Dockglow privacy policy

Last updated November 5, 2026. This policy covers the Android app Dockglow: StandBy Mode (com.tinyfair.dockglow) published by Tinyfair on Google Play.

The short version

The app works on your phone. We do not have accounts or servers, and we never receive your photos, your calendar, your location or personal details. Data leaves your phone only for ads, purchases, crash reports and anonymous usage statistics (Google), for the weather if you turn it on, and for a small settings file the app downloads from our website, as described below.

Data that stays on your phone

Weather place (optional): If you type a city, the name and your language are sent to the Open-Meteo geocoding service to find it. If you tap Use my location instead, Android asks for approximate location permission and the app reads your approximate position on the phone. The place you choose is saved on your phone.
Calendar events (optional): Only if you add the Today widget, Android asks for calendar access. Today's events are then read on your phone to show on the clock. They are not copied, stored by Dockglow or sent anywhere.
Photos (Pro, optional): Photos for Photo Frame are chosen with the Android photo picker and read on your phone. They are not copied, uploaded or sent anywhere.
Next alarm and battery: Read from Android on your phone to show them on the clock. They are not stored or sent.
Room light (Pro, optional): Night mode by light sensor reads the phone's light sensor while the clock is open. The readings are not stored or sent.
Talking clock (optional): Uses your phone's own text-to-speech to say the time. Nothing is recorded or sent by Dockglow.
Settings: Your styles, fonts, colors, widgets, night mode and auto-start choices are saved on your phone.
Purchases: Handled by Google Play; we never see your payment details.

Weather (optional, Open-Meteo)

Weather is off until you choose a place in Settings. When you search for a city, the name you type and your language are sent to the Open-Meteo geocoding service (geocoding-api.open-meteo.com). If you tap Use my location instead, Android asks for approximate location permission once and the app reads your approximate position on the phone; precise GPS location is never used. Either way, only the place's coordinates are then sent to Open-Meteo (api.open-meteo.com) to get the current weather, an hourly forecast, today's high and low and sunrise and sunset, which is kept on your phone for 30 minutes. No device ID or other personal data is sent. See the Open-Meteo terms and privacy.

Settings file from tinyfair.my.id

When it starts, the app downloads a small settings file from https://tinyfair.my.id/config/dockglow.json (the minimum app version and which ad formats may appear). The request sends no personal data and no identifier. Like any web request, our web host sees your IP address in its standard server logs; we do not use it to identify you or link it to anything else.

Ads (Google AdMob)

The free version shows ads from Google AdMob: a banner at the bottom of Settings, a native ad in the gallery of clock faces, sometimes a full-screen ad after you choose a clock face (never in your first session, at least 2 minutes apart and at most 8 a day), and a video ad only when you choose to watch one for 24 hours of Pro. There are never ads on the clock screen or the screen saver, and no ad when the app opens. Ad content is limited to no higher than the PG rating. To show and measure ads, Google may collect your device's advertising ID, an approximate location from your IP address, information about ad interactions, and diagnostics. Your photos, calendar events and the place you chose are never passed to the ad SDK. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland the app asks for your consent first, and you can change it later under Settings, Privacy choices. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your Android settings. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services. Pro removes all ads.

Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics)

If the app crashes or hits a serious error, it sends a crash report to Firebase Crashlytics, a Google service that helps us find and fix the bug. A report contains the error and where it happened in the code, the app version, the device model, the Android version, and a random installation ID that is not linked to you, your Google account or your advertising ID. It never contains your photos, your calendar events, your location, the city you chose or anything that identifies you. Reports are kept for 90 days. See Firebase privacy and security.

Usage statistics (Google Analytics for Firebase)

To learn which features people use and where the app can be better, the app sends a few usage events to Google Analytics for Firebase, such as that the Pro offer was shown or Pro was bought, or that the app was shared. Firebase adds the app version, device model, Android version, country, a random app instance ID and, when ad consent allows it, your advertising ID. Events never contain your photos, your calendar events, your location, the city you chose, your name, email or anything you type. Collection is off until the consent step is finished and follows your choice (Google Consent Mode). We do not use Google signals, we do not send a user ID, and we do not sell this data. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, statistics are only collected if you allow it in the consent form (Settings, Privacy choices lets you change this). Data is kept for 14 months. See Firebase privacy and security.

Purchases (Google Play)

Pro is sold through Google Play Billing as a one-time lifetime purchase. There is no subscription. We do not see your payment details; Google Play tells the app only whether Pro is active.

Permissions

Approximate location, optional, asked only when you tap Use my location for the weather. Calendar (read only), optional, asked only when you add the Today widget. Display over other apps, optional, asked only when you turn on Open automatically when charging. Start at boot, so that option keeps working after a restart. Your next alarm is only read from Android; Dockglow never creates, changes or deletes alarms. No precise location, camera, microphone, contacts, storage or photos and media permission: photos are chosen with the Android photo picker. Google's ad and purchase libraries add the advertising ID, network state and billing permissions. Internet is used for ads, purchases, crash reports, usage statistics, the optional weather and the settings file described above, never for your photos.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Your choices and deleting data

Dockglow has no account and keeps no data on our side. To delete everything Dockglow stores (your settings, the weather place and forecast, and the list of photos you picked), uninstall the app or clear its storage in Android settings (Apps, Dockglow, Storage). Your photos themselves stay in your gallery. If you use Android backup, Android may include this app data in your Google account backup. You can turn off location, calendar access or display over other apps at any time in Android settings. For ad and statistics data, use Settings, Privacy choices in the app or your Android advertising ID settings. Questions: support@tinyfair.my.id.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date. Questions: support@tinyfair.my.id.