Document
Privacy
policy
In short
ARVE builds a short reel out of your long video. To work out what happens in that video, it sends a reduced, silent copy of it to a Google cloud service. Everything else — the assembly, the filter, the sound, the history — happens on your phone. You have no account, and we know nothing about you.
There is no account
The app does not ask you to register, does not ask for an e-mail address, a phone number or a name, and creates no user account. The «profile» section in the app does not work yet and says so plainly.
What leaves the phone
What goes out is not your video file. Before anything is sent, the phone builds a reduced working copy of it, and that copy is what travels:
- the resolution is dropped to 480p;
- the frame rate is dropped to 15 per second;
- no audio track is included at all — the sound never leaves the phone;
- the copy comes out many times smaller than the original and exists only so the model can see what is going on in the frame.
That copy is uploaded from your phone straight to a Google cloud service (the Gemini API) and processed there, under Google's rules and on Google's hardware. What happens to it from there is governed by Google's terms, not by us.
The app's requests run on the paid Gemini API plan. For paid usage Google's own terms state that submitted content is not used to train Google's models, and that prompts and responses are logged only for a limited period — to detect violations of the usage policy and for cases where disclosure is required by law. That is a quotation from Google's terms as of 17 August 2026, and it rests on the developer's paid plan rather than on a promise from us: Google can change those terms, and we do not control that.
Once it has been sent there are two copies, and they live differently. The one on the phone sits in the app's temporary folder and is deleted once it is no longer needed. The one already uploaded to Google is not deleted by the app: it sends no delete command — it remembers the uploaded copy and reuses it on later attempts, until it expires on a schedule Google sets itself. Beyond that, the app sends nothing anywhere.
What we do not collect
- No analytics, no visit counters.
- No crash reporting sent anywhere.
- No advertising libraries; the device's advertising identifier is not read.
- Your contacts, location, installed-app list and clipboard are never requested.
This is not a promise on paper: there is not a single such library among the app's dependencies.
We do not hold your data
As of today the product has no servers of its own: we receive nothing and store nothing on our side. Your source video, your finished reels and your history of attempts stay on the phone. One thing does leave, though, and it does not leave into thin air: the Gemini access key belongs to the app's developer and is baked into the build, so the reduced copy of your video lands in his Google project and consumes his quota. That gives us no server, but saying that nothing whatsoever has anything to do with us would be untrue.
Planned: a server of our own will appear, in order to verify the right to a paid subscription. It will check that a purchase happened; it will not receive your video. That server does not exist yet, and there are no paid features in the app. When it does exist, this document will be updated before the change reaches users.
What stays on the phone
- The source video — where you shot it: the app reads it in place, modifies nothing and copies it nowhere.
- The assembled reels and the markup files — in the app's own folder.
- The temporary reduced copy used for the markup — in the app's cache, for as long as it is needed.
- The history of attempts — it is built out of those same files.
- The chosen interface language.
A reel you saved additionally goes into the phone's gallery — that is you pressing «save». The «share» button hands the file to whatever app you choose yourself.
How to delete everything
Delete an attempt in the app and its files go with it. Uninstall the app and its whole folder goes: reels, markup, history, settings. Reels you saved to the gallery stay in the gallery — they are yours, and the app does not dispose of them.
All of that concerns the phone only. The reduced copy already uploaded to Google is removed by neither deleting an attempt nor uninstalling the app: the app cannot recall it — it goes away by itself when the term Google set for it runs out. So you can delete everything on your side, but you cannot erase the uploaded copy at Google's end.
Children
The app is not intended for children and knowingly collects nothing from children. The store's age rating will be set by the owner at publication.
Changes
When this document changes, the date at the bottom changes with it. We will not describe as a fact, after the event, something that has not been done.
Contact
Write to postmaster@alxforge.com.
In effect since 17 August 2026