Privacy Policy

1Overview

This policy explains what OsmanIT Screen Recorder (the "App") does with your information. It covers both editions:

• the Play edition, package com.osmanit.screenrecorder, published on Google Play; and
• the Premium edition, package com.osmanit.screenrecorder.premium, which is not on Google Play and is downloaded from osmanit.online. Section 11 covers the two things it does differently.

2What the App Stores, and Where

• Recordings and screenshots are saved only on your device, in your own Movies/ScreenRecorder and Pictures/ScreenRecorder folders. The developer never receives them.
• Settings (resolution, audio choices, watermark text, live-stream address and stream key, and so on) are stored only inside the App on your device. The settings file is excluded from Android cloud backup, so your stream key is not copied off the device.

3Permissions and Why They Are Used

4Live Streaming

If you turn on live streaming, the App sends the video and audio of your recording directly to the streaming server you entered (for example YouTube, Facebook or Twitch), using the stream key you provided. Nothing passes through the developer. What happens to the stream afterwards is governed by that service's own privacy policy.

5Connecting a Facebook Account (Optional)

In the live-stream setup you can choose Sign in with Facebook so the App fills in the stream address and key for you. The App then uses Meta's Facebook Login to ask your permission to create live videos on your profile or on Pages you manage — permissions publish_video, pages_show_list, pages_read_engagement and pages_manage_posts. Facebook gives the App an access token, which Facebook's software in the App keeps on your device.

The App uses that sign-in only to list the Pages you manage and to create the live video you ask for. These requests go straight from your phone to Facebook; nothing is sent to the developer. Facebook's software in the App runs with its analytics turned off: automatic app-event logging and advertising-ID collection are switched off, and the advertising-ID permission is removed from the App.

Tap Disconnect on the same screen to sign out. You can also remove the App's access at any time in Facebook under Settings & privacy → Apps and websites. What Facebook receives is governed by Meta's own privacy policy.

6Sharing

When you tap Share or Backup, the App hands the chosen file to the app you pick (for example a messaging app or a cloud drive). The receiving app's privacy policy then applies.

7Advertising (Play Edition Only)

The edition on Google Play is free and pays for itself with advertising, supplied by Google AdMob. The Premium edition shows no ads and does not even contain the advertising software, so none of this section applies to it.

Where ads appear, and where they never do:

• Banners appear at the foot of the recordings list and the settings screen — places you are reading, not acting.
• No ad is ever shown while a recording is running. Anything on screen would be written into your video, so banners take themselves away the moment you start recording.
• No ad is ever shown over another app, on the floating controls, the countdown or the drawing tools.

To show ads, Google receives your device's advertising identifier along with the usual technical details of the request, such as approximate location derived from your IP address, device model and language. This is Google's own data collection, governed by Google's privacy and terms; the developer never receives it, and your recordings are never involved in any way.

You can reset or delete the advertising identifier at any time in Android's Settings → Privacy → Ads, which also lets you turn off personalised advertising on the whole phone. Where the law requires consent — in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom — the App asks for it the first time it runs, and you can change your answer later from the same screen.

8What the App Does Not Do

• It does not collect your name, contacts, accounts, precise location or the contents of your recordings.
• It contains no analytics or tracking libraries of its own. Facebook's sign-in software is included only for the optional Facebook connection, with its analytics turned off. The Play edition's advertising is covered in section 7.
• The developer does not sell your data, and keeps nothing about you on any server.

9Content That Other Apps Protect

Some apps mark their screens as secure (for example banking apps). Android records those screens as black, and the App makes no attempt to get around this.

10Children

The App is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from anyone.

11Deleting Your Data

Everything the App keeps is on your device: delete recordings in the App or in your gallery, and clear the App's data or uninstall it to remove its settings. There is nothing stored by the developer to delete.

If you connected Facebook:

• Tap Disconnect in the live-stream setup to remove the access token from your phone.
• In Facebook, open Settings & privacy → Settings → Apps and websites, choose Osmanit Screen Recorder and tap Remove.

12The Premium Edition

Everything above applies to the Premium edition too, except section 7: it shows no advertising and does not contain the advertising software at all, so no advertising identifier is read and nothing goes to Google for that purpose. Beyond that it differs in two ways, both of them off until you act.

Checking for its own updates. The Premium edition is not on a store, so it looks for new versions itself. When you tap Check for updates, it asks osmanit.online for a small file listing the latest version, and downloads the new app file only if you then choose to install it. Like any web request, this reaches our hosting provider's ordinary server log, which records the requesting IP address and the time. We do not use those logs to identify or profile anyone, nothing is sent with the request to say who you are, and no such check is ever made by the Play edition.

An accessibility service you may switch on. While a call is running, Android mutes the microphone for every app except the one handling the call, so a recording made then is silent. Android lifts that restriction for an app whose accessibility service the user has enabled. The Premium edition therefore includes one, named "Screen Recorder: in-call audio", which is off unless you switch it on yourself in Android's accessibility settings.

The optional Calls feature, where a device is set up with Shizuku or the Magisk module, likewise saves its recordings only to your device.

13Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new effective date. Continued use of the App after a change means you accept the updated policy.