Gallery - Photos & Videos provides a Photo Vault feature that allows users to protect private photos and videos using device biometric authentication, such as fingerprint or face recognition.
When biometric authentication is enabled, the app uses the biometric authentication system provided by your device's operating system. The app does not access, collect, store, process, upload, or share your fingerprint data, face data, or any other biometric information.
Biometric verification is performed securely by the Android operating system on your device. The app only receives the result of the authentication attempt (successful or unsuccessful) and does not receive any biometric information.
We use biometric authentication only to provide secure access to the Photo Vault feature and protect your private media files.
Your biometric data remains stored and controlled by your device's operating system and is never transmitted to our servers or any third party.