IntentIntent Launcher privacy policy
Last updated: 27 October 2026
Intent Launcher is a home screen app for Android made by Prakhar ("I", "me"). This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it. In short: your data stays on your phone, and I never receive it unless you write to me yourself.
The person responsible for the app and this policy (the "data fiduciary" under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, and the "controller" under the EU and UK GDPR) is Prakhar, an individual developer in India, reachable at prakhar.workmail@gmail.com.
What stays on your phone
Everything you put into the app, and everything it reads to work, stays on your phone and is never sent to me or anyone else:
- your home screen layout, widgets and settings;
- contacts and calendar events, which are read live from your phone to show and search them;
- bank and UPI SMS, which Money reads on the phone to record transactions;
- if you turn it on, payment notifications from UPI apps (Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm and similar), read on the phone to record payments your bank sent no SMS for;
- money, budgets and investments you enter;
- family trees, relationships, birthdays and photos;
- time tracking, habits, to-dos, routines and app usage;
- if you connect Health Connect, your steps, exercise sessions and sleep sessions, read only to tick habits such as "Evening walk", "Gym" or "In bed by 11" (nothing is written to Health Connect, and health data is never used for ads or shared);
- if you allow physical activity, whether the phone is walking or in a vehicle, used to suggest tracking a commute and to tick walks;
- names of chats taken from notifications so search can find them (message text is never read or kept);
- the amount of any donation you record.
I have no server that stores user data, and the app has no account, ads, analytics, tracking or crash reporting.
What leaves your phone, and why
| What | Where it goes | When |
|---|---|---|
| The location of each weather or clock place, or your approximate location (about 2 km) if you choose "My location" | Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com), a weather service | When a weather widget refreshes |
| The city name you type | Open-Meteo's city search | When you add a place |
| Which map squares (tiles) to draw, which shows roughly where you are looking | OpenStreetMap's tile servers (tile.openstreetmap.org) | Only while a routine's place map is open; tiles are kept on the phone for 14 days |
| The address you type in a routine's place search | Your phone's built-in geocoder (Google Play services on most phones) | When you search for a place |
| A short Google Maps link you paste (maps.app.goo.gl) | When you paste it, to read the place's coordinates |
| Usage and diagnostic counts from Google's on-device scanner and text reader (ML Kit): device model, Android version, app version, how long a scan took, and error codes. Never the image or the text read from it | Google, through Google Play services | When you use Scan & pay or read a bill to split it |
|---|---|---|
| Which plan your Google account owns, and the purchase itself | Google Play | When you open Intent Pro or the app checks your plan. Google Play handles payment; I see only the order details Play gives every developer (such as order number, plan, price, country and postcode), never your card or UPI details |
Apart from Google's own diagnostics above, none of these receive a name, account or device identifier. Saved places themselves never leave the phone. Open-Meteo's privacy policy is at https://open-meteo.com/en/terms and OpenStreetMap's at https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy. All requests use HTTPS.
Copies downloaded from GitHub (not Google Play) can also check GitHub for app updates. That request carries no information about you.
When you write to me
If you contact me on WhatsApp or by email (Settings > Help & support), I receive what you send: your message, your number or address, the app version and phone model, and the last crash report if you leave that box ticked. I use it only to reply and fix bugs, keep it no longer than needed for that (at most a year), and delete it sooner if you ask.
When you share something yourself
Some actions open another app with text filled in, and nothing is sent unless you send it there: contacting me on WhatsApp or by email, sharing a bank SMS Money couldn't read (long numbers are hidden first), sharing a family tree file (locked with a password you choose), searching the web in your browser, and paying through your UPI app. What those apps do with it is covered by their own policies.
Backups
Backups are encrypted with a password you choose (AES-256) and saved only to the folder you pick. If that folder syncs to a cloud service, that service's policy applies to the file. I can't open your backups.
Permissions
The app asks for permissions such as contacts, calendar, SMS, location, notifications and usage access only for the features that need them. Every permission and what it's used for is listed in the app under Settings > Privacy & permissions, where you can also turn each one off.
Your rights
You can see, correct, export (Settings > Backup & restore) and delete (Settings > Clear data, or uninstall) everything the app keeps, at any time, on the phone itself. Since I hold none of it, I can't see or sell it. For anything you sent me, write to me to access, correct or delete it, or to nominate someone to act for you. Under India's DPDP Act you may also complain to the Data Protection Board of India; in the EU or UK, to your data protection authority. I don't sell or share personal information as defined by California law, and nothing is used for ads or profiling.
Where the GDPR applies, the legal basis is performing what you asked the app to do (contract) for the services listed above, and my legitimate interest in replying to messages you send me. The weather, map and Google services may process requests outside your country (Open-Meteo in the EU, OpenStreetMap in the EU and UK, Google worldwide).
Children
Intent Launcher isn't meant for children under 18 and doesn't knowingly collect anything from them.
Deleting your data
Since nothing is kept off your phone, uninstalling the app or using Settings > Clear data removes all of it. Backup files you saved stay where you put them until you delete them.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date.
Questions or complaints (including as grievance officer under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023): Prakhar, prakhar.workmail@gmail.com. Complaints are acknowledged within 48 hours and resolved within a month.