Widgetly Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy governs the use of Widgetly: Beautiful Home Screen Widgets (Package Name: com.widgetly.widgetly), developed and published by Gree Web Solutions.
1Executive Summary & Core Commitment
At Gree Web Solutions, we respect your right to privacy and data protection. Widgetly is a local-first Android home screen customizer: widgets, themes, icon packs, wallpapers, launcher styles and a themed Control Center. We believe that your design preferences, custom photo widget selections, and city choices should remain completely under your control on your physical Android device.
Widgetly does not collect, sell, upload or transmit your widget settings, personal photos, installed apps, home screen layout or other personal data to Gree Web Solutions. The only data that leaves your device is described in Sections 4 and 6 (advertising, anonymous analytics and the online services some features use).
2Local-First Widget & Data Processing Architecture
All core functionality—widget previews and rendering, photo and custom icon selection, themes, launcher layout, style adjustments and city selection—is processed locally on your device.
3Android Permissions Breakdown & Rationale
To deliver live widget features and home screen pinning, Widgetly requests minimal system permissions. Below is a detailed breakdown:
Used when selecting custom images for Photo Widgets. Widgetly relies on Android's native Photo Picker dialog—accessing strictly the single photo you choose, without reading your wider file storage.
Used strictly on an opt-in basis for Music & Now-Playing control widgets to display active track metadata and media playback controls on your home screen.
Utilizes Android's official requestPinAppWidget API to allow adding widgets directly to your launcher with a single tap.
Requested only if you add a Calendar widget. Upcoming event titles and times are read on your device to display them in the widget. Calendar data is never uploaded, shared, or stored outside your device.
Enabled only by you in Android Settings > Usage access, and only for Screen-Time widgets. Today's app usage totals are computed on your device for display in the widget and are never uploaded or shared. You can revoke this at any time in Android Settings.
Required to fetch weather, city search and online data for widgets (see Section 6), load third-party advertisements, and process UMP privacy consent options.
Requested only if you turn on "Device location" in Widgetly Settings. Widgetly uses your approximate location (never precise GPS) to find your city for the weather. Your coordinates are sent only to Open-Meteo to fetch that forecast, and the place name is looked up with Android's own geocoder. Your location is kept only on your device and is never sent to Gree Web Solutions. You can turn this off at any time in Settings or in Android's app permissions.
Requested only if you add a Steps widget. Widgetly reads your phone's built-in step counter to show today's steps and a short history of daily totals. Distance and calories are estimates worked out from your steps. Step data stays on your device and is never uploaded or shared.
Bluetooth access (opt-in) shows the battery level of your connected earbuds or watch. Wi-Fi state shows your connection type, signal strength and link speed in Network widgets. Widgetly does not read network names, nearby devices or browsing activity.
If you choose Widgetly as your home app, it shows the apps installed on your phone so you can open, arrange, hide or uninstall them (REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES only opens Android's own uninstall dialog). Your app list and layout stay on your device and are never uploaded. EXPAND_STATUS_BAR lets a swipe down on the home screen open the notification shade.
Used only if you turn on "Open from any screen" for the Control Center. A small edge handle is shown over other apps so you can swipe the Control Center open; a foreground service with a visible notification keeps it available until you turn the feature off. It reads nothing from the apps underneath and collects no data.
Granted only by you and used only when you tap the matching Control Center control: screen brightness and auto-rotate (WRITE_SETTINGS), Do Not Disturb (ACCESS_NOTIFICATION_POLICY), and opening your alarm or timer app (SET_ALARM). No data is collected.
Used to set the wallpaper you or a theme choose for your home and lock screen. Saving a wallpaper to your gallery on Android 8–9 uses WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (not requested on Android 10 and later).
Used for the Control Center handle's ongoing notification. You can turn notifications off at any time in Android Settings.
Lets a clock widget drawn in a custom font refresh exactly on the minute. It does not wake your phone while the screen is off and collects no data.
4Third-Party Advertising & Mediation Networks
Widgetly is free and supported by advertisements served by Google Mobile Ads (AdMob). No other ad networks are used.
- Ad formats: banner, native, interstitial, app-open and rewarded ads. Rewarded ads play before you apply a theme or launcher style, add some widgets or save favourites.
- Data used by AdMob: Google may use your device's Advertising ID, IP address, approximate location derived from it, and device and ad interaction information to show and measure ads and prevent fraud, as explained in How Google uses information from apps that use its services.
Gree Web Solutions does not receive your Advertising ID or any personal information from AdMob; we only see aggregated revenue and performance reports.
5User Consent & Privacy Rights (GDPR / CCPA / UMP SDK)
Widgetly incorporates the Google User Messaging Platform (UMP) SDK to adhere to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Users in the EEA, UK, or California will be presented with a consent dialog upon initial application launch. You may change or revoke your personalized advertising choices at any time via Widgetly Settings > Privacy & Legal Options.
6Online Services Used by Widgets
Some widgets show live information fetched directly from your device from the free public services below. These requests contain only what is needed to answer them (and, like any internet request, your IP address). No account, name, contact or advertising ID is sent, and Gree Web Solutions does not receive or store any of it.
- Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com): weather forecasts and air quality, using the coordinates of your chosen city or, if you turn on "Use my location", your approximate location; and the worldwide city search, using the text you type in the city search box.
- Frankfurter (frankfurter.app): daily currency exchange rates (European Central Bank reference rates) for Finance widgets. Only the currency codes are sent.
- CoinGecko (coingecko.com): cryptocurrency prices for Crypto widgets. Only the coin names and your currency are sent.
- Pexels (pexels.com) and Lorem Picsum (picsum.photos): the wallpaper photos you browse. Only the category or page you open is requested; photographer credits are shown in the app.
- Google Fonts (via Google Play services): font files for widgets set in a custom font. Only the font name is requested; each font is then kept on your device.
- Google Firebase: anonymous app analytics, crash reports, remote configuration (for example, ad settings), and anonymous ad performance counters (how many ads were requested, loaded and shown) saved in Firebase Realtime Database under a random anonymous ID from Firebase Anonymous Authentication. These contain no name, email, contacts, photos or Advertising ID. All under Google's Privacy Policy.
Widgets that use these services only fetch data while they are on your home screen, at most about once an hour (weather about every 10–30 minutes), and keep the last result on your device so they still work offline.
7Health & Fitness Data
Health widgets (habits, water, mood, fasting and similar) only show what you enter by tapping them, and Step widgets read your phone's built-in step counter (Section 3). All of this is stored only on your device and is never uploaded, shared, sold or used for advertising.
Widgetly does not use Health Connect, Google Fit or any other health platform, and does not read heart rate, sleep or other body data. Step-based distance and calories are rough estimates, not medical information.
8Data Retention
Gree Web Solutions does not store any personal data on its servers. The anonymous analytics and ad counters in Section 6 are kept only in aggregate form to understand app and ad performance, and Firebase analytics data follows Google's retention settings. Your widget settings, selected photos (a private copy of the photo you pick), chosen city or approximate location, lists, habits, moods, step history, applied theme, custom icons, home screen layout and downloaded fonts are kept only in the app's private storage on your device, and only for as long as you keep the widget or the app installed.
Removing a widget deletes its settings. Clearing the app's data or uninstalling Widgetly permanently deletes all locally stored data. Data collected by third-party advertising partners (Section 4) is retained under their own policies, such as Google's Privacy Policy.
9Data Deletion Requests
Because Widgetly keeps your data only on your device, you can delete all of it yourself at any time:
- Open Android Settings > Apps > Widgetly > Storage > Clear data, or uninstall the app.
- To reset the Advertising ID used by ad partners, go to Android Settings > Privacy > Ads.
- To withdraw ad consent, use Widgetly Settings > Privacy & Legal Options.
You can also request deletion by emailing info@greewebsolutions.com with the subject "Widgetly Data Deletion Request". We respond within 30 days. We hold no personal data on our servers; on request we will delete any anonymous analytics linked to your installation and help you with third-party requests.
10Children's Privacy (COPPA Compliance)
Widgetly is designed for general audiences and is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age.
11Contact Us & Official Inquiries
If you have any questions, suggestions, or data subject requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact Gree Web Solutions: