Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 9, 2026 · applies to Bloom for Android
In short: Bloom keeps your planner on your device. There are no accounts and no cloud sync. The free plan may show a small ad through Google AdMob after the appropriate consent; Bloom Plus removes those ads. Purchases are handled by Google Play or the App Store.
- Your planner data
- Ads and consent
- Bloom Plus purchases
- Where data lives
- Backups
- Permissions
- Notifications
- Offline and network use
- Crash reports
- Deleting your data
- Children
- Changes
- Contact
1. Your planner data
Bloom does not send your to-dos, notes, reminders, categories, links, photos, files or backup contents to us. We do not have an account system or a server that receives your planner. The app does not sell or share your planner contents with other users.
The optional ad and store services described below are separate from the planner. They may process their own device, app and transaction information to serve ads or complete a purchase; they do not receive the contents of your desk.
2. Ads and consent
The free plan can show a small ad card between the items of the Home, Planner, Notes and Calendar pages, and a small banner on the Settings page. Bloom does not show a launch interstitial or place ads inside a to-do or note editor. Bloom Plus removes Bloom's ad placements.
Ads are provided by Google AdMob through the Google Mobile Ads SDK. The SDK may process device and app information, advertising or other identifiers, ad interactions and diagnostics under Google's privacy policies. Ads may be personalized according to the choices you make in the ad consent flow and your device settings; where required, the SDK's User Messaging Platform (UMP) flow asks before an ad request, and the choice is stored by the consent SDK on the device and can be reviewed and changed from the app. Bloom asks the SDK to use a General-audience content rating. We do not build our own ad profile from your planner.
A release that enables production advertising must be checked against the final AdMob and UMP configuration before publication. Test builds use Google's official sample app and ad-unit IDs.
3. Bloom Plus purchases
Bloom Plus is optional and is sold as a recurring subscription. The store handles the price, payment, renewal, cancellation and refund. Bloom receives the purchase result needed to unlock Plus on that device; it does not receive your card number. Restore purchases is available to everyone, whether or not you have Bloom Plus; it asks the platform store for an existing purchase and nothing more. Manage or cancel a subscription through the platform store.
A subscription can end through cancellation, expiry or a store refund. Existing planner data is not deleted when Plus ends. Recurring Plus-only task behaviour stops when the entitlement is no longer active; ads may return on the free plan.
4. Where data lives
Tasks, categories, sticky notes, reminders, due dates, colours, links and preferences are written only to the app's private storage on your device, which Android sandboxes. Photos and files attached to a sticky note are copied into that same private storage so the note keeps working; they are not uploaded by Bloom.
5. Backups
Bloom can export your whole desk as a JSON backup and import it on another device. This happens only when you choose it, through the device's own share or file dialog. Where that file ends up is under your control, and we have no access to it.
6. Permissions
Bloom asks for the few permissions it needs, and only when you use the related feature:
- Notifications — so reminders can be shown at the time you chose. Bloom also asks Android for the ability to schedule exact alarms because some devices otherwise delay reminders.
- Photos and files — only when you attach something to a sticky note. Bloom opens Android's picker and keeps just the item you selected in private storage. It never scans your gallery or files.
Bloom does not ask for your location, contacts, microphone, camera or SMS. The ad SDK may infer approximate location from an IP address under its own policies; Bloom does not request the system location permission.
7. Notifications
Reminders are generated and scheduled entirely on your device. There is no push server and no remote notification system, so nothing about you or your reminders is sent to a Bloom server. Declining the notification permission leaves every other feature available.
8. Offline and network use
Planning, notes, the calendar, reminders and local backups work offline. Ads, purchase and restore requests, consent forms, app updates and the website require a network connection. The generated Android manifest includes the standard internet permission; that does not mean Bloom uploads your planner contents.
9. Crash reports
Release builds send crash reports to Google Firebase Crashlytics so we can find and fix failures. A report contains the error and its stack trace, the app version, and basic device details such as model and Android version. It does not contain your to-dos, notes, reminders, photos, files or backup contents. Crash reporting is turned off in development builds.
10. Deleting your data
Clearing Bloom's storage in Android app settings, or uninstalling the app, erases the planner data stored on that device. Ad and store providers keep or delete their own records according to their policies and the choices you make in those services. We cannot recover a planner backup that never reached us.
11. Children's privacy
Bloom is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect planner content or personal information from anyone. The ad configuration is not child-directed and requests a General-audience content rating. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email us and we will help.
12. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. The version that applied when you installed the app is the version linked from Google Play's listing at that time.
13. Contact
Questions about privacy? Email awbuilds.support@gmail.com. We answer every note ourselves.