Privacy Policy for Keepsaw

Last updated: October 29, 2026

This policy explains how the developer of Keepsaw handles information when you use our Android photo jigsaw puzzle app. Keepsaw has no accounts and no sign-in, and the photos you turn into puzzles never leave your device. For privacy questions and requests, contact tsenkopurchases@gmail.com.

1. Your photos

You choose photos with the Android system photo picker. Keepsaw receives only the photos you pick. It does not request access to your photo library, camera, microphone, or files.

Each photo you choose is processed on your device: it is turned upright, cropped to the part you keep, resized so its longest side is at most 2,560 pixels, compressed, and saved once, together with a small thumbnail, in the app’s private storage. Your original photo in your gallery is not changed. Keepsaw does not read the photo’s location or camera details.

Your photos are never uploaded. Keepsaw has no servers, and the developer never receives your photos, their file names, or your puzzles. Photos are never sent to advertising providers.

2. Information stored on your device

Keepsaw stores the following in a database in the app’s private storage:

• your puzzles and progress, such as piece positions, puzzle size, time spent, and whether a puzzle is finished;
• your photo import balance and records of the rewards you earned by watching ads;
• the table backgrounds and frames you unlocked;
• your museum: the photos you placed there, their frames, and any titles and stories you write for them;
• your settings, such as background, haptics, reduced motion, snap assistance, and whether reminders are on.

This information is used only to run the app on your device. It is excluded from Android cloud backups and device-to-device transfers, so it stays on this device. As a result, reinstalling the app or moving to a new phone starts Keepsaw fresh, unless you restore a backup file you saved (section 3).

You can delete your data at any time:

• Settings > Storage & privacy > Delete all local images and puzzles removes every imported photo, thumbnail, puzzle, and museum exhibit.
• Clearing the app’s data in Android Settings, or uninstalling the app, removes everything, including settings, unlocked styles, and your photo import balance.

Backup files you saved elsewhere (see section 3) are not touched by either; delete them yourself if you no longer want them.

3. Backup files you save

You can save a backup file from Settings > Storage & privacy > Save a backup file, for example before moving to a new phone. The file contains your imported photos and their thumbnails, your puzzles and progress, your museum with its titles and stories, your unlocked styles, your photo import balance and reward records, and your settings.

You choose where the file is saved, using Android’s own file picker, such as your Downloads folder or a USB drive. Keepsaw writes the file only there and never sends it anywhere. If you choose a folder that a cloud service syncs, that service’s terms apply to the copy it holds. Anyone who can open the file can see your photos, so keep it somewhere only you can open.

Restore from a backup file reads a file you choose and adds what is missing on this phone. It never overwrites photos or puzzles that are already here.

4. Advertising

Keepsaw uses Google AdMob to show three kinds of ads:

• Rewarded video ads, which play only when you choose to watch one: to add another photo, to unlock a style, or for help with a puzzle (placing a piece for you, or showing which pieces fit).
• Full-screen ads, one after every 20 times you tap Save & go home in a puzzle. The ad plays after your puzzle is saved, on the way back to the home screen.
• Native ads, small and labeled "Ad", on the home screen, in your puzzle shelf, the museum and the Style studio, and on the card shown after you finish a puzzle. They never appear while you are solving a puzzle.

No ad is shown while you are moving pieces, and ads load only on the home screen or while a puzzle is paused, never during play. Testing versions of the app show Google’s sample ads.

Keepsaw requests non-personalized ads. Even so, Google and its advertising partners may process information such as your IP address, approximate location inferred from it, your device’s advertising ID and other device identifiers, device and app information, ad views and clicks, and diagnostics. This supports ad delivery, measurement, frequency limits, and fraud prevention. Ad requests never include your photos, their file names, your puzzles, or anything you write in the museum.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google’s consent message asks for your advertising choices before any ad loads. You can change them later in Settings > Storage & privacy > Ad privacy choices.

You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your device settings (on most devices, Settings > Privacy > Ads, or Settings > Google > Ads). Rewarded ads are always optional: declining them never limits the photos or puzzles you already have.

Learn more in Google’s Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

5. Analytics, accounts, reminders, and network use

Keepsaw contains no analytics, crash-reporting, or tracking tools of its own. It has no user accounts, no cloud saves, no social features, and no push notifications from a server.

If you turn on reminders, Keepsaw schedules them on your device: at most one a day, worded from the progress of your puzzles stored on the phone, such as "Your 64-piece puzzle is 40% done." No push service, notification token, or server is involved. Reminders are off until you turn them on, and you can turn them off in Settings or in Android’s notification settings.

The app uses the internet only for advertising. Puzzles, the museum, backups, and reminders all work offline. Adding a new photo needs an ad, except your first three photos and one photo a week when no ad can be shown.

6. Permissions

Keepsaw asks Android for internet and network-state access (to load ads), the advertising ID (used by Google AdMob), vibration (for optional haptic feedback), notifications (only when you turn on reminders), and running at startup (so scheduled reminders survive a restart). Libraries included in the app also declare permissions that Android uses for scheduling background work and for its own advertising privacy features.

Keepsaw does not request access to your photo library, camera, microphone, contacts, or location. Backup files are saved and opened only through Android’s file picker, in the place you choose.

If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you include so we can respond to your request.

7. Children

Keepsaw is made for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and the app itself does not collect personal information from anyone. Advertising is configured for a general audience rather than child-directed treatment.

If you believe a child’s information has been processed through the app, contact tsenkopurchases@gmail.com so we can look into it.

8. Service providers and purposes

Our only service provider is Google, which provides advertising through AdMob. Google and its advertising partners process information under their own privacy terms. Providers may process information outside your country of residence; their privacy notices describe the safeguards for international transfers.

We use information only to run the app on your device, show and measure ads, manage rewards you earn, and respond to your messages. Where applicable law requires a legal basis, we rely on providing the service you request, consent where required, legitimate interests in operating the app, and legal obligations.

9. Retention and deletion

Information in the app stays on your device until you delete it as described in section 2. Backup files stay wherever you saved them until you delete them. The developer keeps no copy of either. Emails you send us are kept only as long as needed to handle your request. Information processed by Google for advertising follows Google’s retention practices.

10. Your rights and security

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your information, to object to or restrict processing, to withdraw consent, and to complain to your local data-protection authority. Because your Keepsaw data is stored only on your device, you control it directly through the app and Android settings. For information held by Google for advertising, use Google’s privacy tools.

Your photos and puzzles are kept in the app’s private storage, which other apps cannot read. No method of storage is completely secure, so keep your device protected with a screen lock.

11. Changes and contact

We may update this policy when the app or its data practices change. The date at the top shows the latest revision.

For privacy questions or requests, contact the Keepsaw developer at tsenkopurchases@gmail.com.