Privacy Policy - Phoenix Shredder
Welcome to Phoenix Shredder - Secure File Eraser & Privacy Protection (referred to as "the Application," "we," "us," or "our"), an Android utility registered under the package identifier im.shred.securewipe.
Our core mission is to protect your personal privacy by providing advanced local file erasure and logical write overwrite utilities. Unlike typical systems where deletion leaves remnants behind, Phoenix Shredder is designed to target selected sectors with dynamic logical data blocks, significantly reducing the chances of subsequent forensic recovery.
🔒 Pure Privacy Commitment: Phoenix Shredder operates entirely as a local secure utility. Your personal files, photos, videos, and directories never leave your device, are never uploaded to the cloud, and are never sold or shared with third parties.
📥 2. Information Collection and Use
To provide transparent compliance under the Google Play Developer Console mandates, we disclose our exact data footprints below:
A. Personal Data & Files
Zero Collection & Transmission: The Application does not collect, harvest, store, or transmit your personal data or files. Any operation you perform—such as selecting media via the Scoped Gallery Shredder, erasing documents via the Folder Shredder, or wiping download sectors via the "Before Sell" Resale Wizard—is processed completely offline and locally on your physical device.
- No files are copied, indexed, or uploaded to remote cloud databases.
- Directory names, file sizes, and metadata remain isolated in your local device sandbox.
B. Advertising Network Integrations (Google AdMob)
To support free utility access, the Application integrates the Google AdMob SDK. Google AdMob may automatically collect and process certain non-sensitive parameters for ad delivery, measurement, personalization, and basic performance analytics:
- Device Identifiers: Mobile advertising ID (e.g., Google Advertising ID / GAID), IP address, and technical hardware specifications.
- Interaction Data: General ad impressions, clicks, and app interaction timings to ensure compliant rewarded allocations and App Open sequences.
You can manage or reset your custom personalization settings directly through your Android device settings panel (Settings > Google > Ads).
🛠️ 3. Permission Declarations & Access Details
Phoenix Shredder utilizes standard, secure Android system APIs to minimize security permissions. We are fully compliant with Scoped Storage rules:
- Visual Media Picker & Scoped Storage: Bypasses dangerous, high-risk, wide-scale storage overrides (such as
MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE). We access only user-selected media elements through compliantMediaStoreselectors and Scoped Storage API paths. - Storage Access Framework (SAF): When executing custom target folder sweeps, the app prompts you directly through the Android system directory tree. The app only accesses sectors that you explicitly choose and authorize.
- Biometric Credentials: Used solely to protect local dashboard access. The validation process is handled entirely by the secure Android system keystore. We have zero access to your physical biometric structures or patterns.
🌡️ 4. System Stability & Operational Integrity
Phoenix Shredder prioritizes local device safety. Built-in engine protections regulate your physical storage stability during high-intensity batch overwrite operations:
- Thermal and Battery Safe-locks: The coroutine engine monitors hardware thermal sensors and battery states, throttling background write operations if critical levels are reached or if battery resources fall below 15%.
- Safe Cancellation: If you stop a deep shred process, active streams are immediately flushed and safely closed, preventing filesystem corruption or fragmented temp locks.
📢 5. Technical Limitations & Storage Realities
In alignment with our strict transparency and anti-deceptive policies, we disclose standard physical platform constraints of flash storage devices:
1. Wear Leveling: Modern SSD and NAND flash memory controllers use wear-leveling algorithms to prolong microchip lifetime. Consequently, logical sector overrides executed by this utility may not map directly to the identical physical storage sector on the hardware level.
2. Thumbnail Persistence: Local vendor caches and specialized database instances may preserve small thumbnail copies of photos independently of original storage streams.
3. Cloud Sync: Active automated storage backups (Google Drive, Photos, Dropbox, etc.) operate outside local device boundaries. We recommend disabling active sync features prior to executing secure local erasures.
🤝 6. Third-Party Links & Services
Our Application may display advertisements from Google AdMob or route to external privacy resource guidelines. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party platforms. We encourage you to review their respective privacy statements when interacting with external content.
👶 7. Children's Privacy
Our Application is a utility tool designed for general audiences and does not knowingly query or target children under the age of 13. Since we collect 0% personal data or files locally, no personal data from minors is ever harvested, stored, or transmitted.
🔄 8. Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy periodically to align with evolving Android security APIs or Google Play Developer Console directives. We will publish the updated guidelines directly on this page and revise the "Last Updated" timestamp accordingly.
📧 9. Contact Us
If you have questions, comments, or technical inquiries regarding local data safety, permissions, or our secure logical shredding operations, please contact us at:
📬 Email: muzaffar.alpha.dev@gmail.com