1. Your habits stay on your phone
The habits you track, their costs and times, your quit dates, your reasons to quit, your goals and your statistics are stored only on your device. Helpic has no account and no sign-up, and we do not receive this information. Use "Erase my progress" in the app, or uninstall Helpic, to delete it.
2. Advertising in the free version
The free version shows ads. Two advertising tools inside the app request and display them:
- Google Mobile Ads (AdMob), provided by Google. Google's use of information from apps that use its services is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
- The Floxis SDK, our own advertising technology, which offers the ad space to advertisers through the Floxis exchange. How the exchange processes advertising data, including retention periods, is described in the Floxis Privacy Policy.
When an ad is requested, these tools may process:
| Information | What it is used for |
|---|---|
| Your device's advertising ID | Choosing and measuring ads, limiting how often you see the same ad, and preventing fraud |
| Your IP address, and an approximate location (country, region, city, postal code) derived from it | Showing ads relevant to where you are, and preventing fraud |
| Device and app details: make, model, operating system and version, language, screen size, carrier and connection type, user agent, and Helpic's name and version | Delivering an ad that works on your device |
| Ad interactions, such as an ad being shown or tapped | Measuring and paying for ads, and preventing fraud |
| Device and session signals sent by the Floxis SDK when your privacy choices allow it: battery level, charging, battery saver, dark mode, ringer and media volume state, the number of ad requests in the session and its length | Helping advertisers choose and price ads |
| Your privacy choices, as recorded by the consent tool | Respecting what you have agreed to |
Helpic does not ask for permission to use your device's location, so no precise (GPS) location is sent. This information is shared with advertisers and their technology providers so they can bid for and show ads.
3. Your choices about ads
- In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Helpic asks for your choices with Google's consent tool before any advertising tool starts. You can change them at any time from Privacy settings in the app menu.
- You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your Android settings (Settings > Privacy > Ads). Ads will still appear, but they will not be linked to that ID.
- Premium removes all ads.
4. Purchases
Premium is bought through Google Play. Google processes the payment under its own terms and privacy policy; we receive only a confirmation that the purchase was made, never your card or payment details.
5. Legal bases
Where the GDPR applies: personalised advertising relies on your consent; non-personalised advertising and fraud prevention rely on our legitimate interest in funding a free app and keeping it safe; Premium is provided to perform our contract with you.
6. International transfers
Advertising partners, including Google, may process information outside your country, including in the United States. Where the GDPR applies, such transfers rely on an adequacy decision or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
7. Children
Helpic is meant for adults and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly process information about children.
8. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data, to object to or restrict its processing, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. Because your habits never leave your device, you control them directly in the app. For anything else, write to [email protected]. You can also complain to your local data protection authority; in Estonia, that is the Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon, www.aki.ee).
9. Changes
If this policy changes, we will update it on this page and change the date above.
10. Contact us
Ad Tech Company OÜ
Address: Narva mnt 5, 10117 Tallinn, Estonia.
Registry code: 17401306.
Email: [email protected]