Timer App

1 At a glance

Timer App does not collect, store or process any personal data. There is no user account, no sign‑up, no tracking, no profiling, no advertising and no sharing with third parties.

• Everything you create in the app stays on your device.
• Speech recognition runs entirely offline – no audio is ever transmitted.
• The app holds no internet permission and is technically unable to send anything anywhere.

2 Data controller

Responsible for data processing within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
OKeskin IT Consulting
Orhan Keskin
Email: ok@okeskin.de
Website: www.okeskin.de

3 Data that stays on your device

To do its job, the app stores a few things in its protected storage area on your device. None of it leaves the device:

• Saved workout plans including their blocks, durations, names and colours
• Presets, meaning the quick‑pick durations you have stored
• Settings: dark mode, language, voice control on/off, alert sound, volume, vibration

Running timers and stopwatches, including their lap times, exist only in memory and are gone once the app is closed.

None of this is personal data – unless you enter a name that identifies you yourself (as the name of a timer, for example). That text stays on the device as well.

You can delete all of it at any time: in the Android settings under Apps → Timer App → Storage choose to clear the app data, or simply uninstall the app.

4 Microphone and voice control

The app offers voice control for the commands “Start”, “Stop” and “Reset”. This requires the Android microphone permission (RECORD_AUDIO). Android asks you for it explicitly before it is used for the first time.

No audio ever leaves your device. Recognition uses a speech model that ships inside the app itself and runs entirely locally. There is no server, no cloud service and no connection to any external recognition service.

The access is limited as follows:

• The microphone is activated only if you have switched voice control on in the settings and granted the permission.
• It listens only while the app is open in the foreground. Leaving the app or locking the screen ends the recording.
• The captured audio is never stored – neither as a file nor as text. It is evaluated immediately and discarded.
• The only thing evaluated is whether one of the command words was spoken. Recognition is technically restricted to this small vocabulary and cannot transcribe continuous speech.
• You can switch voice control off at any time in the app settings – the microphone then stays completely inactive.
• You can revoke the permission at any time in the Android settings under Apps → Timer App → Permissions. The app remains fully usable without voice control.

5 Vibration

The app uses the vibration permission (VIBRATE) to alert you when a timer runs out. Android classifies this as a normal permission and therefore does not prompt separately. No data is collected or read in the process, and vibration can be switched off in the app settings.

6 No internet access

The app does not request the INTERNET permission. On a technical level it therefore cannot open a connection to any server – neither ours nor anyone else’s. The app works fully in flight mode.

You can verify the requested permissions yourself at any time: Google Play lists them on the app’s store page under “App permissions – See more”.

7 No third‑party services

No analytics, advertising, tracking or crash‑reporting services are built in – in particular no Google Analytics, no Firebase, no ad network, no Facebook SDK and no Sentry.

The app uses the open‑source speech recognition library Vosk (Apache License 2.0). It is a plain software library executed as part of the app on your device. It is not an online service and does not connect to anything.

8 Android system backup

Android offers an automatic backup feature. If it is enabled on your device, the operating system may back up the app data described above (settings, presets and workout plans) to your own Google Drive account, so that it is available again when you switch devices.

This backup is performed by Android, not by the app – we have no access to it and no knowledge of it. It is your own backup in your own account. You can disable it in the Android settings under System → Backup.

9 Distribution via Google Play

Download and installation happen through Google Play. In doing so, Google processes data as an independent controller (such as installations, device information and – if you have consented – crash reports). We have no influence over this. Google’s privacy policy applies.

10 No data transfers

Because the app collects no personal data and has no internet access, there is no transfer to third parties – and none to countries outside the European Union.

11 Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right of access (Art. 15), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and objection (Art. 21).

Since we neither collect nor store any personal data about you, we can neither provide information nor delete data – we simply hold none. The data stored on your device remains entirely under your control (see section 3). You are nevertheless welcome to contact us at any time.

Independently of this, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

12 Use by minors

The app is not specifically directed at children. As no personal data is collected at all, no data from children is processed either.

13 Changes to this policy

Future changes to the app’s features may require this privacy policy to be adapted. The current version is available at www.handy-timer.com/policy/. The date of the most recent change is shown above under “Last updated”.

14 Contact

For questions about data protection, please contact:
Orhan Keskin – OKeskin IT Consulting
Email: ok@okeskin.de