Effective date: July 6, 2026
Applies to: Screencrate (free) and Screencrate Pro, on Android and iOS ("the app", "Screencrate")
Developer and publisher: Diego Cordova (d/b/a BlackBox Tools) ("we", "us", "our")
Contact: toolsblackbox@gmail.com
This policy covers the Screencrate mobile app only. For the BlackBox Tools website privacy policy, see blackboxtools.com/privacy.
Screencrate itself collects nothing. No accounts, no sign-in, no servers of ours, no analytics, no tracking pixels, no personal data sent to us. Everything you save in Screencrate lives in a local database on your own phone. Your content leaves your device only through actions you take yourself (backups to a folder you choose, sharing, and exports) and, in the free version only, through the limited collection performed by third-party advertising networks described in Section 6.
We wrote this policy to be readable. The sections below explain exactly what the app does with data, in plain language, in as much detail as we can give.
Screencrate is developed and published by Diego Cordova (d/b/a BlackBox Tools). This policy covers both versions of the app:
This policy covers the mobile apps only. It does not cover third-party websites you open from links you saved, third-party services you choose to send data to (such as your own cloud storage), or the platforms that distribute the app (Google Play and the Apple App Store), each of which has its own privacy policy.
We do not collect, receive, store, sell, rent, share, or otherwise process your personal data on any server of ours, because we do not operate any servers. The app has no user accounts and no login. We have no database of users. We cannot see your saves, your boards, your notes, your photos, your screenshots, your evidence captures, or anything else inside the app, and we could not produce that data even if asked, because it exists only on your device.
The app does not use any analytics or crash-reporting service. We do not know how many times you open the app, what you save, or what features you use.
Everything. Specifically, all of the following is stored only in the app's private local storage on your phone:
Deleting the app deletes all of this data. There is no copy anywhere else unless you created one yourself with the backup, share, or export features.
Content leaves your phone only when you make it happen:
In every case the destination is chosen by you, and we never receive a copy.
Although we run no servers, the app does make network requests from your device in order to work. These requests go directly from your phone to the services involved:
None of these requests identify you to us, because none of them come to us.
The free version of Screencrate shows banner ads served by Google AdMob. Additional mediation networks (such as AppLovin MAX) may be added in the future; if they are, this policy will be updated to name them.
Ad networks operate under their own privacy policies and may collect:
They use this data to serve, personalize (where permitted), measure, and secure advertising. Relevant policies: Google and, if added, AppLovin.
Consent and choices:
The Screencrate Pro upgrade is processed by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). We never see your name, card number, or billing details.
Purchase state is managed through RevenueCat, a subscription-management service, which receives a randomly generated pseudonymous identifier and your purchase state so the app can unlock Pro features and restore your purchase on a new device. RevenueCat does not receive your name, email, or content. RevenueCat's privacy policy.
The Evidence Locker makes tamper-evident captures of web pages for your own documentation purposes. Privacy-relevant facts:
Price drop alerts, revisit reminders, item reminders, expiration reminders, and the weekly digest are all generated locally on your device by the app itself. No notification content is sent to us or to any push service of ours. The app uses the operating system's local notification facility only.
App Lock and the other lock features use your phone's own fingerprint or face unlock. Screencrate never sees, stores, or transmits biometric data; the operating system only tells the app whether the unlock succeeded. PINs you set in the app are stored only on your device.
The app asks for permissions only when a feature needs them, and every feature degrades gracefully if you decline:
The free version additionally declares the advertising identifier permission used by ad networks (Section 7). Screencrate Pro does not.
Screencrate is not directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your jurisdiction), and because the app collects no personal data itself, we hold no information about any user of any age. In the free version, ad-network consent rules for minors are enforced through the consent mechanisms described in Section 7.
Laws like the EU and UK GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act give you rights over personal data a company holds about you: access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, and the right not to be sold or shared.
Our honest answer to any such request is that we hold nothing to produce, correct, or delete. Your data is on your device, under your control:
We do not sell or share personal information as defined by the CCPA/CPRA, and we have no data with which to do so. We do not respond to Do Not Track signals because we do no tracking to turn off.
If you are in the EEA or UK and believe you need a data controller to address: for all data inside the app, you are the only controller, because processing happens on your device. For advertising data in the free version, the ad networks act as independent controllers of the data they collect.
Your data is protected by your device's own security: the app's storage is private to the app, protected by your device lock, and covered by your phone's encryption when enabled. The app adds optional locks (PIN and biometric) for sensitive areas. Because nothing is stored on servers, there is no server to breach.
We retain nothing, so there is no retention period. Data on your device stays until you delete it. Backups and exports you created are retained wherever you put them, for as long as you keep them.
We transfer no data internationally, because we receive no data. Requests your device makes to third parties (web pages you saved, YouTube, ad networks, timestamp authorities, RevenueCat) may be served from wherever those services operate, under their own policies.
If the app's behavior changes in a way that affects privacy (for example, adding a new ad network), we will update this policy, change the effective date at the top, and highlight material changes in the app or in the update notes. The current version of this policy is always available at this page and inside the app under Settings.
Questions, concerns, or requests: toolsblackbox@gmail.com
We aim to answer every privacy question directly and in plain language.