Privacy Policy | Simple Budget: Expense Tracker

Personal Finance Utility

1. Scope of This Policy

Simple Budget: Expense Tracker ("Simple Budget", "we", "our", or "us") is designed for manual personal finance organization. You can use it to record expenses, income, loan entries, monthly budgets, category budgets, notes, dates, and simple charts.

The app is not a bank, lender, broker, payment processor, investment product, tax service, accounting service, or financial adviser. Amounts, summaries, percentages, charts, and reports are calculated from the information you enter or the settings you choose.

User-Entered Records

2. Budget and Transaction Information

Simple Budget may handle information that you manually add inside the app. This can include personal finance details, but only to provide the app's tracking, summary, and reporting features.

Transactions Expense records, income records, loan records, amounts, categories, notes, dates, times, and transaction details.

Budgets Monthly budget amounts, category budget names, category budget amounts, remaining amounts, and budget progress calculations.

Loan labels Borrower or lender labels that you choose to type for loan-related entries.

Preferences Language, currency symbol, selected month or year, display choices, and other in-app settings.

Please avoid entering highly sensitive information in notes or labels unless it is necessary for your own use.

App Operation

3. Technical and Usage Information

To keep the app reliable, understand performance, measure advertising, and improve the product, Simple Budget and its service providers may process technical information from your device and app session.

Device data Device model, operating system version, app version, language, approximate region derived from network information, and network status.

Diagnostics Crash logs, performance events, error signals, and stability information used to detect and fix issues.

Ad and attribution data Advertising identifiers where available, ad interactions, campaign attribution, install source, and measurement events.

Purpose

4. How Information Is Used

To save and display expense, income, loan, budget, category, and note records.
To calculate balances, monthly spending, remaining budgets, category totals, charts, and yearly reports.
To maintain language, currency, date, chart, and display settings.
To keep the app stable, diagnose errors, measure performance, and improve app features.
To show ads, limit abuse, measure ad performance, and support attribution and campaign reporting.
To respond when you contact us for support.

Third-Party SDKs

5. Firebase, AdMob, and Adjust

Simple Budget uses the following third-party SDKs. These providers may process device identifiers, advertising identifiers, app events, diagnostics, approximate location derived from IP address, and related technical information according to their own privacy policies.

Firebase
Google AdMob
Adjust

Firebase Used for analytics, diagnostics, crash reporting, app quality measurement, or related app operation features, depending on the released build.

Google AdMob Used to display advertisements, measure ad performance, help prevent invalid activity, and support ad delivery.

Adjust Used for attribution, install source measurement, campaign performance analysis, and related app marketing measurement.

Disclosure

6. Sharing of Information

We do not sell personal information. Limited information may be shared with service providers or SDK partners that help us operate, analyze, advertise, secure, or improve the app.

We may also disclose information when required by law, regulation, legal process, enforceable government request, user direction, or when needed to protect users, the app, our rights, or the safety and integrity of our services.

Device Access

7. Permissions

Permissions may vary by Android version, device model, and app release. Simple Budget requests permissions only for app operation or optional features.

Internet Used for advertising, analytics, attribution, diagnostics, support pages, and connectivity to service providers.

Network state Used to determine whether the device has network connectivity.

Notifications Used only if the app provides optional reminders or status notices and you allow notifications on supported Android versions.

You can manage app permissions from Android system settings.

Retention

8. Storage, Retention, and Deletion

Budget records, transaction records, notes, and settings may remain in the app until you edit them, delete them, clear app data, or uninstall the app. If you contact us by email, we may keep your email address and message content for a reasonable period to handle support and maintain service records.

Information processed by Firebase, AdMob, and Adjust is handled according to those providers' retention, deletion, and privacy practices.

User Choices

9. Your Choices

You can edit or delete records inside the app where the app provides those controls.
You can clear app data or uninstall the app from Android settings.
You can reset or limit advertising identifiers using your device settings where supported.
You can contact us to request deletion of support emails or ask privacy-related questions.

Safeguards

10. Security

We use reasonable measures designed to protect information handled by the app. However, no app, device, transmission method, or storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Age

11. Children

Simple Budget is not directed to children under the age required by applicable law. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided information to us, please contact us.

Policy Updates

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the app, SDKs, legal requirements, or data handling practices change. The latest version will show the updated effective date.

Contact

13. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or Simple Budget's data practices, contact us at:

prosperityconvert@gmail.com