Privacy Policy

Effective August 14, 2026

Gone detects screenshots on your device, lets you keep or clear them, and then gets out of your way. This page explains, plainly, what that involves from a privacy standpoint.

The short version

Gone does not have accounts, servers, or analytics. Everything it does — detecting a screenshot, showing the Keep/Gone card, deleting a screenshot on schedule — happens on your device. Nothing about your screenshots or your usage is ever sent anywhere by Gone itself. The one exception is ad serving, covered below.

What Gone accesses on your device, and why

Screenshot files Gone reads your device's screenshot folder to detect new screenshots, and deletes the ones you mark Gone (or don't act on, per your settings) once their timer runs out. Screenshot images are never copied off your device or uploaded anywhere.
Display over other apps Used to show the Keep/Gone card as soon as you take a screenshot, in whatever app you're in.
Always-on detection (optional) Off by default. If you turn it on in Settings, Gone keeps a background process alive so screenshots are detected instantly on devices where that otherwise isn't reliable, and shows a persistent notification while it's active. This doesn't collect or transmit any additional data, and can be turned off at any time.
App settings Your preferences (default duration, theme, layout, and similar choices) are stored only in the app's local storage on your device.

None of the above is transmitted to Gone's developer or to any server — there isn't one. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage, removes all of it.

Advertising

Gone is free and shows ads through Google's Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob). To serve and measure ads, Google collects and processes data such as your advertising ID, general device information, and approximate location — independently of Gone, under Google's own privacy practices, not ours.

You can review how Google handles this data in the Google Privacy Policy, and manage ad personalization for your device under your device's Settings → Privacy → Ads.

Children's privacy

Gone is a general-audience utility, not directed at children under 13, and doesn't knowingly collect data from them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page will be updated. Significant changes will be reflected here before they take effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy or how Gone works can go to gonetheapp@gmail.com.