Effective date: 2026-09-17 Last updated: 2026-09-17
Color Patch reads a colour off a surface with your camera. It averages a small square rather than a single pixel, tells you how much that square varied, and can correct for the colour of the light if you show it a sheet of white paper. You save colours into palettes and read them as HEX, RGB and HSL.
The camera is used as an instrument, not as a camera. Frames are read for the colour of the square at the centre and thrown away: nothing is recorded, no photo is taken, no file is written, and no frame ever leaves the process — let alone the phone.
There is no account, no sign-up, no cloud and no server of ours anywhere. Your palettes live on your phone. The only data that leaves your device is what Google AdMob needs to show ads, and no colour, palette or camera frame is any part of that.
It is not a colorimeter, and it does not claim to match a paint code. That is a statement about what the app measures, not about privacy, but it is the same habit: the app says what it actually does.
com.dashfusion.listcolor)All of the following is created and kept locally, in a database only this app can read, and never leaves your device unless you export it yourself:
That is the whole list. There is no name, no email, no location and no contact anywhere in it, because the app never asks for any of them. Nothing the app can work out is stored either — the HEX, the HSL, the nearest colour name and the contrast ratio are all computed from the red, green and blue values when a screen shows them.
We hold no copy of any of it. There is no analytics SDK in this app, no crash reporter of our own, and no telemetry of any kind.
The app opts out of Android cloud backup and device-to-device transfer, so your palettes are not copied into Google’s backup service.
Consequence, stated honestly: because the data exists only on your phone, we cannot recover it if you lose the device or uninstall the app. Use Settings → Save a backup file to write a copy yourself; the file goes wherever you point Android’s own file picker, and it is then entirely under your control.
The camera is the only runtime permission this app asks for, and it is asked for only when you first open the picking screen.
You can also take a colour out of a picture you already have. That goes through Android’s own photo picker, which hands this app the single image you chose and nothing else.
The app holds no photo or storage permission on any API level. It never reads your gallery, and it cannot: a permission to read your photo library would be a much larger request for a much smaller reason. The picked image is decoded in memory to read the colour and is not kept.
The app is supported by ads served by Google AdMob. Ads are the only reason the app needs an internet connection at all; measuring, saving, converting and comparing colours all work fully offline.
The app shows no banner ads, no native ads and no ad on launch. What it shows is an occasional full-screen ad at one of three moments — closing a colour’s page back to its palette, closing a palette back to the palette list, or closing the contrast check — all of which are putting saved work down. Measuring a colour is never interrupted, and neither is copying a value. There is also an optional rewarded ad you can choose to watch to switch ads off for 24 hours.
To serve ads, Google receives data from your device, which may include your
device’s advertising identifier (AD_ID), coarse location inferred from your IP
address, device and app information, and ad-interaction data. It does not
receive any camera frame, any picture, any colour you measured, any palette or
any note — the app never sends those anywhere, and no ad targeting here is
based on them. Google’s processing is done as an independent controller under
its own policies:
Where required by law, the app shows Google’s User Messaging Platform consent form before ads are initialised, and records your choice. In the EEA and the UK you are asked about personalised advertising; in covered US states you are offered the opt-out required there. You can change your decision at any time from Settings → Advert privacy options, and if you decline, every measuring, palette and contrast feature continues to work exactly as before.
None. We operate no servers, no accounts and no analytics. We have no database with your name in it, and no way to identify you or your device. We do not sell or share personal information, because we do not have any.
AD_ID) — required by Google Play for apps that serve ads;
used by AdMob as described above.That is all four of them. The app requests no photo or media access, no storage permission, no location, no microphone, no contacts, no calendar and no notification permission. Nothing in it runs when the app is not in front of you: there are no notifications, no alarms and no background work.
A few more permissions are merged into the final app package by the libraries the app is built on, so the list Google Play shows you is slightly longer than the four above. They are the Android Ad Services permissions plus wake-lock and foreground-service, all from the Google Mobile Ads SDK. None is a permission Android stops to ask you about, and none is used by any code we wrote.
This app is not directed at children under 13 and is not designed for use under the COPPA framework. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children — as described above, we hold no personal data at all.
If we change this policy we will update the Last updated date above and publish the new version at this URL. Material changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes on Google Play. This policy is versioned publicly in the Dash Fusion privacy repository, so any change is visible in its history.
Questions about this policy or about the app: dash.fusion@outlook.com