Privacy & Data Safety

Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 28, 2026

1. Local app data

Pretio does not require a Pretio account. Your core shopping data remains on your device unless you choose to use Compare Online, create a backup, export a file, restore a file, or otherwise share data using your device's system features. Compare Online is optional, internet-dependent, and does not run until you select the Online action for a product.

2. Backup, export, restore, and deletion

You can back up or export Pretio data using the available app features. Once a file leaves Pretio, the storage provider, destination app, or person receiving it may process that file under their own terms and privacy practices.

You can use Delete All Data to remove products, saved prices, your shopping list, stores, and related local records from the device. App preferences such as language, theme, number format, currency, and text size may be preserved as described in the app.

3. Compare Online

When you select Online for a product, Pretio creates a Google Search query using the current product name, the saved brand when available and not already represented in the product name, the saved package size when available, and the word “price.” That visible query is sent to Google over the internet and the Google Search page is displayed in an in-app web view.

Pretio does not include your saved price history, stores, notes, shopping list, backups, or exports in the Compare Online query. The Best Price shown above the web page is calculated from your local Pretio records and is not obtained from Google.

Google may process the search query and technical information associated with the request, such as your IP address, device or browser information, cookies or similar technologies, account state when signed in, and interactions with Google Search, according to Google's policies and your Google settings.

Google-owned search navigation may remain inside Pretio. When you select an external result, Android may open the destination in a browser, system chooser, website, or compatible marketplace app. That destination may receive and process information under its own privacy policy. Pretio does not control the destination's data practices.

Pretio does not scrape search pages and does not write visited URLs, search-result content, online prices, or online offers into Pretio's product or price-history database. The web-view, browser, Google, Android, or destination service may still retain technical browsing data such as cookies, cache, history, or interaction records under their own controls and policies.

4. Advertising

The free version of Pretio may use Google AdMob to display banner advertisements and rewarded advertisements. A rewarded advertisement is shown only after you choose to watch it, for example to unlock one Excel export.

Google Mobile Ads technology may automatically collect or process information such as:

• your device's IP address, which may be used to estimate general location;
• app and advertisement interactions, such as app launches, taps, and video views;
• diagnostic information about app and advertising-SDK performance; and
• device or account identifiers, which may include the Android advertising ID or app set ID.

This information may be used by Google for advertising, analytics, security, and fraud-prevention purposes. The exact data handled can depend on the SDK version, your device settings, region, consent choices, and the ad-serving mode.

Learn more through Google's Privacy Policy and Google's advertising technologies information.

5. Consent and privacy choices

Pretio may use Google's User Messaging Platform to request, store, and update advertising privacy choices where required. Depending on your region and choices, ads may be personalized, non-personalized, limited, or unavailable.

When required, Pretio will provide a Privacy Options entry in the app so you can review or change available advertising choices. You can also manage or reset your Android advertising ID through your device settings, where supported.

6. Rewarded export

For free users, Pretio may require one completed rewarded advertisement for each Excel export. Pretio uses the ad completion result only to decide whether to grant that export attempt. Pretio does not send the contents of your exported spreadsheet, product list, prices, stores, or notes to the advertising provider as part of this reward flow.

7. Pretio Premium and Google Play Billing

Pretio Premium may be purchased as a one-time product through Google Play. Google processes the payment. Pretio receives purchase and entitlement information needed to determine whether Premium features should be enabled, such as product identity, purchase status, and verification-related information.

Pretio does not directly receive or store your full payment-card details. Google may process purchase information under Google's own terms and privacy policies.

A valid Premium entitlement removes Pretio's banner ads and the rewarded-ad requirement for Excel export. If a purchase is refunded, revoked, cancelled, reversed, or cannot be verified, Premium access may be removed.

8. Third-party services

Depending on the features available in your version of Pretio, third-party services may include Google Search, Google AdMob, Google User Messaging Platform, Google Play Billing, Android link handling, web browsers, marketplace apps, and destination websites opened from Compare Online. These providers process information under their own terms and privacy policies.

9. Data security

We take reasonable steps to keep Pretio's local-first design and monetization integrations separated. However, no device, storage method, network transmission, or third-party service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

10. Your choices

You may:

• use available privacy and consent controls in Pretio;
• manage advertising settings on your Android device;
• choose not to use Compare Online;
• use Google, browser, and Android privacy controls where available;
• choose not to watch a rewarded advertisement;
• purchase Pretio Premium, where available, to remove Pretio ads;
• delete your local Pretio records using the app's deletion features; and
• contact us with privacy or purchase questions.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when Pretio features, advertising technology, purchase processing, legal requirements, or third-party services change. The updated policy will be published on this page with a revised date.

12. Contact

For privacy or data-handling questions, contact pretio.support@maxqstudio.dev.