Sticky Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 27, 2026
Sticky collects no personal data. There are no accounts, no servers, no analytics and no advertising. Everything you do in the app happens inside your phone and stays there. The app does include optional one-time purchases, which Google Play processes; Sticky never sees your payment details.
Sticky is an Android app that turns whatever is on your screen, or any image from your gallery, into stickers for WhatsApp. This policy explains what the app does with your images, why it asks for the permissions it asks for, and what happens if you decide to buy something inside it.
The app is published by Osuna Labs. You can reach us at emilianoos.dev@gmail.com.
What information is collected
None. Sticky does not ask you to sign up, does not generate user identifiers, does not measure how you use the app, and does not send information about you to anyone, neither to us nor to third parties.
If you choose to buy something inside the app, Google Play handles the payment and Google is who receives your billing details, never us. This is explained under Purchases inside the app.
What Sticky does with your images
Screenshots
When you trigger the assistant gesture (by holding the power button or swiping in from a bottom corner, depending on how your phone is set up), the system hands Sticky a screenshot of that moment and only that moment. That capture stays in the phone's memory while you edit, and is not written to disk unless you decide to turn it into a sticker. If you close the editor without saving, it is gone.
Images you choose
If you share a photo with Sticky from another app, or pick one from the selector, it is handled the same way: inside your phone, in order to cut it out.
The stickers you make
They are saved in the app's private storage, which no other app can freely reach. They stay there until you delete them or uninstall Sticky.
Content you create
Sticky is an editing tool, in the way a drawing program is. You are solely responsible for the images you turn into stickers and for who you send them to, including respecting other people's copyright, likeness and privacy.
Osuna Labs does not see, review, store or distribute your stickers, and cannot moderate them. That is not a policy decision: it follows from how the app is built. They are created on your phone and stay there, and there is no server of ours for them to pass through.
The illustrations, characters and stickers that ship with the app are our own work or licensed for use. If you believe any of them infringes a right of yours, write to emilianoos.dev@gmail.com and we will look into it.
Internet access
Sticky does not send your images or any other data to the internet.
Even so, the app declares the internet and network state permissions. There are two specific reasons, and they are worth explaining.
The first is the automatic cutout. To separate the subject from the background, Sticky uses ML Kit, a Google Play Services component. That component downloads its recognition model from Google's servers the first time it needs it. The image analysis happens entirely on your phone: your screenshots and photos are not sent to Google and do not leave the device. The only thing travelling over the network is the model download, the same as updating any system component.
The same component includes a face detector, which Sticky uses to frame the cutout when there are people in the image. It is configured to return nothing but a bounding box: it does not extract facial features, does not generate a biometric template and does not identify anyone. It could not recognise the same person across two images, because it keeps nothing from the first one. Like the background separation, it runs entirely on your phone and no image is sent to Google.
The second is purchases. The app asks Google Play for the price of each product in your currency and for what you have already bought, so it knows what to unlock. That query contains nothing about your images or about how you use the app. It is covered in detail below.
Both exchanges are governed by the Google Privacy Policy.
The assistant role
The gesture works because you choose Sticky as your Android default digital assistant. It is a role you grant by hand, and you can hand it back to Google, or to whoever held it before, whenever you want.
When you trigger the gesture, the system opens a Sticky session and hands it a capture of whatever was in front of you. The editor draws right there, on top of the app you were in, so you do not have to leave it. That is all that happens.
Sticky does not listen, does not record audio and does not process voice. The app does not ask for the microphone permission. Android requires every assistant to declare a speech recognition component: Sticky's is empty, it exists only to satisfy that requirement, and it does nothing.
Android also lets an assistant request the contents of the screen as text and structure: which buttons are there, what the fields say. Sticky does not request it and does not receive it. The only thing that reaches the app is the image, and only at the moment you trigger the gesture. Between one gesture and the next, Sticky receives no information about what you do on your phone.
You can take the role away at any time from Android Settings > Apps > Default apps > Digital assistant app. The app keeps working without it: you can share an image to it from another app or pick one from the selector; you just lose the shortcut.
Purchases inside the app
Sticky is free and fully functional without paying anything. Two optional things do cost money:
- Sticky Pro, a one-time purchase that removes the pack limit and adds the full colour picker.
- Voluntary support, in four amounts that all unlock exactly the same thing as each other. It is a tip, not a feature.
All of them are one-time purchases. There are no subscriptions, no recurring charges and no advertising, and there never will be.
Who charges you and what they see
The payment is processed entirely by Google Play. Sticky has no payment gateway of its own and no server: the app opens the Play window and everything else happens outside it.
Sticky never sees or receives your card, your name, your email, your address or your billing details. Google handles that information under its own policy, and we have no access to it at any point.
As the developer, Google gives us aggregate sales reports (how many purchases there were, in which country, for what amount) without identifying the people who made them.
What Sticky stores on your phone
Only the identifier of the products you own, in the app's private storage. It is a short list of text, along the lines of sticky_pro, and it exists so we do not put a lock back on something you already paid for. It carries no amount, no date, no payment method, and nothing that identifies you, and it never leaves the device.
Restoring what you bought
Your purchases are tied to your Google Play account, not to this phone. If you reinstall Sticky or switch devices, they come back on their own when you open the app; if they take a moment, there is a Restore purchases button in the settings. You do not need to write to us or keep any receipt.
Refunds and billing problems
Anything involving money (a charge you do not recognise, a refund, a payment that did not go through) is handled with Google Play, who holds the transaction. You can do it from your order history. If the problem is that you paid and the app did not unlock your purchase, write to us and we will look into it.
When you share stickers with other apps
When you add a pack to WhatsApp, or send a single sticker to any other app, those files leave Sticky and pass into the hands of that app. From that moment they are governed by the privacy policy of whoever receives them: WhatsApp's, or whichever applies. Sticky does not take part and keeps no copy of what you send.
Backups
Sticky has both Android's automatic cloud backup and direct device-to-device transfer switched off. Your stickers are not uploaded to Google Drive or to any cloud. The trade-off is that if you change phones, they do not come along on their own.
This does not affect anything you bought: that lives in your Google Play account and comes back on the new phone, as explained above.
Children
Sticky is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them. Since the app collects no personal data from any user, there is no children's information for us to hold.
Purchases inside the app are authorised by Google Play. If a child uses the phone, it is worth setting up Play's parental controls and purchase authentication, which is where it is decided who can pay.
Your rights and how to delete your data
Since we keep nothing on any server, there is no information of yours that we could hand over, correct or delete on request. The control is entirely yours:
- To delete a sticker or a pack, do it from within the app.
- To delete absolutely everything, uninstall Sticky. When you do, Android wipes its private storage completely, including the list of purchased products.
One exception worth stating plainly: the record of your purchases lives in your Google Play account, not in our hands. Uninstalling the app does not erase it, and in fact that is what makes restoring them possible. We cannot delete it either. You manage that history with Google.
If you live in the European Union, the United Kingdom, California or Mexico, the applicable law grants you rights over your personal data. You can exercise them by writing to emilianoos.dev@gmail.com, although, as explained above, we hold no personal data of yours to act on.
Changes to this policy
If Sticky ever gains features that change any of the above, we will update this page before releasing that version, and we will change the date in the header. We recommend checking back from time to time.
August 27, 2026. Adds the Content you create section, which sets down in writing where responsibility for stickers lies and why we cannot moderate them. Also documents the face detector used by the automatic cutout, what it does and what it does not. Mentions of Telegram were removed: the app does not export to it yet.
August 26, 2026. The digital assistant role the gesture relies on is now documented in detail: what the app receives at that moment — only the image — what it never receives — voice, audio and the contents of your screen — and how to take the role away.
August 24, 2026. Optional one-time purchases were added (Sticky Pro and voluntary support), processed by Google Play. This documents what Google sees, what the app stores, and how to restore or dispute a purchase. None of it changes how your images are handled: they still never leave your phone, and there is still no advertising and no analytics.
Contact
Any questions about this policy or about how the app works:
emilianoos.dev@gmail.com