Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 29, 2026

ClearStatus is an iOS app that converts videos from your photo library into clips optimized for sharing as WhatsApp Status updates. This policy explains what information ClearStatus handles and how.

What ClearStatus does with your videos

• Videos you select are read from your photo library and processed entirely on your device. They are never uploaded, transmitted, or shared with us or any third party by the app.
• Converted clips are saved back to your photo library or shared only when you explicitly choose to do so, using Apple's standard share sheet.
• Temporary working files created during conversion are stored in the app's private on-device storage. The clips from your most recent video are kept there for up to 24 hours, so you can come back to them if iOS closes the app, and are deleted when you tap Done or after that time. Older working files are cleaned up automatically.

Data collection

Apart from the anonymous usage statistics and the advertising data described in the next two sections, ClearStatus does not collect, store, or transmit:

• Personal information
• Crash reports
• Your videos, photos, or any media content

The app does not use tracking as defined by Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework, and does not use or share data for cross-app or cross-website tracking.

Usage statistics (Google Analytics for Firebase)

ClearStatus uses Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the app is used, so we can fix what gets in people's way and decide what to improve. The app records events such as:

• choosing a video (its length, orientation and number of parts — never the video itself);
• the watermark option chosen, whether processing finished, failed or was cancelled, and how long it took;
• saving or sharing clips, and opening clips kept from an earlier session;
• viewing the Premium screen, the outcome of a purchase (plan, price and currency as reported by Apple), and the outcome of an optional rewarded ad.

Alongside these events, Google receives your device model, iOS version, app version, an approximate location (country or city, derived by Google from your IP address) and a random app-instance identifier created by Firebase, which changes if you reinstall the app. ClearStatus does not send your name, email, advertising identifier (IDFA) or vendor identifier, does not set a user ID, and does not use this data for tracking or ad personalization. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, analytics storage is turned off, so Google receives only cookieless signals without identifiers. Event-level data is kept for Google Analytics' default period of 2 months. See Google's Privacy Policy and how Google Analytics safeguards data.

Advertising (free version only)

Free users can optionally watch a short rewarded video ad, served by Google AdMob, to remove the watermark from that video. Premium members (subscription or one-time purchase) never see ads. When an ad is loaded or shown, Google's AdMob SDK may process device and ad identifiers, general usage data (such as ad views and interactions), and diagnostic data, to serve ads, measure performance, and prevent fraud. This processing is unrelated to your videos — nothing about the video you're converting is ever shared with AdMob or Google.

ClearStatus requests non-personalized ads only, so ads are not targeted using a profile built from your activity. Where local law requires consent (such as under the GDPR in the EEA and UK), ads are requested through Google's consent framework, and only ever non-personalized. Premium members never reach this code path at all — the ads SDK is never started for them.

See Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites or apps that use AdMob for details.

Photo library access

ClearStatus requests photo library access solely to let you pick videos for conversion and to save converted clips back to your library. Access is governed by iOS permissions that you can change at any time in Settings.

Subscriptions and payments

ClearStatus Premium (a subscription, or the one-time “Premium, forever” purchase) is processed entirely by Apple through your App Store account. We never see or store your payment details. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Apple's privacy policy applies to the payment process: apple.com/legal/privacy

Children's privacy

ClearStatus does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a revised effective date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: williamscott701@gmail.com