Scroll hands-free with a nod.
Scroll Face uses your front camera to see how your head moves, and turns that into scrolling. The camera images are analysed on your phone and thrown away immediately — they are never recorded, stored or uploaded. There is no account and no sign-in to Scroll Face. Four things do leave the phone: purchase information, so Pro works; anonymous usage statistics, so we can see which features people use (you can turn this off); crash reports, so we can fix bugs; and — in the free version only — the device and ad data Google's ad service uses to show ads. None of them include camera images or the addresses of the sites you visit.
Taron Alaverdyan, Armenia, publishes Scroll Face and is the data controller for this app. Contact: taron.alaverdyan.97@gmail.com.
While you scroll a site, calibrate, or open the diagnostics screen, the app reads frames from the front camera and passes them to Google ML Kit face detection, which runs entirely on your device. From each frame it keeps only a few numbers — head angles, whether your eyes are open, and where the face is in the frame — and uses them to recognise nods, turns and blinks. The frames themselves are discarded straight away. They are never saved to your phone, never sent to us or anyone else, and never used to identify you. Scroll Face does no face recognition.
The camera turns off when you leave those screens or send the app to the background.
Sites open inside the app in your phone's built-in web view (WebKit on iOS, Android System WebView on Android). What you do on a site, including signing in, is between you and that site, and its own privacy policy applies. Scroll Face never reads, stores or sends your passwords, and does not run any of its own code on sign-in pages.
Cookies and site data are kept on your device so you stay signed in. Settings → Sign out of all sites deletes them.
| Data | Where it lives | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your list of sites and their settings | Your device only | To show your sites and open them the way you set up |
| Gesture settings and calibration (your neutral head position and nod size) | Your device only | So gestures match how you move |
| Cookies and site data from websites you open | Your device only | So you stay signed in to your sites |
| Pro status | Your device, and our payments provider | So Pro works, and so you can restore a purchase |
Scroll Face has no user accounts. It never asks for your name, email or phone number.
Purchases are handled by RevenueCat, Inc., which works with the Apple App Store and Google Play. When you buy or restore Pro, RevenueCat receives the store's purchase receipt and an anonymous app-generated user ID, so it can tell the app whether Pro is active. See RevenueCat's privacy policy. Apple and Google process the payment itself under their own policies; we never see your card details.
Scroll Face uses Google Analytics for Firebase (Google LLC) to count how the app is used, so we know what to improve. It records events such as: the app was opened, onboarding or calibration was finished, which screen was shown, a site was opened and for how long, how many gestures were used there, a sign-in to a site was started or finished, the Pro screen was shown, and a purchase was made. A site is reported only as one of the built-in sites (for example "tiktok") or as "custom" — never its address, page content or anything you type. Analytics also receives an app-generated installation ID, the app version, your device model, operating system, language and approximate country (derived from your IP address, which Google does not store).
Analytics does not use your phone's advertising identifier, is not used for ads, and never receives camera images, passwords or account details. If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland it runs only if you agreed to storing information on your device in the consent form. Anyone can turn it off in Settings → Share usage statistics. See Google's privacy policy.
If the app crashes or hits an error, a technical report is sent to Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.) so we can fix it: the error and stack trace, the app version, and your device model and operating system. Reports do not include your identity, camera images, screenshots, or the content of the pages you view; web addresses are cut down to exclude query strings. See Sentry's privacy policy.
The free version shows ads served by Google AdMob (Google LLC; Google Ireland Limited for users in the EEA and Switzerland). Pro shows no ads. To choose, cap and measure ads, Google's ad SDK collects:
| Data | Notes |
|---|---|
| Device advertising identifier | On iOS, only if you allow tracking when Apple asks. On Android, the advertising ID, which you can reset or delete in system settings. |
| IP address, and an approximate location derived from it | Not precise location — Scroll Face never asks for location permission. |
| Ad interactions and diagnostics | Which ads were shown or tapped, and basic device and app information. |
Google never receives camera images or the sites you visit in Scroll Face. If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, the app shows Google's consent form before ads load, and Settings → Ad privacy choices lets you change your answer later. How Google uses this data: How Google uses information from apps that use its services and Google's privacy policy.
| Permission | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Camera | Head-gesture scrolling, calibration and diagnostics, processed on the device as described above. |
| Tracking (iOS) | Only to make the ads in the free version more relevant. Saying no changes nothing else in the app. |
| Right | How |
|---|---|
| Delete site data | Settings → Sign out of all sites removes cookies and stored site data. |
| Delete everything | Uninstalling the app removes your sites list, settings, calibration and site data from the device. |
| Limit ad tracking | iOS: system Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Android: system Settings → Google → Ads. EEA, UK and Switzerland: in Scroll Face, Settings → Ad privacy choices. |
| Stop usage statistics | In Scroll Face, Settings → Share usage statistics (off). |
| Anything else | Email taron.alaverdyan.97@gmail.com, for example about purchase data held by RevenueCat or crash reports. |
If you are in the EU or UK you also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
Data on your device stays until you delete it or uninstall the app. Crash reports are kept by Sentry for a limited period and then deleted automatically. Usage statistics are kept by Google Analytics for 2 months and then deleted automatically. Purchase records are kept by RevenueCat and the app stores as long as their own policies and tax obligations require. Ad data is retained by Google under its own policy.
Scroll Face is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
If this policy changes materially, the updated version will be posted here with a new date at the top.