Sweeply / privacy policy

Your media stays yours.

This policy explains how Sweeply accesses and processes media on your Android device, what it stores locally, and what Google services may process for ads, consent, and purchases.

Effective: 31 August 2026 · Last updated: 2 October 2026

At a glance: Sweeply analyzes and optimizes photos and videos on your device. Telryq Labs does not operate a Sweeply backend and does not receive your media. Optional Google services for rewarded advertising, consent, and a Lifetime Pro purchase may process limited data as described below.

Scope

This privacy policy applies to the Sweeply Android application provided by Telryq Labs. It does not replace the separate Telryq Labs website privacy information.

Sweeply does not require an account or login. Telryq Labs does not operate a server or cloud account system for Sweeply. The app's core scanning, review, and optimization features are designed to work on the device.

Information Sweeply accesses

With the media permissions you grant through Android, Sweeply can access photos and videos in the device's shared media library. Depending on your Android version and permission choice, access may cover the full library or only media you select.

To identify, analyze, display, compress, and help you manage that media, Sweeply may read:

  • the photo or video bytes and generated thumbnails;
  • MediaStore identifiers and content references;
  • file name, media type, file size, dimensions, dates, duration, orientation, volume, folder or album information, and owner package where Android exposes it; and
  • embedded media metadata needed to preserve an item during optimization, which may include location metadata already embedded in that item.

Sweeply does not request device location permission and does not determine your current location. It does not request access to contacts, the microphone, or the camera. It does not request all-files access: file review is limited to authorized shared media and folders you explicitly select as described below. Android may also ask for notification permission so Sweeply can show the status of long-running compression work.

Optional app review and selected folders

App review reads the installed apps Android makes visible to Sweeply, including package identifiers, labels, system-app status, and install or update dates. If you optionally enable Usage Access in Android settings, Sweeply can also read available app code, data and cache sizes, recent app activity, and current-user storage totals. These measurements support local storage review; Sweeply does not upload them to Telryq Labs or advertisers. Missing access or history is not treated as proof that an app is unused. Uninstalling another app requires your approval through Android; Sweeply does not silently clear other apps' caches.

You can select folders through Android's Storage Access Framework. The document provider grants access to those selected folders, not the whole device. Sweeply reads permitted document references, names, types, sizes, dates and provider capabilities to build local file-review snapshots. A selected provider may itself be a cloud service and handle requests under its own policies. Deleting a selected file requires your review and confirmation and a valid provider grant; shared-media cleanup may use Android's trash or system approval.

On-device media processing

Sweeply processes media locally. It reads image and video data to create thumbnails, calculate exact file hashes, compare perceptual similarity, estimate image quality or blur, identify likely screenshots, group potential duplicates, and calculate storage information.

Video compression is performed on the device using Android media codecs. Temporary working files are created in Sweeply's private app storage, checked before an output is committed, and then removed when no longer needed. If recovery is needed after an interruption or failure, a temporary result may remain until Sweeply resolves or prunes that job.

When you choose to preserve metadata during compression, Sweeply may copy metadata from the source to the output. Embedded GPS coordinates, when present in the source, may be held temporarily in the local job record for that purpose and are cleared when the job reaches its terminal or verified-recovery state.

Sweeply does not upload photos, videos, thumbnails, hashes, analysis results, file names, or media metadata to Telryq Labs or to Google for media processing. Deleting or replacing shared media is a user-initiated action and uses Android's system confirmation where required.

Local app data, preferences, and history

Sweeply stores operational data on the device in its private database and preferences. This can include onboarding, theme, permission-state, output-mode, preset, and optimization preferences; a local media inventory and analysis cache containing media identifiers, metadata, hashes, quality measurements, classifications, and scan state; compression batches and items, processing state, sizes, savings, errors, timestamps, and recovery information; local review decisions and media relationships; local optimization allowance, reward grants, reservations, and consumption history; and a cached Lifetime Pro entitlement, including the Google Play purchase token, acknowledgement state, and last successful verification time.

Sweeply also stores bounded app-review snapshots in private storage, selected-folder grants and preferences, and per-folder file snapshots containing document references, names, metadata and scan state. A local cleanup-operation record stores the exact reviewed file or app targets, known sizes, identifiers, confirmation state and results so interrupted work is not falsely reported as completed or automatically repeated.

This data supports app functionality, recovery after interruption, consistent results across scans, purchase restoration, and the local storage allowance. Sweeply does not include an active analytics or crash-reporting service; development builds may write aggregate diagnostic messages to the local Android debug log.

Android backup and device transfer

Sweeply's backup rules exclude its private databases and shared preferences from Android cloud backup and device-to-device transfer. App-review snapshots and verified video recovery files are stored in Android's no-backup area. However, selected-folder file snapshots and the cleanup-operation record are stored in the private file area, which the current rules do not exclude. Depending on Android, your device and backup settings, those file records may be backed up or transferred. Cloud backup is disabled by Sweeply's Android 12+ rules when encryption capabilities are unavailable; Android and your backup provider control backup storage and retention.

Restored records do not grant access to a folder or authorize deletion. Sweeply must still check current permissions, provider grants, reviewed targets and confirmation requirements. Clearing app storage or uninstalling removes private data from that installation; it does not promise deletion of an existing Android backup. Manage those backups through Android or your backup provider.

Rewarded advertising and consent

Sweeply's intended release includes an optional rewarded-ad feature provided by Google Mobile Ads. A rewarded ad is requested only after you choose the ad route to add local optimization allowance; Sweeply does not use banner, interstitial, native, or app-open ads. You can use the app without watching an ad.

When advertising is enabled, Google Mobile Ads may automatically collect and share data such as your IP address, interactions with the app and ad, diagnostic information, and device or account identifiers such as the Android advertising ID or app set ID for advertising, analytics, and fraud prevention. Sweeply uses Google's User Messaging Platform to refresh consent information, including on app resume, and present consent forms when you approach the voluntary ad route and privacy-options forms where required. Google may process consent choices and related device or request information for these services. Sweeply does not send your media or local media-analysis data through these services. Declining advertising consent does not block core features or the Lifetime Pro purchase route.

Google Play purchases

Sweeply's intended release offers Lifetime Pro as a one-time, non-consumable in-app purchase through Google Play Billing. It is not a subscription. Google Play processes payment, account, purchase, transaction, and fraud-prevention information. Telryq Labs does not receive full payment credentials. Sweeply receives the product identifier, purchase state, purchase token, and acknowledgement state, stores entitlement details locally, and does not send the purchase token to a Telryq Labs server because Sweeply has no backend.

Data sharing and third-party services

Telryq Labs does not sell your media or local app data. Sweeply does not send media content or media-analysis data to advertisers, Google Play Billing, Google Mobile Ads, or UMP for analysis. The release-intended app integrates Google Play Billing for the Lifetime Pro purchase, Google Play in-app updates, Google Mobile Ads for user-requested rewarded ads, and Google User Messaging Platform for consent information and privacy choices. Android backup and selected document providers are separate from these SDKs and may handle data as described above. If you choose to send support feedback through your email app, your message and any included information are transmitted by that service to support; Sweeply does not send it automatically.

Review the Google Privacy Policy, Google's Mobile Ads data disclosure, and Google Play billing information.

Data retention and deletion

Your original media and completed outputs remain in the shared media library until you delete them or choose a confirmed replacement operation. Clearing Sweeply's storage or uninstalling it does not delete completed media outputs. The local inventory and analysis cache are refreshed during successful scans; stale records are pruned after a successful scan, while completed compression history is pruned to the ten most recent terminal batches. Private temporary files are removed with pruned jobs where possible.

App-review snapshots and selected-folder file snapshots are refreshed or replaced by local review operations. Removing a selected folder in Sweeply releases its persisted grant and deletes that folder's cached snapshot, including a matching legacy snapshot. Revoking media or Usage Access in Android restricts subsequent access; it is not a promise that every previously stored record is immediately erased. Sweeply checks current access and does not present revoked app measurements as current authorized readings. Cleanup-operation results remain until replaced by a later operation or until private app data is cleared; there is no fixed timed deletion period for that record.

Local preferences, analysis, active job data, purchase-entitlement cache, and monetization records remain for the installation's lifetime or until replaced by normal app operation. Clear Sweeply's app storage or uninstall it to delete private data from the installation, subject to the separate backup behavior above. Google and any selected document or backup provider retain data according to their own policies and controls.

Your privacy choices

  • Use Android settings to grant, limit, or revoke photo and video access.
  • Enable or revoke optional Usage Access in Android settings; app review remains available with limited information without it.
  • Select only folders you want reviewed, and remove selected folders in Sweeply to release their grants and delete their cached snapshots.
  • Choose whether to optimize, delete, replace, or keep each media item; Android confirmation is used where required.
  • Do not select the rewarded-ad route if you do not want to request an ad.
  • Use Sweeply's privacy-options entry and Android's advertising privacy controls where available.
  • Clear Sweeply's storage or uninstall the app to remove private data from that installation, and manage existing backups separately in Android or with your backup provider.

Security

Sweeply limits media access through Android permissions and stores its database, preferences, and working files in app-private storage. Media processing is kept on the device, and Sweeply does not expose a Telryq Labs backend that could receive the media library. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but Sweeply is designed to minimize network disclosure of user content.

Children's privacy

Sweeply is a general-purpose media storage utility and is not designed specifically for children. It does not provide accounts or ask users to submit a name, email address, birth date, or similar profile information. Google services used for purchases, rewarded advertising, and consent may process data as described above.

International users

Sweeply performs media analysis and compression on your device. Android backup, selected document providers, and Google services for billing, advertising, consent, diagnostics and fraud prevention may process data in other countries according to their own policies and applicable safeguards. This is separate from on-device media analysis.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated when Sweeply's features, SDKs, or data practices change. Material updates will be published at this URL and the date at the top of the policy will be revised. If a change requires an in-app notice or renewed consent, it will be provided where appropriate.

Contact

Sweeply is provided by Telryq Labs. For privacy questions or concerns, email privacy@telryq.com or visit Telryq Labs.