

The text in your screenshots. The app reads it on your phone with Google's text-recognition software (see section 3). Your images are not sent anywhere to be read.
What's in your pictures. Short words that describe each image, such as "dog" or "food", from Google's image-labeling software running on your phone. They let you find a picture by what it shows.
A search index of that text and those words, so search works instantly and offline.
Information about each screenshot: its location on your phone, file name, size, date, which app it was probably taken in, and the category it was sorted into (for example "Receipts").
Your searches and questions. They are answered on your phone from the index. Your recent searches are saved so you can repeat them, and you can turn this off in Settings ("Save recent searches").
Your albums, favorites, inbox decisions, and the list of items you moved to the trash with Quarry (so you can undo).
Your settings, and a record of your subscription status so Pro keeps working offline.
Small preview images in the app's cache, so grids scroll smoothly.

The app does not copy your images. They stay where they are, in your gallery.

This information is left out of cloud backups and phone-to-phone transfers. A new phone starts fresh, and the app rebuilds its index from your screenshots there.

We, the developer, have no access to any of it.

3. Google's on-device text and picture recognition

Quarry reads text and recognises what is in your pictures with Google ML Kit (text recognition and image labeling), which Google provides through Google Play services on your phone. The reading and recognising happen on your phone. Your images, the text in them and the words describing them are never uploaded.

Two things involve Google's servers, and the app can't switch them off:

Model downloads. Google Play services downloads the recognition models it needs, usually when you install Quarry from Google Play, otherwise the first time they are needed.
Technical statistics. Google's software sends Google anonymous technical statistics about how it performs, such as device model, Android version, app name and version, an installation or device identifier, speed, image size and error codes. Google describes this here: https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/android-data-disclosure

Google's privacy policy applies to this: https://policies.google.com/privacy

4. Purchases (Google Play and RevenueCat)

Quarry is free to use, with an optional Pro subscription. When the app starts, when you return to it, when you open the plans screen, and when you buy or restore, the app talks to:

Google Play, which handles the payment with your Google account. We never see your card or payment details. Google's privacy policy applies: https://policies.google.com/privacy
RevenueCat, our billing provider, which confirms purchases and keeps track of your subscription status. RevenueCat receives:
- a random ID that RevenueCat creates for this installation of the app (not your name or email);
- your purchase receipts from Google Play (which plan, price, dates, renewal, trial and refund status, and the Google Play purchase token);
- checks of whether Pro is active for that ID;
- your store country and currency, and technical details such as app version, Android version and language.
RevenueCat processes this for us as a service provider. Its privacy policy: https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy

Like any service your phone connects to, Google and RevenueCat can see your phone's IP address when the app connects. We don't receive it.

We use this information only to unlock Pro, restore your purchase, handle billing problems, and understand overall subscription numbers.

5. Usage statistics and errors

We don't use any analytics or crash-reporting service, and Quarry doesn't send us information about how you use it.

Settings has a "Share anonymous usage stats" switch. It is off unless you turn it on. In this version of Quarry, no statistics service is connected, so nothing is sent even if you turn it on. If we connect one in the future, we will update this policy first, and it will only send counts (such as "a search ran") when the switch is on, never your images, text, file names or searches.

If the app runs into an error, it shows the details on screen and writes them to your phone's own system log. They are not sent to us.

6. When information leaves your phone because you asked

Some actions send something off your phone because you chose to:

Sharing a screenshot sends it to the app you pick.
Opening a link, phone number or email address found in a screenshot opens it in your browser, phone or email app.
Copying text puts it on your phone's clipboard, where other apps you use may be able to read it.
Contacting us by email sends us whatever you write. Our inbox is a Gmail account, so Google stores those emails for us. We use them only to reply, and delete them when the conversation is finished, unless the law requires us to keep them.

7. What we don't do

We don't sell or rent personal information, and we don't share it for advertising.
We don't show ads and don't use advertising IDs.
We don't track you across other companies' apps or websites.
We don't build profiles about you or make automated decisions with legal or similar effects.

8. Permissions the app asks for

Photos (Android "Photos and videos", images only): to find and read your screenshots. On Android 14 and later, if you choose "Select photos", the app works with only the photos you picked. The app never asks for video, audio, camera, microphone, location or contacts.
Fingerprint, face or screen lock (optional, Pro "App lock"): to unlock the app. Your fingerprint or face data stays in your phone's secure hardware. The app only learns whether unlocking succeeded.

The app also uses some permissions that Android grants without asking you: internet access and Google Play billing (for purchases and Google's model downloads), vibration (for haptics), and running in the background (to read new screenshots while your phone is charging).

App lock hides Quarry behind your phone's lock. While it is on, Quarry also hides its preview in the recent-apps screen. It does not encrypt your files, and your screenshots stay visible in your gallery app.

9. How long information is kept

On your phone: until you delete it.
- When a screenshot is deleted, or you remove an album from what the app reads, it disappears from the app immediately. The text the app read from it and the words describing it are kept for up to 7 days, so they can come back instantly if you restore it, and are then erased. The rest of its record (such as file name and date) is erased after 30 days. The app does this the next time it runs after those periods.
- Items you move to the trash with Quarry are listed in its Trash for 30 days, as on your phone. "Delete now" in the Trash erases the item and its text immediately.
RevenueCat: for as long as needed to provide the subscription and meet tax and accounting obligations, under RevenueCat's retention policy. You can ask us to delete it at any time (section 10).
Support emails: until the conversation is finished, unless the law requires us to keep them.

10. Deleting your data

Everything on your phone: go to Settings → Delete all app data. This erases the text the app read, the words describing your pictures, the search index, albums, favorites, recent searches, settings and previews. Your screenshots and your subscription are not affected. Uninstalling the app also removes all of it.
One screenshot: delete it in the app or in your gallery. Its text is erased as described in section 9.
Purchase records held by RevenueCat: email arcvale.apps@gmail.com with your Google Play order number (it starts with "GPA." and is in your Google Play receipt email). We will delete the matching RevenueCat record within 30 days. Your Google Play purchase history itself is managed by Google.

11. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in the EU and UK, or laws such as the CCPA in California), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of personal information we hold about you. You can also object to or restrict some processing, and complain to your data-protection authority. Because we hold almost nothing that identifies you, most requests are answered by section 10. For anything else, email arcvale.apps@gmail.com. We answer within 30 days and never treat you differently for using these rights.

Legal bases (EU and UK): performing our contract with you (purchases and the app's features), and our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and secure (the technical statistics from Google's recognition software).

Our service providers (RevenueCat and Google) may process data outside your country, including in the United States. They do so under appropriate safeguards such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

12. Children

Quarry is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email us and we will delete it.

13. Security

Your data stays in the app's private storage on your phone, protected by your phone's own encryption and lock screen, and is left out of backups. When the app erases text, it overwrites it in its database instead of only marking it as deleted. Connections to Google Play, RevenueCat and Google's servers are encrypted (HTTPS). No system is perfectly secure. Keeping your phone's screen lock on is the best protection for your screenshots.

14. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If a change is significant (for example, a new type of information leaving your phone), we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect.

15. Contact

Arcvale Apps · arcvale.apps@gmail.com