Privacy Policy
AccAlarm ("we," "our," or "us") is a social accountability alarm application designed to help users build positive habits through group alarms, social accountability, grind groups, and interactive community chat. This Privacy Policy outlines how your personal information is collected, used, disclosed, and protected when you use our mobile application.
By downloading, accessing, or using AccAlarm, you acknowledge and agree to the data practices described in this policy.
1. Information We Collect
To provide core social accountability features, alarm synchronization, and community services, we collect the following categories of information:
- Account & Profile Information: Full name, email address, chosen username, display name, and uploaded profile photos.
- Alarm & Timezone Data: Scheduled alarm settings, alarm trigger histories, device timezone, and notification preferences.
- Social & Community Data: Grind Group memberships, friend lists, shared habit progress, and community chat messages sent within public or private groups.
- Media Content: User-uploaded profile pictures and group banner/avatar images.
- Device & Technical Diagnostics: Device model, operating system version, Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) tokens for pushing notifications, unique device identifiers, and crash diagnostic logs via Firebase Crashlytics.
- Advertising Identifiers: Google Advertising ID used by Google AdMob to deliver relevant advertisements.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for specific, operational purposes including:
- Authenticating user accounts and securing account access.
- Synchronizing alarms, habit statuses, and community memberships across devices.
- Delivering timely push notifications, alarm reminders, and social updates.
- Providing real-time community chat, friend connections, and Grind Group functionalities.
- Improving application stability, monitoring performance, and resolving crashes.
- Displaying advertisements and maintaining monetization via Google AdMob.
- Enforcing community safety, content moderation, and preventing abusive behavior.
3. Third-Party Services & SDKs
AccAlarm integrates trusted third-party service providers that process data on our behalf to ensure app functionality, analytics, and monetization. These services operate under their respective privacy policies:
You can review Google’s overall Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
4. Community Safety, Moderation & Reporting
We are committed to maintaining a safe, respectful environment across our social features:
- Reporting & Blocking: Users can block abusive users and report objectionable content or behavior directly within the community chat and group interfaces.
- Moderation: Reported content is reviewed promptly. Accounts violating safety guidelines may face content removal, temporary suspension, or permanent termination.
5. Application Permissions Used
To deliver essential alarm and social functionality, AccAlarm requests the following Android system permissions:
6. Data Retention
Your personal data is retained for as long as your account remains active. Upon requesting account deletion, your personal information, profile data, friend links, and group memberships are permanently deleted from our active databases within a reasonable timeframe, except where retention is legally required for compliance or dispute resolution.
7. Your Rights & Choices
You maintain full control over your personal data. You can at any time:
- Update or edit your profile information and display details.
- Leave Grind Groups or remove friends from your account.
- Manage or opt-out of notification preferences via device settings.
- Permanently delete your entire AccAlarm account and associated data.
8. Children's Privacy
AccAlarm is not directed toward children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us immediately so we can remove the data.
9. Copyright & Intellectual Property
All content, branding, design, graphics, software, and underlying codebase associated with AccAlarm are the intellectual property of Shivion Interactive and protected under applicable copyright and intellectual property laws.
10. Disclaimer & Limitation of Liability
AccAlarm is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. Shivion Interactive shall not be held liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages resulting from the use or inability to use the application or alarm service.
Terms & Conditions
Welcome to AccAlarm! These Terms & Conditions govern your use of the AccAlarm mobile application developed by Shivion Interactive. By creating an account or using the application, you agree to be bound by these terms.
1. Account Responsibility
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account.
2. User Conduct & Rules
When participating in Grind Groups, Community Chat, or interacting with friends, you agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited behaviors:
- Harassment, bullying, hate speech, or abuse targeted at other users.
- Posting illegal, explicit, defamatory, or objectionable content or media.
- Spamming, automated messaging, or attempting to compromise app infrastructure.
- Impersonating other individuals or misrepresenting your identity.
3. Content Ownership & Rights
You retain ownership of any content or media you upload (such as profile pictures or chat messages). However, by uploading content, you grant AccAlarm a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, display, and transmit that content solely for operating the app services.
4. Account Suspension & Termination
We reserve the right to suspend or permanently terminate your account without prior notice if you violate these Terms & Conditions or engage in harmful activity.
5. Service Modifications & Updates
These terms may be updated periodically to reflect changes in legal requirements or service features. Continued use of the app after updates constitutes acceptance of the modified terms.
Delete Your Account
We respect your right to privacy and data control. You can permanently delete your AccAlarm account and associated personal data at any time directly from inside the application.
How to Delete Your Account in the App
Open the AccAlarm App on your device
Navigate to Profile → Settings
Select Delete Account from the menu
Confirm account deletion prompt
Data Deleted Upon Account Removal
When you complete the account deletion process, the following data is permanently purged from our primary servers:
- Authentication profile & credentials
- Personal user profile information & uploaded photos
- Friend connections & social relationships
- Grind Group memberships & group ownership records
- Alarm history, timezone configurations, and personal statistics
- Personalized notification preferences
Legal & Security Log Exception
Some security logs, transaction records, or anti-abuse metrics required by applicable law or legitimate security auditing may be retained in anonymized backups for a limited statutory period before complete purge.
Contact Information
If you have questions, feedback, privacy inquiries, or require assistance regarding your account or data deletion, please contact our developer support team: