Privacy Policy, Nose Editor

1. Who we are

Nose Editor: Nose Job Simulator (“the app”, “we”, “us”) is published by manextapps. This policy explains how the Android app handles information. For questions, see Contact.

2. About the app

Nose Editor is a creative photo app for adults. You pick a front facing photo from your gallery or take a selfie with your phone's camera app. The app finds the face in the photo and lets you change the shape of the nose with sliders and presets, compare the result with the original, and save or share it. With Nose Editor Pro it can also make a short before and after video of the edit. It is for fun and curiosity. It is not a medical tool and gives no medical advice.

Editing works offline. An internet connection is used only for ads, for the ad consent form, for the optional purchase, and when you choose to open a link such as this policy.

3. Your photos and face points

• Where the work happens: face detection uses Google MediaPipe Face Landmarker with its model built into the app. It runs entirely on your phone. The app computes about 468 points on the face (for example the corners of the eyes, the nose and the lips) and uses them only to reshape the nose in the picture you are editing.
• Nothing is uploaded: photos, face points and edits are never sent to us or to anyone else by the app. We have no server that could receive them. The face points are not stored as a separate record, are not used to identify you, and are not used for any purpose other than the edit you see.
• Only the photos you choose: the app uses the Android photo picker, so it can only see the pictures you select. It does not ask for access to your whole gallery.
• Camera: “Take a selfie” opens your phone's own camera app, which hands the one photo you take back to Nose Editor. The app does not ask for the camera permission and cannot use the camera on its own.
• Ads never see your photos: Google's ad SDK described in section 6 has no access to your pictures or face points.

4. Data we collect

We, the developer, do not operate a server for this app and do not collect, receive or store personal data about you. There is no account or sign in, no analytics or crash reporting tool of our own, and no Firebase.

Google, which provides the ads, collects some data directly through its software development kit (SDK). That is explained in section 6. The optional purchase is processed by Google Play, see section 9.

If you email us, we will receive your email address and whatever you choose to write. We use it only to reply and keep it only as long as needed for that purpose.

5. Data stored on your device

So the app works, it saves the following information in its private storage on your device. It is not sent to us.

• Recent edits: when you save or share an edit, the app keeps a copy of the original photo (at most 2048 pixels on the long side; with Pro, the photo file as you picked it, so it can be saved again at full size), the slider values, any versions you kept to compare, and a small before and after thumbnail, so the edit shows under “Recent edits” and can be opened again. You can delete any of them in the app (tap the edit, then Delete). Without Pro, the newest 3 are shown and at most 24 are kept on the phone; older ones are removed automatically. With Pro, all are shown and none are removed automatically.
• Your presets: names and slider values of presets you save.
• Temporary files: the picture or video you share, the video while it is being made, and the photo from the camera are written to the app's cache while they are needed.
• Counters used to pace ads (how often the app was opened, how many results were saved or shared, and when the last full screen ad showed).
• Settings: haptics, reduced motion, watermark, whether the guide was shown, whether a note about recent edits was shown, and whether Nose Editor Pro was bought.

When you tap Save to photos, the edited picture is added to your phone's gallery in the “Nose Editor” album. Without Pro the saved picture is at most 1080 pixels on the long side and carries a small “Nose Editor” mark. With Pro, a before and after video you make is added to your gallery under Movies, in the “Nose Editor” album. The video is made on the phone. From then on these are normal files on your phone, managed by your gallery app.

Google's ad, consent and billing libraries also store some information on your device, such as your consent choices, so that they work correctly.

6. Advertising and Google's ad SDK

Nose Editor uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK (Google AdMob) to show ads and Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) to request ad consent where required. The app shows:

• A banner ad at the bottom of the home screen and the result screen. There is never an ad in the editor.
• Full screen (interstitial) ads, only after you save or share a result and come back to the app. Never the first time you use the app, never before your second saved or shared result, at most once every two saves or shares, and at most once every three minutes.

There are no rewarded ads. Both kinds of ads stop after the Nose Editor Pro purchase, and with Pro the app does not start the ad SDK or show the consent form. Ads are limited to content suitable for teens and older.

What Google's ad SDK collects

According to Google's data disclosure for the Google Mobile Ads SDK, the SDK automatically collects and shares the following data:

Google states that this data is used for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention, and that it is encrypted in transit. Google may also use information from apps that use its services as described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and in the Google Privacy Policy. Google's handling of this data is governed by Google's own policies, not by us.

Personalized and non personalized ads

Personalized ads are based on information such as your interests and past activity. Non personalized ads are based on more limited context, such as the app itself and your general (not precise) location. Depending on your choices, your region and your device settings, Google may show you personalized, non personalized or limited ads. Learn more in How Google uses cookies and similar technologies in advertising.

7. Consent and your ad choices

Where it is required (for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and, where enabled, certain U.S. states), the app shows Google's consent message when it starts. You can accept, decline or manage your choices.

When privacy options are available for your region, you can review or change your choices at any time in the app under Settings, Privacy choices. If your choices mean ads cannot be requested, the app still works the same way.

You can also manage ad personalization for your Google Account at My Ad Center.

8. Your advertising ID

Android provides a resettable advertising ID. On most devices you can reset or delete it in Settings, Privacy, Ads (menu names vary by device and Android version). Deleting it stops apps from accessing it for advertising; resetting it replaces it with a new random ID. Some devices also offer ad privacy settings for the Android Privacy Sandbox in the same area.

9. In app purchase

You can buy Nose Editor Pro, a one time upgrade. It removes all ads, saves pictures without the mark at their original size, makes before and after videos, keeps up to 4 versions of a photo to compare, and keeps unlimited presets and recent edits. The purchase is made through Google Play Billing: Google handles the payment and your payment details, and we never see them. The app only receives confirmation from Google Play that the upgrade belongs to your Google account, so it can turn on Pro and restore the purchase on a new device (Settings or the Pro screen, Restore purchase). Google's handling of purchases is described in the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Play terms.

10. Android permissions

Nose Editor does not ask for camera, location, contacts or full gallery access. The installed app includes the following permissions:

• Storage, Android 9 and older only (WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, limited to Android 9 and older): on those versions Android needs it to add a saved picture to your gallery. The app asks for it the first time you tap Save to photos. On Android 10 and newer it is not used.
• Internet access and network state: to load ads, the consent form and the purchase screen. Photos are never sent.
• Advertising ID (com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID): lets the ad SDK read the advertising ID.
• Android ad services (ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID, ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION, ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS): let the ad SDK use Android's Privacy Sandbox advertising features where the device supports them.
• Google Play billing (com.android.vending.BILLING): lets the app offer the optional purchase.
• Wake lock and foreground service: required by the Android WorkManager library that the ad SDK uses for background tasks. Nose Editor itself does not run a foreground service.
• An internal receiver permission (com.manextapps.noseeditor.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION): added by the AndroidX library so that only this app can send messages to its own components. It gives no access to your data.

11. Children and age

Nose Editor is made for adults (18 and over). It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The app itself does not collect personal information from anyone. Ads in the app are served by Google, which collects the data described in section 6. If you have questions or concerns, please contact us.

12. Data retention and deletion

• Our servers: we have none, so we keep no copy of your data, your photos or your face points.
• On your device: recent edits stay until you delete them in the app, until they are replaced by newer ones (without Pro, at most 24 are kept), or until you clear the app's data or uninstall the app. Settings and presets stay until you clear the app's data or uninstall it. Pictures you saved to your gallery stay there until you delete them in your gallery app.
• Google: data collected by Google's ad SDK and by Google Play is retained according to Google's policies. See the Google Privacy Policy and How Google retains data.

13. Device backup

Only the app's settings and presets can be included in Android's backup or a device to device transfer, so they come back on a new phone. Your recent edits and their photos are excluded from backups and transfers and stay on this phone. You can turn backup off in your device's settings.

14. Sharing and links

We do not sell or share your personal data, because we do not receive any. Apart from Google's libraries described above, the app sends information only when you choose to:

• Share an edit: the app hands the edited picture, or the video, to the app you pick in Android's share sheet. What happens next is up to you and that app.
• Open a link, such as this privacy policy. This policy is hosted on GitHub Pages; GitHub may log visitors' IP addresses for security purposes under the GitHub General Privacy Statement. This page uses no cookies, analytics or tracking scripts.
• Contact us: the app opens your email app with our address filled in. You decide what to send.

15. Security

Because we do not collect your data, there is no copy of it on our side to protect or lose. Your photos and edits are protected by Android's app sandbox. Google states that the data its ad SDK collects is encrypted in transit. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

16. Your rights

Depending on where you live, privacy laws such as the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Israel's Protection of Privacy Law, 5741 (1981), and U.S. state privacy laws may give you rights over your personal data. These can include the right to access, correct or delete it, to object to or restrict certain processing, to withdraw consent, and to complain to a data protection authority.

• Since we hold no personal data about you, in most cases there is nothing for us to access or delete. Your data is on your device and you can delete it as described in section 12.
• For data collected by Google, use your ad choices in the app (section 7), your device's ad settings (section 8), and Google's tools described in the Google Privacy Policy.
• You can always contact us, and we will help as far as we are able.

17. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy, for example if the app or the services it uses change. We will post the updated version on this page and change the effective date at the top. If a change is significant, we will also take reasonable steps to let you know, for example through the app's release notes.

18. Contact