AwesomeWidget — Privacy Policy
1. Overview
AwesomeWidget (“the App”) is an Android home-screen widget app. There is no account and no sign-in, and the App does not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, location, or advertising identifier.
Anything you put into a widget — photos, GIFs, D-day labels, chosen apps — stays on your device. The App does send anonymous usage statistics to Google Analytics for Firebase, described below.
2. What leaves your device
The App shows no advertising and contains no advertising SDK. The network is used for two purposes.
Anonymous usage statistics
When you add a widget to a home screen, the App sends one widget-kind identifier (for example rc:aquarium) so we can decide what to build next and what to show first in the gallery. Alongside it, the analytics library collects its standard technical data: a random per-install identifier, app version, device model, OS version, language, an approximate region derived from your IP address, and standard app-open and session events. It never sends the advertising ID (collection is disabled and the permission is removed from the build), anything you put in a widget, or your name, email, phone number, contacts, or precise location.
This collection is always on and there is no in-app switch to turn it off. The processor is Google LLC, and the data is retained under the terms of Google Analytics for Firebase. To have transmitted data deleted, contact us — deletion is possible per app-instance identifier.
Advertising consent check
The App includes Google’s consent tool (UMP) in preparation for possibly introducing advertising later. At startup it contacts Google to check whether a consent step is required in your region, and in the EEA, the UK, and similar jurisdictions a consent screen provided by Google may appear. The App currently shows no advertising, so seeing that screen does not mean ads are being served; your choice would apply only if advertising is introduced in the future.
3. What stays on your device
The App requests no runtime permissions — no location, contacts, storage, or camera.
Two things are worth spelling out. The “Quick launch” widget shows a list of launchable apps so you can pick one; the list is used only to populate that picker, only the app you choose is saved as that widget’s setting, and the App does not request the broad QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission. Separately, photos and GIFs you select in Android’s system picker are copied into the App’s private storage so the widget can display them.
Everything else the App reads — battery level, the next alarm time, the current date and time — is used only to draw what you see. Your widget settings are stored in private app storage.
4. Deletion and backup
Deleting a widget deletes its settings and any photo or GIF copies it made. Uninstalling the App deletes all remaining on-device data immediately, so no separate deletion request is needed.
For Android backup: photo copies are excluded from both cloud backup and device-to-device transfer, GIF copies are excluded from cloud backup but included in direct device-to-device transfer, and widget settings may be included in Android backup. Statistics already sent remain with Google under Google’s retention policy.
5. Children’s privacy
The App is not directed at children and collects no personally identifying information from any user, including children.
6. Changes
If this policy changes, the effective date above will be updated. Any change that expands what is collected takes effect only after the updated policy is published.
7. Contact
Privacy inquiries: lifesoftwarelab@gmail.com