Privacy Policy

Slideshow Album is designed to display photos from sources you choose. Access to external services is optional and is used only to provide the photo-source features you enable.

1. Information and content the App may access

Local photos and files

If you choose local folders, the App may access photos and related file information that Android permits you to select or authorize. The App uses this access to display your slideshow and manage local cache data.

Google Drive

If you connect Google Drive, authentication is performed through Google OAuth. Slideshow Album does not receive your Google password. The App requests read-only access to Google Drive (the drive.readonly permission) and uses it only to show your account name and email address in the App, list your Drive folders so you can choose one, list the image files in the folder you choose, and download those images to display them. The App never creates, changes, or deletes files in your Google Drive.

Google user data obtained through Google APIs is used only to provide and maintain the Google Drive feature you request. It is not sold, used for advertising, or used for unrelated profiling or marketing.

Images are downloaded directly from Google to your device. The App has no developer-operated server, so Google user data is not sent to us. It is not shared with advertising providers or other third parties.

The App does not create aggregated or anonymized data from Google user data, and it does not use Google user data to develop, improve, or train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.

Our use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will comply with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Microsoft OneDrive

If you connect OneDrive, authentication is handled through Microsoft’s authorization flow. The App does not receive your Microsoft password. The granted access is used to browse and display the OneDrive folders or images you choose for your slideshow.

Immich and network servers

If you configure Immich, SMB, NFS, WebDAV, or another supported personal server, the App uses the server address and credentials or tokens you provide to access the selected photo content. These connection details are used to maintain the connection you configured.

Unsplash

If you enable Unsplash, the App uses the access key you provide and the search options you choose to request photos from Unsplash. Unsplash usage is also subject to Unsplash’s own terms and policies.

2. How information is used

Information and credentials accessed by the App are used to load photo lists, download or display selected images, apply slideshow options, maintain connections to the sources you configure, and provide cache features.

3. Local cache and retention

The App may cache downloaded images on your device so slideshows can load more smoothly. You can control cache limits and clear cached data from the App. Clearing the App cache does not delete the original image from the external photo source.

Cloud and network sources may require an active network connection to discover or download new photos.

Images downloaded from Google Drive are kept only in the App’s private cache on your device. They remain there until you clear the cache, the cache limit removes them, or you uninstall the App. Removing a Google Drive source deletes its saved credentials from your device, and uninstalling the App removes its local data. We keep no copy of Google user data because the App has no developer-operated server. Your original files stay in your Google Drive.

4. Sharing and disclosure

Slideshow Album does not sell your photos, Google user data, Microsoft account data, server credentials, or access tokens. Photo source data is shared with the external service you intentionally connect only as needed to request the content or operation you selected, or when disclosure is required by applicable law.

5. Authentication credentials

OAuth tokens, API keys, server credentials, or other connection information may be retained in secure storage on your device where necessary to keep a source connected. They are used only for the service or connection you authorized. You can disconnect a source or revoke its authorization through the App or the relevant service provider where supported.

6. Your choices

• You can use local folders without connecting a cloud service.
• You choose which supported source or folder is included in a slideshow.
• You can disconnect Google Drive, OneDrive, Immich, network shares, or other optional sources by opening the source in the Providers tab and choosing Remove provider. This deletes its saved credentials from your device.
• You can clear locally cached images from the App.
• You can stop usage analytics by turning off Settings > Privacy > Send usage statistics in the App.
• In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, you can change your ad consent choices at any time in Settings > Privacy > Privacy options.
• You can revoke provider permissions through the relevant Google, Microsoft, Android, or server settings where available. For Google Drive, use the third-party connections page in your Google Account.

7. Third-party services

Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Immich, Unsplash, Google AdMob, Google Analytics for Firebase, and network or server products are third-party or independently operated services. Their own privacy policies and terms apply to data stored or processed by those services.

8. Advertising

The App displays banner, interstitial, and rewarded ads provided by Google AdMob. Google may process device information, advertising identifiers, IP addresses, and ad interaction data according to the Google Privacy Policy. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your Android settings where available.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, the App uses Google’s consent management platform (the Google User Messaging Platform) to ask for your consent before it requests ads. If you do not consent to personalized ads, the App may still show limited or non-personalized ads. Your choices also apply to ad measurement in Google Analytics for Firebase through Google Consent Mode. You can review or change your choices at any time in Settings > Privacy > Privacy options. If the consent message cannot load, for example while you are offline, the App keeps working and asks again on a later launch.

Your photos, file names, connected accounts, and access tokens are not provided to advertising services. If you watch a rewarded ad, the resulting ad-free time is stored only on your device.

9. Usage analytics

The Android App uses Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the App is used and how its ads perform, so we can fix problems and improve the App. When usage statistics are on, Google Analytics for Firebase collects:

• App activity: app opens, sessions, engagement time, app updates, and a few in-app events. These events record when a slideshow first changes photos in a playback session (with the kind of photo source, such as Google Drive or local folder, and the transition effect), when playback pauses because the device is offline, when an ad could be shown and whether it was ready, and how many hours of ad-free time a rewarded ad added.
• Identifiers: a Firebase app instance ID and your Android advertising ID.
• Device and approximate location: device model, operating system version, language, and country or region derived from your IP address.
• Ad activity reported by Google AdMob, such as ad impressions and estimated ad revenue.

Analytics never includes your photos, file or folder names, photo-source addresses, account names or email addresses, access tokens, or Google user data. Data is sent over encrypted connections and processed by Google under the Google Privacy Policy; we see it only as reports in Google Analytics.

If we advertise the App with Google Ads, Google Analytics is linked to Google Ads so Google can measure which ads led to installs and in-app activity. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, analytics data is used for ad personalization or shared for advertising purposes only if you consent through the App’s consent message or Privacy options.

To stop analytics, turn off Settings > Privacy > Send usage statistics; collection stops on that device until you turn it on again. Ads continue to work either way. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in your Android settings.

10. Security

Google user data travels directly between Google and your device over encrypted HTTPS connections. Cached images are stored in the App’s private storage on your device, which other apps cannot normally access, and credentials are kept in secure storage on your device.

We use reasonable technical measures appropriate to the App’s architecture to protect stored configuration and connection information. No electronic storage, device, network, or third-party service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

11. Children

Slideshow Album is not specifically directed to children. If the App is used on a shared or family device, the device owner is responsible for configuring the photo sources and account connections.

12. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as the App, platform requirements, or connected-service features change. The effective date on this page will be updated when a revised policy is published.

13. Contact

For privacy questions or requests, please email ardiorrorin@gmail.com.