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Coatstand — Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2026-10-19 Last updated: 2026-10-19

Summary

Coatstand is a record of your wardrobe that you fill in yourself: the pieces of clothing you own, with a photo of each if you add one, the outfits you put together, and what you wore on which day. We do not create accounts, do not ask for your email, and do not ship any analytics or tracking SDK. Your pieces, outfits, wears and photos stay on your phone. Coatstand never sends them anywhere and never reads your location. They leave the phone only if you save a backup or a CSV file where you choose. A backup file and a CSV file are plain files and are not encrypted.

Coatstand has no location, camera or photo-library permission. A photo comes through Android’s own photo picker, which hands the app only the pictures you chose. Every number — times worn, last worn, cost per wear — is worked out on the phone, so keeping the record never uses the internet. The app contains no code that can reach a server at all, apart from the advertising SDK described below, which receives nothing from your wardrobe.

If that’s all you wanted to know, you’re done. The sections below spell it out in detail.

Who we are

Data the app stores on your device

The following is created and kept locally, in the app’s private storage:

Your wardrobe, its record and its photos are kept here and nowhere else. They leave the phone only when you act: a backup you save carries your whole wardrobe and every photo, and a CSV file carries your pieces or the record of what you wore. Coatstand never sends them anywhere itself.

The app explicitly opts out of Android cloud backup and device-to-device transfer, so Android never copies your wardrobe to Google Drive or to another phone. A new phone starts with an empty closet unless you restore a backup you saved. The app says so in Settings.

You can delete a piece (its photo goes with it), an outfit or a wear; use Settings → Delete everything; or uninstall the app — Android removes the local data with it. We have no servers and no cloud storage. We cannot see your wardrobe and we cannot recover it if you lose your device.

Photos

CSV files and backups

Coatstand asks for no storage permission for any of this: files go through Android’s own file picker.

Third-party services we use

Google AdMob (ads)

The app contains the Google Mobile Ads SDK. It shows an occasional full-screen interstitial ad — only after you save a new piece or a new wear, once its form has closed, never while you type and never as the app opens; adding several pieces at once counts as one — plus an optional rewarded ad you can choose to watch to remove ads for 24 hours. There are no banner ads. Google may collect and process:

AdMob receives nothing from your wardrobe: no piece, no colour, no brand, no price, no wear, no photo, no keyword and no content URL. Like any ad in any app, an ad request does name the app it comes from. The approximate location above is Google’s estimate from your internet address; it is never your phone’s location, which Coatstand cannot read. Google’s handling of the data above is governed by Google’s own policies:

Consent (EEA, UK and Switzerland): on first launch the app shows Google’s certified consent form, and you choose whether personalised ads are allowed. You can change your answer at any time from Settings → Advert privacy options inside the app. You can also opt out of personalised advertising via your device’s system settings (Android: Settings → Privacy → Ads).

Data we collect ourselves

None. We don’t run any backend. We have no analytics SDK, no crash reporter that phones home, no Firebase, and no custom telemetry. There is no HTTP client anywhere in the app’s own code, and the build fails if one is ever added.

Permissions the app requests

That is all of them. Coatstand asks for no permission at runtime: Android never stops to ask you about one. It has no access to your location — no GPS, no fine or approximate location, no background location — and none to your camera, photos, media, files, contacts, messages, calendar or microphone, and it asks for none of them. It sends no notifications and asks for no notification permission: there is no reminder.

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 slightly longer than the one above. They are the Android Ad Services permissions, from the Google Mobile Ads SDK; wake-lock and foreground-service, from the Android scheduling library the ads SDK brings in; and one permission that only lets the app’s own parts talk to each other. None is a permission Android stops to ask you about, and none is used by any code we wrote: Coatstand holds no wake lock and runs no foreground service of its own. A test reads the built app’s own merged manifest on every run and fails the build if that list ever changes, or if any location, camera or media permission appears in it.

Children

Coatstand is for adults who want a record of the clothes they own and wear, and is intended for adults. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from children — and, as above, we collect no personal data from anyone.

A record, not advice

Coatstand writes down what you enter. It never suggests what to wear, buy or give away; it has no styling advice, no “AI” and no shop in it. A price is your own note of what you paid — the app never buys, sells or totals your spending — and cost per wear is that price divided by the times you logged wearing the piece.

Your choices

Changes to this policy

If we change the data we collect or the third-party services we integrate, we will update this page and bump the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be flagged in the app’s release notes as well.

Contact

Questions, requests, complaints: dash.fusion@outlook.com.