Privacy Policy for Your Launcher: Custom & Smart

Last updated: November 8, 2026

Abdulkadir Avcı ("we", "us", or "our"; shown on Google Play as Kadir Avcı), an individual developer, built the Your Launcher: Custom & Smart app as a free app with ads and an optional one-time purchase (Pro) that removes the ads. This policy explains what information the app and the services it uses handle, and the choices you have.

Information Collection and Use

The app has no account and does not ask you for personal information, and we have no server that receives data from the app. We see your email address only if you email us, and then use it only to reply to you. Information used for local launcher features is stored on your device by the app. The third-party services described below may receive information as explained here.

For users without Pro, when the Settings screen opens, Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) checks advertising consent requirements and, when required, presents a form to manage your privacy choices. The app initializes Google Play services' Mobile Ads SDK and requests an AdMob banner in Settings only when the consent flow permits ad requests. Google may receive your IP address, app interactions, diagnostics, and device or account identifiers for ad delivery, measurement, and fraud prevention.

Web suggestions are off by default. If you turn them on in the app drawer search or on the Search page (Google is the preselected provider; you can choose another), the app sends the non-blank search text you type to the selected suggestion provider while you type, so that provider can return suggestions. The built-in choices are Google, DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Startpage EU, and Kagi. If you select a custom provider, the search text is sent to the suggestion URL you entered. Turning web suggestions off stops these suggestion requests. Opening a search result in a browser may send the search text to the selected search service separately.

Privacy and data-use information for third-party service providers used by the app:

A custom suggestion provider is chosen and configured by you; its own privacy policy applies to the URL you enter.

Usage Measurement (only if you allow it)

Usage measurement is off unless you allow it. It is a separate choice from advertising consent and is offered the same way with or without Pro: on the last page of first-run setup and at any time in Settings, About.

If you allow it, the app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to record two events, each at most once per device: that Your Launcher was made the default home app, and that it was still the default home app seven days later. Google Analytics also receives what its SDK records on its own: an app-instance identifier it generates for this installation, basic automatic events (such as the first time the measurement runs), device and app details such as device model, Android version, app version and language, and your masked IP address, from which it derives coarse location. Google processes this as described in its Firebase privacy information.

The measurement does not include your installed apps or package names, search text, contacts, notifications, accessibility data or any other content on your device. The advertising ID is switched off for it, and advertising storage, ad user data and ad personalization are always denied.

Collection is switched on only for the moment one of these events is recorded, so it does not cover your use of the app or the ads shown in Settings.

So that the seven days can be counted, the app stores on your device the date it first became your default home app, whether or not you allow measurement. That date stays on your device and is not part of backups. If you do not allow measurement, nothing about it is sent.

You can turn measurement off at any time in Settings, About. Collection stops and the identifier on your device is reset.

Semantic Search (beta)

Semantic search is a beta feature and is off by default. If you turn it on, the app downloads a language model file of about 165 MB from Hugging Face (huggingface.co, Hugging Face Privacy Policy) through Android's Download Manager. Like any web server, Hugging Face receives the request: your IP address and standard request data such as the time, the requested file and the user agent of Android's Download Manager. No search text, app list or other personal information is sent with the request. The model, the search index built from your apps, shortcuts and settings, and your searches stay on your device. Turning semantic search off deletes the model and the index; turning it on again downloads the model again.

Information Processed Only on Your Device

A launcher needs access to some information on your phone to work. Everything in this section stays on your device: the app does not send it to us or to anyone else, and we have no server that receives it.

Installed apps. The app reads the list of installed apps to show them on the home screen, in the app drawer, in search and in the Edge Panel.
App usage (Usage access, only if you allow it). Used to rank frequently and recently used apps in suggestions and search. The ranking is computed and stored on the device.
Contacts (only if you allow it). Used to show contacts in search results and in the Edge Panel's Contacts panel. Contact data is read from your device when needed; the app keeps only the contacts you pin to the panel or choose for a Search page, as references, on the device.
Photos, videos, audio and files (only if you allow it). Used for file results in search. On Android 12 and earlier, storage access also lets the launcher read your current wallpaper to blur it. Files are opened from your device and are not uploaded.
Notification access (only if you allow it). Used for notification dots on app icons, for media controls and for the running timer or stopwatch line in At a Glance. Notification content is not stored or sent anywhere.
Calendar (only if you turn on At a Glance's event line and allow it). Used to show your next upcoming event (its title, time and location) in At a Glance. Events are read from your device's calendars when the line is shown; nothing is stored or sent anywhere. With the permission denied the line is not shown.
Accessibility service (only if you turn it on). Used only to perform system actions you ask for from a gesture or the Edge Panel, such as opening recent apps, the notification shade or quick settings, the power menu, split screen, taking a screenshot or locking the screen. If you choose apps in the Edge Panel's "Hide in chosen apps" setting, the service is also told which app is in the foreground so the panel handle can be hidden there; this package name is used only at that moment on your device and is not stored or sent anywhere. The service is configured so that it cannot read the content of your screen or what you type.
Clipboard. The Edge Panel's Clipboard panel reads the latest copied item only while that panel is open on screen. No clipboard history is kept in the background. Items you pin stay only on the device and are excluded from backups.
Microphone permission for the audio visualizer (only if you turn the visualizer on and allow it). Android asks for this permission before an app can read the spectrum of the sound your device is playing. The visualizer uses it only to draw bars that follow that sound. It does not listen to the microphone, does not record, and keeps nothing: each frame is turned into bar heights and discarded.
Display over other apps, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC, Do Not Disturb and system settings (only if you allow them). Used to show the Edge Panel over other apps and to show or change the state of quick settings you place in it.

Backup and Restore

Your Launcher takes part in Android's backup and restore system, so your home screen can come back when you set up a new device or reinstall the app.

Android cloud backup (Google Auto Backup) and device-to-device transfer. When backup is turned on in your device's system settings, Android copies the launcher's user data to your Google account and restores it after a reinstall or on a new device. The backup is stored and handled by Google under your Google account's terms (Google Privacy Policy); on Android 9 and later it is end-to-end encrypted with your device's screen lock. Android does not charge for this backup data, and you control it, including turning it off or deleting it, in your device's system settings. We do not receive this data.
What is included: your home screen layout and pages, folders, the dock, widget placement and per-widget settings, and the launcher's settings.
What is not included: search history (both the app drawer's and the search pages'), app-usage and suggestion history, icon and widget-preview caches, diagnostic logs, and settings that only make sense on the device that wrote them. In the cloud backup the wallpaper images the launcher keeps in its gallery are not included either; they move only in a device-to-device transfer.
Backup files you export yourself. The Backup screen can save a .YourBackup file to a place you choose. It contains your layout, folders, widget settings, launcher settings and the wallpaper images in the launcher's gallery, and, if you tick the option, your current wallpaper. It does not contain search history, usage history or caches. The file is not encrypted and the launcher does not send it anywhere; keep it somewhere you trust, because names of shortcuts and folders you created are readable in it.

In-App Purchases

Your Launcher offers an optional, one-time Pro purchase that removes the ad banner in Settings and supports development. All launcher features remain available without a purchase. While Pro is active, the app does not make new advertising SDK initialization calls or request or display the Settings ad banner.

Payments are processed by Google Play. We do not receive your payment card or bank account details. Google Play keeps your purchase record, and the app queries Google Play to confirm and restore your purchase status. The app stores the last known Pro status on your device so it can use that status while offline. A pending payment activates Pro only after Google Play confirms the purchase; if Google Play no longer reports an active Pro purchase after a refund or revocation, Pro is removed.

We do not operate a purchase-validation server or send your purchase information to our own server. Payment methods, purchase history and refund requests are managed through Google Play under Google's Privacy Policy.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the app or the services it uses change. We post the new version on this page with a new "Last updated" date, and describe significant changes in the app's release notes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at contact@kadiravci.info.