Effective date: 2026-09-06 Last updated: 2026-09-06
Birthdays keeps a list of people and the dates you do not want to forget. That list stays on your phone.
There is no account, no sign-up, no cloud, and no server of ours anywhere. We never see who is on your list.
The app does not read your contacts. It asks for no contacts permission at all, so it cannot — not “does not by default”, not “only with your consent”. The names in this app are the ones you typed in.
The only data that leaves your device is what Google AdMob needs to show ads, and none of it is anything from your list.
com.dashfusion.listbirthday)Everything is written to this app’s private storage, which no other app on your phone can read:
That is the whole list. There is no hidden profile, no derived score, and nothing about you as a person.
We hold no copy of any of it. There is no analytics SDK in this app, no crash reporter of our own, and no telemetry.
The app also opts out of Android’s cloud backup and device-to-device transfer, so your list is never copied into Google’s backup service. That is a deliberate trade and you should know which way it cuts: nothing about the people on your list is stored off your phone, and uninstalling the app, or losing the phone, loses the list. Use Export before you switch phones — it is the intended way to move your data, and it is never behind an ad.
Nearly every birthday app offers to import your address book, and doing that hands an app the names, and often the phone numbers and emails, of everybody you know. This one does not offer it, because we would rather not be able to.
The cost is that you type people in yourself. The benefit is that there is no copy of your address book inside an app you downloaded, and no permission prompt to think twice about.
If you want to move your list to a new phone, use Export — see below.
You can export your list to a file you choose, and import one back. An exported file leaves the app’s protection: it is written where you point it, in a form other apps can read. The app tells you this before it writes anything, so the choice is yours and it is an informed one.
The file is chosen through Android’s own document picker, which hands the app that one file and grants it nothing else. The app holds no storage permission.
The app is supported by ads served by Google AdMob. Ads are the only reason the app needs an internet connection at all; adding people, browsing the calendar and receiving reminders all work fully offline.
The app shows no banner ads, no native ads and no ads on launch. The only moment an occasional full-screen ad can appear is after you have saved somebody, which is the point at which you are finished. There is also an optional rewarded video you can choose to watch to switch ads off for 24 hours.
To serve ads, Google receives data from your device, which may include your
device’s advertising identifier (AD_ID), coarse location inferred from your IP
address, device and app information, and ad-interaction data. It does not
receive anything from your list. Google’s processing is done as an independent
controller under its own policies:
Where required by law, the app shows Google’s User Messaging Platform consent form before ads are initialised, and records your choice. In the EEA and the UK you are asked about personalised advertising; in covered US states you are offered the opt-out required there. You can change your decision at any time from Settings → Ad privacy options, and if you decline, every feature of the app continues to work exactly as before.
None. We operate no servers, no accounts and no analytics. We have no database with your name in it and no way to identify you or your device. We do not sell or share personal information, because we do not have any.
Reminders are scheduled and shown by your phone, from data already on it. Nothing is sent to us or through us to deliver one, and no reminder ever leaves the device. If you deny the notification permission, the app keeps working and simply does not post reminders.
AD_ID) — required by Google Play for apps that serve
ads; used by AdMob as described above.It requests no contacts permission, no storage permission, no calendar access, no camera, no microphone and no location.
Five more permissions are merged into the final app package by the libraries the app is built on, so the list Google Play shows you is longer than the four above. They are the three Android Ad Services permissions, which come from the Google Mobile Ads SDK, plus wake-lock and foreground-service, which come from both that SDK and from AndroidX WorkManager — the component that runs the daily reminder check. None of them is a permission Android stops to ask you about, and none is used by any code we wrote.
This app is not directed at children and is intended for users aged 13 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children — as described above, we hold no personal data at all.
The list is about other people, so it is worth saying plainly: those names and dates never leave your phone unless you export them yourself. We do not receive them, cannot read them, and have nowhere to put them.
If we change this policy we will update the Last updated date above and publish the new version at this URL. Material changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes on Google Play. This policy is versioned publicly in the Dash Fusion privacy repository, so any change is visible in its history.
Questions about this policy or about the app: dash.fusion@outlook.com