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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 16 September 2026 · App: Tickface (com.watchesapp.live) · Publisher: Atwa Labs

The short version

Tickface has no accounts, no sign-in, no advertising and no analytics. There is no Tickface server: nothing you do in the app is sent to us, because there is nowhere for it to go.

One thing leaves your phone, and only if you use a design that shows the weather: an approximate location, rounded to about a kilometre, sent to a weather service to get the forecast for your area.

What the app can access, and why

What you are playing (Notification access)

Two designs — Vinyl and Mixtape — show the song playing on your phone. To do that, Android requires an app to hold Notification access, which is how the system shares media sessions.

• Tickface reads only the title, artist and album art that the playing app publishes.
• It reads no notifications, of any kind, ever.
• That information is held in memory while it is drawn on your wallpaper. It is never written to storage and never sent anywhere.
• The permission is optional. Without it those designs show “Nothing playing”.
• You can withdraw it at any time in Android Settings → Apps → Special app access → Notification access.

Approximate location (weather designs only)

The Beacon design shows the current weather. To find the weather where you are, the app:

1. Reads the approximate location Android already has, if you granted that permission.
2. Rounds it to two decimal places — roughly a kilometre, so it identifies an area, not an address.
3. Sends those rounded coordinates over an encrypted connection to Open-Meteo, a free weather service, to ask for the forecast there.

Your location is sent to no one else, and nothing else is sent with it — no device identifier, no account, no name. Open-Meteo is an independent service with its own privacy practices. The weather that comes back is stored on your phone so it can be redrawn without asking again.

The permission is optional. Without it, Beacon shows dashes where the weather would be.

Purchases

Paid designs are sold through Google Play Billing. Payment is handled entirely by Google: Tickface never sees your card, your address or your payment details. The app asks Google which designs you own and keeps that list on your phone so it works offline. Google may give us anonymous sales and earnings reports, which say nothing about individual buyers.

Your settings

Your chosen design, colour preset, backdrop, seconds and 12/24-hour setting are stored in the app's own storage on your phone. They are never uploaded.

What Tickface does not do

• No accounts, no email collection, no sign-in.
• No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
• No analytics, no tracking, no usage profiles.
• No access to your photos, contacts, microphone, camera or files.
• Nothing is sold or shared with data brokers.

Crash reporting and analytics

The app currently contains none. If that changes — for example to fix crashes we cannot otherwise see — this policy and the app's Data safety information on Google Play will be updated before that version is released, and it will be described here plainly.

Children

Tickface is not directed at children under 13 and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Keeping and deleting data

There is nothing of yours held on our side to delete. Uninstalling the app removes your settings and the stored weather from your phone. Purchases stay attached to your Google account, so they return if you reinstall; for purchase records held by Google, use your Google account's own privacy tools.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version appears at this address with a new date at the top. Real changes — anything about what leaves your phone — will also be mentioned in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hello@tickface.app