Privacy Policy

Last updated: 17 September 2026

This policy explains what the Flexibud mobile application (com.mycompany.original, "Flexibud", "the app") collects about you, why, who else sees it, and how to have it removed. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

Flexibud ("we", "us") is the data controller for the purposes of this policy. You can reach us at shalemearnmoney@gmail.com, or through the contact page.

1. Who can use Flexibud

Flexibud is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has created an account, write to us and we will delete it.

2. What we collect

2.1 Information you give us

What	When	Why
Email address	Registration	To create and secure your login, verify your address with a one-time code, and reset your password
Display name	Registration and profile editing	So other people can recognise you
Profile picture	Optional, any time	Shown beside your name, subject to your own visibility switch
Registration number	Generated at sign-up	A permanent identifier so people can find you without needing your email
Content you create	Whenever you post	Accounts, channels, posts, images, videos, short videos, documents, comments, replies, likes, direct messages and voice messages — this is the service
Reports you file	When you tap Report on a post, comment, message, channel or person	The item, your reason and your user ID, so a human can review it. The person reported is never told who reported them

2.2 Information collected automatically

• Push notification token. A token identifying this installation, so we can deliver notifications. It is removed from your account when you sign out.
• Device and diagnostic data. Device model, operating system version, app version, and performance measurements such as screen load times and network request durations, collected through Firebase Performance Monitoring to find and fix problems.
• Advertising identifier. Flexibud shows optional rewarded adverts through Google AdMob. When you choose to watch one, Google may access your device's advertising ID. See section 4.
• Activity records. Timestamps of what you created, joined, followed, liked or commented on, used to build your activity and notification screens.

2.3 Device permissions we ask for

• Photos and media — only to let you pick a file to upload. We do not scan your gallery.
• Camera — only when you choose to take a photo or record a video inside the app.
• Microphone — only while you hold the record button to send a voice message in a chat. Nothing is recorded at any other time.
• Notifications — to deliver the alerts described above. You may decline and still use the app.

3. Where it is stored

Flexibud runs on Google Firebase. Your account record, content and activity are stored in Cloud Firestore; your uploaded images, videos and documents are stored in Cloud Storage, in a bucket hosted in Asia. Authentication is handled by Firebase Authentication, which stores your credentials — we never see your password.

Google operates this infrastructure on our behalf as a processor, and may replicate data across its regions for reliability. If you use Flexibud from outside Asia, your information will be transferred to and stored there.

4. Who else sees your information

4.1 Other people using Flexibud

This is the main way information about you is shared, and you control most of it:

• Content you publish becomes visible to the audience it was published to — and, as described in the app, only once everyone in the approval chain above it has agreed.
• Your profile fields each have their own visibility switch. Your name, email, registration number, picture, likes and comments can each be shown or hidden independently.
• Account owners can see who has joined or followed their account, and can remove members.
• Direct messages are visible to you and the person you send them to. They are not end-to-end encrypted, and are stored on our servers so they can be delivered.

4.2 Service providers

Provider	What it handles
Google Firebase	Authentication, database, file storage, push notifications, performance monitoring, hosting
Google AdMob	Optional rewarded adverts, and the advertising identifier used to select them

Google's handling of advertising data is governed by its own policies, which you can read at policies.google.com.

4.3 What we never do

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share it with advertisers, data brokers or anyone else for their own marketing. We will disclose information only where the law requires it, or where it is necessary to protect someone's safety.

5. How long we keep it

• While your account exists — your profile and content are kept so the app can work.
• When you leave an account — the channels, posts, messages, comments and likes you created there as a member are deleted immediately.
• When you delete your account — see Account & Data Deletion. Removal begins at once.
• Backups — copies may persist in Google's routine backups for a short period after deletion before being overwritten.
• Content you gave to others — a message you sent to someone, or a post you contributed inside an account you left, may remain visible to them. Ask them to delete it, or write to us.

6. Your rights

You can, at any time:

• See and correct your profile from the app's account screen.
• Limit what is shown using the ten visibility switches.
• Delete your account and data — in the app, or through the web request form.
• Withdraw consent for notifications, camera or photo access in your device settings.

Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under laws such as the GDPR or India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act. Write to us and we will honour them.

7. Security

Traffic between the app and our servers is encrypted in transit. Access to your data is restricted by server-side security rules that check who you are before any read or write. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot promise otherwise — but if we ever discover a breach affecting your information, we will tell you.

8. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will update the date at the top and, where the change is significant, tell you in the app. Continuing to use Flexibud after a change means you accept it.

9. Contact

Questions, requests or complaints: shalemearnmoney@gmail.com — the contact page has a one-tap Gmail link. We aim to reply within 7 days.