Privacy Policy
Overview
Earnd is a digital wellbeing app. You choose apps to lock, and you unlock them with minutes you earn through physical activity such as pushups, squats and steps. This policy explains what data the app uses, why, and your choices.
Data that stays on your device
Earnd stores its working data locally on your phone (Room database and DataStore). It is not uploaded to our servers. This includes:
- The apps you choose to lock (package names)
- Your minute bank: minutes earned and spent, with timestamps and which locked app was used
- Exercise sessions (exercise type, rep count, duration) and step credits
- Settings such as earn rates, daily limits, focus hours and emergency passes
Camera
When you start a rep session, Earnd uses the camera to count pushups or squats with on-device pose detection. Camera frames are processed in memory on your phone and are never recorded, stored or uploaded.
Health Connect
If you connect Health Connect, Earnd reads your step count and the exercise sessions you recorded in the last day (for example a run from your watch) to credit minutes to your bank. If you allow it, Earnd also saves the pushup and squat sets its camera counts to Health Connect as exercise sessions. Health data is read only for this purpose, stays on your device, and is never sold, shared with advertisers, or used for advertising. Earnd's use of information received from Health Connect adheres to the Health Connect Permissions policy, including the Limited Use requirements. You can revoke access at any time in Health Connect settings.
Accessibility service
With your consent, Earnd uses an Android Accessibility service only to detect which app is in the foreground, so it can lock the apps you chose and count the minutes you spend in them. It does not read screen content, messages, passwords or keystrokes. Nothing it observes leaves your device.
Your age
When you first open Earnd it asks for your birth year. The answer stays on your phone and is used only to decide which content and ads suit you. If you are under 18, ads are limited: they are not personalized, Google treats the request as from a user under the age of consent, and ad content is limited to what suits younger audiences.
Your account
Earnd asks you to create an account so your Premium status can follow you to a new phone. You can sign in with Google or with an email address and password. We use Google Firebase Authentication, which stores your email address, a user ID, your sign-in method and, for Google sign-in, your name and profile photo as provided by Google. Passwords are handled by Firebase and are never visible to us. Your minute bank, locked apps and exercise history are not uploaded to your account; they stay on your phone.
You can delete your account at any time in the app (Settings → Delete account). This permanently removes your account from Firebase Authentication.
Crash reporting and analytics
Earnd uses Google Firebase Crashlytics to collect crash logs and diagnostics (device model, OS version, app version and a Crashlytics installation ID), and Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how features are used (for example, which screens are opened and whether onboarding was completed). These identifiers are not linked to your name or email.
Ads
The free version shows ads provided by Google AdMob. To serve and measure ads and to prevent fraud, AdMob may collect your device's advertising ID, IP address (which can indicate your approximate location), app interaction data and diagnostics, including for personalized ads where allowed. In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland we ask for your consent through Google's User Messaging Platform first, and you can change your choice anytime in Settings → Privacy settings. If you decline, you may still see non-personalized or limited ads. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your Android settings. Earnd Premium removes ads. See Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses data from apps that use its services.
Purchases
Premium subscriptions and one-time purchases are processed by Google Play Billing. Google handles your payment details; Earnd only receives whether Premium is active.
Sharing
We use Google (Firebase, AdMob and Google Play) as service providers for the purposes above. We do not sell your personal information.
Retention and deletion
Your app data lives on your device. You can erase it in the app (Settings → Erase all data) or by uninstalling the app or clearing its storage. Your account is kept until you delete it (Settings → Delete account) or ask us to delete it. Crashlytics and Analytics data is retained by Google under Firebase's retention settings. See Delete your data.
Children
Earnd is for teens and adults aged 13 and over and is not directed to children under 13. If the age screen shows a user is under 13, Earnd does not let them use the app, unlocks any apps they locked, and turns off analytics and crash reporting on that device. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if you believe a child has given us information, email us and we will delete it.
Changes
We will update this page when the app's data use changes and revise the date above.
Contact
Questions about privacy: betabyte66@gmail.com