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Privacy Policy Nebula Notes

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This Privacy Policy explains how Nebula Notes handles information and why we keep things simple and transparent.

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Nebula Notes 1.0 (version code 1) · com.pixelorbitstudio.nebulanotes · Android 7.0 (API 24) and above · Policy document version 1.0 · Effective 19 September 2026

Section 1

Information We Collect

What information Nebula Notes collects

1.1 Notes and the content you create

Everything you author in Nebula Notes — note titles, note bodies, text formatting, tags, constellations (your categories), and which notes you mark as North Stars — is written to a private database stored inside the application’s own storage area on your device. This content is never transmitted to PixelOrbit Studio. We have no server that could receive it and no mechanism in the app that sends it to us.

1.2 Application preferences

A small set of preferences is stored on your device so the app behaves consistently between launches. In version 1.0 these are, in full:

1.3 Diagnostic and usage information

To understand whether the app is stable and which features are actually used, Nebula Notes sends anonymous diagnostic and usage information to Google Firebase. This falls into three kinds:

These reports are tied to an anonymous, Google-generated installation identifier rather than to you personally. Because Firebase Analytics is included, the application also ships with the Android permissions that allow access to the device Advertising ID; see Sections 3 and 4.

1.4 What we never collect

The following is true of Nebula Notes version 1.0 without exception:

1.5 Children’s privacy

Nebula Notes is a general-audience notebook and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Because the app has no account system and collects no identifying information, we hold nothing that would allow us to identify a child user. If you believe a child has used the app in a way that concerns you, the entire data set can be erased at any time by clearing the app’s data or uninstalling it (see Section 5).

Section 2

How We Use Information

How we use collected information

2.1 To provide the app itself

Your notes, tags and constellations are used for one purpose: to display, organise and search your own notes on your own device. This processing happens entirely on your device. Your preferences are used to restore the app to the state you left it in.

2.2 To keep the app stable and fast

Crash reports and performance traces are used to identify defects, understand which devices and Android versions are affected, and measure whether a fix worked. Usage events are used in aggregate to understand which features are used and which are ignored, so development effort goes to the right places. We look at totals and trends, not at individuals.

2.3 Sharing that you start

When you choose Share on a note, Nebula Notes hands that note’s title and text to Android’s system share sheet, and you choose the destination app. Where a note contains formatting, a styled version is offered alongside the plain text so that destinations which understand rich text can preserve it. This transfer happens only when you tap Share and only to the app you pick. Once the content reaches that app, it is governed by that app’s privacy policy, not this one.

2.4 What we do not do with it

2.5 Measuring our own advertising

We promote Nebula Notes through advertising campaigns run on Google’s platforms. To learn whether those campaigns are worth continuing, we need to know that an installation followed an advert rather than arriving some other way. Google Analytics for Firebase performs that measurement on our behalf, and it is the reason the app carries the advertising-related permissions listed in Section 4.

In practice this means:

We see this information only in aggregate. It never includes the text of your notes, their titles or their tags.

If you would rather not take part, Android lets you delete or reset your Advertising ID and opt out of ads personalisation from your device settings; see Section 5.3.

Section 3

Data Storage

Where your data is stored

3.1 On your device

Your notes are held in a private database (SQLite, via the Android Room library) inside the app’s own storage directory. Your preferences are held in a separate private preferences file. Android protects both so that other applications on the device cannot read them. Neither is placed on shared storage, and neither is synchronised by us.

Your notes are kept out of Google Drive backup

Nebula Notes instructs Android to exclude the notes database and the app’s preferences from the Google account backup, so no copy of your writing is placed in Google Drive. A direct device-to-device transfer — the kind used when you set up a new phone from your old one — does still carry your notes across, so upgrading a handset does not lose them. Please note the consequence: because no cloud copy exists, a lost, stolen or reset device cannot be recovered from. Share or copy anything you cannot afford to lose. See Section 5.4.

3.2 Diagnostic data held by Google

Crash reports, performance traces and usage events are transmitted to and stored on Google’s Firebase infrastructure, which may process and store them on servers outside your country. That processing is governed by Google’s own privacy terms in addition to this policy. We access this data only through Firebase’s own dashboards; we do not export it or merge it with anything else.

3.3 How long data is kept

3.4 Security

Because the app stores your notes only in private application storage and sends nothing to us, the principal protection for your notes is the security of your own device: your screen lock, your device encryption and the Android sandbox. Data sent to Firebase travels over encrypted connections. Please note that Nebula Notes version 1.0 does not offer an in-app passcode, biometric lock or separate note-level encryption; anyone who can unlock your device can open the app.

Section 4

Third-Party Services

Services we use

Nebula Notes includes the following third-party components. All are provided by Google. The app contains no advertising networks, no social-media software development kits and no analytics provider other than those listed here.

ServiceWhat it does and what it receives
Firebase Analytics Records anonymous usage events (which actions occurred, counts and category labels) so feature usage can be understood in aggregate. Receives an anonymous installation identifier, device model, operating system version, app version and coarse region. Never receives note content.
Firebase Crashlytics Records crashes and handled errors, including the stack trace, the screen and operation involved, device model, operating system version and app version. Never receives note content.
Firebase Performance Monitoring Records timings for operations such as application start-up and search, together with device and app version context, so slow paths can be identified.
Google Play In-App Review Lets the Google Play Store display its own rating prompt inside the app after you have used it successfully. The prompt and any rating you leave are handled entirely by Google Play; we are told only whether the prompt was shown.
Google Play In-App Updates Checks with the Google Play Store whether a newer version of the app is available and, if you accept, downloads it. Handled entirely by Google Play.
Apps you share to When you tap Share, the note you selected is passed to whichever application you choose. That application’s own privacy policy then applies to the content.

4.1 Permissions the app requests

Nebula Notes declares no permissions of its own, and none of the permissions below prompt you for consent: all are granted at install time. Every one is added automatically by the Google libraries described above — the advertising-related entries come from Firebase Analytics — and all are present in the installed application:

PermissionWhy it is present
INTERNET Required by Firebase and Google Play services to send diagnostics and check for updates. Not used to transmit your notes.
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE Lets those libraries detect whether the device is online before attempting a transmission.
WAKE_LOCK Used by Google Play services libraries to complete short background work reliably.
ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID Added by Firebase Analytics. Permits access to the device Advertising ID, used to attribute an installation to one of our advertising campaigns (Section 2.5). No adverts are shown inside the app itself.
ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION Added by Firebase Analytics. Permits use of the Android Attribution Reporting API, which measures whether an advertisement led to an install without sharing identifiers between apps (Section 2.5).
com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID Added by Firebase Analytics. The Google Play services route to the same Advertising ID. Required by Google Play for any app targeting Android 13 or later that reads that identifier.
com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE Added by Firebase Analytics. Allows the app to ask the Google Play Store which referrer or campaign led to the installation.
DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION Generated automatically by AndroidX for this app alone. It is a signature-level permission that stops other apps reaching broadcast receivers the app registers at runtime. It grants no access to anything outside the app.

Section 5

Your Rights

Your choices and control

5.1 Access and portability

Your notes are already in your possession: they live on your device and are visible in the app at all times. You can take any note out of the app at any moment using the Share action, which will hand the title and text to an app of your choosing, such as email, a messaging app or a document editor. We hold no copy of your notes, so there is nothing for us to send you.

5.2 Correction and deletion

Deletion is immediate and permanent on your device. Please make sure you have shared or copied anything you wish to keep before deleting it, because we hold no backup from which it could be restored.

5.3 Controlling diagnostic collection

Please note: version 1.0 has no in-app analytics switch

Nebula Notes 1.0 does not yet provide a setting to turn off analytics, crash reporting or performance monitoring from inside the app. Until such a setting is added, you can limit this collection at device level — for example by opting out of ads personalisation and resetting your Advertising ID in Android Settings › Privacy — or by uninstalling the app.

5.4 Backup and moving to a new device

You do not need to take any action to keep your notes out of the cloud: the app already excludes them from Google account backup, on every Android version it supports. If you are moving to a new phone, use the direct device-to-device transfer offered during setup and your notes will come with you. Restoring a new phone from a Google Drive backup alone will not bring your notes across, because no copy of them is held there. Where continuity matters to you, share the notes you need to keep to another app before changing devices.

5.5 Rights under data-protection law

Depending on where you live — for example in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom under the GDPR, or in California under the CCPA/CPRA — you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal information, to data portability, and to lodge a complaint with your data-protection authority. Because we hold no account and no personal identifiers, most of these rights are exercised directly through the controls above. For anything that concerns the diagnostic data described in Section 1.3, please contact us using Section 6 and we will respond within the period required by the applicable law. We do not sell personal information as that term is defined under the CCPA/CPRA.

Section 6

Contact Us

Questions about this policy

6.1 How to reach us

If you have a question about this policy, about how Nebula Notes handles information, or if you wish to exercise any of the rights described in Section 5, please contact us:

Developer
PixelOrbit Studio
Email
support@pixelorbit.studio
Policy page
https://pixelorbit.studio/privacy/nebula-notes
Postal address
Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh

You can also reach us from inside the app: open Settings and choose Send feedback, which will open your email application with our address already filled in.

6.2 Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Nebula Notes changes — for example if a future version adds an analytics opt-out, a lock screen or cloud synchronisation. When we do, we will revise the effective date shown on the first page and publish the new version at the policy page listed above. Where a change materially affects how your information is handled, we will draw attention to it inside the app before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the app after an update indicates acceptance of the revised policy.