NotiAssist privacy policy

What NotiAssist reads

With your permission (Android's Notification access), NotiAssist reads the notifications of the apps you choose to watch: the app's name, the title and text, the sender and chat name when the app provides them, the time, the kind of notification, and a picture when the notification carries one. For an email, that is the sender, the subject and the start of the email that the email app puts in its notification. Notifications from apps you do not watch are ignored and never stored. Notifications that are not messages, such as a music or voice-note player, or a notification with no text, are never stored either.

What NotiAssist keeps, and where

• History: for watched apps with History switched on, the notification text, sender, chat, time and any picture are saved in the app's private storage on your phone.
• Rules and settings: your watched apps, alarm rules, alert profiles, reminders and preferences, also on your phone.
• Contacts you pick for a rule: when you choose "Select saved contact" in an alarm rule, Android's own contact picker opens and gives NotiAssist only the one contact you tap: its name and phone number, kept in that rule on your phone. NotiAssist has no permission to read your contacts and never sees the rest of your address book. Deleting the rule deletes them.
• Privacy mode: you can turn off saving message text; then only which app notified you and when is kept, and no pictures are saved.
• Retention: History entries are deleted automatically after the period you choose (unless pinned or archived), and you can delete any entry, picture or the whole History at any time.
• Lock: you can require your fingerprint or screen lock before History and Follow-ups show message text. Once unlocked, they stay open for up to five minutes while you use the app, and lock again as soon as you leave it.

What leaves your phone

• Nothing about your messages is ever sent. NotiAssist has no account, no server of its own and no advertising. Apart from crash reports and usage statistics, which are sent only if you agree (see below), and a one-way code for your phone when you start the 7-day Pro preview (see Purchases), the app sends nothing.
• Information leaves your phone only when you do it: sharing a message or picture to another app, saving a picture to your gallery, exporting History to a file, or exporting a backup of your rules (backups never contain History).
• Android's own device backup may include NotiAssist's settings if you have device backup turned on; History and pictures are excluded from it.
• Feedback goes out only when you send it, from your own email app, and contains only what you wrote, the screenshots you chose and the app and Android versions. Your messages and contacts are never attached.

Crash reports and usage statistics (only if you agree)

NotiAssist asks you once, on its Home screen, whether to send crash reports and usage statistics to help fix problems and improve the app. Both are off until you agree, and you can switch each one on or off at any time in Settings → Help improve NotiAssist. Switching one off stops it from then on.

• Crash reports (Google Firebase Crashlytics): when NotiAssist stops unexpectedly or freezes, the technical details of the error (where in the app's code it happened), the app version, the Android version, the phone model and its state at the time (such as free memory), your plan (Basic, preview or Pro) and how far setup got, the time, and a random identifier for this installation. A crash that happens while crash reports are off is deleted from your phone, not sent later.
• Usage statistics (Google Analytics for Firebase): which of NotiAssist's features are used, for example opening the Pro screen (and from which limit), starting the 7-day preview, the result of a purchase or a restore, a refund, and starting a feedback message (only its type). With them Firebase records the app version, the phone model, the Android version, the language, the country (worked out from the internet address, which Google Analytics does not store), session times and a random identifier for this installation.

These never include the content of your notifications or messages, senders, chat names, contacts, phone numbers, your keywords, your History or the text of your reminders. Usage statistics also never include which apps you watch. The advertising ID and the Android ID are not collected, and the data is not used for advertising.

Google receives this data as a service provider for NotiAssist, under the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and Firebase's privacy terms (https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy). Crash reports are kept for 90 days and usage statistics for 2 months, then deleted. To ask for earlier deletion, write to the contact address below.

Purchases

NotiAssist Pro is bought through Google Play. Google Play handles the payment under its own terms and privacy policy; NotiAssist never sees your card or payment details. The app keeps, on your phone, whether Pro is bought, and asks Google Play to confirm it now and then. The 7-day Pro preview runs on your phone and never charges. It is offered once per phone. Its dates are kept with your settings, which Android's own backup includes; with them is a one-way hash of the phone's Android ID, used only on your phone to tell when those settings were restored onto another phone.

When you start the preview, NotiAssist also records your phone in Google Firebase Cloud Firestore, so that clearing the app's storage or reinstalling it does not offer the preview again. The record holds only a one-way code made from the phone's Android ID (the ID itself cannot be worked out from it and is never sent) and the time the preview started. It is not linked to you, your Google account or anything else the app knows, and it is not used for advertising or statistics. It is kept for as long as the app is offered, because its only purpose is to recognise the same phone later. Google Firebase App Check, with Google Play Integrity, confirms that the request comes from the genuine app. To have the record deleted, write to the contact address below; the phone can then start the preview once more.

Permissions and why they are needed

• Notification access: to see the notifications of the apps you watch.
• Notifications, full-screen alerts, alarms and reminders: to ring an alarm for an important message and to remind you at the time you set.
• Run in the background / ignore battery optimisation: so Android does not stop NotiAssist from waking you.
• Biometric: only to unlock History and Follow-ups when you turn the lock on.
• Do Not Disturb access (optional): only so an alarm can ring while Do Not Disturb is on, when you allow it.
• Start at boot: to start watching again after the phone restarts.
• Contacts: none. Picking a contact for a rule uses Android's picker, which shares only the contact you choose.
• Storage (Android 8 and 9 only): to save a picture to your gallery when you ask.

Children

NotiAssist is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published here with a new date.

Contact

Questions: musadaqhanif678@gmail.com