Bucket Gallery: privacy policy

In force from 9 November 2026.

In short: Bucket Gallery sorts and searches your photos only on your phone. The app has no permission to use the internet: your photos, the text in them, what it computes and your searches never leave the device. We don't collect, receive, sell or share any of your data. Google's text recognition, which the app uses, may send Google limited diagnostic data through Google Play services (below).

Who we are

Bucket Gallery is made by CODECRAFT Krzysztof Gonia (CodeLoom), ul. Antoniego Słonimskiego 9/30, 50-304 Wrocław, Poland, NIP 9282045106. Contact: kontakt@codeloom.pl.

What the app reads

With your permission, Bucket Gallery reads the photos and images in your phone's photo library (camera photos, screenshots, saved and received images), from the folders you choose, or only the photos you pick if you give limited access. It does not read videos. When another app opens a photo with Bucket Gallery, it reads only that photo. You can change or withdraw access at any time in Android's settings.

What the app computes, and where it stays

For each image the app computes, on the phone:

• a numerical description of what the image shows (an embedding), made by an AI model running on the device;
• the text visible in the image, read by on-device text recognition;
• its category, and the categories' names.

All of this, together with your own changes (photos you move, categories you create and name), is stored only in the app's private storage on the phone and is excluded from Android's cloud backup and from transfers to a new phone. If you switch a folder off, what was stored for its images stays in that private storage, so switching it back on doesn't redo the work. An embedding roughly encodes what an image shows, which is one more reason it never leaves the device. The app does not recognise faces or identify people, and does not read photo locations.

No internet access

Bucket Gallery does not declare Android's internet permission, so the app itself cannot send anything over the network. The app has no accounts, analytics, ads or crash reporting of its own.

Google's text recognition. To read the text in images, the app uses Google's ML Kit, which runs on the phone and is served by Google Play services. Google Play services may send Google limited diagnostic data about ML Kit's use, such as the device model, the app's version, an identifier and performance and error information. It does not include your images or their text. Google handles it under Google's privacy policy; we receive none of it.

Crash reports. If you allow it in your phone's settings, Android or Google Play may send Google reports of app crashes, as for any app. Google shows them to us in the Play Console without your identity, so we can fix problems; they contain no photos or text.

Problem reports you send. When something goes wrong, Bucket Gallery can prepare a problem report: the app's version, the phone's model, processor and Android version, the AI engine in use, how the app closed last time, and the technical details of its last errors (the names of the app's code where they happened). It never includes your photos, the text in them, your categories or your searches. You see the whole report before anything is sent, and you can change it or not send it at all: you send it yourself, from your own email app, to kontakt@codeloom.pl. For these reports Bucket Gallery keeps the details of its last 20 errors in its private storage on the phone; it never sends them itself.

When you share a photo, Android hands it to the app you pick, as with any gallery. When you edit a photo, it opens in the editing app you pick.

The AI model files are downloaded by Google Play right after you install the app, like the app itself; on some phones a second, general-purpose model may be downloaded later if the first can't run. These downloads are covered by Google's privacy policy.

Your photos

The app never changes or moves your photos. It deletes a photo only when you ask it to, and only after Android itself asks you to confirm.

Deleting your data

Clearing the app's storage in Android's settings, or uninstalling it, deletes everything it computed and stored.

Your rights

The app itself sends us no personal data. If you write to us, a problem report included, we receive your email address and what you sent, and use them only to answer you and fix the problem; we keep them no longer than that needs, and delete them sooner if you ask. For data that Google Play services or Google Play handle, see Google's privacy policy. Write to kontakt@codeloom.pl with any question. You may also complain to your data protection authority (in Poland, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, UODO).

Children

Bucket Gallery is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

If the app starts handling data differently, for example through an in-app purchase, we will update this policy before releasing that version, and the date above will change.