TimoPrivacy policy
The short version
- Timo has no account and no sign-up.
- Everything you add stays on your phone. We don’t collect, receive, sell or share any of it.
- Timo doesn’t have permission to use the internet, so it can’t send your data anywhere.
- Timo’s data is left out of Android cloud backup.
Who we are
Timo is an Android app made by an independent developer. In this policy, “we” and “us” mean the developer of Timo, and “you” means anyone who uses the app. This policy covers the Timo app and this website.
What Timo keeps on your phone
To do its job, Timo saves the following in its private storage on your phone. Other apps can’t read it, and none of it is sent to us.
- Your events: the name, date and time you enter for each event.
- Reminders: when you’ve asked to be reminded about each event.
- Backgrounds: the gradient you picked for each event, or a copy of the photo you chose (see Photos).
- Settings: choices such as card or list view, and which event each home screen widget shows.
- A reminder log: a technical record of when reminders were scheduled and shown, and of permission changes. It never includes event names. Timo uses it to keep reminders on time and to show “Sent today at 9:00 AM” on an event.
Photos
- When you choose a photo from your gallery, Timo uses the Android photo picker. It shares only the photo you pick, so Timo never asks for access to your photo library.
- When you take a photo, Timo opens your phone’s camera app, which hands the photo back to Timo. Timo doesn’t ask for camera access.
- Timo saves a resized copy of the photo inside the app. Making that copy removes its metadata, including location and camera details. Your original photo isn’t changed.
- Photos are never uploaded or shared. They appear only in the app and on your home screen widget.
Permissions
Timo asks for these permissions when you first save a reminder, never when you open the app:
- Notifications (Android 13 and newer)
- To show your reminders. If you turn this off, your events still count; you just won’t be reminded.
- Alarms & reminders (Android 12 and newer)
- So reminders arrive at the exact time you chose. Without it, a reminder may arrive a few minutes late.
Timo also uses these, which Android grants without asking:
- Run at startup
- Android clears scheduled reminders when the phone restarts. This lets Timo set them again.
- Background work
- Some Android components Timo is built on declare standard permissions for background work, such as briefly keeping the phone awake while a widget updates. They don’t give Timo access to your data or to the internet.
What we collect
Nothing. Timo has no servers and no account system. It contains no analytics, advertising or crash-reporting tools, doesn’t use your advertising ID, and doesn’t track you across apps or websites. We don’t sell or share any information, because we don’t have any.
This website doesn’t use cookies or analytics either. It’s hosted on GitHub Pages, and loads the Lexend font from Google Fonts. Like any web host, GitHub may log technical details such as your IP address when you visit; see the GitHub Privacy Statement and Google Fonts privacy FAQ.
Google Play and Android
When you download or update Timo, Google Play handles that under Google’s Privacy Policy, not ours.
If you’ve chosen in your Android settings to share usage and diagnostics data, Google may give us anonymous, combined crash and performance reports through the Google Play Console. These don’t include your events or photos, and we use them only to fix problems in the app.
Backup and new phones
Timo’s data is left out of Android cloud backup, so it isn’t copied to Google Drive or any other cloud service.
When you set up a new phone with a cable or a direct phone-to-phone transfer, Android may copy Timo’s data straight across. It doesn’t pass through any cloud.
Because there’s no cloud copy, uninstalling Timo, clearing its storage or losing your phone deletes your events, and we can’t recover them.
Deleting your data
- To delete an event, open it in Timo and tap Delete. Its photo is removed too.
- To delete everything, go to your phone’s Settings, then Apps, Timo, Storage, and tap Clear storage. Or uninstall Timo.
We hold no copy of your data, so there’s nothing for us to delete on our side.
Children
Timo isn’t directed at children under 13. It doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, of any age.
Changes to this policy
Future versions of Timo may add optional features that need the internet, such as sharing anonymous usage data during a beta, or an account for sharing dates with family. Before any feature like that is released, we’ll update this page and its effective date, and the app will explain the feature before you use it.
Contact
Questions about this policy or about Timo? Email support@philtre.app.