Last Updated: August 29, 2026
PaidByAds is an advertising and market-research platform operated by Quancom Holdings LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. This policy covers the PaidByAds Android app, website, cloud services, and support operations.
Payouts require the current in-house KYC flow, which accepts a U.S. driver's license or state ID. Passports are not currently accepted.
During active verification windows, the front camera is processed on-device to detect whether a face is present and derive numeric head yaw/pitch, facial movement, and mouth-landmark movement. The app sends numeric samples and derived presence, frontality, movement, and attention/liveness measures to the server.
Gesture challenges send the challenge identifier, normalized trace coordinates, elapsed time, and touch-contact characteristics such as pressure, contact size/dimensions, orientation, and tool type when available. These signals verify human interaction and resist synthetic input. For casual-game ads, a failed or abandoned gesture skips the ad and gameplay continues.
Before upload: For a new receipt, OCR runs on-device against a temporary working copy. You review the photo and choose recognized lines containing personal information. The app paints those selected regions black locally. The unredacted working image is not uploaded.
What is sent and retained: PaidByAds uploads only the reviewed redacted JPEG plus a SHA-256 hash of the on-device pre-redaction working copy for exact duplicate detection. Google Cloud Vision then OCRs only the redacted image. PaidByAds stores the redacted image, its derived text and line regions, merchant, items, total, purchase date, clarification answers, and duplicate-detection hashes or tokens. Selected private OCR lines are excluded from the clarification payload.
Limits and legacy receipts: Redaction is limited to the recognized regions you select, so review carefully and avoid unnecessary personal information. Temporary local files are removed after successful completion or cancellation, although an interrupted session may remain in app cache until app or operating-system cleanup. Earlier app versions may have uploaded an original receipt before a later scrub; contact privacy@paidbyads.com about legacy receipt images. Receipt data supports monthly bonus eligibility, optional payout-fee waivers, research, duplicate prevention, and audit. Fee-waiver receipts and bonus-eligibility receipts are separate pools.
The current app does not request precise GPS location. Address autocomplete sends typed address queries to Google Places.
If you grant optional contacts permission for referrals, the app reads contact names, phone numbers, and email addresses on-device to show the referral chooser. PaidByAds does not upload your address book; the destination you select is passed to your chosen SMS or email app.
PaidByAds may create and commercialize aggregated or deidentified advertising and market-research insights. We do not sell information that identifies you as an individual, and we do not give advertisers your account email, phone number, government-ID data, or KYC selfie for their own marketing.
Ad and offer providers may receive device/ad identifiers, IP or network data, app and placement details, and impression, click, completion, reward, or offer events under their own policies. We may also disclose information with your consent, during a business transaction, or when reasonably necessary for law, safety, security, fraud investigation, or protection of rights.
A hidden support recording starts only after a user deliberately triggers it from Settings and stops after another deliberate trigger or a one-hour cap. It uploads diagnostic events and device/runtime details, not camera or microphone media. The server marks these recordings for deletion after 30 days.
Controls include TLS, Firebase access rules, server-authoritative financial writes, Android Keystore encryption for local identity data, protected hashing for sensitive identifiers, audit logs, and role-based administrative access. No storage or transmission system is completely secure.
We retain information while an account is active and as needed for the purposes above. Retention varies: short-lived support diagnostics may be scheduled for deletion after 30 days; KYC has a 365-day verification cycle; and redacted receipts, receipt-derived research, financial, payout, tax, identity hashes/records, fraud, security, legal, and dispute records may be retained longer as permitted or required.
Request deletion through the website deletion form or support@paidbyads.com. Requests require review and are generally processed within 30 days, subject to identity verification and lawful retention exceptions. Uninstalling removes local app data, including current-version encrypted KYC images, but does not delete the cloud account, hashes, redacted receipts, legacy uploads, or file a deletion request.
You can decline optional notifications, gallery uploads, receipts, contact access, and other optional features. You may decline camera permission, but features requiring camera verification will not work. Android biometric templates remain with the operating system; PaidByAds receives capability and success/failure results, not fingerprint templates.
Subject to applicable law, you may request access, correction, portability, deletion, restriction, or objection, and may appeal or complain to a regulator where available. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined by California law. We will not discriminate for exercising a legal privacy right, although deleting or withholding information needed for a feature can make it unavailable.
PaidByAds is for adults 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from children. Contact us if you believe a minor has provided information.
Information may be processed in the United States and other locations where our providers operate, subject to applicable transfer safeguards.
Automated systems help verify activity, detect fraud, calculate credits, and rank eligible users. The app may show the live pot and eligible-user count and may show overall score, rank, percentile, and movement on scheduled batches. Component breakdowns, weights, thresholds, and formulas are withheld to limit manipulation. You may contact support for review of a consequential account or payout decision.
Search results, ads, and offers are provided by third parties and are not endorsements. PaidByAds does not control their ranking, content, availability, data practices, or fulfillment. Review the provider's terms and privacy policy before interacting.
We may update this policy as practices or law change. We will revise the date and provide in-app and/or email notice of material changes when appropriate.
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