PushClock
Privacy Policy
The short version
- Your alarms, settings and sleep history are stored only on your phone.
- To fix bugs and improve the app, PushClock sends anonymous usage statistics and crash reports to Google Firebase. You can turn this off in Settings → Privacy.
- There are no accounts and no ads, and we never sell data.
- The camera is used only during the QR and push-up rituals. Every frame is analysed on your phone and immediately discarded. Nothing is recorded or uploaded.
1. Introduction
PushClock is an alarm clock app for Android made by Next Salution (“we”, “us”, “our”). Each alarm can ask you to finish a short “ritual”, such as a sum, a memory pattern, a QR code scan, shaking the phone, walking or doing push-ups, before it stops ringing. The app can also keep a simple log of your sleep.
We designed PushClock so that your alarms and personal content stay on your phone. This policy explains what information the app uses, why, and the choices you have. It applies only to the PushClock app.
2. Information the app uses
PushClock does not ask for your name, email address, phone number, contacts or location, and it has no sign-in or account.
Stored only on your device
The information below is created by you while using the app and is saved in the app’s private storage on your device. It is not sent to us.
Alarms
Times, repeat days, names, the ritual and difficulty you chose, sound, volume, vibration and snooze settings, and any “morning memo” you write.
QR / barcode ritual
The text value of the code you register, so the app can check that you scan the same code each morning.
Sleep log
If you turn on sleep tracking: your bedtime schedule and, for each night, an estimated bedtime and the time you dismissed your morning alarm.
Wake-up history
Each time you finish an alarm's task: when it happened, how long it took, which task it was, and how many snoozes. This powers your streak, badges and stats, and stays on your phone.
Settings
Preferences such as dark mode, 24-hour time, ritual time limit and reminders, plus whether you have finished the welcome screens.
Custom alarm sounds
If you choose an audio file from your device, the app keeps Android’s permission to play that file. The file stays where it is and is not copied or uploaded.
Purchases
PushClock offers an optional Premium subscription through Google Play. Google Play tells the app which subscriptions belong to your Google account so it can unlock Premium, and the app saves on your device whether Premium is active so it works offline. Google processes the payment; we do not receive your name, email address or payment details.
Usage statistics and crash reports (sent to Google Firebase)
Unless you turn it off in Settings → Privacy → Share usage & crash reports, the app sends the following to Google Firebase, which we use to understand how the app is used and to fix problems:
- App events (Firebase Analytics): for example, that onboarding was completed, an alarm was saved, a ritual was tried, you woke up, or the Premium screen was shown and which plan you chose. Events include only app details such as the ritual type, difficulty, number of snoozes, minutes taken to wake and subscription plan. They never include alarm names, memos, registered codes, camera images or your sleep log.
- Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics): when the app crashes, technical details such as the error, the app version, and your device model and Android version.
- Device and app information collected automatically by Firebase: an app-instance identifier, approximate location derived from your IP address (country or region, not precise location), device model, Android version, language and app version.
This data is not linked to your name or contact details, because the app never collects them.
3. How the information is used
The information above is used only to provide the app’s features on your device:
- to ring your alarms at the right time, run the ritual you chose, and snooze or dismiss them;
- to show your morning memo and wake-up summary;
- to show your sleep history, weekly chart and bedtime reminders;
- to remember your settings;
- to unlock Premium features when you have an active subscription;
- if you allow it, to understand which features are used and to find and fix crashes (usage statistics and crash reports).
We do not use your information for advertising or to build profiles about you.
4. Camera and motion sensors
Camera
The camera is switched on only while a QR / barcode or push-up ritual is on screen, including when you try one out from the ritual picker.
- QR / barcode: Google ML Kit, running on your phone, reads any code it sees in the camera image.
- Push-ups: an on-device pose-detection model (Google MediaPipe) estimates the position of your body in each frame, so the app can count reps and check your form.
Camera frames are processed in memory, in real time, and then discarded. PushClock never records, saves, uploads or shares images or video. Camera access is optional; it is needed only for these two rituals.
Motion sensors
The Shake and Steps rituals read your phone’s accelerometer while the ritual is open, to count shakes or steps. The readings are used on the spot and are not stored or shared. PushClock does not use Android’s physical-activity permission or connect to any health or fitness service.
5. Device permissions
| Permission | Why PushClock uses it |
|---|---|
| Notifications | To show the ringing alarm and optional upcoming-alarm and bedtime reminders. |
| Alarms & reminders (exact alarms) | To ring at the exact minute you set. |
| Full-screen alarm | To open the alarm screen over the lock screen. |
| Display over other apps | To open the alarm screen while you are using another app. |
| Ignore battery optimisation | So Android does not close the app before an alarm is due. |
| Run at startup | To set your alarms again after the phone restarts. |
| Vibration, wake lock, foreground service | To vibrate and keep ringing until the alarm is dismissed. |
| Camera | For the QR / barcode and push-up rituals only (see section 4). |
| Google Play billing | To offer in-app purchases through Google Play. |
| Internet, network state | To send usage statistics and crash reports (if allowed), and for the Google components described in section 7. Your alarms, memos, codes and sleep log are never sent. |
You can review or withdraw any permission at any time in your phone’s Settings → Apps → PushClock → Permissions. Some features stop working without them; for example, alarms may not ring reliably without the alarm-related permissions.
6. Sharing your information
We do not sell, rent or trade your information, and we don’t share it for advertising.
Information leaves your phone only in these situations, all controlled by you or by your phone’s system settings:
- Usage statistics and crash reports: sent to Google Firebase, which processes them for us as a service provider (see sections 2 and 7). You can turn this off at any time.
- Sharing the app: “Share PushClock” opens your phone’s share sheet with a link to the app. You choose whether and where to send it.
- Device backup: if Android backup is turned on, Android may include PushClock’s alarms and settings in your phone’s backup to your Google account and restore them on a new phone. This is handled by Android and Google under Google’s privacy policy. You can turn it off in your phone’s settings.
- Purchases: payments are processed by Google Play (see section 7).
7. Third-party services
PushClock includes the following components from Google. They run inside the app and are covered by Google’s own terms and privacy policy.
- Google Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics. Receive the usage statistics and crash reports described in section 2, when you allow it. See Privacy and security in Firebase.
- Google ML Kit (barcode scanning). Scanning happens on your phone. Google states that ML Kit may contact Google’s servers to receive updates and to send metrics about how the scanning feature performs. These metrics do not include your camera images. See the ML Kit terms.
- Google MediaPipe (pose detection). Used for the push-up ritual; runs entirely on your phone.
- Google Play Billing. Handles the Premium subscription. Google processes the payment; we receive only the purchase confirmation needed to unlock features. See the Google Privacy Policy.
PushClock contains no advertising or social-media SDKs.
8. Data retention and deletion
Everything PushClock stores stays on your phone until you remove it:
- Alarms: until you delete them. A one-time alarm is removed automatically after it is dismissed.
- Sleep log: the most recent 120 nights are kept; older nights are removed automatically.
- Camera frames and sensor readings: not stored at all.
- Usage statistics: kept by Firebase Analytics for up to 14 months, then deleted automatically.
- Crash reports: kept by Firebase Crashlytics for up to 90 days.
To delete everything on your phone at once, go to your phone’s Settings → Apps → PushClock → Storage → Clear data, or uninstall the app. Usage statistics and crash reports are not linked to your identity, so we cannot look up yours individually; they are deleted automatically at the end of the periods above.
9. Data security
PushClock’s data is kept in the app’s private storage, which Android protects from other apps. Usage statistics and crash reports are sent to Firebase over encrypted connections (HTTPS) and stored by Google with its security safeguards. We run no servers of our own. Please keep your phone protected with a screen lock and up-to-date software. No method of storage is completely secure, but keeping data on your device greatly limits who can reach it.
10. Children’s privacy
PushClock is not directed at children under 13 (or the minimum age for digital consent where you live). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child under 13 is using the app, a parent can turn off usage and crash reporting in Settings → Privacy or uninstall the app.
11. Your rights and choices
You are in control of your information:
- See and change it at any time in the app.
- Delete it by deleting alarms, clearing the app’s storage, or uninstalling.
- Stop usage and crash reporting at any time in Settings → Privacy → Share usage & crash reports. Nothing more is sent once it is off.
- Limit it by turning off sleep tracking, choosing rituals that don’t use the camera, or withdrawing permissions in your phone’s settings.
If you have a question or request about your privacy, contact us (section 16) and we will reply within 30 days.
12. International data transfers
Usage statistics, crash reports and the other limited data described in section 7 are processed by Google, which may store them in the United States or other countries. Google protects such transfers with safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
13. California privacy rights
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the CPRA, California residents have the right to know what personal information is collected, to request deletion, and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. The only information PushClock sends off your device is the usage statistics and crash reports described in section 2 (device identifiers, device information, approximate location and app activity), which Google processes for us as a service provider. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, and you can stop the reporting at any time in Settings → Privacy. Residents of other US states with privacy laws have similar rights.
14. European privacy rights (GDPR)
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, and to data portability. Because PushClock processes your information only on your device to provide the features you use, you can exercise these rights directly in the app or in your phone’s settings, as described in section 11.
Where processing is needed to provide the app you asked for (such as ringing your alarms), it is based on performing our agreement with you. Usage statistics and crash reports are based on our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and improving it; you can object at any time by turning them off in Settings → Privacy. Camera use is based on the permission you give, which you can withdraw at any time. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
15. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy, for example when we add features. We will post the new version on this page and change the “Last updated” date above. If a change materially affects how your information is handled, we will also point it out in the app or in its release notes.
16. Contact us
If you have any questions about this policy or your privacy, email support@nextsalution.com.
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