Who provides Threshold
Threshold (app.threshold.prayer) is published by Binary Data Technology. Privacy and deletion questions can be sent to binarydatatechnology151@gmail.com.
Information kept on your device
Threshold stores the city and coordinates you select, calculation settings, observance schedule, local history, settings, commitment text, the apps you block and the apps you keep always open, excused-day records, and your subscription state (including the Google Play purchase token and plan, so the app can check the subscription) or reviewer-access state in Android app-private storage. This information supports the app’s scheduling, history, blocking and offline operation.
It also keeps a shield log: for the last 90 days, when the shield appeared, for which app and observance, and what you chose. It is used only for the optional weekly recap, is never exported or uploaded, and older entries are deleted automatically.
Threshold’s current release cannot create new cloud backups. Export creates a backup file and opens Android’s share sheet, so you choose where it goes — your own storage, a drive or an email. Whichever app you choose receives the file, which contains your history, city, settings and commitment text (never excused days). Binary Data Technology does not receive it.
Permissions and local processing
- Usage access lets Threshold detect the package name of the app currently in the foreground so it can show the shield for an app you selected. Threshold does not transmit or retain a history of opened apps.
- Display over other apps shows the shield. It does not let Threshold read another app’s contents.
- Notifications, alarms, vibration and run at startup support reminders and observance-window timing.
- Internet and network state support Google Play entitlement checks, reviewer configuration (only when a reviewer access code is used), optional Analytics and Crashlytics, and deletion of a retained legacy cloud record.
Threshold does not request location, camera, microphone, contacts, photos, calendar, SMS, accessibility-service access, advertising identifiers, or permission to query every installed app.
Information transmitted to service providers
Reviewer configuration
Threshold contacts Firebase Remote Config only when a reviewer access code is entered or a reviewer grant is renewed; an ordinary install does not. When it does, Google Firebase automatically receives country code, language, time zone, platform and operating-system version, Firebase app identifier, package name, Remote Config SDK version, and a per-installation Firebase installation identifier. The country code is approximate location inferred without Android location permission. Threshold never sends your selected city or coordinates to Firebase.
Optional Analytics and Crashlytics
Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics are off by default. If you enable either in Settings → Privacy, Google Firebase receives which screens you open and which steps you complete, or crash logs and diagnostics, together with a pseudonymous app-instance identifier, your device model and operating-system version, and a country derived from your connection. Because Threshold is a prayer app, this can reveal that you use a prayer app; your consent in Settings is the legal basis for it. Threshold’s allow-list and content scrubber keep out your prayer history, city, blocked apps, commitment text, devotional text, the tradition you chose, which observance you marked, and excused-day information. Turning an option off also deletes what is still queued on the device and resets the identifiers. Google keeps Crashlytics crash reports for 90 days and Analytics event data for no longer than 14 months.
Google Play subscriptions
Google Play processes subscription payments. Threshold receives the purchase token, the plan and its status so it can unlock paid features, warn you before a free trial converts, and restore access. Binary Data Technology does not receive your card number, bank details, billing address, Google password or Google account email.
Retained legacy-cloud deletion
Earlier development builds could create an anonymous Firebase identity and Firestore backup. The current release cannot create new cloud backups, but it retains a deletion-only path so Settings → Delete everything can remove an earlier remote copy. That cleanup may transmit the existing anonymous Firebase user identifier. It is not a name, email address or other real-world account identity.
Sharing, selling and advertising
Threshold has no advertising SDK, does not use an advertising identifier, does not sell personal information, and does not share data for advertising. Google processes the limited information above as a service provider for Firebase and Google Play, and may process it in the United States and other countries under Google’s data-transfer safeguards. Google’s own retention and legal obligations apply to data it controls.
Retention and deletion
- Local app data remains until you delete it in Threshold or uninstall the app.
- Settings → Delete everything removes user data from the device — history, settings, exports, the shield log, the subscription record, and whatever Analytics or Crashlytics still has queued — and retries deletion of any retained legacy Firestore copy.
- Short-lived local deletion markers may remain for up to 90 days to prevent a restored local backup from recreating records you deleted.
- Optional Analytics and Crashlytics information and Google Play transaction records follow Google’s applicable retention policies.
For instructions that also work when you are not using the app, visit Delete Threshold data.
Security
Network requests use encrypted HTTPS connections. Local information is kept in Android app-private storage, and Android automatic cloud backup and device-to-device transfer are both disabled for it. An exported file is protected only by wherever you choose to send it, so keep it somewhere private. No system is perfectly secure, and this policy does not claim otherwise.
Children
Threshold is not directed to children under 13. If you believe a child’s information was transmitted to a service used by Threshold, contact us using the address below.
Your choices
You can disable Analytics and Crashlytics, export a local backup you control, delete app data, uninstall the app, or contact Binary Data Technology about a privacy or deletion request. Depending on where you live, applicable law may give you further rights, including access, correction, deletion and objection, and the right to complain to your data-protection supervisory authority. Where the GDPR applies, the legal bases are performance of the contract (running the app and your subscription) and your consent (Analytics and Crashlytics, which you can withdraw at any time).
Changes
If this policy changes materially, the effective date above will be updated and notice will be provided where required.