Last updated: 14 September 2026
🔒 Offline-first · no advertising ID · your documents stay on your deviceThis policy explains how Papyo ("Papyo", "we", "us", or "our") handles information in the Papyo mobile application (the "App"). Papyo is developed by Logopit, located in Türkiye. If you have any questions, contact us at support@papyo.app.
The PDFs, images, and Office files you open or create in Papyo are processed entirely on your device. We never receive, upload, or store your files or their contents — in any version of the App, free or Pro.
None. Papyo has no accounts and does not ask for your name, email, or phone number.
To keep the App stable and to understand which features are used, Papyo collects limited technical data — usage events and crash diagnostics — as described in section 8. This never includes your documents, does not include your advertising ID, and is not shared with any third party for their own purposes.
The free version shows ads supplied by Google AdMob, as described in section 7. Serving an ad means your device makes a request to Google, which necessarily reveals your IP address and basic device and app information. It never includes your documents and never includes an advertising ID. Papyo Pro removes ads, and a subscriber’s device makes no ad request at all.
All of Papyo's features — in-place text editing, document scanning, text recognition (OCR), converting to and from Word/Excel/PowerPoint/HTML/images, merging, splitting, reordering pages, compressing, watermarking, and password protection — run locally on your device. Your content does not leave your device to be processed.
Scanning and OCR are no exception. Pages you scan with the camera are processed and saved on your device, and text recognition runs on-device — no image and no recognised text is uploaded to us or to any third party.
None of this changes when an ad is shown: ads are fetched and displayed alongside the App and never receive your documents or their contents. The App's network connections are listed in full in section 5.
| Permission | Why Papyo uses it |
|---|---|
| Storage / All files access | To open the PDFs and documents you choose and to save the files you create or edit. Files are read and written locally; nothing is uploaded. |
| Camera | Only when you scan a document or use the QR-code / barcode scanner. Scanned pages are saved to your device as you direct; neither scans nor scanned content are transmitted to us. |
Papyo does not request the Android advertising-ID permission, and no advertising identifier is collected — this remains true in the ad-supported free version (see section 7).
Papyo is offline-first. The App may connect to the internet only for:
If you buy Papyo Pro, the transaction is processed by Google Play Billing. We do not receive or store your payment card details. Google may share limited purchase information with us (such as whether an order completed) so we can activate your Pro features.
Papyo Pro removes ads. Whether you are subscribed is checked on your device before any ad request is made, so an active subscription means your device requests no ads at all — not merely that none are displayed.
The free version of Papyo shows ads, supplied by Google AdMob. Papyo Pro removes them. Ads appear between actions — for example after a batch job finishes — never over your document while you are working on it.
Papyo does not request the Android advertising-ID permission and never collects an advertising identifier — in the free version or in Pro. Because the permission is absent, on Android 13 and later the identifier is unavailable to the App and to the ad SDK by construction, not merely by policy.
By default Papyo requests limited ads: a Google serving mode that uses no identifier and no on-device storage, and chooses ads from context rather than from anything about you. This is the default for every user, including users outside the EEA and the UK who are never shown a consent form, and it is also what a user gets if they decline consent or if the consent state cannot be determined for any reason.
Where the EU/UK rules apply, Papyo shows Google's consent form before requesting any ad. You may choose to allow storing and accessing information on your device. Only if you actively give that consent does Papyo make an ordinary ad request, which permits on-device storage and personalised advertising by Google and the ad partners named in that form. If you do not, limited ads apply as above.
You can change your mind at any time in Settings → Ad Privacy Options, which reopens the same form. Withdrawing consent takes effect on the next ad request — Papyo re-reads your choice every time rather than caching it.
Serving an ad requires a network request, and any network request reveals your IP address and basic device and app information to the provider. We cannot avoid that while showing ads; it is why Pro, which makes no ad request, is the ad-free option.
Papyo Pro is a capability subscription — it unlocks in-place text editing, fill & sign with digital signatures, text recognition (making a scanned PDF searchable or editable), and batch processing, and it removes ads. Scanning itself is free.
To keep Papyo reliable, the App uses Google Firebase as our processor:
Neither is shared with a third party for that party's own purposes, and you can turn both off in Settings whether or not you subscribe.
Papyo is a general-purpose productivity tool and is not directed to children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Because your documents stay on your device, their security is governed by your device's own protections (screen lock, encryption, and the permissions you grant). PDFs you password-protect in Papyo are encrypted locally. Please keep your device and Papyo up to date.
Papyo does not collect your documents or any account data, and collects only the limited technical data described in section 8 (with no advertising ID). Depending on where you live — for example under the EU/UK GDPR, the California CCPA/CPRA, or Türkiye's KVKK — you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port personal data, and to object to certain processing. To make a request, email support@papyo.app and we will respond as required by law.
We do not sell your personal information. Papyo itself builds no advertising profile and shares nothing about you with advertisers for their own purposes. Ads in the free version are contextual by default (section 7); personalised advertising by Google and its named partners happens only if you actively consent in the form Papyo presents, and you can withdraw that at any time in Settings → Ad Privacy Options. Papyo Pro makes no ad request at all.
Residents of US states with opt-out rights: because ads are contextual unless you consent, and no advertising identifier is ever collected, Papyo does not engage in “sharing” for cross-context behavioural advertising by default. Where you have consented, withdrawing consent in Settings → Ad Privacy Options is the opt-out.
Papyo has no user accounts, so there is no account to delete. The limited technical data described in section 8 is pseudonymous and is not tied to your identity. To stop all collection, turn off Analytics and Crash Reports in Settings, or uninstall the App (which also clears its local data). To withdraw advertising consent, use Settings → Ad Privacy Options; to stop ad requests entirely, subscribe to Papyo Pro. To request deletion of diagnostic data associated with your device, email support@papyo.app; we will action it, including via Google's Firebase deletion tools where applicable.
Papyo processes your content locally on your device wherever you are. The limited technical data handled by our service providers (Google Play, Firebase) may be processed in the countries where those providers operate, subject to their own safeguards.
We may update this policy as the App evolves. We will post the revised version here with an updated "Last updated" date, and for material changes we will provide a notice in the App or store listing.
Questions about this policy or your privacy? Email support@papyo.app.