BGone — Privacy Policy

BGone removes the background from photos. This policy explains, precisely, what happens to your images and what data leaves your device.

One piece of fine print, stated up front rather than buried: BGone's subject detection is built on Google ML Kit, which runs on your device but reports anonymous diagnostics about itself to Google — that a detection ran, whether it worked, and what kind of device it ran on. It does not send your photos. This is the only network activity associated with the app, and it is described in full under Data collected by Google below.

What BGone does with your photos

When you choose a photo, BGone reads it into memory, computes the cutout on your device's own processor, and shows you the result. When you tap Save, it writes a PNG to Pictures/BGone on your device. When you tap Share, it writes a temporary copy into the app's private cache and hands it to whichever app you pick.

Your photos are not uploaded, transmitted, backed up by us, or used to train anything. They are not retained by BGone after you leave the editor. The temporary copy created for sharing is deleted the next time you share.

You can verify this yourself: put your phone in airplane mode. BGone imports, detects, edits and saves exactly as it does online.

What BGone accesses

• The photo you pick. BGone uses the Android photo picker, which shows the app only the single image you select. BGone holds no permission to read your photo library and cannot browse it.
• Photos shared into the app. If you use "Share to BGone" or "Open with BGone", BGone receives that one image.
• Saving. On Android 10 and later, saving requires no permission at all. On Android 8 and 9, BGone requests storage permission solely to write the PNG you asked it to save.

BGone does not request access to your camera, location, contacts, microphone, calendar, call logs, or any account.

Data collected by Google

BGone's automatic subject detection is built on Google ML Kit. The detection itself happens on your device — but ML Kit is delivered through Google Play services, and it reports on its own activity. We would rather state that plainly than let you find it in the permission list.

What happens:

1. The detection model downloads once, from Google Play services, the first time it is needed. This is Google's model coming to your phone. Your images are not part of that request.
2. ML Kit reports anonymous diagnostics about itself to Google — that a detection ran, whether it succeeded, roughly how long it took, and what kind of device and software version it ran on.

This is why BGone's package lists the INTERNET permission even though BGone's own code never opens a network connection — the permission comes from Google's components, not ours. Google's handling of that diagnostic data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy.

On a device without Google Play services, BGone falls back to a model bundled inside the app and to a model-free colour analysis. In that case no network component is involved at all.

Data we collect

None. BGone has no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, no user accounts, and no server infrastructure. We do not know who you are, that you installed the app, or what you did with it.

Because we hold no data about you, there is nothing for you to request access to, export, or delete. Uninstalling the app removes it completely; images you already saved stay in your gallery, where they belong to you.

Children

BGone is a photo tool suitable for general audiences. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.

Payment

BGone is a paid app. Your purchase is handled entirely by Google Play. We never see your payment details.

Changes

If this policy changes, the "last updated" date above changes with it. Material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about this policy: Joshuapicoufd@gmail.com