Fold Table Clock: Privacy Policy
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Fold Table Clock (the "app") is made by Aiclysm, the trade name of a sole trader registered in the Czech Republic ("we", "us"). Contact: support@aiclysm.com
In short
The app does not collect, send or share any personal data. It has no internet access (it does not ask Android for the internet permission), no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no crash reporting. Everything it works with stays on your phone.
What the app uses on your phone, and why
- Alarms and settings. Stored only in the app's own storage on your phone. Alarms are kept in the part of storage that Android opens before the first unlock, so an alarm can ring after a night-time restart before you enter your PIN.
- Calendar (optional). Only if you choose the calendar clock face or add an Events window, and allow calendar access. The app then reads your events from now until the end of tomorrow to show them on the clock or the board. It does not store or change them. While the phone is locked, event titles stay hidden unless you turn them on.
- Photos (optional). Only if you choose the photo face. You pick photos in the Android photo picker, so the app never sees the rest of your gallery. It keeps smaller copies of the chosen photos in its private storage, so the frame keeps working when an original is moved or deleted. "Remove all" in the app, or uninstalling the app, deletes the copies.
- The board's background photo (optional). Only if you choose My photo as the board's background. You pick it in the Android photo picker, so the app never sees the rest of your gallery. It keeps one smaller copy in its private storage, and one more for each saved layout that uses the photo. "Remove photo" on the Background and windows page, or uninstalling the app, deletes them all; deleting a layout deletes its copy.
- Files on the board (optional). Only if you add a File window. You pick a picture, a PDF or a text file in the Android file picker, which shows the app only the file you pick. The app keeps a copy in its private storage (a picture made smaller, a PDF or a text of at most 25 MB) and deletes it when you remove the window or pick another file.
- Notes. The words you write in note windows are kept with the app's settings.
- Widgets of other apps (optional). Only if you add a widget to the board; Android asks you first. Each widget is drawn and kept up to date by its own app. Fold Table Clock shows it, but keeps and sends nothing of what it shows. At night it only looks at how bright the widget is on the screen, to show a light one darker in the night colours; it remembers only whether it turned the widget, and only while the app runs. A widget also shows while the phone is locked, unless you turn that off in its window's settings; it can be used only once the phone is unlocked. To offer you the widgets, the app sees which of your apps have a widget or an icon in the launcher; that list stays on your phone. What a widget's app does with your data is up to that app and its own privacy policy.
- App icons on the board (optional). Only if you put an app's icon on the board. To offer you the apps, the app sees which of your apps have an icon in the launcher, those of your work profile too, and those of your private space while the board is your home screen (Android shows that space to the home screen only); that list stays on your phone. For each icon it keeps which app it opens and the app's name with its settings, and for an app of the work profile or the private space also which one it is (the number Android gave that profile on this phone, and its kind), so they are in your device backup too (see Backups). A tap opens the app, on a locked phone only once it is unlocked. An icon also shows while the phone is locked, unless you turn that off in its window's settings.
- Your phone's wallpaper (optional). If you choose it as the board's background, Android shows it behind the clock. The app does not read it.
- Tones (optional). Only if you pick a tone for an alarm, from your phone's tones or from your own files in the Android file picker, which shows the app only the file you pick. The app keeps a copy in the part of its storage that Android opens before the first unlock, so the alarm can play it after a night-time restart. When no alarm uses the tone any more, the app deletes the copy.
- Sensors. While the bedside clock is on screen, the app reads the light, proximity and motion sensors to wake the screen, notice a tap, a knock or a wave, and switch to the night colours. The readings are used at once and are not stored.
- Device diagnostics (optional). When you run diagnostics, the app checks what your phone supports (displays, hinge, sensors) and saves a text report in its own folder on your phone. It is never sent anywhere; you can share the file yourself if you want to.
- Notifications, exact alarms and the full-screen alarm. Used only to ring your alarms on time, show the alarm screen, and tell you about an alarm that was missed.
Backups
If backup is turned on in your phone's settings, Android may include the app's alarms and settings, with the board and the saved layouts, the words of your notes, the names of the files on them and which apps have an icon there, in your device backup in your Google account. The copies of chosen photos, files and tones are left out of it; they move only with a direct transfer to a new phone from an old one with Android 12 or later. Widgets do not move: on a new phone their windows ask you to pick them again, and so does the icon of an app that is not on the new phone. Google handles that backup under your account settings. We have no access to it.
Sharing
We do not receive, sell or share any data from the app.
Children
The app is not directed at children under 13.
Security, retention and deletion
Alarms, settings, notes and the copies of photos, files and tones stay in the app's private storage, which Android keeps apart from other apps. The optional diagnostics report is saved in the app's own folder, which you can reach over USB. Nothing leaves the phone through the app. The data stays until you remove it in the app ("Remove all" for the photo face, "Remove photo" for the background, removing a window for its file), clear the app's storage in your phone's settings, or uninstall the app, which deletes all of it.
Changes
If the app starts to handle data differently, for example to show the weather, we will update this page and its date before that version is released.
Contact
support@aiclysm.com. You can also contact the Czech data protection authority, ÚOOÚ (Pplk. Sochora 27, 170 00 Prague 7, uoou.gov.cz).