Privacy Policy

1. About this policy

Glint Launcher ("Glint") is a home screen app for Android, published by Bryson Alef LLC ("we", "us"). While it's in beta, Google Play lists it as "Glint Launcher (beta)". This policy covers the app under either name. It explains what the app reads, what it stores, what it changes on your phone, and where anything goes when it leaves your phone.

2. What Glint stores on your phone

Glint saves the following in its private app storage, where other apps can't read it:

• Your Cards, the apps and widgets on them, and your Dock.
• Your settings, including hidden apps, search options, your chosen search engine, your Audio apps, and which Cards have their Bell turned off.
• Recently opened apps and recent searches.
• A launch history: which app you opened, when, from where in Glint, and the search text you typed if you opened it from search. Glint uses it to rank search results. It keeps at most a year and at most 10,000 entries. Hiding an app deletes that app's history, and you can clear all of it in Settings.
• The last weather reading, including that day's sunrise and sunset times, which hint at your approximate location at the time. Glint keeps it until the next reading replaces it, even after you turn weather off.
• Wallpapers, fonts, and icon packs you import.

Glint opts out of Android's cloud backup and device-to-device transfer, so Android doesn't copy any of this to your Google account or to a new phone. Uninstalling Glint, or clearing its storage in Android settings, deletes all of it.

Your system wallpaper. While Glint is your home screen, it also sets its current wallpaper as your phone's home screen wallpaper, so the same picture shows behind other apps and in recent apps. That includes a photo you imported. Glint doesn't change your lock screen wallpaper. The system wallpaper stays after you uninstall Glint, until you change it.

3. What Glint reads, and why

A home screen has to know about your apps to show and open them. On your phone, Glint reads:

• your installed apps, including apps in a work profile, and the category each app declares, which Glint uses to fill your first Cards;
• the widgets your apps offer, and the fonts and icon-pack apps you have installed, so you can pick them in Settings; and
• whether headphones, a speaker, or other audio equipment is connected, to show the Music note. This needs no permission, and Glint doesn't store it.

None of this leaves your phone.

Three features are off until you turn them on. You can turn any of them off again in Glint or in Android settings.

• Notification access, for the Bell on your Cards and the list of what arrived while Glint was in Quiet. Turning it on takes you to Android's Notification access settings. With it, Glint reads the title, text, app, and time of your notifications. It holds them in memory and doesn't write them to storage. It remembers notifications you dismissed for up to a day, so you can find them again, and forgets them when you revoke access. Glint can also act on your notifications. Tapping one in Glint opens it and clears it, as tapping it in Android's notification shade would, and Clear all dismisses those notifications from the shade.
• Calendar, to show your next event under the clock. Android asks for permission when you turn it on. Glint reads your upcoming events on your phone and doesn't store them.
• Approximate location, for the temperature under the clock. Android asks for permission when you turn it on. See the next section.

4. What leaves your phone

Weather, if you turn it on

About once an hour, and only while Glint is on screen, it asks Open-Meteo for the current weather. It also asks right away when you turn weather on or change the temperature unit, and tries again after about ten minutes if a request fails. The request contains the approximate location Android already has for your phone and whether you want Celsius or Fahrenheit. Glint doesn't ask Android for a new location fix. Like any website, Open-Meteo also sees your IP address. The request goes straight from your phone to Open-Meteo, not through us. Open-Meteo's terms and privacy policy apply to it. When weather is off, Glint itself makes no network requests.

Searches you send to another app

Typing in Glint's search matches your apps and Cards on your phone. If you choose a Web, Maps, or Play Store result, Glint hands what you typed to your browser, your maps app, or the Play Store. Web searches go to the search engine you picked in Settings, which is Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, or Brave. From there, that app's or service's privacy policy applies.

Apps and widgets

The apps you open and the widgets you place on a Card are separate apps with their own privacy policies. Glint shows them; it doesn't control what they collect.

Feedback you email us

Settings has a Send feedback button that opens an email to us in your email app, with Glint's version number filled in. The email goes out only if you send it. If you do, we keep your message and email address to reply and to fix what you reported. Ask us and we'll delete them, unless the law requires us to keep them.

5. What we don't do

The app contains no advertising, analytics, tracking, or crash-reporting code, and there's no account to create. Apart from email you choose to send us, we don't receive any information from Glint, and we don't sell or share data.

6. Children

Glint isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.

7. Your choices

You control Glint's data from your phone. You can turn features off in Settings, revoke permissions in Android settings, clear the launch history, or uninstall the app to delete everything. Apart from feedback emails, we hold no data about you, so there's nothing else for us to access, correct, or delete on request. Email us with any questions about how Glint handles data.

If you're in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the legal basis for the weather request is your consent. You give it by turning weather on and withdraw it by turning weather off. We reply to feedback emails based on our legitimate interest in supporting Glint. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

8. Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Glint has no account or email address to reach you through. For material changes, including anything that sends new data off your phone, we'll also say so in the app or in its Play Store release notes before the change takes effect.

9. Contact

Bryson Alef LLC
2501 Chatham Rd, Suite N, Springfield, IL 62704, USA
[email protected]