This policy covers Scan Cam on Android. For iPhone, read the privacy policy of the iPhone version.
Your documents: on your phone and in your Google Drive
The pages you scan, the files made from them, your folders and your signatures are saved in the app’s private space, on your phone. If you agree — Scan Cam offers it after your first document, and the “Google Drive backup” switch in the settings allows it at any time — a copy of them is kept in your own Google Drive, in a space reserved for the app and invisible in the Google Drive app, so that they come back if you reinstall the app or change phones. This copy is stored by Google, under Google’s rules: the publisher of Scan Cam has no access to it and never sees it, and Scan Cam sees nothing else in your Drive. Turning the backup off in the settings erases this copy. Your documents are passed to no one else, and they do not go through Android’s automatic backup.
The scanner and the camera
To scan, Scan Cam relies on Google’s document scanner (ML Kit), provided by the Google Play services on your phone. It is the scanner that opens the camera, at the moment you ask for it: it takes the photos and detects the edges of the page on the phone itself, then hands the images back to the app, which writes them onto your phone. The camera is also used, if you choose, to photograph your signature.
Your photos
The app reaches your photos only when you choose to import one to make a document from it: you pick it in the Android picker, and only that one is handed to the app. It never goes through your gallery, and never writes anything into it.
Text recognition
The text on your pages is read by the phone itself, with no connection, using Google’s text recognition tool (ML Kit). The contents of your documents are never sent to an outside service to be analysed.
Google’s technical measurements
Google states that its ML Kit tools — the scanner and text recognition — may send it information about how they work: performance, use of the tools, the phone’s model and version. This information contains neither your images nor your text. It falls under Google’s privacy rules; the publisher of Scan Cam has no access to it.
When you share
Apart from the copy in your Google Drive described above, a document leaves your phone only when you tap Share or “Export everything” yourself, and it goes to the app or the person you name at that moment. What they then do with it falls under their own rules, not under these.
The subscription
The subscription is sold and billed by Google, on Google Play. Your payment method is known to Google alone: the publisher of Scan Cam never sees it.
To know whether you are subscribed, the app asks RevenueCat, a service that keeps subscription status up to date. It receives your purchase and an anonymous number it makes up itself — never your name, never your email address, never a single one of your documents. This information serves only to unlock what you have paid for.
Erasing your data
Deleting a document in the app erases it from the phone and, at the next copy, from your Google Drive. Deleting the app erases everything it held on the phone; the copy in Google Drive, however, stays, so that your documents come back when you reinstall. To erase it too, turn the backup off in the settings before deleting the app, or delete Scan Cam’s hidden data in the Google Drive settings (“Manage apps”). For your subscription status, see “Your rights”, below.
Your rights
European data protection law gives you the right to access the data concerning you, to correct it and to erase it. As your documents are on your phone and, if you chose so, in your own Google Drive, you erase them yourself. For the subscription information held by RevenueCat, write to pierremunozfrance@gmail.com: it will be found and erased on request.
Who publishes the app
Scan Cam is published by Pierre Trochet, under the name nightbuilds. For any question about this page or about the app: pierremunozfrance@gmail.com.
Changes
This policy may change if the app changes. The version in force is always the one shown here. Last updated: 20 October 2026.