Phone Trackpad — Privacy Policy

Phone Trackpad collects no personal data. No analytics, no telemetry, no account system, no background reporting. Everything below is to provide more detail about that statement and explain why each permission exists.

What data we collect

None. Phone Trackpad does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data, usage data, device identifiers, or analytics.

The app contains no network code of its own. The one exception is the Google Play Billing library used for the optional tip jar, which is what causes the standard INTERNET permission to appear in the app's manifest. That permission is present because the Play Billing library declares it, and it is used only to complete a purchase you deliberately start. Nothing about your trackpad or keyboard use is ever sent anywhere.

What Bluetooth is used for

Phone Trackpad presents your phone as a standard Bluetooth pointing device (a Human Interface Device, like any Bluetooth mouse) so your laptop or computer can use the phone as a trackpad. Bluetooth permissions are required only to:

• Register the phone as a HID input device with the Android Bluetooth stack
• Make the phone discoverable so your computer can pair with it
• Send pointer movement and button-click reports to the paired host
• Receive the system broadcast that confirms the phone has entered discoverable mode (used to update the on-screen countdown)

All Bluetooth communication is strictly point-to-point between your phone and your paired computer. Nothing is sent to any server or third party.

Permissions in detail

• BLUETOOTH_CONNECT — required to send pointer/scroll input from the phone to your paired computer. Without this, the app cannot send any input.
• BLUETOOTH_ADVERTISE — required to make the phone discoverable so your computer can find it during pairing.
• BLUETOOTH_SCAN (declared with neverForLocation) — required to receive the system message confirming the phone has become discoverable. Location is not accessed.
• FOREGROUND_SERVICE / FOREGROUND_SERVICE_CONNECTED_DEVICE — required to keep the Bluetooth connection alive while the trackpad is in use.
• POST_NOTIFICATIONS — used only to display the persistent "trackpad running" notification while the service is active.

Third-party services

The app integrates only with Google Play Billing, used solely for the optional in-app tip jar. If you choose to tip, the purchase flow is handled entirely by Google Play under Google's privacy policy. Phone Trackpad receives only a flag indicating that a purchase has been completed; no payment details, email address, or account information ever reach the app.

No analytics SDKs (Firebase, Crashlytics, Sentry, Mixpanel, etc.) are included. No ads. No referral tracking.

Crash reports

If the app crashes, the next launch offers to send a crash report by email. The report contains only the stack trace, your device model, your Android version, and the application version. Tapping Send Report opens your normal email app with the report attached and the developer's address pre-filled; you can review or remove the attachment before tapping Send, and cancelling out of the email app sends nothing. Tapping Dismiss instead discards the report on the device. No crash data leaves your device without your explicit choice.

Children's privacy

The app does not knowingly collect any data from anyone, including children under 13. There is no account, no profile, no data collection of any kind.

Changes to this policy

If this policy is ever updated, the new version will replace this page at the same URL and the date at the top will be revised. Material changes will also be summarised in the app's CHANGELOG.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the app: bhu@chmod.in

Subject line conventions:

• Questions: Phone Trackpad Question
• Bug reports: Phone Trackpad Bug
• Feature ideas: Phone Trackpad Feature