Last updated: 11 September 2026
Scanlio ("we", "us") is built privacy-first. This policy explains what we do — and mostly don't — with your data.
All scanning, text recognition (OCR), editing, conversion and storage happen locally on your device. We do not upload, collect, view or store the documents, images or text you create in Scanlio. They never reach our servers.
The free version on iPhone, iPad and Android shows ads via Google AdMob. The macOS and Apple Vision Pro versions contain no ads at all. Scanlio Pro removes all ads.
Consent (EEA and UK). Before any ad is requested, Scanlio shows Google's consent form (User Messaging Platform) wherever consent is required — in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom. No ad is loaded until you have answered it. You can change your answer at any time — on iOS in Settings › Manage Privacy Choices, on Android in Settings › Privacy.
On iOS — App Tracking Transparency and the advertising identifier (IDFA). After the consent step, Scanlio presents Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt. If you allow tracking, AdMob may use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) to show you personalized ads, which can involve tracking across other apps and websites. If you decline — or simply dismiss the prompt — the identifier is not accessed and AdMob serves non-personalized ads only. You can change this at any time in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
On Android — the advertising ID. Android has no App Tracking Transparency prompt, so Scanlio does not show one. The app declares the advertising ID permission, and AdMob may use that identifier to show you personalised ads. You control it in the system settings, not in Scanlio: Settings › Privacy › Ads, where you can delete the advertising ID or opt out of personalised ads for every app on the device. Where Scanlio asks for consent (EEA and UK), declining means AdMob serves non-personalised ads only.
To deliver ads, AdMob may also process a device signal, approximate (coarse) location and usage/diagnostic data, in accordance with Google's policies.
Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Subscriptions and purchases are handled by the store you installed Scanlio from — Apple on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro, Google Play on Android. We never see your payment details. Apple and Google process transactions per their own privacy policies.
Because Scanlio does not collect, store or share your documents or personal data on our servers, we hold no personal data about you to access, correct, export or delete. Your files live only on your device and in your own iCloud or Google/device backups, which you control. For data processed by Google (ads, and purchases on Android) or Apple (purchases on Apple platforms), please exercise your rights directly with those providers under their policies. We do not sell personal information. Cross-app tracking for advertising happens only through AdMob, and only where you have allowed it — on iOS at the App Tracking Transparency prompt, which you can withdraw at any time in iOS Settings; on Android through the system advertising ID, which you can delete or opt out of in Settings › Privacy › Ads. You can change your advertising consent at any time in Scanlio’s own settings (iOS: Manage Privacy Choices; Android: Privacy).
We do not retain your documents or personal data — there is nothing stored on our side. Documents remain on your device until you delete them.
Scanlio is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.
We may update this policy; material changes will be posted here.
Questions? Email support@scanlio.app.