Privacy Policy
Tempra is a visual countdown timer for Android. This policy explains what information the app handles, who receives it, and the choices you have. The short version: your timers, presets, routines and settings stay on your phone. The only data that leaves the device is sent by the Google services listed below, which pay for and keep the app running.
1. Who is responsible
Tempra is published on Google Play by an independent developer. For any privacy question or request, write to affanshykh@gmail.com.
2. Data that stays on your device
The app stores your presets, routines, settings, the state of a running timer and a count of completed timers in its private storage on your phone. This data is never uploaded by the app, there is no account, and the developer cannot see it. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data deletes it.
3. Data handled by Google services
The app includes the following services from Google. Each processes data under Google's own terms and privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy; how Google uses data from partner apps: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites).
- Google AdMob shows ads on the presets and settings screens, and occasionally after a timer you have dismissed. Never on a running timer. AdMob may process your device's advertising ID, IP address (from which an approximate location is derived), device and app information, and how you interact with ads. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland you are asked for consent first, using Google's consent form; you can change your choice at any time under Settings → Privacy options.
- Firebase Analytics receives a small, fixed set of usage events: a timer was started, finished or cancelled; a preset was created; a routine was started; the floating timer or a home screen widget was used; an ad was shown; "Remove ads" was bought. Durations are sent only as coarse ranges such as "16–30 min". Preset names, routine names and anything you type are never sent. Firebase also processes an app-instance identifier, device model, Android version, language and approximate country.
- Firebase Crashlytics receives a technical report when the app crashes: the error, the app version and device information. It contains nothing you entered in the app.
- Firebase Remote Config lets the developer change a few settings (for example how often ads may appear) without an app update. It uses an installation identifier.
- Firebase Cloud Messaging delivers occasional announcements about the app. Your device subscribes only to a general topic and to the topic of its language. You can turn announcements off under Settings → Announcements.
- Google Play Billing handles the optional one-time "Remove ads" purchase. Payment details are handled by Google Play; the app only learns whether your Google account owns the purchase.
- Google Play In-App Review may show Google's rating dialog after you have completed several timers, at most once every 60 days.
Data sent to these services is encrypted in transit. Google keeps analytics data for the retention period configured for the app, at most 14 months, and crash reports for 90 days.
4. Feedback email
If you choose "Send feedback", your email app opens with a message addressed to the developer. It includes the app version, your phone model and Android version so that problems can be reproduced. Nothing is sent unless you send that email yourself. Emails are used only to answer you and are deleted when no longer needed.
5. Permissions
- Notifications: to show the running timer and alert you when time is up.
- Alarms & reminders (exact alarms): so the alarm sounds exactly on time, even with the screen off.
- Foreground service: keeps a running timer alive while you use other apps.
- Run at startup: restores a running timer after the phone restarts.
- Vibration and wake lock: for vibration alarms and to sound the alarm while the phone sleeps.
- Internet and advertising ID: used by the Google services above.
The app does not use your location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos or files, and it does not draw over other apps.
6. Children
Tempra is intended for a general audience aged 13 and over, including parents and teachers who use it with others. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
7. Your rights
Depending on where you live, including under the GDPR, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to processing, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. To withdraw ad consent, use Settings → Privacy options. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's Google settings. For any other request, email the address above. You may also lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
8. Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new effective date.