Legal
Privacy Policy
This policy describes how the Footager mobile app and Footager Receiver desktop app handle information. In some stores the mobile app may still appear as Footage Sender.
What Footager is
Footager helps you free space on your phone by shrinking photos and videos, sending full-quality originals to your own computer, and remembering what you have already transferred.
Footager is a companion product: the phone app talks to Footager Receiver running on a Mac, Windows PC, or Linux computer that you control. We do not operate a cloud photo library and we do not store your photos or videos on our servers.
Information the mobile app uses
The app works with media and settings on your device. Depending on what you do, it may use:
- Photo library. Read photos and videos you choose to browse, shrink, collage, or transfer. Save smaller copies or collages back to the library when you ask the app to.
- Camera. Only if you use a camera feature in the app.
- Local network. Find and connect to Footager Receiver on the same Wi-Fi network.
- Notifications. Optional status for transfers or background work, if you allow them.
- On-device records. Connection settings, a local install identifier used to name an archive folder on your computer, and a history of what has already been transferred. This stays in app storage on the phone.
The app does not create a Footager user account and does not ask for your name, email, or payment details.
Where your photos and videos go
- On the phone. Originals, shrinked copies, and collages stay in your photo library until you move or delete them.
- On your computer. When you transfer, files are sent to the Footager Receiver app on the computer you paired. That computer is the archive. We cannot see that archive.
- Not on Footager servers. Photo and video bytes are not uploaded to us for storage, backup, or browsing.
How the phone connects to your computer
Same Wi-Fi. The phone can pair with Receiver on your local network (QR code and PIN). Pairing uses an encrypted PIN handshake. File transfer uses a direct peer connection (WebRTC). File payloads are encrypted in transit (DTLS). The local pairing channel itself is on your LAN, not public HTTPS.
Away from home Wi-Fi (optional). If you enable cloud signaling in Receiver, the phone and computer use our signaling server so they can find each other. A TURN relay may forward encrypted packets when a direct path is not possible (typical on cellular). The relay is not meant to read the photos; file bytes stay on the WebRTC/DTLS connection.
Signaling needs session information so the two devices can meet (for example a session id and pairing checks). It is not a place where we keep your camera roll.
Usage analytics
Footager uses Google Analytics (Firebase Analytics on the mobile app, and Google Analytics 4 on this website and Footager Receiver) to understand which screens people open and which buttons they tap. Collection is on by default.
We send screen names, tap names, app version, and coarse device information (for example operating system). We do not send photos or videos, file names, folder paths, PINs, server addresses, or device aliases. We do not use this data for advertising, and we do not collect an advertising identifier.
You can turn this off at any time:
- Mobile app. Settings → Other → Share app usage.
- Footager Receiver. Connection settings → Share app usage.
- This website. Use the control below. Your choice is stored in this browser only.
What we do not do
- We do not sell your information.
- We do not use advertising SDKs or advertising identifiers.
- We do not use your photos to train models.
- We do not require an account.
Your choices
- Grant or deny Photo Library, Camera, Local Network, and Notifications in iOS Settings.
- Turn off usage analytics in the mobile app, Receiver, or on this page.
- Stop transfers, forget a paired computer, or delete the app. Deleting the app removes local Footager records on the phone; it does not delete files already copied to your computer.
- Files on your computer are under your control in Footager Receiver and your disk.
Children
Footager is not directed at children under 13. Do not use it with a child’s photo library if you are not a parent or guardian who can consent to the permissions the OS requests.
Changes
If this policy changes in a material way, we will update the date above and this page.
Contact
Questions about privacy or the beta: https://www.footager.just-for-use.com/