Privacy policy

This policy covers the Scrub mobile app and this website, getscrub.app (“we”, “us”). Questions? Email support@getscrub.app.

Scrub does not require an account and contains no analytics, advertising, or ad-tracking SDKs. It never collects, receives, stores, sells, or shares your personal information, and your photos, documents, and their metadata never leave your device.

The one exception is crash reporting. So we can find and fix bugs, Scrub uses Sentry to send an anonymous diagnostic report if the app crashes or hits a serious error. A report contains technical details — the error, a stack trace, your device model, and OS version. It contains none of your photos, documents, metadata, or file contents, no account or contact information, and no identifiers used to track you across apps or the web. Crash data is used only to keep the app working and is not linked to your identity. You can read Sentry's practices in their privacy policy.

When you pick a photo, Scrub reads it — including any embedded metadata such as GPS coordinates, timestamps, device details, and names — solely to show that data to you and to remove or edit it at your direction. This processing happens in the app, on your phone. Photos, and the metadata inside them, are never uploaded, transmitted, or shared with us or anyone else.

Cleaned copies are saved to your photo library as new files; your originals are never modified or deleted. Temporary working copies inside the app's private storage are discarded when no longer needed.

Scrub asks for permission to open the photos you choose and to save cleaned copies back to your library. On Android, Scrub also requests media-location access — that permission is what allows the app to see (and therefore remove) the GPS data inside your photos. These permissions are used for exactly those purposes and nothing else.

Scrub is a paid app sold through the Apple App Store (and, in the future, Google Play). Payment is handled entirely by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies. We never see your name, payment details, or billing address.

getscrub.app is a static site. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics scripts. Our hosting provider may keep standard, short-lived server logs (such as IP address and requested page) to operate and secure the service, as described in the provider's own privacy documentation.

If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you include in the message. We use it only to reply and keep it only as long as needed to help you. We never add you to mailing lists or share your address. Please don't email us photos you want cleaned — we don't want them, and the app does the job better.

Scrub is suitable for all ages. The only data the app collects is anonymous crash reports, which carry no personal information from anyone, children included.

Privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA give you rights over personal data a company holds about you. We hold no personal data about you: crash reports are anonymous and not linked to your identity, and your photos and their metadata are already fully in your hands, on your device. Support emails you have sent us will be deleted on request.

If we ever change how Scrub works in a way that affects privacy, we will update this policy first and note the change prominently here and in the app's release notes. The “last updated” date at the top always reflects the current version.

• July 24, 2026 — disclosed anonymous crash reporting (Sentry).
• July 8, 2026 — first version of this policy.