(General Release version)
Thank you for using Code Scanner! This is an open-source scanner app that can read 1D/2D codes (Barcodes, QR codes respectively)
Before using this app, you should look at the privacy practices below:
Code Scanner - a code scanning application developed for Android™, which has a GitLab mirror at https://gitlab.com/czlucius/code-scanner-play.
code or codes - a 1D or 2D code from the list of supported codes, which can be found in Code Scanner’s app description on its active distribution channels.
Code Scanner is open-source, available under the GNU Affero General Public License; the app is released on the Google Play Store.
This application does not collect, nor does it transmit any Personally Identifiable Information from its users. Data processed by libraries used are described below.
Data stored in the “History” section, preferences in the “Preferences” section, and cache stored from creating QR codes in the “Create” section only resides on the device.
App data may be transferred to another device through backups in the Android™ operating system by the user, in which the developers has no control of the privacy of the aforementioned Android backups containing this data.
In case of an error or crash in the app, a prompt will be displayed for you to send log/crash data to the developer, for purposes of diagnostics and bug fixing.
This Log Data includes:
This Log Data may include information such as app info, device model and name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing Code Scanner, the time and date of your use of Code Scanner.
It will also include logs from Android's log system (specific to Code Scanner only) which may include sensitive information.
You will have a choice on whether to send this crash information to the developer.
Currently, Code Scanner uses e-mail to send such data. If you do not wish to send the crash information, simply discard the e-mail draft and no data will be sent.
You are, however, encouraged to send the crash data, as this would help the developer fix relevant bugs in Code Scanner.
If you wish to delete any crash logs you have sent, please send an email to [email protected]
- ML Kit by Google
Data from scanned codes are processed by Google’s ML Kit, a Software Development Kit for processing of codes in images, ephemerally offline, they are never transmitted to any external party or out of the device.
Please refer to the privacy policy of ML Kit for more details: https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/terms.
The developer can be contacted at [email protected] .
Do send an email to the developer if you encounter these situations:
- You wish to enquire on the privacy practices of Code Scanner
- Bugs/errors in Code Scanner (please use a bug report template, see https://gitlab.com/czlucius/code-scanner-play/-/wikis/Sample-bug-report-template)
- Security vulnerabilities - please request for encrypted communication first; do not include the details of the vulnerability in an unprotected message.
- Other queries
Android is a trademark of Google LLC.
Code Scanner is not affiliated with DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED. The QR Code is a trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.
This privacy policy may change from time to time. You are advised to check it after every app update, and the developers may post updates to the privacy policy in the changelog in the respective store listings.
If there is a version of this privacy policy translated to another language by the author of Code Scanner, and in the event of discrepancies between the translated version and the English version, the English version of the policy will prevail.