Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 24, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how the Android application Antivirus & Phone Cleaner (package name: com.cleaner.phone.antivirus, hereinafter referred to as the “Application” or “we”) accesses, processes, stores, uses, transmits, and shares relevant information when you use its features.

The Application may provide tools and features related to storage cleaning, large-file identification, virus scanning, application management, App Lock, notification management, photo compression, battery and device information, and network speed testing. The specific features available may vary depending on the Application version, device model, Android operating system version, permissions granted by you, and Application configuration.

1. Developer and Privacy Contact Information

The data controller or developer responsible for processing data:

2. Information We Process

The Application follows the principle of data minimization and processes relevant information only to the extent necessary to provide device security and cleaning and management features and to ensure the proper operation of the Application. The types of data processed by each feature module and the applicable processing methods are described below.

2.1 Device, System, and Network Information

To ensure the proper operation, system security, performance maintenance, and functional optimization of the Application, the Application and its integrated third-party services process necessary device, system, and technical information.

Types of information: Such technical information includes device and operating system environment parameters, Application version, language and regional settings, network connection status, technical diagnostic information, crash and performance data, technical identifiers related to push notifications, advertising identifiers such as the AD_ID, and basic Application interaction events.

Purposes of use: This information is used to maintain the Application’s basic functionality and stability, diagnose and resolve technical issues, deliver necessary notifications, optimize user experience, support data analytics and attribution, identify and prevent fraud or abuse, and manage in-app advertising and remote configuration.

Processing mechanism: Relevant technical data is processed strictly in accordance with the operational requirements of the Application and the specifications of the integrated third-party SDKs, subject to your system permissions and privacy settings.

2.2 File and Storage Information

When you actively use features such as junk cleaning, storage analysis, large-file identification, media cleaning for photos, videos, audio files, or documents, or compression, and grant the corresponding storage or media access permissions, the Application locally processes the necessary file attributes and metadata.

Scope of information processed: This includes basic file attributes, such as file name, file type, file size, and creation or modification time, as well as information concerning storage space usage.

Purposes of use: This information is used solely to identify unnecessary files and large files, calculate storage usage, generate cleaning recommendations, display scanning results, and perform the file processing or photo compression operations selected by you.

Local processing and zero-upload principle:

2.3 Installed Applications and Application Usage Information

When you actively use features such as application management, storage cleaning, App Lock, or virus scanning and grant the corresponding permissions, such as access to the application list or usage access, the Application locally processes basic information and operating status relating to installed applications.

Scope of information processed: This includes basic identifiers and attributes of installed applications, such as application name, package name, version number, installation time, application size, and installation status.

Purposes of use: This information is used solely to generate an application management list, assist you in selecting, managing, or uninstalling applications, configure App Lock protection, identify unnecessary applications to provide storage-cleaning recommendations, and perform application security risk detection.

Local processing and security comparison standards:

2.4 Virus and Malware Scanning

When you actively initiate a virus scan or security check, the Application and the Trustlook security component process necessary application security-related technical information to identify potential security risks.

2.5 Notification Information

When you enable the notification management feature and grant notification access in your system settings, the Application locally processes necessary notification information and associated metadata.

2.6 App Lock Information

When you actively enable the App Lock feature and grant the corresponding system permissions, the Application locally processes necessary application protection configurations and operating-status information.

2.7 Battery, Storage, and Device Status

When you use device management or cleaning tools, the Application locally reads necessary device operating-status and storage information.

2.8 Reminders and Background Processing

When you actively enable certain features, such as real-time security protection or App Lock, and grant the corresponding system permissions, the Application runs necessary system services in the background to ensure the real-time availability and continuity of the relevant security protection and management features.

Purposes and necessity of operation:

Local processing and zero upload:

Background services process only the local device-status data necessary to implement the security and management features described above. All calculations and determinations are performed entirely on your device. The Application does not upload data involved in background processing to cloud servers.

User control: Background services operate only when actively enabled by you. You may disable real-time protection or App Lock or revoke the relevant system permissions at any time.

2.9 Network Speed Testing

When you actively initiate a network speed test, the Application and its integrated third-party speed-testing services process necessary network connection-related technical information to evaluate the performance of your current network.

3. How Information Is Obtained

3.1 User-Initiated Operations

When you actively use a feature or interact with the Application, the Application processes relevant information only to the extent necessary to implement the corresponding feature. Such operations include:

3.2 Android Permissions and System Interfaces

To implement specific features, the Application obtains necessary data through standard Android system interfaces after you provide explicit authorization, such as file access, installed application lists, usage access, or notification access. The Application strictly follows the principle of permission minimization, and the actual scope of processing is limited by your specific authorization and the relevant system mechanisms. You may revoke the relevant permissions at any time through the system settings.

3.3 Automatic Processing by Third-Party SDKs

Third-party SDKs integrated into the Application, such as SDKs for advertising, data analytics, crash diagnostics, and security services, automatically process necessary device and technical information while the Application is running. In regions where user consent is required, such as under UMP or GDPR mechanisms, data processing is performed strictly in accordance with your privacy choices. The specific data processing practices of third parties are independently governed by their respective privacy policies, as further described in Section 6.

4. Purposes for Which Information Is Used

The Application processes relevant information solely to provide its core features, optimize the service experience, and protect system security. The specific purposes are as follows.

Core features and services

System operation and service optimization implemented by third-party SDKs

Processing and protection of sensitive content

5. Android Permissions and System Access

To provide certain Application features, the Application may use permissions and special access provided by the Android system, depending on the specific feature, Android version, and your choices. Relevant permissions are used only when required by the corresponding feature.

5.1 Network Access

To support network connectivity and assess the network environment, the Application requests network access and network-status permissions for core and auxiliary features that require an internet connection.

Network-status checks are used solely to determine network availability and connection quality and are not used to collect your private personal data.

5.2 Notification Permission

To provide you with timely information regarding security status, feature-operation results, and important service updates, the Application requests permission to send notifications (android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS) and integrates Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM).

Purposes of use:

Data security and transmission commitments:

Permission controls: This permission must be actively granted by you. You may disable it at any time by navigating to the system settings (“System Settings → Apps → Notifications”). If you disable notification permission, local reminders and FCM cloud push notifications will no longer be displayed, but the Application’s other basic features will remain available.

5.3 File and Media Access

To support core features such as file scanning and storage-space cleaning, the Application requests file-access capabilities appropriate to the applicable Android system version.

Types of permissions used:

Purposes and mechanisms of use:

Data security and privacy commitments:

Permission controls and revocation: These permissions must be granted by you through the system settings or a permission prompt. You may revoke them at any time through the system settings. After revocation, cleaning and scanning features that depend on storage access will cease to function, but the Application’s other basic features will remain available.

5.4 Visibility of Installed Applications

To provide device security checks, malicious-application detection, and application management features, the Application requests permission to query all installed applications (android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES).

Purposes and use scenarios:

Third-party SDK processing and cloud data transmission:

When you actively initiate a security scan, the integrated third-party Trustlook SDK processes technical application-characteristic data, such as application package names and hash values, and compares it against the Trustlook cloud-based security database to return security-scanning results. The Trustlook SDK’s processing and transmission of this technical data, together with the applicable security safeguards, are governed by its own privacy policy. For details, please refer to the Trustlook Privacy Policy.

Permission controls: Application security scanning and management services depend on identifying the installation status of applications on your device. You may disable the relevant services within the Application at any time.

5.5 Usage Access

To provide core features such as App Lock, application usage statistics, and application management, the Application requests the android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS permission.

5.6 Notification Access

To provide notification management and unwanted-notification blocking services, the Application requests notification access (android.permission.BIND_NOTIFICATION_LISTENER_SERVICE).

5.7 Display Over Other Apps Permission (System Alert Window Notice)

The Application requests the android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW special access permission to support the core App Lock security protection service.

5.8 Foreground Services

To ensure that the real-time security protection and App Lock features actively enabled by you continue to operate reliably in the background and are not inadvertently terminated by the system’s background-management mechanisms, the Application requests and uses foreground service permission (android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE and the corresponding service types permitted by the system).

Purposes and necessity of use:

Local processing and zero upload: Foreground services are used solely to maintain the local operation of the security and management features described above on your device. The services themselves do not collect or upload any of your private personal data.

User controls: Foreground services may operate when you grant notification permission or enable features such as real-time security protection or App Lock, as necessary to support the relevant functionality. You may revoke the applicable permissions through the system settings or disable the relevant features within the Application at any time.

5.9 Boot and System Events

To ensure that security protection and application management features actively enabled by you continue to function properly after the device restarts or its status changes, the Application requests the boot broadcast permission (android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED) and listens for necessary system events.

You may disable App Lock and other protection features within the Application at any time to stop the automatic operation of the relevant background services.

5.10 Battery Optimization Exemption

To ensure the continuous and stable operation of security protection features such as App Lock and real-time virus scanning, the Application requests permission to ignore battery optimizations (android.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS).

5.11 Request Delete Packages Permission

To support application cleaning and uninstallation through the application management feature, the Application requests the android.permission.REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES permission. This permission is used to open the standard Android system uninstallation confirmation interface after you actively select and confirm that you wish to uninstall a specified application.

All uninstallation operations must be manually initiated and selected by you. The Application does not automatically or silently uninstall any application from your device in the background. The Application only initiates the system uninstallation request. The final uninstallation process depends entirely on and complies with the native Android confirmation interaction and security mechanisms and can be completed only after you confirm the operation again in the system prompt. Relevant uninstallation operations and application-list information are processed entirely locally on your device and are not uploaded to any server or used for cross-application tracking or advertising.

5.12 Advertising Identifier

To support advertisement display, data analytics, attribution statistics, and anti-fraud protection, the Application requests permission to use the Google Play services advertising identifier (com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID). This identifier is used to measure advertising effectiveness, analyze Application usage, and identify and prevent fraudulent activity.

6. Third-Party SDKs and Services

The project includes or is configured to use the following third-party SDKs and services. Their actual use may vary depending on the Application version, remote configuration, region, consent status, and advertising configuration.

6.1 Firebase Services (Google Firebase)

The Application integrates Firebase service components provided by Google to support application analytics, crash diagnostics, and messaging features. All data collected by Firebase SDKs is protected during transmission using standard encrypted protocols, such as HTTPS/TLS.

Components used and data processing:

Relevant privacy policy links:

6.2 Google Advertising Services and Privacy Choices (Google Mobile Ads and UMP)

The Application integrates the Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) SDK and Google User Messaging Platform (UMP) SDK to provide in-app advertising and regional privacy-consent management services.

Component functions and data processing:

Data security and transmission standards:

Official policy links: Google Privacy Policy; Google Advertising Services Information

6.3 Third-Party Advertising Services

To support data analytics, advertising monetization, crash diagnostics, advertising attribution, messaging, and related service features, the Application integrates the following third-party services and SDK components:

Scope of data collection and processing: Depending on their functional requirements, the SDKs described above may automatically process the following types of information while operating:

Purposes of processing: The data described above is primarily used for the following compliant purposes:

Each third-party service provider independently processes data in accordance with its own published privacy policy. You are encouraged to review the links above for further details regarding their data processing practices.

6.4 Trustlook

To support device virus scanning, the Application integrates the third-party Trustlook security SDK. When a security scan is performed, the Trustlook component processes and transmits necessary application technical information, such as application package names, file hash values, and signature data, to its CloudScan servers for comparison against the cloud-based virus database and for risk identification. The transmitted data primarily consists of technical characteristic parameters used for security identification.

Trustlook’s receipt, use, and retention of relevant data are independently governed by its own privacy policy. The Application does not control the internal data processing practices of third-party servers. You are encouraged to review the Trustlook Privacy Policy for complete information regarding its data protection practices.

6.5 OpenCV

The Application uses an open-source local algorithm library, such as OpenCV, to help calculate photo blurriness or duplicate characteristics locally on your device, allowing you to identify and organize redundant images. This process is performed entirely on your device, and the algorithm library does not collect, store, or transmit any of your images or image metadata.

Processing mechanisms and data security:

For specific information regarding OpenCV’s data processing mechanisms, please refer to the OpenCV Privacy Policy.

7. Information Sharing and Local Processing

The Application strictly respects and protects your privacy and follows the data processing principles described below:

8. Data Storage and Security Protection

The Application attaches great importance to data security and adopts appropriate technical and administrative measures to protect relevant information.

9. Your Choices and Controls

10. International Data Transfers

If you are located in the EEEA, the United Kingdom, or another region that imposes restrictions on data transfers, certain technical data processed by our third-party providers may be transferred outside your region. Where applicable, these providers are responsible for implementing appropriate safeguards in accordance with local law, such as Standard Contractual Clauses or similar legal mechanisms, to protect the security of the data.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may revise or update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When this Privacy Policy is updated, the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page will be updated accordingly. In the event of a material or substantive change, we may notify you through an in-app notice, an explanation on the application store page, or another appropriate notification channel. You are encouraged to review this Policy periodically to remain informed of the latest privacy practices.

12. Children’s Privacy

The Application is intended primarily for a general adult audience and is not directed toward children under the age of 13, or the applicable age threshold for children under local law. We do not knowingly or intentionally collect personally identifiable information from children. If we verify that a child’s personal information has been collected without the consent of a parent or legal guardian, we will take reasonable measures to delete the relevant data as soon as possible.

13. Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact: