Privacy Policy for Call Screen: Phone Dialer
1. Who we are
Call Screen: Phone Dialer is published on Google Play by Kaushik Domadiya ("we", "us"). Contact: kaushik.domadiya9@gmail.com.
2. Phone data the app uses on your phone
When you make Call Screen your default phone app, Android lets it handle your calls. Everything in this table stays on your phone. It is never uploaded to us, to Firebase or to any ad partner.
| Data | What the app does with it |
|---|---|
| Contacts | Shows your contacts, favourites and caller names and photos; adds, edits, stars or deletes a contact only when you ask. |
| Call log | Shows Recents and call details; deletes entries only when you ask. |
| Calls and phone state | Places, answers, holds, merges and ends calls through Android's telephony service, shows the call screen, and reads which SIM cards are active so you can choose one. The app does not record calls. |
| Blocked numbers | Stored in Android's own blocked-numbers list, which other phone apps on your device also use. |
| Call notes, speed dial, per-contact wallpapers and ringtones, fake-call caller details, and settings | Saved in the app's private storage on your phone. Excluded from Google cloud backup; a direct transfer to your own new phone can carry them. |
| Photos and videos you pick as a call wallpaper or fake-caller photo | A copy is kept in the app's private storage so the call screen can show it. Never uploaded. |
| Caller name for the Call Announcer | Spoken by your phone's text-to-speech engine while it rings. |
| Camera flash | Blinks the torch for Flash on Call. The camera itself is never used to take pictures. |
When you tap Message, WhatsApp, Email or Share, the chosen number or contact is handed only to the app you pick.
3. Ads (free version)
The free version shows ads served by Google AdMob, inside the app only. Ads never appear on the incoming-call, in-call or call-ended screens, and no full-screen ad is shown while a call is ringing or in progress. AdMob may let these partners compete to show an ad: AppLovin, Meta Audience Network, Liftoff (Vungle), InMobi, Pangle, Mintegral, Digital Turbine (DT Exchange), ironSource (Unity) and BidMachine. To show, measure and protect ads from fraud, they may collect:
- your device's advertising ID,
- IP address and approximate location derived from it,
- device and app information (phone model, Android version, language, app version),
- how you interact with ads (views and taps).
They never receive your contacts, call log, phone numbers or call details. In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland the app asks for your consent before personalised ads, using Google's consent message. You can change your choice at any time in Settings → Privacy options. Each partner's own privacy policy explains how it uses this data:
| Partner | Privacy policy |
|---|---|
| Google AdMob | How Google uses data from apps that use its services |
| AppLovin | legal.applovin.com/privacy |
| Meta Audience Network | facebook.com/privacy/policy |
| Liftoff (Vungle) | liftoff.ai/privacy-policy |
| InMobi | advertising.inmobi.com/privacy-policy |
| Pangle | pangleglobal.com/privacy |
| Mintegral | mintegral.com/en/privacy |
| Digital Turbine (DT Exchange) | digitalturbine.com/legal/privacy-policy |
| ironSource (Unity) | unity.com/legal/privacy-policy |
| BidMachine | bidmachine.com/privacy-policy |
Call Screen Premium removes ads.
4. Settings and other services
- Our settings service lets us change app settings, such as how often ads appear, without an app update. The app downloads its settings from our server, hosted on Cloudflare, when it starts and when you return to it after an hour or more away. Cloudflare privacy.
- Google Firebase Analytics tells us how the app is used, so we can fix problems and improve it: screens opened, whether the app was set as your phone app, that a call was placed from the app or that the call screen was shown (never the number, the contact or how long you talked), wallpapers and button styles chosen, which features you use (blocker, announcer, flash, fake call, speed dial), whether the Premium screen and reward ads were used, notification taps, plus app version, phone model, Android version, language, country and an app-instance ID that Firebase creates. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland it follows the consent choice you make in the app; until then nothing is stored. Google Analytics keeps event-level data for the retention period we set (2 to 14 months). Firebase privacy.
- Firebase Crashlytics and Performance Monitoring tell us when the app crashes, freezes or runs slowly, so we can fix it: the crash or error details, the steps in the app just before it (screen names and app events, never your contacts, numbers or calls), how long startup and ad loading take, plus app version, phone model, Android version and an install ID that Firebase creates. They are not used for advertising. Crash reports are kept for 90 days. Firebase privacy.
- Firebase Cloud Messaging delivers notifications such as new call screens and features. It uses a token tied to this app install and the topics the app joins (all users, your country, your language, the app version). The country comes from your SIM card or mobile network, or your phone's region setting. You can turn these notifications off any time in your phone's settings for Call Screen.
- Google Play handles app updates and Premium purchases. We receive only whether you own Premium, never your payment details. Google Privacy Policy.
What our settings service logs
We log every settings request so we can see which app versions are in use, find problems with a release, and spot abuse or fraud (for example a flood of requests from one network). For each request we store:
| Data | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| IP address | Seen by the server, as with any internet request |
| Approximate location: country, region, city, postcode, rough coordinates and timezone | Worked out by Cloudflare from the IP address. The app has no location permission |
| Internet provider and network number (for example "Reliance Jio, AS55836") | Worked out by Cloudflare from the IP address |
| App version, phone maker and model, Android version, phone language | Sent by the app |
| An install ID | A random code the app creates the first time it runs. It is not your advertising ID, your phone number or any other identifier, and it starts over if you clear the app's data or reinstall |
| Which settings version the app had, and whether it asked at start-up or on return | Sent by the app |
| Time of the request and technical connection details (protocol, response time, the Cloudflare data centre used, user agent) | Seen by the server |
We keep these records for 90 days, after which they are deleted automatically. Only our team can see them, by signing in to our private dashboard. We do not sell them, share them with advertisers, or combine them with the ad data in section 3. We process them on the basis of our legitimate interest in running, securing and improving the app.
5. Permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Default phone app (dialer role) | Lets Call Screen show its call screen, play your ringtones, announce callers and block numbers. You can change it back any time in Android Settings. |
| Phone (make calls, read phone state and numbers) | To place and manage calls and to choose a SIM. |
| Contacts (read and write) | To show your contacts and caller names, and to add, edit, star or delete a contact when you ask. |
| Call log (read and write) | To show Recents and delete entries when you ask. |
| Notifications (Android 13+) | For incoming- and ongoing-call notifications, call-back reminders, fake calls, and news about the app (section 4). |
| Full-screen notifications, wake lock, alarms | To show incoming and fake calls over the lock screen, keep the screen on during a call, and fire reminders and fake calls on time. |
| Vibrate, audio settings, camera flash | For ringing, the speakerphone and Flash on Call. |
| Internet and network state | To load ads, app settings and updates, and handle Google Play purchases. Settings requests are logged as described in section 4. |
| Advertising ID | Used by the ad services in section 3. |
The app does not request location, microphone, camera (photos), SMS or storage access, and it does not record calls.
6. Sharing
We do not sell your personal information. Your contacts, call log, phone numbers and calls are never shared with anyone. Other data leaves your phone only as described above: ads through AdMob and its partners, usage statistics, crash reports and notifications through Google Firebase, settings requests to our server on Cloudflare, and purchases through Google Play. Firebase, Cloudflare and Google Play act as our service providers.
7. Your choices
- Change ad consent in Settings → Privacy options (shown where consent is required).
- Remove ads with Call Screen Premium.
- Turn notifications off in your phone's Settings → Apps → Call Screen → Notifications.
- Reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings, usually Settings → Privacy → Ads.
- Stop using Call Screen as your phone app in Settings → Apps → Default apps → Phone app, and delete everything the app stored by clearing its data or uninstalling it. Clearing the app's data also gives it a new install ID.
- Ask us for a copy of, or to delete, the settings-service records about you: email us with the approximate dates you used the app and your IP address if you know it. Records are deleted automatically after 90 days in any case.
8. Children
Call Screen is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us and we will help.
9. Security and retention
Your phone data stays on your phone, protected by Android's app sandbox and permissions. Our settings-service records are kept for 90 days, then deleted automatically; they are stored with Cloudflare and visible only to our team through a password-protected dashboard. Ad and Google services keep their data according to their own policies linked above. All data the app sends over the internet is encrypted in transit (HTTPS).
10. Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under GDPR or CCPA) you may have rights to access, correct, delete or object to the use of your personal data. Write to kaushik.domadiya9@gmail.com and we will respond.
11. Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
12. Contact
Kaushik Domadiya
Email: kaushik.domadiya9@gmail.com