Ready to Upload Compress Video for Android: privacy policy

Effective date: 26 September 2026. Publisher: Pixel Works Software S.R.L.

This policy covers our Android video compression utility, Ready to Upload Compress Video, package com.dreamatronics.uploadready.video, version 1.0 and later. The iPhone and iPad app has its own policy, and so does our photo app, Ready to Upload (Android).

Your videos stay on your device

Videos are compressed, previewed and checked on your device. The app never uploads your videos, frames from them, their file names or their metadata, to us or to anyone else. We do not operate a video-processing backend, require an account or display advertising, and we do not track you across apps or websites.

You choose videos through Android’s photo picker or the system file picker, or send them to the app from another app with Share or Open with. The app reads only the videos you choose and does not ask for permission to your photos, videos or storage. Your original video is never modified or deleted. Save to Gallery adds the compressed video to your gallery, in Movies › Ready to Upload, which needs no permission on Android 10 and later. Saving to Files or sharing to another app is subject to the privacy practices of the destination you choose.

Location, capture date and device details (make, model, software) are removed from the compressed video by default. If you turn on “Keep date and location”, the compressed video keeps its capture date and location; device details are always removed. Check the result and your settings before sharing.

A long compression keeps going while you use other apps. If you allow notifications, Android shows its progress and a Cancel button; compression works either way. This happens on your device and sends nothing.

Usage data and crash reports

To understand how the app is used and to fix problems, the app uses Google Analytics for Firebase and Firebase Crashlytics, services provided by Google.

What is sent. The steps you take in the app: which screens are opened; whether videos came from the photo picker, the file picker or another app, how many, and their total length as a range (such as “1–3 minutes”); which of the listed upload limits was chosen (a size you type is sent only as a range, such as “10–25 MB”); the format (H.264 or HEVC), the output resolution as a range and the quality label of the preview; whether you trimmed; how long compression took and how many passes it needed; whether a result was saved to the gallery, shared or saved to Files; when the Pro screen was shown and whether a purchase was made (the plan, its price and currency; never your payment details or your Google Account); and the category of any error. With these, Google receives the app and Android version, the device model, the language, random identifiers created for this installation of the app, and an approximate location (country, region and city) that Google derives from your IP address. Google Analytics does not store the IP address itself. If the app crashes, the crash report contains the technical state of the app at the time and the steps before the crash.

What is never sent. Your videos or any part of them, file names, video metadata (including location), preset names or anything you type. The app does not collect the advertising ID, does not enable advertising features, and does not link this data to your identity or combine it with data from other apps or websites.

Your choice. If your Google Play country is in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the app asks before sending anything, and nothing is sent unless you agree. The app reads that country from Google Play on your device; if Google Play can’t say, it uses your device’s region, and it asks when it can’t tell. Elsewhere, sharing is on by default. Everywhere, you can turn it on or off in Settings → Share Usage Data. Turning it off stops sending, resets this installation’s analytics identifier and deletes crash reports that have not been sent.

Legal basis, storage and transfers. Where the app asks, we rely on your consent, which you can withdraw in Settings at any time. Elsewhere, we rely on our legitimate interest in understanding and improving the app, which you can object to by turning sharing off. Google processes this data on our behalf under its data processing terms. It may do so in the United States and other countries, protected by the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses. Usage data is kept for up to 14 months, after which only aggregate figures remain; crash reports are kept for 90 days.

Stored on your device

Copies of the videos you choose, previews and compressed files are kept in the app’s private storage while you work with them, and removed when you start over or choose other videos, and when the app next starts. Saved presets, the settings of your last compression, your answer about usage data and a record of which result used the free export are kept in the app’s private storage. If Android backup is on, Android may include these settings and presets, never videos, in your device backup under your Google Account; we do not receive or manage those backups. The app also notes the steps listed above in Android’s system log on your device, with none of what is never sent; it does not send that log anywhere.

Purchases

Google Play processes purchases. The app uses Google Play Billing to show the prices, to buy and restore Compress Video Pro (a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase) and to check your access to Pro. We do not receive your payment-card information or your Google Account. Google’s privacy policy and the Google Play terms apply to purchases and Google Play services. Manage or cancel a subscription in Google Play; uninstalling the app does not cancel it. Compress Video Pro is separate from Ready to Upload Pro.

Your rights and contact

You can delete saved presets in the app, and remove the app’s local data by clearing its storage or uninstalling it; Android may restore backed-up settings when you reinstall. Videos you exported remain in the destinations you chose until you delete them there.

Usage data is tied only to random installation identifiers, not to you, so we usually cannot find the data of one person. Turning sharing off resets the analytics identifier. You can contact us about privacy, including to exercise your rights of access, erasure and objection, through our contact page. You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority; in Romania, the ANSPDCP.

If you contact support, you choose the information you send. Do not include videos unless needed for your support request. This policy may be updated when the app’s practices change; an updated effective date will appear here.