Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 October 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how the FormatFox iOS application (the “App”) handles your information. The App is provided by Levin Schwab (Germany) (“we”, “us”, the “Developer”). FormatFox is built to be private by design.

1. Your files stay on your device

All image, PDF and audio conversions happen entirely on your device using your iPhone’s own system frameworks. Your photos, documents, recordings, and any other files you convert are never collected, uploaded, or transmitted to us or to any third party. We have no servers that receive your content, and we never see your files. Because all file processing is local, conversions work even in Airplane Mode or with no internet connection. Advertising and app recommendations use the network as described below.

2. Advertising in the free tier: Google AdMob and UMP

To support the free tier, the App displays a banner advertisement provided by Google AdMob, together with Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP) for consent management. AdMob and UMP may process device identifiers (including IDFA where tracking is allowed), approximate location, product interactions, advertising data, and crash, performance and other diagnostic data. Depending on the data type, these support advertising, analytics and app functionality, including consent management and fraud prevention. Advertising identifiers and interactions may be used for tracking subject to your choices.

This collection is subject to your choices:

• On iOS, the App presents Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) prompt. If you do not allow tracking, the advertising identifier is not used to track you.
• Where required, the App presents the UMP consent form, which lets you make consent choices for advertising data.

Buying FormatFox Pro removes Google AdMob ads and their advertising data collection. Recommendations for our other apps remain available as described below. You can learn more about how Google uses data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

3. No account

The App has no account and no login, so you never create a profile or sign in. Google AdMob and UMP apply to free-tier advertising. The separate recommendation service below counts views and accepted App Store opens in aggregate without user identifiers.

Recommendations for our other apps

In Settings, the app can fetch up to three recommendations for our other apps. The choices depend on the app you are using, App Store availability and iOS compatibility, not on your personal data or activity inside the app. App icons load from Apple’s image servers. Opening a recommendation takes you to the App Store with a campaign label identifying the source app and placement, never a person.

We count qualified views and successful opens in aggregate. Our service stores daily counts with the source app, recommended app, placement, configuration revision and optional presentation variant. It does not store an account, advertising identifier, device identifier, persistent visitor identifier or personal profile, and it does not receive the app’s private content. These counts cannot tell us who installed an app.

The recommendation service is hosted by Supabase. Network requests necessarily expose an IP address to the hosting provider for delivery and security; our aggregate counter does not store it. See Supabase’s privacy policy. Apple processes icon requests and App Store visits under Apple’s privacy policy.

4. App Store privacy summary

Consistent with the App’s App Store privacy “nutrition labels”:

• Data Linked to You: the app combines its own collection with advertising SDK collection. The App Store label lists coarse location, device identifiers, product interactions and advertising data as potentially linked to you.
• Data Not Linked to You: crash, performance and other diagnostic data. Purposes vary by category and include advertising, analytics and app functionality. The label also lists device identifiers and product interactions for tracking, subject to your advertising choices.
• Recommendation Product Interaction and Advertising Data are also collected for Developer Advertising and Analytics, without linkage to you or tracking. Your content (the files you convert) is not collected.

5. Children

The App is not directed to children under the age required by applicable law. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

6. Your rights

Depending on your location (for example, under the EU GDPR), you may have rights regarding personal data. We hold none of your converted files. Recommendation processing is described above; please contact us for questions or rights requests. Google handles advertising data for free-tier users; you can manage that advertising through ATT and UMP consent controls, or remove it by purchasing FormatFox Pro.

7. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date above.

8. Contact

For any privacy questions, contact the Developer, Levin Schwab (Germany), at levin.schwab@gmx.de.