The short version: your codes are read on your phone, your history stays on your phone, you never need an account, and we never sell your data. Ads and crash reports come from Google services, explained below.
Who we are
Apna QR (“the app”, “we”) is an Android app made by an independent developer in India. This policy explains what the app and the website apnaqr.in do with information. Questions? Email gtech10926@gmail.com.
No account, no sign-up
You can use every feature without creating an account. We don't ask for your name, phone number or email address.
Camera
The app asks for camera permission only to scan QR codes and barcodes live. Camera frames are processed on your device to find a code. We never record, save or upload photos or video from the camera.
Photos you pick from your gallery
When you choose “scan from gallery”, the image you pick is read locally on your phone to find a code. It isn't copied to our servers or shared with anyone.
Scan and create history
Codes you scan or create are saved in a local database (Room) inside the app's private storage on your device, so you can find them again. This history is never uploaded. You can delete entries in the app, and clearing the app's data or uninstalling it removes all of it.
If you add a custom logo to a QR code, a copy of that image is kept in the app's private storage on your device and is never uploaded.
Acting on a code
When you tap an action such as “Open link”, “Pay via UPI”, “Join Wi-Fi” or “Save contact”, the app hands the code's content to the app you choose (your browser, UPI app, contacts and so on). That app's own privacy policy then applies. Apna QR never sees your UPI PIN and never handles payments.
Advertising (Google AdMob)
Apna QR is free because it shows ads through Google AdMob: a banner ad, and a rewarded video ad that plays only when you choose to watch one (for example, to unlock premium templates for the session). To serve and measure ads, AdMob may collect your device's advertising ID, IP address, approximate location derived from it, device and app information, and how you interact with ads.
- Consent in the EEA, UK and Switzerland: we use Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) to ask for your consent before personalised ads are shown. You can change your choice at any time from Settings → Privacy options in the app.
- Everywhere: you can reset your advertising ID or opt out of ad personalisation in your Android device settings (Settings → Google → Ads, or Settings → Privacy → Ads).
Learn more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics)
If the app crashes, Firebase Crashlytics sends a crash report so we can fix bugs. It includes the stack trace, device model, Android version, app version, the state of the app at the time of the crash and a random installation identifier. It doesn't include your scan history or the content of your codes.
Notifications (Firebase Cloud Messaging)
We use Firebase Cloud Messaging to send occasional notifications, such as tips or update news. To deliver them, Firebase assigns your installation a messaging token. On Android 13 and newer the app asks for notification permission first, and you can turn notifications off at any time in your Android settings.
App analytics and performance (Firebase)
The app also includes Firebase Analytics, Firebase Performance Monitoring and Firebase Remote Config. They collect basic, pseudonymous usage and performance data (for example which screens are opened, app start time, network request timings, device type, app version and an app-instance identifier) so we can understand how the app is used, keep it fast and adjust features remotely. They don't collect the content of the codes you scan or create.
Firebase is provided by Google. See Privacy and Security in Firebase.
Permissions the app uses
- Camera: live scanning only.
- Notifications (Android 13+): to show notifications if you allow them.
- Internet: for ads, crash reports, notifications and opening links you choose.
- Storage (older Android versions only): to save QR images you export to your gallery.
What we don't do
- We don't sell, rent or trade your personal data.
- We don't upload your camera frames, gallery images or scan history.
- We don't track you across other apps for our own purposes.
Children
Apna QR is a general-audience utility and isn't directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, contact us and we'll help remove it.
Data retention and deletion
Data on your device stays until you delete it in the app, clear the app's data or uninstall the app. Data held by Google services is retained according to Google's own policies. For any request about your data, email gtech10926@gmail.com.
Security
Your history stays in the app's private storage, which other apps can't read. Data sent to Google services travels over encrypted connections. No method of storage or transmission is perfectly secure, but we keep what we collect to a minimum.
This website
apnaqr.in has no accounts and no analytics. The QR maker runs entirely in your browser: what you type, the QR codes you make and any logo you add never leave your device, and we don't store QR content on any server. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address when the page loads. Your light or dark theme choice is saved in your browser's local storage.
Ads on this website (Google AdSense)
To keep the QR maker free, the home page and the QR maker page may show ads from Google AdSense. Ads appear only in boxes labelled “Advertisement”, never on this privacy policy, the terms or error pages. When ads are shown:
- Google and its partners, as third-party vendors, use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this and other websites.
- They may collect your IP address, browser and device information, cookie or advertising identifiers, the pages you visit and how you interact with ads. They use this to show, measure and improve ads and to prevent fraud.
- Google's use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads based on your visits to apnaqr.in and other sites. We don't receive or store this data; Google processes it under its own Privacy Policy.
- The ad code never sees the content of the QR codes you create, because that content stays inside your browser.
Your choices. If you are in the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, you'll be asked for consent through a Google-certified consent message before cookies are used for personalised ads, and you can change your choice with the “Ad privacy choices” link in the footer. Anyone can turn off personalised ads in Google's My Ad Center, opt out of other vendors' personalised ads at aboutads.info, or block cookies in their browser settings. Learn more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and How Google uses cookies in advertising.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we'll update this page and the effective date above. Significant changes will also be mentioned in the app's release notes.
Contact
Email gtech10926@gmail.com with any privacy question.