count-ed privacy policy
Effective: November 9, 2026
count-ed is made by factorydashed (United Arab Emirates). Contact: factorydashed@gmail.com.
The short version
count-ed keeps your counters, history and settings on your device. There is no account and no analytics, and we never receive your data.
The free version shows ads from Google after your first three days. To do that, the app uses the internet, and Google may collect your device's advertising ID, approximate location and how you interact with ads. Where the law requires it, the app asks for your consent first, and you can change your choice in Settings.
If you remove ads, the app stops asking Google for ads.
If you choose to let a counter read Health Connect or another app's message, count-ed reads only what you picked. That data is never sent to us and never used for ads.
count-ed is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition.
What the app stores
Everything you create stays on your device: pages, counters, timers, dice, rules, history and settings. We never receive it.
The app also creates a random author ID on your device. It stays on your device unless you publish a template.
It remembers when you first opened the app, to start the ad-free days, and whether you removed ads, so the app works without a connection.
For a counter that reads from outside, count-ed also stores, on your device, the numbers it read and when, as part of that counter's history, plus when it last read and whether something went wrong. For the secret-code option it stores the code made for that counter.
Ads
The free version shows one banner, served by Google AdMob. There are no ads in your first three days, and none after you buy Remove ads.
Google may collect your device's advertising ID, IP address (from which it works out an approximate location) and how you interact with ads, to serve ads and measure them. See how Google uses data from sites and apps that use its services. We don't give Google your counters, history or settings.
Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom), the app shows Google's consent form before it asks for any ad. While ads are on, you can change your choice in Settings, under Privacy choices. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in Android's settings.
If you buy Remove ads, the app stops asking Google for ads. Google's ad code stays in the app, unused for ads.
What a counter reads from Health Connect or another app is never passed to AdMob or to any network call, and is never used to choose or measure ads.
Purchases
Remove ads is a one-time purchase handled by Google Play. We don't see your card details. The app only asks Google Play whether you bought Remove ads, and keeps the answer on your device, so a reinstall gets the purchase back.
Health Connect
Health Connect is Android's own store of health and fitness data. Letting a counter read from it is optional and off until you set it up.
- What count-ed can read. Only the kinds of data you pick, one counter at a time: steps, exercise minutes, active calories, calories eaten, protein, water, sleep, weight, blood glucose and heart rate. Android asks you before count-ed can read each kind, and you can take access back at any time in Health Connect.
- What it does with it. It turns the reading into the counter's number, so goals, streaks, charts, formulas and rules work on it. It also fills the counter's history with up to the last 30 days when you first connect it. It reads when you open count-ed and, if you allow background reading, about every 15 minutes while count-ed is closed.
- What it never does. It never writes to Health Connect, never sends what it reads to us or to anyone else, and never uses it for ads, credit or lending decisions, employment or insurance decisions.
- Your phone's backup. The numbers become part of count-ed's data on your device, so your phone's own backup can include them.
Numbers from other apps
A counter can accept numbers from other apps on your phone, such as Tasker. Each such counter has its own secret code. count-ed ignores any message without the exact code, for the exact counter name, and with a sensible number. Nothing is sent to us. Anyone or any app that knows a counter's code can change that counter, so treat it like a password and make a new one if it leaks.
Device permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Internet and network state | To load ads and Google's consent form. Nothing else in the app uses the internet today. |
| Advertising ID | Used by Google AdMob to serve and measure ads. |
| Ad services (Android's Privacy Sandbox) | Used by Google's ad code, for ad measurement and relevance. |
| Google Play billing | To buy Remove ads and to restore the purchase. |
| Camera | Only to scan a template QR code, and only when you open the scanner. Images aren't saved or sent. |
| Notifications | To show timer and rule alerts. |
| Exact alarms | To fire alerts on time. |
| Start at boot | To restore alerts after a restart. |
| Vibration | For tap and alert feedback. |
| Health Connect read permissions | Only for the counters you connect to that kind of data. Asked when you set a counter up. |
| Read Health Connect data in the background | To keep a connected counter up to date while count-ed is closed. Optional. |
| Receiving the secret-code message | A counter accepts a message from other apps if it carries the right code. |
You can refuse the camera, notifications and every connected source; the rest of the app keeps working.
When your data leaves the app
Your counters, history and settings leave the app only when you, or your device settings, make it happen:
- Device backup. If Android backup is on, your device may include count-ed's data in your Google backup, including numbers read from Health Connect or another app. Google handles that backup under its own terms. Secret codes are not included.
- Sharing. If you share a template by link, QR code or file, or export a CSV, it goes wherever you send it. Shared templates contain the setup, not your values or history. CSV exports contain your values and history.
Separately, the ad data described under Ads goes to Google when ads are shown.
Keeping your data safe
Your data is kept in the app's private storage on your device, protected by Android. We run no server that holds your counters, so there is no copy of them with us to lose or leak. Ad traffic to Google is sent over an encrypted connection.
How long data is kept, and deleting it
Your data stays on your device until you delete it or remove the app. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in Android's settings, deletes it from the device. Data you read into count-ed from Health Connect goes with it; what's in Health Connect itself is yours to manage there. Device backups follow your Google account settings.
We hold none of your data, so we have nothing to delete on our side. Google holds the ad data described above, under its own policy.
Children
count-ed is a general-audience app that anyone can use. It isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data. We collect none ourselves; the ad data described above is collected by Google.
Changes
count-ed will keep changing. In the future we may add features that store or sync data outside your device, such as accounts or cloud backup, and we may change how the app is paid for, including its prices, ads, paid features or subscriptions.
If a change means your data is collected, stored or shared in a new way, we'll update this page and its effective date before that version ships, and we'll ask for your agreement where the law or Google's rules require it. Data read from Health Connect stays within the limits above unless you agree otherwise.
Contact
Questions or requests about your privacy: factorydashed@gmail.com.