Privacy Policy for Waffle

Waffle: Expense Tracker · Developer: Gongloo Labs · Effective 4 October 2026

This privacy policy applies to the Android app Waffle: Expense Tracker ("the app"), developed by Gongloo Labs ("we", "us"). It explains what information the app handles, where that information is kept, and the choices you have.

1. Information the app stores on your phone

Everything you enter is saved in the app's private storage on your device:

• Expenses and income: amount, category, date and the note you type or say.
• Your categories, their icons, and the voice keywords used to recognise them.
• Budgets and settings, such as your currency, decimal places, voice language and the day your month starts.

To suggest new voice keywords, the app looks at the notes of your earlier voice entries. This happens entirely on your phone.

This information is not sent to us or to anyone else by the app. We have no server and no copy of your data.

2. Permissions

The app does not request any special permissions. It cannot access the internet, your microphone directly, your contacts, location, camera, photos or other files, except a file you choose yourself when exporting or importing a backup.

3. Voice input

When you use voice Quick add, the app asks your phone's speech recognition service (on most phones, Google's) to turn what you say into text. That service may process your speech on its own servers, under its own privacy policy, for example Google's Privacy Policy. The app itself does not record or store audio; it receives only the recognised text, which you review before saving. Voice input is optional: you can add every entry by typing instead.

4. Assistants such as Gemini

On Android 16 and later, the app can let an assistant on your phone, such as Gemini, add an expense for you or read your list of expense categories, but only when you ask the assistant to do so. For that request, the assistant receives the details it needs, such as the amount and note you gave it and your category names and keywords. The assistant handles this information under its own privacy policy. The app never shares information with an assistant on its own initiative.

5. Backups

• Export and Import. You can export all of your data to a single backup file and import it later, for example on a new phone. The file is saved where you choose, and you decide who it is shared with. The backup file is not encrypted and contains all of your financial records, so keep it somewhere private.
• Android device backup. If backup is turned on in your phone's settings, Android may include the app's data in your device backup to your Google account, so it can be restored on a new phone. This is controlled by you in your phone's settings and handled by Google under its own privacy policy.

6. Information we receive

• From the app: nothing. The app has no way to send us data.
• From Google Play: like all apps on Google Play, we may see anonymous, aggregated statistics that Google Play provides to developers, such as install counts and crash or performance reports (only from users who allow their phone to share usage and diagnostics with Google). These reports do not include your financial records. They are collected by Google, not by the app, under Google's Privacy Policy.
• If you email us: we receive your email address and whatever you write, and use them only to reply to you. We do not add you to any mailing list.

7. Sharing and selling

We do not sell, rent, trade or share your personal information with anyone. The app contains no advertising or third-party tracking code.

8. Security

Your data is kept in the app's private storage, which Android protects so that other apps cannot read it, and it is covered by your phone's own encryption and screen lock. Because the data never leaves your phone through the app, it is not exposed to any server or network. Please protect your phone with a screen lock and keep exported backup files private.

9. How long data is kept, and deleting it

Your data stays on your phone until you delete it. You can delete any entry or category in the app at any time. Uninstalling the app permanently deletes all of its data from your phone. Exported backup files are separate files that you control; delete them like any other file. Device backups can be managed in your Google account settings.

10. Your choices and rights

Because we do not hold any of your data, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete on our side. You are always in control of your information on your phone: you can view, change, export or delete it in the app. If you have emailed us and want that correspondence deleted, ask and we will delete it.

11. Children

The app is intended for adults managing their own finances and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly receive information from children.

12. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Significant changes will also be mentioned in the app's release notes on Google Play.

13. Contact

Questions about this policy or the app: Gongloo Labs, gongloolabs@gmail.com