Privacy Policy

1. Overview & Core Philosophy

Welcome to Alarm Jail ("we", "our", or "the App"), developed by ToonCoder. Alarm Jail is an anti-oversleep utility alarm clock engineered specifically for heavy sleepers, featuring wake-up puzzle missions, volume lock protocols, and a multi-layer fail-safe architecture.

We take user privacy exceptionally seriously. Alarm Jail does not collect, sell, or rent your personal information. We do not require you to create an account, log in, or transmit private details such as your name, email address, contacts, or calendar schedules to any cloud server. Your alarm configurations, custom schedules, habit streaks, and mission progress stay 100% locally on your physical device.

2. Information Collection & Usage

2.1 Data Handled Exclusively On-Device (Zero Remote Uploads)

The following data is created during your use of Alarm Jail and is stored strictly within your device's private, encrypted internal storage (SQLite / Jetpack Room / EncryptedSharedPreferences):

• Alarm Schedules & Settings: Alarm trigger times, repeat days, custom labels, and vibration patterns.
• Disarm Mission Preferences: Selected challenges (Math equations, Typing tests, Timed Hard mode, Missing letter, Memory match, etc.).
• Wake Analytics & Streaks: Weekly/monthly wake timestamps, disarm response speeds, and consecutive consistency streaks displayed in your Briefing screen.

This data is never sent to any remote servers, cloud databases, or third parties.

2.2 Automatically Collected Diagnostic & Advertising Data

To provide the App for free and diagnose stability issues, Alarm Jail incorporates industry-standard Google Play Services and Google AdMob SDK. These SDKs may collect pseudonymous and non-personal diagnostic metrics, such as:

• Device model, manufacturer, and operating system version (e.g. Android 14/15/16).
• General, non-precise location inferred from IP address (country or city level, for ad localization and language rendering).
• Google Advertising Identifier (GAID), which can be reset or opted-out by you at any time in Android system settings.
• App performance logs, crash stack traces, and ad interaction metrics (e.g., ad impressions and clicks).

3. Android Permissions & Technical Rationale

To guarantee that alarms trigger reliably without failure under Android Doze mode, aggressive OEM battery management, and screen-lock states, Alarm Jail requests the following specific permissions:

4. Google AdMob & Third-Party Advertising

Alarm Jail uses Google AdMob (provided by Google LLC) to display advertisements (banner and rewarded ads).

AdMob may use cookies, device identifiers, and the Google Advertising ID (GAID) to deliver personalized or non-personalized advertisements based on applicable regional laws (such as GDPR in Europe or CCPA in California).

To understand how Google processes ad data, please review:

• Google Privacy & Terms Policy
• How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services

Your Ad Choices: You can opt out of interest-based ads or reset your advertising ID at any time through your Android device settings under Settings → Google → Ads → Delete advertising ID or Reset advertising ID.

5. In-App Purchases & Subscriptions

Alarm Jail may offer optional in-app purchases or subscriptions (such as Alarm Jail Pro, ad-free experience, or premium challenge packs).

All monetary transactions and billing are handled directly by the Google Play Billing API. We do not receive, store, or process any payment card details, bank information, or billing addresses. All billing is governed by the Google Play Terms of Service.

6. Data Retention & Deletion

Because we do not store your data on remote servers, you have complete control over your information at all times:

• Delete within App: You can edit or delete individual alarms and reset streak statistics directly within the app interface.
• Clear App Storage: You can permanently wipe all local database records by going to Android Settings → Apps → Alarm Jail → Storage → Clear Data.
• Uninstalling the App: Uninstalling Alarm Jail automatically purges all stored databases, configurations, and cached files from your device.

7. Children's Privacy (COPPA Compliance)

Alarm Jail is designed for general audiences and is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the European Union). We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately so we can take appropriate measures.

8. Data Security

We implement standard operating system security protections provided by Android, including application sandboxing and secure file storage, to prevent unauthorized access to local app files. All external network traffic for ads or billing utilizes encrypted HTTPS (Transport Layer Security - TLS).

9. Developer & Contact Information

If you have questions, feedback, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or the data practices of Alarm Jail, please contact:

• Application: Alarm Jail
• Developer: ToonCoder Team
• Email: sushmit.singh@gmail.com
• Website: https://tooncoder.github.io/