Privacy: Talking Pictures
Applies to the Talking Pictures Android app (de.hoh.talkingpictures),
German name "Sprechende Bilder". Effective 21 October 2026, last updated 21 October 2026.
We collect nothing. The app has no internet permission, so it cannot send anything anywhere. It has no account, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier and no third-party SDK.
What the app stores
Photographs you choose, audio you record, films you import, the still images cut from them, and a JSON document describing your boards. All of it is written to the app's private storage on your phone, which no other app can read. Deleting a picture in the app, or uninstalling the app, removes it.
What the app sends
Nothing. Content leaves the device only when you export it yourself: "Share as a web page" hands
one .html file to the system share sheet, and "Save to a file" hands an archive to the
system file picker. Where those files go next is decided by you and the app you send them to.
Permissions
RECORD_AUDIO: to record your voice onto a spot. It is asked for the first time you hold the record button, and the microphone is open only while the button is held.
There is no camera permission (photographs come from the system photo picker) and no storage permission (import and export use the system file picker).
Children
The app is designed for young children, used together with a parent: an adult makes the picture and hands the phone over. It collects no personal data from anyone, children included: no account, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking, and no network permission. Photographs and recordings stay in the app's private storage on the device and are excluded from cloud backup and device transfer. Play mode shows a single screen with no way to delete or send anything. If a parent lets the child record, the board is copied first, and the recording is stored on the device like every other.
Backups
The app is deliberately excluded from Android's cloud backup and device-to-device transfer. To keep a copy or move to a new phone, use "Save to a file" on a board; that archive holds the photographs and every recording.
Data protection rights (GDPR)
The app does not process any personal data about you (Art. 4(1) GDPR). If you email me, your address and your message are processed to reply, on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in answering enquiries), and deleted when no longer needed. You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection under Art. 15 to 21 GDPR. You may complain to a supervisory authority, for example the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg. Controller and provider: Johannes Hohenbichler, Ganswiesenweg 21, 73728 Gerlingen, Germany; see the Impressum.
Changes and contact
Controller for this app: Johannes Hohenbichler, Ganswiesenweg 21, 73728 Gerlingen, Germany, johanneshohenbichler@googlemail.com (see the Impressum), for questions about this page and any request about your data. Changes to this page are made in public, in this site's repository.