PingMePrivacy Policy for PingMe
Last updated: 14 November 2026
PingMe ("the app") is made by Taprobana Studios ("we", "us"). PingMe helps you remember things: reminders that fire at a time or when you arrive at or leave a place, and automations that change your phone's settings. This policy explains what the app does with your information. The short version: your reminders, places and automations stay on your phone. We do not sell your data, we do not show ads, and we do not use analytics or tracking.
1. What stays on your phone
Reminders, checklists, tags, saved places, automations, history and settings are stored only on your device. We have no account system of our own and cannot see this data. If you uninstall the app, it is deleted from your phone (unless you made a cloud backup, see section 4).
2. Permissions and why the app asks for them
Each permission is optional unless a feature needs it, and you can change it at any time in your phone's settings.
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Notifications | To show your reminders. |
| Location (precise, coarse, and "all the time") | To remind you when you arrive at or leave a saved place. Location is checked by Android on your phone. We do not receive, upload or store your location history. |
| Nearby devices (Bluetooth) | For automations that start when a Bluetooth device connects or disconnects. Only the device name is checked on your phone. |
| Calendar (read) | For automations that run before a calendar event. Events are read on your phone and are not uploaded. |
| Microphone | Only when you tap the microphone button in the assistant, to turn your speech into text (see section 3). It never listens in the background. |
| Do Not Disturb access, Modify system settings, Flashlight | So automations can silence the phone, change brightness or use the flashlight when you ask them to. |
| Exact alarms, Run at startup | So reminders fire on time and keep working after the phone restarts. |
| Internet and network state | For the features in sections 3 to 6. The app works offline for everything else. |
3. The assistant ("Describe it")
When you use the assistant, the text you type or speak is sent to our server so it can be turned into a reminder or automation. To do this well, the app also sends:
- the names of your saved places,
- the titles (and a short summary) of your existing reminders and automations, so the assistant can change or delete them,
- your phone's current local time and time zone.
The server passes this to Google's Vertex AI to produce the result. We do not store your messages and we do not write them to logs. Your places' coordinates, your location, your Bluetooth device list and your installed apps are never sent. Matching a Bluetooth device or app name to something on your phone is done on the phone.
Voice: speech is converted to text by the speech recognition service built into your phone (usually provided by Google). Depending on your phone, that service may process audio on the device or send it to its provider. This is governed by that provider's privacy policy, not ours. The app only receives the resulting text. If your phone has no speech service, the microphone button is hidden.
4. Optional sign-in and cloud backup
You can sign in with your Google account (through Firebase Authentication) and turn on cloud backup. If you do:
- We receive your Google account identifier, name and email address from Google for sign-in.
- Backups are saved as a file in your own Google Drive, in a folder the app creates ("PingMe Backups"). The app uses the limited Drive permission that only lets it see files it created itself. We cannot read your other Drive files, and the backup is not stored on our servers.
- You can turn backup off, and delete the backup file from your Google Drive at any time.
If you do not sign in, none of this applies.
5. Maps and place search
When you search for or add a place, the text you search for (and the map position you look at) is sent to our server, which asks Google's mapping services for results. The map itself is shown using OpenStreetMap tiles, which may receive your device's IP address and the map area being viewed. We do not keep a history of your searches. The app does not load a map until you open or add a place.
6. Subscriptions (Premium)
PingMe is free for the first month. After that, some features (such as automations and the assistant) are part of an optional Premium subscription. Purchases are handled by Google Play and by RevenueCat, a subscription service. RevenueCat receives an anonymous customer identifier and your purchase and entitlement status. We do not see your payment details; Google Play processes them. When you use Premium features, the app sends that anonymous identifier to our server so it can check your access.
7. What we do not do
- We do not sell or rent your data.
- We do not show advertising.
- We do not use analytics, crash-tracking or behavioural profiling in the app.
- We do not collect your contacts, photos, messages or call history.
8. Service providers
To run the app we rely on: Google (Firebase Authentication, Google Drive, Vertex AI, Google Maps, Google Play), RevenueCat (subscriptions), and our hosting provider (Railway) for our server. They process data only to provide those services, under their own privacy policies.
9. Security
Requests from the app to our server are sent over an encrypted connection (HTTPS) and are signed so only the app can use them. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, but we keep what we handle to a minimum.
10. Retention and your choices
- Data on your phone stays until you delete it or uninstall the app.
- We keep nothing from your assistant messages or searches.
- Cloud backups stay in your Google Drive until you delete them.
- You can withdraw any permission in your phone's settings, sign out in the app, and delete your backup from Google Drive. To ask about any other data we may hold about you, contact us (section 12).
11. Children
PingMe is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
12. Changes and contact
We may update this policy as the app changes. The "Last updated" date at the top shows the latest version, and we will describe significant changes in the app or on the store listing.
Questions or requests: [your contact email]
Taprobana Studios