Find My Phone by Clap Home ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application Find My Phone by Clap Home (the "App"). Please read this policy carefully. If you disagree with its terms, please discontinue use of the App.
This document applies to the Android App with package identifier com.netflowlife.clap.find.phonehome.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
Device Information: Device model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and advertising ID.
Usage Data: App features used, detection and alert events (such as a clap or whistle being detected, without the associated audio), settings changes, session activity, crash logs, and diagnostic data.
Microphone Access: When you enable detection and grant microphone permission, the App captures short audio buffers in memory to recognize claps and whistles locally on your device. These buffers are not saved as audio recordings or uploaded for sound recognition. Listening depends on detection settings, screen state, sleep mode, and test mode; it is not limited to when the screen is off. You can stop listening by turning detection off or revoking microphone permission.
IP Address: Network services, including advertising, analytics, and attribution providers, may receive your IP address when the App connects to them. This may be used for network delivery, approximate region, measurement, and fraud prevention.
Advertising ID: A unique, resettable identifier used for ad personalization. You may reset or opt out of personalization in your device settings.
Search Queries: Queries entered through the launcher search feature may be sent to the search provider you choose when you perform a web search. That provider processes the query under its own privacy policy.
Local Launcher and Feature Data: The App accesses installed-app information to display and launch apps, and stores home-screen layout, widget configuration, detection preferences, and setup choices on your device.
Optional Alerts: Device motion and charger-connection events are used for anti-theft alerts when enabled. Camera access is used for the optional flashlight alert, without taking photos or videos. Notifications show service status and alerts.
Home-app choice: Android manages your default home app. You can choose this App or keep another launcher, including Pixel Launcher. After setup, phone-finding tools remain accessible inside the App. A home-app reminder may appear when you leave the phone-finding screen. You can change your default home app in Android settings.
2. How We Use Your Information
To provide, operate, and maintain the App and its features.
To improve, personalize, and expand our App.
To understand and analyze how you use the App.
To develop new products, services, and features.
To display advertisements and measure advertising interactions and installation attribution.
To detect and prevent fraud and comply with legal obligations.
To communicate important notices about the App.
3. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your data based on: your consent, contractual necessity to provide the App's core functionality, compliance with legal obligations, and our legitimate interests in operating and improving the App.
4. Third-Party Services
The App integrates third-party SDKs and services that may collect data independently under their own privacy policies. We do not control their data practices.
Advertising mediation and partner networks: Depending on the App version, configuration, and region, advertising may be supplied through AdMob, AppLovin, TradPlus, Bigo, Mintegral, Pangle, Meta Audience Network, Liftoff/Vungle, Unity, Verve, or BidMachine. These providers may process device identifiers, network information, and ad-interaction data. See also the TradPlus Privacy Policy.
Third-party data collection is separate from local audio recognition: no clap or whistle audio recordings are provided to these services by the phone-finding feature. Data collection depends on which services are active and applicable privacy choices.
5. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your personal information. We may share data with:
Service providers who assist us in operating the App, bound by confidentiality obligations.
Law enforcement or governmental authorities when required by applicable law.
A successor entity in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
6. Data Retention
Local settings and launcher data remain on your device until cleared or removed, subject to Android backup and restore settings. Audio buffers are temporary and are not saved as recordings. Service providers retain analytics, advertising, attribution, and diagnostic data according to their policies. We retain information you send to us only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy or as required by law.
7. Data Security
We implement industry-standard technical and organizational measures, including SSL/TLS encryption in transit, to protect your information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.
8. Children's Privacy
The App is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received such information, we will delete it promptly.
9. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:
Access & Portability: Request a copy of the data we hold about you.
Correction: Request correction of inaccurate data.
Deletion: Request deletion of your personal data.
Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising: Opt out via your device's advertising settings or by contacting us.
Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on consent, withdraw it at any time without affecting prior processing.
California residents may exercise additional rights under the CCPA. Virginia, Colorado, and Connecticut residents have rights under their respective state privacy laws.
10. International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your own. We take reasonable steps to ensure adequate protections are in place for such transfers.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by updating the "Last updated" date. Your continued use of the App after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Find My Phone by Clap Home