Privacy policy
Effective 22 October 2026
The short version: your photos, videos and settings stay on your phone. Clack has no account, no ads, no analytics and no trackers, and the app sends nothing to us.
This policy covers the Clack camera app for Android and this website, clackcam.com. It says what they access, what (little) we receive, why, for how long, and what you can do about it.
Who we are
Clack is made by vSites OÜ, registry code 17112051, Sepapaja tn 6, Lasnamäe linnaosa, 15551 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia. We are the controller of the personal data described here. For anything about privacy, write to [email protected].
What the app accesses, and why
Android asks you before Clack can use the camera, the microphone or (on old phones) storage.
| Camera | To show the finder and take photos and videos. The picture is processed on your phone. |
|---|---|
| Microphone | To record sound with a video, only while you are filming. Clack asks the first time you start a video; if you say no, videos are silent. |
| Storage | Only on Android 9 and older, which needs it before an app can save into your photos folder. Android 10 and newer need no permission for this. |
| Vibration | For the clicks you feel when you turn a control or take a picture. |
| Internet | Listed because the framework Clack is built on declares it by default. The app does not use it: it makes no network requests. |
Clack does not ask for your location, contacts, accounts or any other photos on your phone.
What stays on your phone
- Photos and videos are saved in the DCIM/Clack folder on your phone, where your gallery sees them. A photo carries the usual camera details (date and time, the phone's make and model, the exposure) and the name of the recipe it was made with. No location is written into photos or videos.
- Your recipes and settings (your recipe slots, the last focus distance, whether controls use lab or camera terms) are kept in the app's private storage.
- The roll in the app shows only the photos and videos Clack saved. It does not look at your other photos.
We never receive any of this. To delete it: delete photos and videos in your gallery; uninstall Clack, or clear its storage in Android's settings, to delete your recipes and settings. Uninstalling does not delete photos and videos you have taken.
If backup is on in your phone's settings, Android may copy Clack's settings to your Google account, and your gallery app may back up your photos. Google, or your gallery's maker, handles those backups under its own privacy policy; we cannot see them.
Google Play
Clack is distributed through Google Play, which processes data about you under Google's privacy policy. Google gives us statistics (such as the number of installs) that do not identify you. If you have chosen to share usage and diagnostics with app developers, Google also sends us crash reports: the phone model, the Android version and where in the app the crash happened, never your photos. We use them only to fix bugs (our legitimate interest in an app that works, GDPR Article 6(1)(f)); they stay in Google Play Console and we do not copy them elsewhere.
Buying the unlock
Clack does not sell anything yet. When the one-time unlock arrives, it will work like this:
- You pay through Google Play Billing. Google takes the payment; we never see your card or bank details.
- Google tells the app whether your Google account owns the unlock, so the app can turn it on, including on a new phone. That check happens between the app and Google Play on your phone.
- Google gives us a record of each sale: the order number, the product, the price, the date and your country or region, which we need for tax. We keep these records for as long as accounting law requires (seven years under the Estonian Accounting Act). Legal basis: our contract with you, and our legal obligation to keep accounts (GDPR Article 6(1)(b) and (c)).
- Refunds go through Google Play.
If you email us
We receive your address and what you write, and use them only to reply. Mail to clackcam.com is forwarded by Cloudflare to our Gmail inbox, so Google stores it. We delete the conversation 12 months after it ends. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in answering you (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)).
This website
clackcam.com sets no cookies and has no analytics, ads or trackers. Its fonts are served from this site, not from a third party. It runs on a server we rent from Oracle Cloud in Frankfurt, and each visit passes through Cloudflare's network, which protects the site. Like any web server, they see your IP address, the time and the page you asked for; we keep no logs of them. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in a working, secure site (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)).
Who else sees your data
We do not sell or share personal data, and nobody uses it for advertising. The only other parties are the services named above, which act for us or under their own policies: Google (Play, billing and email), Oracle (hosting) and Cloudflare (the website's network and email forwarding). Some of them may process data outside the European Economic Area; where they do, they rely on a European Commission adequacy decision or standard contractual clauses. No decision about you is made automatically, and we build no profiles.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, and ask us to correct it, delete it, restrict or object to its use, or send it to you in a portable form. Write to [email protected]; we answer within one month. You can turn off Clack's access to the camera or microphone at any time in Android's settings. Since the app sends us nothing, we usually hold no data about you beyond an email you sent or a purchase record.
You can also complain to a data protection authority: ours is the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (aki.ee), or you can go to the authority where you live or work.
Children
Clack is not directed at children under 13, and it collects nothing from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will post the new version here with a new effective date. If Clack ever starts sending data off your phone, this page will say so before the update that does it is released.