Last updated: October 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how LogicGateGames LLC handles information when you use Formo (the "App"), a batch photo tool for Android that resizes, compresses, converts, rotates and watermarks photos and removes their metadata. By using the App you agree to the practices described here.
1. Your Photos Never Leave Your Phone
Everything Formo does to your photos happens on your phone. There is no account, no sign-in and no cloud. We operate no servers for your photos, so there is nowhere for them to be sent.
The App does use the internet: to fetch advertisements, to ask for your ad consent where the law requires it, to talk to Google Play about purchases, and to send a crash report if the App crashes. Your photos, their copies, their names and their metadata are not part of any of these.
2. Which Photos Formo Can See
Formo uses Android's photo picker: it can read only the photos you choose there, or the ones you send to it from another app's Share menu, and only while it works on them. It asks for no permission to read your photo library. On Android 8 and 9 only, Android asks whether Formo may save files to your storage, because the copies are saved there as files.
3. Your Originals And The Copies
Formo never changes or deletes the photos you choose. It writes new copies to the Pictures/Formo folder on your phone, where your gallery shows them. The copies are yours: deleting them, sharing them or keeping them is up to you. When you share copies, Formo hands them to the app you pick in Android's share screen; what happens after that is governed by that app.
4. Location And Other Metadata
Photos can carry hidden details: where they were taken, when, and with which camera. Formo copies the date and camera details into each copy and leaves the location out, unless you switch on "Keep location in copies". The Remove metadata tool takes out the location, or every detail, from the copies. Formo does not use your location for anything; it only deletes those details from copies. If you add your name to the copies, it is written into each copy's details as the author and copyright.
5. Information Collected By The Services In The App
We do not collect your name, email address or phone number, and we do not sell personal information. The Google services built into the App do collect data, and we list them here because having no server of our own is not an exemption:
- Google AdMob - Shows ads to users who have not bought Formo Pro. Ads are never shown while a batch runs. AdMob collects the Advertising ID (a resettable device identifier), ad interaction data, device model, operating system version, and approximate location derived from your IP address. You can reset or delete the Advertising ID in your device settings.
- Google User Messaging Platform - Where the law requires it, asks for your consent to personalised ads and stores your answer on your device. You can change your answer at any time in the App's Settings, under "Ad privacy choices".
- Firebase Crashlytics - If the App crashes, or hits certain errors it recovers from, a report is sent so we can fix the problem. It contains the technical details of the error, the device model, Android version, app version, a random installation ID and which app installed Formo (for example Google Play). Reports contain no name, email or advertising ID, and none of your photos, file names or metadata. Reports are kept for up to 90 days.
- Google Play In-App Review - Once, after Formo has finished a few batches, the App may ask Google Play to show its rating sheet. Your rating goes to Google Play; the App is not told whether or how you rated it.
- Google Play Billing - Handles the one-time Formo Pro purchase. Google tells the App whether you own it. We never see your card or payment details.
6. What Is Stored On Your Device
- Your settings: language, appearance, and each tool's last options.
- Watermark texts you saved, the logo you chose (Formo keeps its own copy of it) and, if you use it, the name you add to copies.
- A short list of recent batches: the tool, how many photos, the sizes before and after, and when.
- Whether you have bought Formo Pro, and your ad-consent answer.
The App is excluded from Android's cloud backup. Settings has an Export that saves your options to a file you choose, for a new phone. Everything the App stores is removed when you uninstall it; the copies in Pictures/Formo stay, because they are your photos.
7. Children
Formo is a general-purpose photo tool. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
8. Changes To This Policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date.
9. Contact
Questions about this policy: logicgategames@gmail.com