Effective date: 2026-08-21
Display Torch is a simple flashlight app that uses your device’s screen as a light source. This policy explains, plainly, what the app does and does not do with your data.
Display Torch itself does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data, and has no analytics or crash reporting. The app does show an advertising banner supplied by Google AdMob, which requires internet access and involves Google collecting some data to serve and measure ads. The app also offers an optional one-time “Remove ads” purchase processed entirely by Google Play Billing — details below.
Display Torch requests the INTERNET permission, used solely to request
and display ads through Google AdMob. It does not request access to your
camera, contacts, location, storage, or microphone. You can verify this
yourself in the app’s AndroidManifest.xml.
The app saves your 5 brightness-step settings (the values you fine-tune in
edit mode), your ad-consent choice recorded by Google’s consent SDK, and
whether you’ve purchased “Remove ads” (checked against Google Play on each
launch, then cached), to a local SharedPreferences file on your device,
using Android’s standard app-private storage. This data:
You can review the exact code that reads and writes this data in
MainActivity.kt.
Display Torch shows a banner ad using the Google Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob). To serve and measure ads, Google may collect data such as your advertising ID, IP address, general device information, and ad interaction data. This processing is done by Google, not by Display Torch’s developer, and is governed by:
The optional “Remove ads” purchase is processed entirely by Google Play Billing. Display Torch never sees your payment details (card number, etc.); Google Play handles the transaction and reports back a purchase token, which the app uses only to confirm (“acknowledge”) the purchase and unlock the ad-free entitlement. This processing is governed by Google Play’s Privacy Policy and Google Play’s Terms of Service.
Display Torch does not integrate any other third-party SDK — no analytics and no crash-reporting service.
On first launch, the app uses Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP) SDK to check whether a consent message is required for your region (for example under GDPR) and shows one if so. Ads are only requested once this consent flow has resolved. Your choice is stored locally via the UMP SDK, as noted above.
Display Torch is a general-purpose utility app and is not directed at or marketed to children. It does not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through this app, please contact us using the details below so it can be addressed.
Display Torch is open source under the 0BSD license. The entire source code is publicly available at github.com/keiki61/DisplayTorch, so these claims can be independently verified by anyone.
If this policy ever changes — for example, if a future version of the app adds a feature that requires a permission or network access — this page will be updated and the “Effective date” above will change accordingly.
Questions about this policy can be sent to displaytorch.app@gmail.com or raised as an issue on the GitHub repository.