Written to be read, not to be survived. Google Play requires a policy at a public URL; this is it.
When you double-tap the lens, AhaRoam takes one picture of the area inside the lens box and finds the text in it. Nothing outside that box is read. Nothing is read at any other moment: between taps the app is not looking at your screen.
Only the text found inside the box, sent to our server so it can be translated, along with a random identifier that lets us stop one device overusing the service. The picture itself never leaves your phone and is discarded once the text has been read.
Translations are kept on your phone so a screen you have seen before appears instantly. You can see everything kept, and delete all of it, on the “Past translations” screen in the app.
On our server, nothing you send is retained. The text you translate is passed to the language model and the reply is returned to your phone; neither is written to disk or to a log. What the server does keep is a count of how many translations a random device identifier has made today, so one device cannot exhaust the service, and — like any web server — a record that a request arrived, with its network address and the time. Neither contains the text.
No account, no name, no email, no contacts, no location, no advertising identifier. The random identifier is generated on your device, is not derived from your hardware, and is replaced if you clear the app's data.
The text is translated by a third-party language model provider under contract. Text recognition happens on your device. There is no analytics or advertising SDK in the app.
Keep the lens away from passwords, card numbers and anything else you would not want sent for translation. The app cannot tell what kind of text it is looking at.
Last updated: 2 August 2026. Have a lawyer read this before launch; it is written to be accurate about what the code does, not to be legal advice.