Gallery – Photos & Cloud Backup
About Gallery
Gallery – Photos & Cloud Backup is a photo and video gallery app for Android. It backs up your photos and videos to your own Google Drive. Everything runs on your phone: the app sends your files directly from the phone to your Drive. We never receive your photos or videos.
Privacy policy
App: Gallery – Photos & Cloud Backup (Android package com.dvexo.gallery)
Last updated: 11 November 2026
This policy explains what information the app and this website handle. The short version: the app is a gallery that backs up your photos and videos from your phone to your own Google Drive. Your photos and videos never pass through our server and we cannot see them.
1. What our server stores
When you create an account in the app, our server stores only the following:
| Information | Why |
|---|---|
| Your email address | To sign you in and to send account emails (email confirmation, password reset). |
| Your display name | To show your name in the app. If you use Sign in with Google, it comes from your Google profile. |
| Sign-in details | If you sign in with a password, a one-way hash of it (never the password itself). If you use Sign in with Google, the Google account identifier and the basic profile details Google sends at sign-in (name, email address, profile picture address). |
| The email addresses of the Gmail accounts you connect for backup | To apply the limit on how many accounts can be connected. Only the addresses are stored, never any access to those accounts. |
| Your plan, its limits, and whether your account is blocked | To decide which features and limits the app applies. |
| Usage counters: number of backed-up files, their total size, and the number of photos and videos on the device | Sent at most once a day as plain totals, to understand how the service is used. |
| App version, device model and Android version | To fix problems and to know which app versions are still in use. |
| Dates and times: when the account was created and when the app last contacted the server | To count active accounts. |
If the administrator changes your account (for example, changes your plan or blocks the account), a record of that change is kept.
2. What our server never stores or receives
- Your photos and videos, or thumbnails of them
- File names
- Folder paths
- File hashes (the fingerprints used to detect duplicates)
- Text recognised in your photos (OCR text) or anything you search for
- Google Drive access tokens or any other way to access your Google Drive
- Location data, contacts, or advertising identifiers
All of these stay on your phone or go directly from your phone to your own Google Drive. The administrator of the service cannot see your photos, because they are not on our server.
3. Google Drive and Google user data
When you connect a Gmail account, the app asks for permission to create and manage only the files it creates itself in your Google Drive
(the drive.file and drive.appdata permissions) and to read the email address of that account. The app cannot see or
change any other file in your Drive.
- Google Drive data is used only to provide the backup, restore and gallery features that you see in the app.
- Your files travel directly between your phone and Google Drive. Google Drive data is not transferred to our server, and it is not shared with or sold to anyone.
- Google Drive data is not used for advertising, and it is not used to develop, improve or train AI or machine-learning models.
- No person at our side can read your Google Drive data, because it never reaches us.
- The access granted by Google is kept by Android on your phone. It is never sent to our server.
The app's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
You can remove the app's access at any time: disconnect the account in the app's settings, or open your Google Account, then Security, then "Your connections to third-party apps and services".
4. What stays on your phone
The app keeps an index of your photos and videos on your phone (paths, dates, sizes, hashes, backup status, recognised text) so that the gallery, search and backup work. A copy of this index is also saved in a hidden app folder in your own Google Drive, so that you can restore on a new phone. Neither is sent to our server.
5. Service providers
- Supabase hosts the account database described in section 1 and handles sign-in.
- Render hosts this website and passes the app's requests on to the database. It does not keep the content of those requests; like any web host, it processes technical data such as IP addresses to deliver and protect the service.
- Google provides Sign in with Google and Google Drive, under your own Google account and Google's privacy policy.
- Google ML Kit and Google Play services run on your phone to read the text in your photos and to scan documents. Your pictures are not sent to Google for this. These Google components can send Google technical information about how they perform (for example device and app details and error codes), as Google describes in its ML Kit terms.
We do not sell your information, and the app contains no advertising and no third-party analytics or tracking.
6. Deleting your account and data
You can delete your account at any time in the app: open Settings, then Delete account. This permanently deletes your account and everything listed in section 1 from our server.
Deleting your account does not delete the files in your Google Drive. They belong to you and stay in the "Gallery Backup" folder until you delete them yourself in Google Drive.
If you cannot use the app, write to the contact address below from your account's email address and we will delete the account for you.
7. How long data is kept
Account data is kept until you delete your account. Records of administrator changes are kept without your email address after the account is deleted.
8. Security
All connections use HTTPS. Each account can read only its own data on the server. The sign-in session is stored on your phone in encrypted form.
9. Children
The app is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
10. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version is published on this page with a new date. Important changes are also announced in the app.
11. Contact
Questions about this policy or your data: [email protected]