Privacy policy

Array has no account, no sign-in and no ads, and what you set up in it stays on your phone.

Two things leave it, and you can turn both off: your approximate location, sent to OpenWeather for the weather while Show Weather is on, and anonymous usage statistics, sent to Google Analytics for Firebase while Share Usage Statistics is on. We don’t sell your data or share it for advertising.

Who we are

Array Launcher (package id.weekendproject.arraylauncher) is an Android home screen app made by The Weekend Projects, weekendproject.id. In this policy “Array” means the app and “we” means The Weekend Projects. Questions go to support@weekendproject.id.

Array keeps its data in private storage on your phone, which Android keeps other apps out of.

What Array keeps

• Your settings, your home screen apps and their order, hidden and renamed apps, and the apps the notification filter leaves alone.
• The list of installed apps, with when each was last opened and how much space it takes, for sorting the app drawer.
• Notifications the filter collects: the app that sent each one, its title, its text and the time. Array keeps the newest 200.
• A wallpaper picture or a font file you pick, copied into Array.
• The focus timer’s progress.

Array reads your calendar events, contacts, screen time, what’s playing and your location from Android when a feature needs them, and doesn’t store them.

Permissions

Array works without any of these. Each one unlocks a feature, and Array asks for it when you turn that feature on. You can take any of them back in Android’s settings.

• Installed apps: to list and open your apps, which a launcher needs to do.
• Notification access: the notification filter and its page, notification badges, what’s playing in the widget, and Do Not Disturb for the filter and focus sessions. Notifications are read on your phone, and Array never sends them anywhere.
• Usage access: how long an app has been on screen today, and app sizes for sorting.
• Calendar: your next event in the widget, while Show Next Event is on.
• Contacts: contacts in the app drawer’s search, while Search Contacts is on.
• Approximate location: the weather and prayer times. Prayer times are worked out on your phone.
• Accessibility service: only to lock the screen when you use a gesture set to Lock Screen, because Android gives a launcher no other way to do that. The service asks for no events and can’t read windows, so it doesn’t see what’s on your screen, what you type or what other apps do, and Array collects and shares nothing through it. Array explains this and asks you before you turn it on, and you can turn it off any time in Android’s accessibility settings.
• Notifications: the focus timer’s countdown and its alerts.

Android grants these at install without asking: the internet, asking Android to uninstall an app when you choose Uninstall, pulling down the notification shade, vibration, and keeping the phone awake and the timer running while a focus session runs.

Array itself sends only the weather request and the usage statistics, and each has its own switch.

The weather, through OpenWeather

While Show Weather is on, Array sends your approximate location, rounded to two decimal places (about a kilometre), to OpenWeather at api.openweathermap.org, and gets the current weather back. The request carries Array’s own API key, which is the same on every phone, and no account or device identifier. Array asks again only when the weather it has is more than 30 minutes old.

OpenWeather (Openweather Ltd, in the UK) says it doesn’t store the locations, IP addresses or user agents of API requests, only how many requests each key makes. Its privacy policy applies.

Usage statistics, through Google Analytics for Firebase

Share Usage Statistics is on when you install Array. While it is on, Array sends anonymous counts of which features are used to Google Analytics for Firebase, a Google service, so we can see what to improve. They cover things like which page or settings screen opens, whether an app was opened from the home screen, the app drawer or search, which kind of search result was used, which gestures run, the focus timer’s lengths, the onboarding steps, and settings such as the theme or whether the weather is shown.

They never include an app’s name, what you search for, a notification, a contact, a calendar event or your location. Array turns off the advertising ID, the Android ID and ad personalization.

Google Analytics also records what it records for every app that uses it: an app instance ID it creates, the device model, the Android and app versions, the language, an approximate region worked out from the IP address, and how long sessions last. Google keeps individual events for at most 14 months and handles them under the Google Privacy Policy and how Google uses data from apps that use its services.

To stop sending them, open Settings by long-pressing an empty spot on the home screen, go to About, turn off Share Usage Statistics under Privacy, and tap Save. Nothing more is sent from then on.

Web searches

When you search the web from the app drawer, Array opens your browser at the search provider you chose: Google, unless you pick DuckDuckGo, Bing, Brave or Ecosia. The provider gets the search under its own privacy policy. Array doesn’t keep what you type.

Backups

Export Settings under Backup & Restore writes a file to a place you pick. It holds your settings, your home screen apps and their order, hidden and renamed apps, and the apps the notification filter leaves alone, and never your notifications, wallpaper or font. It goes where you save it and nowhere else.

If backup is turned on in your phone’s settings, Android may also copy Array’s data, collected notifications included, to your Google account’s backup, as it does for other apps. Google runs that backup, and you can turn it off in Android’s settings.

Sharing

We don’t sell your data, share it with advertisers or use it for ads. OpenWeather and Google, as described above, are the only services that receive anything from Array.

You can turn off each feature that uses your data, and delete everything Array keeps, at any time.

• Turn off a feature, or take back its permission in Android’s settings, and Array stops reading that data.
• Clear collected notifications with Clear All on the notifications page, or swipe one away.
• Turn off Share Usage Statistics to stop the usage statistics.
• Delete everything Array keeps on your phone by clearing its storage in Android’s app settings, or by uninstalling it.

We hold no account or profile for you. The usage statistics aren’t tied to your name, email or any account, so we can’t look yours up; they expire as described above.

Keeping data safe

Array’s data sits in its private storage on your phone. The requests to OpenWeather and Google go over encrypted HTTPS connections.

Children

Array isn’t made for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

When this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Email support@weekendproject.id, or use Send Feedback in Array’s About settings.