Effective date: 2026-09-08 Last updated: 2026-09-08
Gift remembers what you gave, to whom, and in which year. You keep a plan per person per occasion, jot down ideas, mark what you picked and bought, set a budget, and next December you can see what you gave last time.
Everything you enter stays on your phone. There is no account, no sign-up, no cloud and no sync. Nothing you type is uploaded — not a name, not a gift, not a price. There is nowhere for it to go.
A gift list is a secret, and this app treats it as one. It hides its own contents from Android’s app-switcher by default, so the person you are buying for cannot read your ideas over your shoulder when you swap apps. The What this app can and cannot protect you from section is honest about how far that goes.
com.dashfusion.listgift)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 email, no address, no phone number, no contact and no location anywhere in it, because the app never asks for any of them. A price is stored as a whole number of minor units — pence, cents — so it is exactly the figure you typed and nothing is silently rounded.
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 of any kind. Nobody at Dash Fusion can see who you buy for or what you spend.
The app opts out of Android’s cloud backup and device-to-device transfer, so your lists are never copied into Google’s backup service. The honest cost: uninstalling the app, or losing the phone, loses them. The app has an export that writes everything to a readable file you choose the location of — that file is yours, and it is the intended way to keep a copy or move to a new phone.
This is the section worth reading, because a gift list has a threat model most apps do not: the person it is about may pick up your phone.
What it does. The app sets Android’s FLAG_SECURE on its own window by
default. That means its contents do not appear in the app-switcher preview, and
screenshots and screen recordings of it are blocked by the operating system. You
can turn this off in Settings if you would rather be able to screenshot your own
list.
What it does not do, and will not pretend to.
FLAG_SECURE is a shoulder-surfing measure, not a security boundary. It
stops a glance at the recents screen; it does not stop somebody who has your
unlocked phone in their hand.If you need your list to survive somebody actively looking for it, this app is not the tool for that, and we would rather say so than imply protection it does not provide.
The app is supported by ads served by Google AdMob. Ads are the only reason the app needs an internet connection at all; every list, budget, total and year of history works fully offline.
The app shows no banner ads, no native ads and no ads on launch. A full-screen ad can appear at one moment only: when a gift stops being a maybe — the first time you mark one as picked or beyond — and not every time even then. It never appears twice for the same gift, never when you are simply looking something up, and never when you record a purchase.
There is also an optional rewarded video you can choose to watch, which removes ads for 24 hours; it is never forced and never interrupts anything.
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 any name, any gift, any price or anything else from inside the app.
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.
AD_ID) — required by Google Play for apps that serve
ads; used by AdMob as described above.That is the whole list. The app requests no contacts, no calendar, no camera, no microphone, no photo or media access, no storage permission, no location and no notifications. The absence of contacts is deliberate and worth stating: a gift app is the obvious place to ask for your address book, and this one does not.
A few 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 two above. They are the Android Ad Services permissions plus wake-lock and foreground-service, all from the Google Mobile Ads SDK. None 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 under 13 and is not designed for use under the COPPA framework. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children — as described above, we hold no personal data at all.
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