Miniscan
Privacy
Miniscan Privacy Policy
Miniscan is a code scanner for iPhone and iPad, published by Kitta Ltd. This policy explains how Miniscan handles information when you use the app, its Share extension, its widgets and its Shortcuts actions.
Summary
Kitta Ltd does not collect, receive, sell or share your data. Miniscan has no accounts, analytics, advertising or tracking, and the app makes no network requests of its own. Code recognition happens on your device. Your history stays on your device unless you choose to copy, export or share something from it.
What Miniscan uses and how
Camera
If you allow camera access, Miniscan processes camera frames in memory to recognise codes. Frames are not saved or uploaded. When you choose Freeze Workspace, the still image is kept in memory while you inspect it, then discarded. Camera access is optional: image scanning works without it.
Images you choose
You can scan images you pick in the Photos or Files picker, share to Scan with Miniscan from another app (up to ten at a time), drop onto the scanner on iPad, or pass to the Scan Codes in Images Shortcuts action. Miniscan receives only the images you choose and processes them on your device. It does not keep or upload the images. The Photos picker does not give Miniscan access to your photo library.
History, favourites and names
Recognised codes are kept in a history in protected storage on your device: the exact content and raw bytes, the code type, where it was scanned from, when, and how many times. Codes you create, such as a Wi-Fi or contact code, are added to the history when you save, favourite, name or pin them. Names you give codes are stored with them. The history is excluded from device backups.
Widgets
Quick Scan widgets show buttons only, never scan content. If you pin a code to a Pinned Code widget, Miniscan shares that code's image, your caption and its format with its own widget extension on your device, so the widget can display it. Anyone who can see your Home Screen may be able to scan a pinned code. The widget's copy and the app's private record of the pin are excluded from backups.
Copying
When you choose a copy action, such as Copy Result, Copy Hex, copying a field (including a Wi-Fi password), copying several selected codes, or the Copy Latest Scan Shortcuts action, Miniscan writes that text to the system clipboard. Other apps may read the clipboard as iOS allows, and Universal Clipboard may make it available on your other Apple devices. Copy Latest Scan asks you to authenticate with your device first.
Creating, exporting and sharing
You can create codes from text, a web address, Wi-Fi details or contact details you type in. No Contacts permission is used. You can export your history or a multi-code selection as a JSON file, or share a generated code as a PNG image. These leave Miniscan only through the system share sheet, to the destination you choose, which then handles them under its own privacy practices. Shortcuts actions return their results to Shortcuts on your device.
Links and other actions
Miniscan never contacts a website just because its address was scanned. Before a link opens, Miniscan checks it on your device for things like lookalike domains, trackers and hidden redirects. A link opens only when you choose an Open action. iOS then opens it in the app it selects, and the destination handles the request under its own privacy practices. In the same way, choosing to open a location, call, message or email hands that detail to Apple Maps, Phone, Messages or Mail. Miniscan does not receive what happens next.
How information is used
Everything above is used only to provide Miniscan's features on your device: recognising codes, showing your history, displaying widgets, and performing the copy, export, share and open actions you choose. None of it is used for advertising, profiling or analytics.
Third parties
Miniscan does not share data with anyone. It includes ZXing-C++, an open-source library that recognises and generates codes on your device. It has no network, analytics, advertising or tracking features in Miniscan. Apps, websites and services you choose to open, share to or copy into handle data under their own policies.
Retention and deletion
History keeps up to 100 recent codes, plus up to 100 favourites that are kept until you remove them. Older non-favourite codes are removed as new ones arrive. You can delete one code or clear the whole history in the app. Deleting a pinned code, or clearing history, also removes it from the widget. Deleting Miniscan removes all its data from your device. Kitta Ltd has no copy of your history, so there is no data held by us to delete.
Your choices
You can turn camera access off at any time in Settings > Privacy & Security > Camera, remove a pinned code or widget, replace your clipboard contents, and delete your history in the app.
Children
Miniscan does not knowingly collect personal data from children or anyone else.
Changes
If Miniscan's data practices change, this policy and the App Store privacy details will be updated, with a new effective date. The current policy is always at miniscan.ieb.app/privacy.
Contact
For privacy questions, email Kitta Ltd at privacy@ieb.app. For help with the app, see Support.