WePause Privacy Policy

1. Who this policy covers

This Privacy Policy applies to the WePause Android application published by Saastha Enterprises, Tamil Nadu, India (“we,” “us,” or “our”). WePause is a self-management and digital-wellbeing tool. It is not a parental-control, device-management, or emergency-safety service.

This policy covers the WePause app only. Other Fintelligent services and the Fintelligent website may have separate privacy terms.

2. Information WePause accesses

If you accept WePause's prominent in-app disclosure and grant Usage Access, the app can read Android's on-device app-usage events. This can include:

• which application is or was in the foreground;
• when an application moved to the foreground or background;
• aggregate application usage during the previous 24 hours; and
• the names, package identifiers, and icons of user-launchable apps;
• Android-provided app categories and limited on-device category inferences used to group likely games, social, video, and audio apps; and
• battery level, charging state, Android battery-health status, temperature, and an approximate whole-device current reading when the device makes those values available.

App discovery and categorization happen locally on your device. Category suggestions are not uploaded, and an app is not placed in the timed folder until you choose to add it.

WePause also stores the apps you select, timing preferences, remaining session time, cooldown state, protection state, disclosure acceptance, and a locally cached record of Premium entitlement. Premium also stores your chosen daily screen goal and a same-day count and planned duration of cooldown breaks.

3. Why WePause requests Android access

• Usage Access Detects when a selected app is active and creates the local 24-hour usage summary. Android controls this special access, and you may revoke it at any time.
• Display over other apps Shows the cooldown screen after a selected app uses its available session. WePause does not use this access to display advertising.
• Notifications and foreground service Keeps active protection visible while it is running and provides a Pause action. Protection starts only after you enable it.
• Start after device reboot Restores protection after a reboot only when you previously left Protection enabled and the required Android access remains available.
• Network, advertising, consent, and Google Play Billing The free plan uses network access for Google advertising and its privacy choices. Google Play Billing uses network access for Premium product information, purchases, entitlement checks, and restoration.

4. How the information is used

WePause uses the information described above to:

• let you find and select distracting apps;
• display an on-device overview of recent app usage;
• show Premium battery and wellbeing insights, compare estimated foreground-app time with a user-set goal, and count planned cooldown time;
• offer user-initiated external links to selected black-screen sleep-sound videos hosted by YouTube;
• measure a selected app's active session while the screen is interactive;
• resume unfinished sessions and calculate cooldowns;
• show the cooldown screen at the end of an allowance;
• restore user-selected protection after reboot; and
• provide or restore one-year Premium controls purchased through Google Play;
• display and measure advertising on the free-plan dashboard; and
• grant a 24-hour custom-timing Flex Pass after a completed rewarded ad.

WePause does not use app-usage information for advertising, profiling, credit decisions, employment decisions, medical diagnosis, or sale to data brokers. Battery current covers the whole device and WePause does not claim to measure an exact battery percentage saved by reducing screen time.

5. Local storage and retention

WePause's settings and timer state are stored in the app's private storage on your device. Android application backup is disabled for this data. WePause does not maintain a cloud database of your usage history or selected apps.

Local information remains until it is replaced during normal use, you remove an app from WePause, you use Delete local data, you clear WePause's storage in Android settings, or you uninstall WePause. Android separately controls how long system usage events remain available. The rotating wellbeing note is selected locally by calendar day. If you choose its source link, your browser opens the third-party source under that site's own privacy terms. Sleep-sound links likewise open externally in YouTube only after you tap them. WePause does not copy, cache, autoplay, or receive the audio; YouTube may process activity and show advertising under Google's terms.

6. Sharing, third parties, and Premium purchases

We do not receive or share your WePause usage history, selected-app list, or timer state. WePause does not pass this information to Google Mobile Ads, advertisers, or advertising partners.

Advertising on the free plan

WePause uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK to display a restrained dashboard ad and an optional rewarded ad. Google's User Messaging Platform manages advertising privacy choices where required. According to Google's disclosures, its advertising services may automatically collect or share:

• IP address, which may be used to estimate general location;
• advertising interactions such as app launch, impressions, taps, and video views;
• diagnostic information such as performance, hangs, and energy usage; and
• device or account identifiers, including Advertising ID and App Set ID where available.

Google and eligible advertising partners use this information for advertising, aggregated measurement, analytics, security, and fraud prevention under their own terms. Depending on your location and choices, ads may be personalized, non-personalized, limited, or not requested. Non-personalized and limited ads can still use IP address and limited device or interaction information for delivery, reporting, frequency limits, security, or fraud prevention.

WePause requests advertising only after the applicable consent state permits it. The app never places ads on its cooldown overlay, ongoing notification, or over another app. When a Premium purchase is confirmed, WePause removes current ad surfaces and makes no further ad requests. On later launches, WePause verifies entitlement before advertising and does not initialize ads for a confirmed Premium user.

Learn more in the Google Privacy Policy and Google advertising information.

Google Play

If you view, buy, top up, or restore the one-year prepaid Premium plan, Google Play processes the transaction. Google may process account, device, purchase, payment, fraud-prevention, and diagnostic information under Google's own terms and privacy policy. WePause receives purchase status and product information needed to provide Premium; it does not receive your complete payment-card details.

Purchase and financial reports may also be available to us through Google Play as the merchant or application publisher. That Play Console information is governed by Google's services and our applicable legal obligations, not by WePause's on-device usage-data store.

7. Your choices and deletion controls

You remain in control of WePause and can:

• decline the in-app disclosure and avoid granting special access;
• pause Protection in WePause, from its ongoing notification, or from the cooldown screen;
• revoke Usage Access, overlay access, or notification permission in Android settings;
• review or change advertising choices through WePause's Privacy & data screen where required;
• reset or delete the Android Advertising ID through Android privacy settings;
• remove individual selected apps;
• use Delete local data in WePause's Privacy & data screen; or
• clear app storage or uninstall WePause.

Because we do not hold a WePause cloud account or receive your local usage-data store, we generally cannot retrieve, export, or delete that on-device information for you. You can exercise those controls directly on your device. For Google Play purchase information, use your Google account and Google Play controls.

8. Children's privacy

WePause is a general self-management utility and is not directed to children under 13. It does not knowingly create profiles of children or collect their app-usage information on our servers. The published app and advertising configuration are intended for a general audience that excludes children under 13. A parent or guardian who permits a minor to use WePause should review the app's disclosure, advertising choices, and Android permissions with them.

9. Security and international processing

WePause reduces privacy risk by keeping its usage and timer information in Android's application-private storage and separating it from advertising. Advertising and Google Play communications are encrypted in transit by their respective SDKs. No storage or software security measure can guarantee absolute protection, especially on a compromised, rooted, or shared device.

WePause itself does not transfer your usage history internationally. Google and advertising partners may process advertising and Play purchase information in other countries under their own policies and safeguards.

10. Policy changes and contact

We may update this policy if WePause's behavior, legal requirements, or publishing arrangements change. We will update the date at the top of this page and provide additional notice where required.