Last updated: October 11, 2026
SwipeLock shows one of your photos on screen and pins it there, so you can hand your phone to someone without them browsing the rest of your gallery.
The app needs permission to read the media on your device so it can show it to you. That reading happens entirely on your phone. Your photos and videos are never transmitted to us or to anyone else.
The app can also delete a photo or share it to another app, but only when you explicitly ask it to. Sharing hands the file to the app you pick, which then handles it under its own privacy policy.
All of the following is handled by Google Firebase on our behalf, except the ad measurement report, which goes to Meta.
The app shows no ads and includes no ad network. The Meta SDK is there only to measure installs that come from our own ads for SwipeLock.
We do not collect precise location, contacts, messages, call logs, or the contents of your photos.
To keep the app working and to understand how many people use it and roughly where, so we can decide what to build next. And, from version 1.2.1, to learn which of our own ads for SwipeLock lead to installs, so that those ads reach people who are likely to want the app.
We do not sell your data, and we do not build a profile of you. Meta uses the reports it receives to match installs to our ads and to decide who is shown them; what else Meta does with them is governed by Meta's own privacy policy, linked below.
We think it is fair to call it pseudonymous rather than anonymous. We never learn your name or email, but the data is tied to a persistent random identifier and includes detailed device characteristics. We do not attempt to identify individuals, and we have no practical means to do so.
The advertising ID is different. Google and Meta may be able to connect it to an account you hold with them. That is why it has its own switch, described under Your Choices.
Only the companies below. Google processes it for us. Meta receives the ad measurement report and, as described above, also uses it for its own purposes.
We do not sell or rent your data. Apart from the ad measurement report to Meta, we do not share it with any advertising company.
Uninstalling the app does not delete the data already stored with Firebase. The anonymous account record and its device information remain until we delete them.
How long we keep it: an install record is kept for as long as the app is published and that install may still be in use — we have no fixed expiry date — or until you ask us to delete it, whichever comes first. Analytics and crash data expire on Google's own retention schedule, which we do not control. What Meta has received is kept under Meta's own rules, which we do not control either.
To have it deleted, email us at the address below. Because the account is anonymous, we cannot look you up by name — tell us roughly when you installed the app and on what device, and we will delete what we can identify within 30 days.
You can revoke the app's access to your photos at any time in Android Settings, and you can uninstall the app.
You can turn off usage analytics and ad measurement at any time in the app: Settings → Share usage data. It is one switch for both. Turning it off stops new analytics events and new reports to Meta, and neither Google Analytics nor Meta is given your advertising ID after that. A request that was already under way may still finish, and until the app is closed Meta's code may still fetch its own configuration, which shows Meta your IP address but carries none of the identifiers above. From the next time the app starts, the Meta SDK is not started at all. It does not delete what has already been collected — use the deletion request above for what we hold, and Meta's own tools for what Meta holds. Crash reports are still sent to Firebase, so that we can fix faults that affect you.
On phones the app can tell are in the European Union, the rest of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, this switch starts off. The app judges that from your phone's region setting, your SIM and the mobile network you are on, and it also starts off when it cannot tell where the phone is. It is a judgement, not a certainty: a phone that shows none of those signs is treated as being elsewhere. Where the switch starts off, the usage analytics and ad measurement described above begin only if you switch them on. Everywhere else the switch starts on.
You can also reset or delete your advertising ID for every app in Android Settings, under Privacy or Google → Ads. The exact place depends on your phone. That does not change the identifier the Meta SDK created for this install; switching Share usage data off stops it being sent.
The app shows no ads and includes no ad network. We do advertise SwipeLock itself on Facebook and Instagram, and from version 1.2.1 the app includes the Meta SDK only to measure installs from those ads, as described above.
We still intend to show advertising inside the app in a future version, chosen and served by us rather than by an ad network. If and when that happens we will update this policy before the feature ships.
SwipeLock is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
All data sent to Firebase and to Meta is encrypted in transit using HTTPS. Access rules restrict each anonymous account's records to that account.
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page.
This app is published by Team Green Emerald, Bangladesh. We are the party responsible for the data described in this policy, and the contact below reaches us directly.
Questions or deletion requests: green.emerald.111999@gmail.com