Cleared

Cleared for Android

Privacy Policy

Last updated 19 October 2026

What Cleared stores on your device

All of the following is held in the app's own private storage, readable only by Cleared:

• Accounts, balances, transactions, transfers, categories, payees and scheduled entries.
• Receipt photographs you take or choose, together with small thumbnails of them.
• Your settings, including number and date formats, theme, reminders, and whether you support the app.
• If you enable the app lock, a cryptographic hash of your PIN — never the PIN itself.
• If you share an account, the name you gave each paired phone and a random code the two phones use to recognise each other.

Uninstalling Cleared deletes all of it from the phone. Nothing is held on any server of ours, because Cleared has none.

What Cleared does not do

• No account, sign-in or user profile.
• No syncing of your financial data to any server, ours or anyone else's.
• No analytics or usage tracking inside the app.
• No selling or sharing of your financial data. It leaves your device only in the ways you start yourself: a backup or export you create, Android's own backup if you have it turned on, or an account you choose to share with another phone.

Backups and exports you create

Cleared can write a backup file, or export your transactions as CSV. These are written only where you choose, using your device's own file picker — a folder on the phone, or a cloud drive if you point it at one. The file contains your ledger, and your receipt images too if you switch that option on.

Once a backup leaves the app it is yours to look after. If you save it to a cloud service, it is then covered by that service's privacy policy, not this one.

Android backup

Android can back up apps to your Google account and copy them to a new phone. That is a setting of your device, not of Cleared, and Cleared respects it. If it is turned on, Android includes Cleared's ledger and settings in that backup. Receipt photographs are left out, and so is the identity that tells your phone apart from others, so a restored phone does not pretend to be the old one. Android backup is provided and stored by Google under Google's privacy policy; you can turn it off in your device's settings.

Sharing an account with another phone

You can let another phone see one of your accounts, read-only. Nothing is shared until you choose an account and the other phone scans the code on your screen. From then on the two phones find each other on your local Wi-Fi network and the shared account's entries, scheduled entries and the categories they use are sent directly from your phone to the other one. No server is involved, and nothing passes through us or anyone else.

• Only the account you chose is sent. Your other accounts, and receipt photographs, are never shared.
• Everything sent between the two phones is encrypted, with a fresh key for every connection. Someone else on the same Wi-Fi cannot read it.
• Only a phone that holds the code from your screen, and later the key agreed when you paired them, can take part. Anyone else is refused.
• You can stop sharing at any time on either phone. Removing a shared account from the other phone deletes its copy there.

Camera and photographs

Receipts are captured through your device's own camera app, or chosen through the Android photo picker. Pairing codes for shared accounts are scanned with your phone's own camera app too. Cleared does not request camera or photo-library permissions, and receives only the single image you take or select. That image is copied into the app's private storage and is not uploaded.

Advertising

Cleared shows a banner advertisement supplied by Google AdMob. To do this, Google's advertising software collects information from your device, which may include:

• your device's advertising identifier;
• your IP address and approximate, non-precise location derived from it;
• device and app information such as model, operating system version and app version;
• information about the ads shown to you, such as impressions and clicks.

This is collected and used by Google, not by us. We receive only aggregate, anonymous reporting such as how many ads were shown — never anything identifying you, and never anything about the contents of your register. Google's handling of this data is described in the Google Privacy & Terms and in the AdMob documentation.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, Cleared shows Google's consent form before any ad is requested, and your choice there governs what Google may collect. You can change that choice later from Settings → Support the App → Ad privacy choices. You can also reset or delete your advertising identifier at any time in your device's Android settings.

Supporting the app, as described below, stops the banner and the ad requests that go with it.

Purchases

Cleared offers one optional subscription, which supports the app and removes the advertising banner. The transaction is handled entirely by Google Play; Cleared never sees your name, your payment details or your Google account. The app records only whether the subscription is active, as a yes-or-no value on your device, which it re-checks with Google Play. You can cancel at any time in the Play Store.

Promotional codes are redeemed in the Google Play Store rather than in Cleared. Entering a code in the app simply opens the Play Store with it filled in.

Permissions

Crash reporting

Cleared contains no crash-reporting or analytics software. If you have opted in to sharing diagnostics with Google Play on your device, Android may send Google anonymised crash information about apps including this one. That is a function of your device and your Google account, not of Cleared, and it is governed by Google's privacy policy.

Children

Cleared is a personal finance tool intended for adults. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Your choices

• Delete everything: uninstall the app. All local data goes with it.
• Delete individual data: accounts, transactions and receipts can each be deleted inside the app at any time.
• Sharing: stop sharing an account, or remove a shared account, at any time on either phone.
• Android backup: turn it on or off in your device's settings.
• Advertising: reset or delete your advertising identifier in Android settings, change your consent choice in the app, or support the app to remove the banner.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the revised version will be published at this address with a new date at the top. Material changes affecting what is collected will also be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about Cleared: daniel.v.sage@gmail.com