Privacy Policy

GeoLive Photo Mobile Application

Developer: Sars Infotech Pvt Ltd
Application: GeoLive Photo
Android package: com.sarsinfotech.geolivephoto

GeoLive Photo lets you capture photos and add optional location, capture date and time, and operator or company details. The following describes the current version 1.0. You can use the app without creating an account, signing in or providing a phone number or email address.

1. Photos, Watermarks and Local Information

• Camera and photos: The app accesses your camera when you use the capture feature. Photo processing and watermark rendering take place on your device.
• Photo details: A saved photo can contain its capture date and time, available GPS coordinates, location accuracy, an address when address lookup succeeds, and an optional operator or company name that you enter.
• Location links: Depending on your watermark settings, photos may contain a map link or QR code encoding the location.
• JPEG metadata: When location is available, saved JPEG files include GPS coordinates in their EXIF metadata. Coordinates may remain in the file even when a map link or QR code is hidden. An optional copy without the visible watermark may also contain GPS metadata.
• Settings and capture records: Your watermark preferences, optional operator or company name, and capture metadata are stored in the app's local storage.

Photos are placed in your device's shared photo gallery when you choose Save photo. GeoLive Photo does not provide a Sars Infotech-operated photo-upload, account-sync or cloud-storage service. The app does not automatically send your photos, watermarks or locally saved settings to Sars Infotech.

2. Optional Location and Address Lookup

With your Android permission, GeoLive Photo uses Android and Google Play services to obtain an approximate or precise location for photo details. You can deny or revoke location permission and continue taking and saving photos without new GPS details. The app does not request background-location permission or provide continuous background location tracking.

If address lookup is enabled, the app supplies coordinates to Android's geocoding service to request an address. Depending on your device and provider, this may send coordinates over a network to the geocoding provider. Address lookup is enabled by default and can be turned off in the app's Settings.

Android and Google location services may process location and device information under their own privacy practices and your device settings. These services are separate from Sars Infotech's local photo processing. See Google's Privacy Policy for information about Google's services. Other geocoding providers may have their own policies.

Turning off address lookup only stops new address lookups; it does not stop location acquisition, remove GPS metadata from existing photos, or disable coordinates in newly saved photos when a location fix is available. To take new photos without location details, deny or revoke the app's location permission and check the preview before saving or sharing.

3. Permissions and Your Choices

• Camera: Needed to capture new photos. Denying this permission prevents photo capture.
• Approximate or precise location: Optional, used to add location details to photos. Denying location permission does not prevent photo capture or saving.
• Storage on Android 8 and Android 9: Used to save and access photos under the older Android storage model. On newer Android versions, the app uses Android's scoped media-storage mechanisms for its saved photos.

You can change permissions at any time in Android Settings. You can also change watermark preferences and disable address lookup inside GeoLive Photo. Revoking permission affects future access; it does not erase information already included in saved or shared photos.

4. Sharing, Maps and Other Apps

When you choose to share a photo, Android passes it to the app or service you select. That recipient may receive the visible watermark and information embedded in the JPEG, including GPS coordinates. Opening a photo location in a maps app, following a location link, or scanning a location QR code may disclose those coordinates to the selected maps provider.

Review both the photo and its location details before sharing. Turning off a visible map link or QR code is not a way to remove all location information from a photo. Sars Infotech cannot control how the apps, services or people you choose to share with subsequently handle the information.

Saved photos reside in shared device storage. Other gallery, sharing or backup apps may access or upload them according to their permissions and your settings. GeoLive Photo disables Android backup of its private settings and metadata; this does not disable backups performed by your photo-gallery or other apps.

5. Advertising, Analytics and Accounts

The current GeoLive Photo release has no account-registration system, advertising SDK, embedded Google Analytics integration or Sars Infotech-operated usage-analytics service. The website analytics and promotional activities described later on this page apply to the website and company services, not to this app.

If you open this policy or another website from the app, that page loads in your browser and the website's own data practices apply. Android, Google Play and other system services may process information under their own policies and settings.

6. Retention and Deletion

• Unsaved drafts: Temporary photo files are kept in app cache. They may be removed when a draft is discarded or replaced, or when Android manages cached storage.
• Settings and private metadata: These remain in app storage until changed or removed. Clearing the app's data or uninstalling it can remove private settings and capture records.
• Saved gallery photos: These remain until deleted. You can delete photos through GeoLive Photo's Gallery where available, or through your device's photo-management tools. Shared-storage photos may remain after uninstalling the app.
• External copies: Deleting a local photo does not delete copies already shared with another person or uploaded by a gallery or backup service. Manage those copies through the relevant recipient or service.
• Provider data: Retention by location, geocoding, maps or sharing providers is governed by their own policies and your settings.

Keep copies of information you wish to retain before clearing app data or uninstalling. GeoLive Photo does not create an online account, so there is no GeoLive Photo account to close. Sars Infotech cannot remotely access or erase photos and records stored only on your device.

7. Support Requests and Privacy Enquiries

If you contact us, we receive the email address or other contact details, message, and attachments you choose to provide. We use that information to respond to your request and resolve the issue. Contacting support does not automatically give us access to your photo library or location history. Avoid sending photos or other sensitive information unless needed for your request.

Support correspondence is retained for as long as needed to handle the enquiry, follow up, resolve disputes or meet applicable legal obligations. You may request access, correction or deletion of information you have sent us by emailing sarsinfotech@gmail.com. Any applicable retention requirement will be explained when responding to your request.

8. Security and Accuracy

The app uses Android's permission and app-storage controls for local information. Photos you explicitly save to the shared gallery are accessible according to Android's storage rules and the permissions of other apps. No storage method or transmission can be guaranteed completely secure.

Location may be approximate, unavailable or inaccurate, and capture time depends on your device's clock. A watermark is an informational label; it is not proof of authenticity or a guarantee of a photograph's location or time.

9. Children's Privacy

GeoLive Photo is designed for general photo documentation, including field work and site visits, and is not designed specifically for children. It does not request a child's age or create user accounts. If you have a concern about information relating to a child that has been sent to Sars Infotech, contact us using the details below.

10. Changes to the App's Privacy Practices

We will update this policy when the app's features or data practices change and show the revised date on this page. Where additional notice or consent is required, it will be provided before the relevant change takes effect. Reading this policy or using the app does not replace Android permission controls or consent required for a specific activity.