Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Privacy Prime is developed and published as an independent Android application on the Google Play Store. For questions or concerns about this policy, visit privacyprime.tech or contact: support@privacyprime.tech

2. Data We Collect - None Sent Off-Device

Privacy Prime operates entirely on your device. We do not run servers, we do not collect telemetry, and we do not have access to any information about you or your device.

The following data is generated and stored locally on your device only:

• Activity logs - records of which apps accessed your microphone, camera, or location, and when. Stored in an AES-256 encrypted database on your device.
• App settings - your preferences (blocking state, scheduled rules, biometric lock settings). Stored in encrypted SharedPreferences on your device.
• Privacy profiles - named configurations for mic/camera blocking state (Standard and Pro). Stored locally.
• Battery usage snapshots - per-app battery drain estimates. Stored locally.
• Clipboard access events - records of when the clipboard is accessed while the clipboard monitor is active. Stored locally; clipboard contents are never read, stored, or transmitted.
• Security scan results - results of scanning installed apps. Generated on-demand, stored locally, never transmitted.

None of this data ever leaves your device.

3. Permissions Used and Why

• PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS - Detects which apps access your microphone, camera, and location. Required for the activity monitor. Granted manually by the user in system settings.
• RECORD_AUDIO - Holds an exclusive audio session to prevent spy apps from silently recording. The app never records or stores audio.
• CAMERA - Holds an exclusive Camera2 session to prevent spy apps from silently accessing the camera. The app never captures or stores photos or video.
• FOREGROUND_SERVICE / FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MICROPHONE / FOREGROUND_SERVICE_CAMERA - Keeps the mic and camera blocking services running reliably in the background.
• RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED - Restarts blocking services after device reboot to maintain your privacy protection.
• POST_NOTIFICATIONS - Sends alerts when blocked apps attempt to access your mic, camera, or location (Android 13+).
• QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES - Lists installed apps for the security scanner, app blocking rules, and battery monitor. No data is transmitted.
• REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS - Keeps background monitoring services running reliably.
• REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES - Launches the system uninstall dialog for apps flagged by the security scanner. The user must confirm; the app cannot uninstall anything silently.
• SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM / USE_EXACT_ALARM - Fires scheduled blocking rules at precise times.
• USE_BIOMETRIC - Locks the app and blocking controls behind your fingerprint or face - credential data never leaves the device's secure enclave.
• READ_CLIPBOARD / ClipboardManager - Detects clipboard access events while the clipboard monitor service is running. The app never reads, stores, or transmits the actual contents of your clipboard - only the fact that a change occurred is logged locally.
• INTERNET / ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - Used only to fetch app descriptions from the Play Store for display in the event detail sheet, and to process in-app purchases via Google Play Billing. No personal data is transmitted.
• com.android.vending.BILLING - Processes one-time in-app purchases (Standard / Pro) via Google Play.

4. In-App Purchases & License Tiers

• Free (Lite) - a permanent free tier included at no cost. Activity log, GPS log, Permission Inspector, App Blocking list, Battery usage, and Recent Alerts are available in view-only mode. Activity log is capped to the last 24 hours. Privacy Score gauge, Security Scanner, and the Clipboard Monitor are reserved for Standard and Pro — on Lite, the Home Privacy Score card is hidden, the Security tile opens an upgrade dialog, and the clipboard listener in ActivityMonitorService is unregistered so no clipboard events are written to the activity log. No purchase required, no expiry.
• Standard ($4.99 one-time) - unlocks the Privacy Score gauge + detail screen, the Security Scanner, the Clipboard Monitor, mic blocking (system-wide soft-mute + exclusive AudioRecord), Camera2 exclusive-session camera blocking, per-app block rules + trusted whitelist, per-app GPS block alerts, Cookie Scan clear-data and uninstall for tracked user apps, unlimited activity history with a retention picker, Permission Inspector revoke actions, scheduled blocking, privacy profiles, biometric app lock, and the Quick Settings tile. Available via a user-activated 7-day launch-promo trial offered to Lite users from the Home screen after the intro and Lite permission setup are complete.
• Pro ($9.99 one-time) - unlocks all Standard features plus OS-level camera blocking via Device Owner (Android 9+), provisioned by a single one-time adb command (no root, no Magisk required), system-app coverage across block rules, GPS block and Cookie Scan, and the advanced security scanner with device-level checks.

7-day Standard launch-promo trial. The App offers a user-activated 7-day Standard trial from a prompt on the Home screen, shown after the introduction and Lite permission setup. No payment information is required; tapping Start trial begins the timer, tapping Not now dismisses the prompt for that session. The trial state is stored locally in a plain SharedPreferences file (trial_prefs.xml) which is included in Android Auto Backup so that the trial cannot be reset by clearing app data or reinstalling on the same Google account. Tamper-protection combines a pre-computed wall-clock expiry, the live wall-clock elapsed time, and a cross-reboot accumulator that adds monotonic elapsedRealtime deltas across app sessions — so rolling the device clock back or rebooting after a rollback does not extend the trial. When the 7 days end, the user is moved to the Free (Lite) tier with no data loss; purchasing Standard or Pro at any time (during or after the trial) supersedes it. This launch-promo trial may be removed in a future release.

Purchase processing is handled entirely by Google Play Billing. We do not receive or store your payment information. Google's privacy policy applies to the billing transaction: https://policies.google.com/privacy

5. Third-Party Libraries

The app uses the following third-party libraries. None of them are configured to transmit data in this app:

• Google Play Billing - in-app purchase processing
• LibSU - root shell library, present on the classpath but dormant: no user-facing tier in this build invokes it, and it never executes a root command in normal operation. Retained only for a hypothetical future "Root Edition" sideload.
• Google Tink - AES-256 encryption for local data storage
• Jetpack Security (EncryptedSharedPreferences) - encrypted local preferences
• Room + SQLCipher - encrypted local database
• Hilt / Dagger - dependency injection (no network activity)
• WorkManager - background task scheduling (no network activity)
• MPAndroidChart - local chart rendering
• AndroidX DataStore - encrypted local key-value storage for app settings

6. Pro Setup via Device Owner (ADB)

The Pro tier's OS-level camera block is enabled by provisioning Privacy Prime Pro as Android Device Owner. The user runs a single one-time adb shell dpm set-device-owner command from a computer with USB debugging enabled. No root, no Magisk, and no custom recovery is required; the app runs on stock Android. Once provisioned, Pro calls DevicePolicyManager.setCameraDisabled(true) at the OS level — the camera block survives reboot and is enforced by Android itself, not by the app process.

A legacy Magisk module remains in the project source repository for a hypothetical future "Root Edition" sideload. It is dormant — it is not wired into any user-facing tier, is not packaged with the Google Play release, and is not required for any feature in this build of the app.

7. Children's Privacy

Privacy Prime is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect any information from children.

8. Data Security

All data stored locally by Privacy Prime is protected by multiple layers of encryption:

9. Data Retention and Deletion

All data is stored only on your device. You can delete all app data at any time by going to Settings → Apps → Privacy Prime → Clear Data on your device. Uninstalling the app removes all locally stored data.

The app provides a configurable log retention setting (default: 30 days) to automatically purge old activity records.

10. Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we will update the "Last updated" date above and publish the updated policy at privacyprime.tech/privacy-policy.html. Continued use of the app after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact

For any privacy-related questions or requests, visit privacyprime.tech or contact us at: support@privacyprime.tech