PRIVACY POLICY FOR WORK HOURS TRACKER & TIMESHEET

PRIVACY POLICY FOR WORK HOURS TRACKER & TIMESHEET

Effective Date / Last Updated: September 6, 2026

Application Name: Work Hours Tracker & Timesheet

Package Name (Application ID): com.videapps.workhours

Developer / Publisher: Vide Apps

Contact Email: [videapps11@gmail.com](mailto:videapps11@gmail.com)

This Privacy Policy explains how Vide Apps ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, maintains, protects, and discloses information in connection with the Work Hours Tracker & Timesheet mobile application ("App") for Android.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal, work, and financial information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our data practices and your privacy rights. By installing, accessing, or using the App, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. CORE PRIVACY PRINCIPLE: 100% LOCAL & OFFLINE-FIRST ARCHITECTURE

The App is designed as an offline-first utility for tracking shifts, hours worked, and calculating estimated earnings.

No Account Required: You do not need to register, create an account, log in, or provide personal contact details such as your email address, phone number, or password to use the App.

100% On-Device Data Storage: All your work logs, shift times, hourly pay rates, overtime calculations, notes, position titles, and app settings are stored exclusively on your local device in an on-device SQLite database and local application storage.

No Developer Cloud Servers: We do not operate or maintain remote databases, cloud synchronization servers, or external tracking servers. Your timesheet and wage data is never uploaded, synchronized, or transmitted to any server owned or controlled by Vide Apps.

Automated Cloud Backup Disabled: To protect the confidentiality of your pay and hours, the App explicitly disables Android cloud backups (android:allowBackup="false") and restricts automated device-transfer rules. Your timesheet history remains strictly on your physical device.

2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND PROCESS

A. Personal, Work & Financial Data Managed Locally by You

To calculate your earnings, organize your shifts, and generate exportable timesheet reports, you may enter the following information directly into the App:

Shift & Time Records: Dates worked, daily regular hours, overtime hours, start and end times, and multi-tariff line breakdowns, such as splitting a day across basic, evening, night, or weekend shifts.

Pay & Financial Rates: Base hourly rates, overtime multipliers such as 1.5×, customized tariff rates, currency preferences such as USD, EUR, or GBP, and calculated pay figures.

Adjustments & Extra Earnings: Optional bonuses, meal or travel expense reimbursements, and deductions or fines attached to specific days.

Shift Details & Calendar Notes: Custom shift tags, shift color markers, event names such as "Site Visit", and free-text personal work notes.

Worker Profile & Report Information: Full name and job position or title, such as Electrician, Driver, Nurse, Carpenter, or Warehouse Operative, that you optionally enter to display on generated timesheet reports.

App Preferences: Week start day (Sunday/Monday), pay period grouping (monthly, weekly, half-monthly, custom period), theme mode (light, dark, system), primary accent color, and language settings.

Important Storage Notice: All data listed above remains 100% local to your device. We never transmit, inspect, share, or sell your shifts, hourly rates, wages, notes, or worker profile data.

B. Information Automatically Collected by Third-Party SDKs (Google AdMob)

The App itself makes no network requests for user data. However, to keep the core features of the App free for everyone, the App integrates the Google AdMob SDK (Google Mobile Ads) to serve advertisements. When AdMob has no advertisement available, the same SDK may request an advertisement from Google Ad Manager / Google Ad Exchange (AdX), which collects the same types of data described below.

When you use the App with an active internet connection, Google AdMob may automatically collect device-level technical identifiers, including:

Device & Technical Identifiers: Google Advertising ID (com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID), Android ID, Internet Protocol (IP) address, device brand and model, operating system version, carrier, and device language settings.

Ad Interaction & Performance Data: Ad impressions, ad clicks, diagnostic data, session duration, and crash or error reports related to ad rendering to measure ad performance and prevent fraudulent activity or invalid traffic.

Network Connection Status: Network state, including Wi-Fi or mobile data, to ensure advertisements are only requested when an active internet connection is available.

3. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES & SDK DISCLOSURES

The App does not integrate social media plugins, third-party analytics trackers such as Google Analytics or Firebase Analytics, or third-party crash-reporting SDKs.

The only external service integrated into the App is:

Google AdMob, Google Ad Manager / Ad Exchange (AdX) & Google Play Services

Purpose: Delivering anchored adaptive banner advertisements on the Calendar and About screens and occasional, heavily-paced interstitial advertisements between page transitions, as well as detecting ad fraud.

Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

How Google uses information from apps: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Google Ad Settings: https://adssettings.google.com

4. HOW WE USE COLLECTED INFORMATION

Information processed by the App is used strictly for the following legitimate purposes:

1. Delivering Core App Functionality: Calculating base pay, overtime pay, and period totals using the formula:

day total = (hours × rate) + (overtime hours × rate × overtime multiplier) + adjustments

2. Generating Reports & Timesheets: Rendering monthly timesheets and earnings summaries as local HTML files and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx) upon your command.

3. Providing Local Backup & Restore: Allowing you to export your data to a CSV spreadsheet backup ("Save Data") and re-import it ("Restore data").

4. Serving Advertisements: Displaying banner and interstitial advertisements provided by Google AdMob.

5. Security & Fraud Prevention: Detecting technical faults, ensuring app stability, and preventing invalid ad clicks or fraudulent activity.

6. USER-INITIATED SHARING, EXPORTS & BACKUPS

Generated Reports (HTML & XLSX): When you generate a monthly report, the file is saved locally on your device in the Documents/Work Hours Reports/ folder (or app-specific storage). The file never leaves your phone unless you deliberately tap the Android Share button to send it to an employer, accountant, cloud drive, or email recipient.

CSV Backups ("Save Data"): When you use the "Save Data" feature, a CSV file (work_hours_backup_YYYY-MM-DD.csv) is created in your device's Documents/Work document backup/ folder. This file remains on your device until you choose to transfer or share it.

Restore Data: When you use "Restore data", the App uses the native Android system document picker so you can select a previously saved CSV file from your phone storage or Google Drive. The file is read strictly within your local session to populate your local database.

6. DATA STORAGE, RETENTION & PROTECTION POLICY (GOOGLE PLAY COMPLIANT)

In compliance with Google Play Developer Program Policies regarding User Data and Data Safety:

A. Local Data Retention

Where it is stored: All work logs, hourly rates, adjustments, profile information, and preferences are stored exclusively on your device's internal SQLite database (workhours.db).

Retention Duration: Local data is retained indefinitely on your device for as long as the App remains installed, or until you choose to delete entries, clear a period, or reset data.

Cloud Storage: We do not retain, copy, or store your personal work history on any remote server.

B. Third-Party Ad Network Retention

Google AdMob retains technical identifiers such as the Advertising ID and IP address according to Google's standard data retention policies, typically ranging from 30 days to 24 months, for advertising, audit, and fraud-prevention purposes.

7. DATA DELETION, USER CONTROL & PRIVACY RIGHTS (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA)

You maintain ownership and control over your work and earnings data.

How You Can Delete Your Data Immediately

1. Delete Individual Entries: Tap any logged date on the calendar, click the delete icon, or clear the hours/minutes to delete that day's entry.

2. Delete a Specific Period: Open the calendar menu, select Delete Period, choose a date range, and confirm. All work records within that range will be permanently erased.

3. Clear All Data via Device Settings:

Open Android Settings > Apps (or Application Manager).

Select Work Hours Tracker & Timesheet.

Tap Storage & cache.

Select Clear Storage (or Clear Data). This immediately and permanently destroys the local database, all settings, cached reports, and local backups stored in the app directory.

4. Uninstall the App: Uninstalling the App removes the application package and automatically deletes its local SQLite database and private storage from your device.

Your Rights Under GDPR (EEA & UK Users)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom:

Right of Access, Rectification & Erasure: Because your timesheet data is stored 100% locally on your device, you have immediate, direct access to view, correct, export, or erase all of your data directly within the App at any time.

Ad Privacy & Consent Management (UMP): The App integrates Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) SDK. EEA and UK users are presented with a consent form regarding personalized advertising. You can revisit and change your privacy consent choices at any time by navigating to About the program > Ad privacy options inside the App.

Your Rights Under CCPA / CPRA (California Residents)

We do not sell or share your personal work entries, wages, names, or timesheets.

Google AdMob may process device identifiers for advertising purposes. You can opt out of personalized ads directly through your Android system settings: Settings > Google > Ads > Delete advertising ID or Opt out of Ads Personalization.

8. DEVICE PERMISSIONS DISCLOSURE

The App requests the absolute minimum permissions necessary to function, adhering to the principle of data minimization:

Permission: android.permission.INTERNET

Category: Normal Protection

Why the App Declares It: Required for the internal WebView bridge to display the app shell locally, and by Google AdMob to retrieve advertisements over HTTPS. The App does not send work data over the internet.

Permission: android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE

Category: Normal Protection

Why the App Declares It: Used by the Google Mobile Ads SDK to check whether an active internet connection is available before requesting an advertisement.

Permission: com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID

Category: Advertising ID

Why the App Declares It: Required by Google Play on Android 13+ (API level 33+) for AdMob to utilize the Advertising ID for ad frequency capping, reporting, and ad-fraud detection.

Permission: android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE & android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Category: Storage (Legacy, maxSdkVersion="29")

Why the App Declares It: Declared with maxSdkVersion="29" solely to allow saving exported timesheet reports (.html, .xlsx) and CSV backups to the public Documents folder on Android 10 and older devices. Not requested or used on Android 11+, which uses modern Scoped Storage.

Permissions Explicitly Removed / Not Used

To protect your privacy and ensure compliance with Google Play's strict permission policies, the following permissions are explicitly removed and never requested:

FOREGROUND_SERVICE is stripped (tools:node="remove"); the App runs zero background or foreground services.

USE_BIOMETRIC and USE_FINGERPRINT are stripped (tools:node="remove").

No location permissions (ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION or ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) are requested.

No camera, microphone, contacts, or phone-state permissions are requested.

Haptic vibration (android.hardware.vibrate) is optional and used solely for tactile button feedback.

9. SECURITY OF YOUR DATA

Network Encryption: All network traffic for Google AdMob utilizes secure, encrypted HTTPS/TLS connections. Cleartext (unencrypted HTTP) traffic is strictly forbidden by the App's Android network security configuration (cleartextTrafficPermitted="false").

Local Sandboxing: Your work logs are protected by Android's application sandboxing, which prevents other applications on your device from accessing the App's private SQLite database.

Shared File Security: When exporting reports or backups, the App uses a secure androidx.core.content.FileProvider with temporary, granular, read-only intent permissions (grantUriPermissions="true"), ensuring third-party apps cannot access your private storage.

Device Security Recommendation: Because your data is stored locally, we recommend safeguarding your physical device with a secure PIN, password, or biometric lock.

10. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY (COPPA COMPLIANCE)

The App is designed as a productivity tool for working adults and individuals who track hourly wages. It is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the EEA). We do not knowingly collect, request, or store personal information from children.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information or used the App, please contact us at [videapps11@gmail.com](mailto:videapps11@gmail.com), and we will take immediate corrective measures.

11. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in app functionality, third-party SDK updates, or applicable legal and regulatory standards.

Any changes will be published with an updated "Effective Date / Last Updated" timestamp at the top of this document. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

12. CONTACT US

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, your privacy rights, or our data handling practices, please contact us at:

Developer / Publisher: Vide Apps

App Name: Work Hours Tracker & Timesheet

Package ID: com.videapps.workhours

Contact Email: [videapps11@gmail.com](mailto:videapps11@gmail.com)