Permission Alerts

A short, plain-English explanation of what this app does with your data — because it does almost nothing with it.

The short version:

Permission Alerts does not collect, transmit, or share any of your data.
No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no advertising SDKs, no third-party trackers — none of it is built in.
It does not have internet access. The INTERNET permission is not declared, so the operating system will not let it make a network request even if it tried.
Everything you see in the app is computed on your device from data the OS already has.

What the app reads from your device

To do its job, Permission Alerts inspects the following on your phone:

The list of installed apps (via the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission) — so it knows which apps to check.
Which sensitive permissions each app has been granted (microphone, camera, contacts, SMS, call log, location, phone, plus special permissions like accessibility, draw-over-other-apps, and all-files storage) — so it can detect new grants since you set your baseline.
The set of enabled accessibility services (read from Settings.Secure.ENABLED_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICES) — same reason.

It uses standard Android APIs (PackageManager, AppOpsManager, Settings.Secure) for all of this. It never reads file contents, messages, contacts, photos, location, or anything from inside the apps it inspects — only the fact that the OS has granted them a permission.

Where your data is stored

Locally on your device — and only there. No server, no cloud. Specifically: in a single Android Jetpack DataStore file inside Permission Alerts' own private storage area. The Android operating system prevents other apps from reading this. It contains:

A baseline snapshot — which app had which sensitive permissions when you activated the app.
Your "ignore" list — apps you've muted.
Your settings — which permissions to watch and how often to scan.
A local notification history of grants and revokes the app has detected.

Nothing else is stored.

What leaves your device

Nothing. The app makes zero network requests. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting service, no advertising SDK, no third-party library that calls home.

Permissions Permission Alerts itself uses

QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES — to enumerate other apps' permission state. Without it, the app cannot do its job.
POST_NOTIFICATIONS — to deliver alerts in the system notification shade.
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED — used by Android's WorkManager library to resume scheduled scans after a reboot.

The app does not request any of the sensitive permissions it watches (microphone, camera, contacts, SMS, location, etc.). It only inspects whether other apps hold them.

Children

Permission Alerts is not directed at children under 13 and is not designed for them. We do not knowingly collect any information from anyone — children or otherwise — because we do not collect information.

Removing your data

Uninstalling Permission Alerts deletes everything the app has stored about you. There is nothing for us to delete on a server because nothing was ever sent to one.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the "Last updated" date below will change and the new version will be posted at this same URL.

Contact

Questions or requests: vivek.oss@linetra.com