Brain AlarmPrivacy Policy
1. Summary
Brain Alarm does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal information. All data — your alarms, timers, stopwatch history, and app settings — is stored locally on your device and never leaves it. The app does not use analytics, advertising, crash reporting, or any third‑party SDK that would send data off your device.
2. Who we are
Brain Alarm (the “app”) is an Android application developed and maintained by the author, reachable at brain-alarm@randomizeteam.com. In this policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the author of the app. “You” refers to the person using the app.
3. Information we collect
We do not collect any personal information from you. Specifically, we do not collect:
- Your name, email address, phone number, or any other contact information.
- Your precise or approximate location.
- Your device identifiers (advertising ID, IMEI, MAC address, etc.).
- Your contacts, calendar, photos, messages, call logs, or browsing history.
- Usage analytics, behavioural events, or crash reports.
- Any data entered into in‑app challenges (math answers, chess moves, taps, etc.).
Information you enter or configure inside the app — for example, alarm times, alarm labels, timer durations, the sound file you pick, your chosen language, theme, and other preferences — is saved only on your device (in the app's local database and settings) and is never transmitted to us or to anyone else.
4. How information is used
Because no personal information is collected, we do not use your information for anything. The app reads your locally‑stored alarms and preferences only to schedule alarms, play sounds, display the user interface, and provide the features you requested.
5. Permissions we request, and why
Android requires apps to ask for permission before using certain device features. Brain Alarm requests only the permissions needed for an alarm clock to work reliably. Each permission is listed below with the reason it is requested.
| Permission | Why Brain Alarm requests it |
|---|---|
USE_EXACT_ALARM / SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM |
To fire alarms at the exact minute you set, including when the device is in low‑power or Doze mode. Without this, Android may delay alarms by several minutes. |
POST_NOTIFICATIONS |
To display the alarm notification when an alarm goes off. Alarms still work if you decline this permission, but you will not see a notification. |
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED |
To reschedule your alarms automatically after the device restarts. Without this, alarms you scheduled before a reboot would not fire. |
FOREGROUND_SERVICE / FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK |
To keep the alarm sound playing and the timer running reliably while the screen is off, as Android requires for this class of task. |
WAKE_LOCK |
To wake the screen and CPU briefly when an alarm fires, so the alarm actually rings. |
VIBRATE |
To vibrate the device when an alarm fires, if vibration is enabled for that alarm. |
READ_MEDIA_AUDIO / READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE |
To let you pick a custom ringtone from the sounds on your device when you choose “Custom sound” in the alarm editor. The app reads only the audio file you select; it does not browse or upload any other file. |
DISABLE_KEYGUARD |
To show the alarm dismissal screen over the lock screen when an alarm fires, so you can dismiss it without unlocking the device first. |
None of these permissions are used to collect information about you or to send anything from your device.
6. Data storage, security, and retention
All app data is stored in Android's private per‑application storage on your device. Other apps cannot read it. Standard Android file‑system encryption applies to this storage on any device that has encryption enabled (the default on modern Android devices).
Because we do not receive any of your data, there is nothing for us to retain. The data on your device is kept until you delete individual items in the app, clear the app's data from Android Settings, or uninstall the app — any of which deletes it immediately and irrevocably.
7. Third‑party services and data sharing
Brain Alarm does not include any third‑party analytics, advertising, crash reporting, or tracking SDKs. It does not integrate with any social network, ad network, attribution provider, or cloud backup service. We do not sell, rent, share, or disclose any information about you, because we do not have any.
The app's “Send Feedback” option opens your device's email app with a new message addressed to brain-alarm@randomizeteam.com. Sending feedback is entirely voluntary, and the app itself transmits nothing — your message is composed and sent by your own email app, through your own email provider. To help us diagnose issues, the app adds a short diagnostic line to the bottom of the message body: the app version, your device model, your Android version, and your current language. These values are shown in the draft and can be edited or deleted before you send. No personal identifiers are added by the app.
If you choose to send the email, we (the author of Brain Alarm) receive it at the address above — the same contact address used elsewhere in this policy. The message includes your email address (as the sender), whatever you write, and the diagnostic line described above. Legal basis (GDPR): we process this correspondence in order to respond to a request you initiated and to diagnose and improve the app — that is, on the basis of your consent in sending it and our legitimate interest in supporting and improving the app. We use it only for those purposes; we do not sell it, share it with third parties, or use it for advertising. Retention: we keep feedback emails for up to 24 months and then delete them, unless an ongoing conversation with you requires keeping a message longer. Deletion: because the message carries your email address, you can ask us at any time to delete your feedback, and we can locate it by that address.
Similarly, the “Privacy Policy” menu item opens this page in your browser. Your browser, your network provider, and our static hosting provider (Cloudflare Pages) may log the request in standard server/access logs under Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy; we do not run any analytics or tracking on this page.
8. Children's privacy
Brain Alarm is a general‑audience utility app and is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or under the age of 16 in jurisdictions where that is the relevant threshold, such as under the EU GDPR). We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. Because the app does not collect any personal information at all, it complies with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by design.
If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has somehow provided personal information to us, please contact us at brain-alarm@randomizeteam.com and we will promptly investigate.
9. Your rights (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and similar laws)
Privacy laws such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and analogous laws in other jurisdictions give you rights over your personal information — including the right to access, correct, delete, port, and restrict or object to the processing of that information, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights.
Because Brain Alarm does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal information, we have no personal information about you to access, correct, delete, port, or transfer. You can exercise the equivalent of a “right to delete” at any time by:
- Deleting individual alarms, timers, or lap records inside the app; or
- Going to Android Settings → Apps → Brain Alarm → Storage → Clear data to wipe everything the app has stored locally; or
- Uninstalling the app, which also removes all of its local data.
The one exception is feedback you choose to email us (see Section 7). If you have sent us feedback, that email is personal information we hold, and you can exercise your rights over it — including access, correction, and deletion — by writing to brain-alarm@randomizeteam.com; we locate your messages by your email address. If you have never emailed us, we hold nothing about you.
We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA (we cannot, because we do not have any).
10. International data transfers
Because no personal information leaves your device through the app, there are no international data transfers by the app. If you voluntarily email us feedback (see Section 7), your message is delivered through your own email provider to our inbox, and may be processed or stored outside your country of residence in accordance with those providers' policies.
11. Security
We take a minimalist approach to security: the best way to protect your data is not to collect it in the first place. The app stores its data in Android's private app sandbox on your device, which is isolated from other apps. No transmissions of personal data take place from within the app, so there is no network traffic to intercept or servers to breach.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time — for example, if we add a new permission, change how a feature works, or to improve clarity. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Material changes will also be summarised here when they take effect. Because the Privacy Policy link inside the app points to this page, you will see the current version every time you open it from the app's overflow menu.
Continued use of the app after an update means you accept the revised Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any change, please stop using the app and uninstall it; as noted above, uninstalling removes all local data.
13. Contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about privacy in Brain Alarm, please contact:
Brain Alarm — Privacy
Email: brain-alarm@randomizeteam.com