Privacy policy

Oak apple (app.homedeck.launcher) for Android. Effective 6 September 2026.

The short version

Oak apple has no servers, no account and no analytics, and we receive no information about you. What it keeps, it keeps on your phone. Two things reach the internet, and both of them only from screens that sit behind your code: the advertisement at the foot of the settings screens, which comes from Google, and a purchase, which Google Play handles. Neither home screen ever opens a connection.

What the app is

Oak apple replaces your phone's home screen. It can move apps you choose into an Android work profile, and show a plain home screen that does not list them.

What we collect

Nothing. We operate no servers, run no analytics, and receive no information about you or your phone — not your identity, not your apps, not how you use it, not crash reports. What Google reports back to us is counts: how many advertisements were shown, and how many purchases were made. No name is attached to either, and neither can be traced to a person by us.

What Google collects, and when

Advertisements are served by Google AdMob. Requesting one tells Google what any ad request tells it: your device's advertising ID, the device model and language, an approximate location derived from the network address the request came from, and the fact that an advertisement was shown. That is Google's collection, governed by Google's own privacy policy, not ours. Three things bound it, and they are properties of how the app is built rather than promises:

• It happens only while an advertisement is on screen, which is only the settings screen and the hidden-apps screen — both of them behind your code. Neither home screen, nor the code entry screen, nor first-time setup ever requests one.
• Nothing about the apps you chose is part of it. The list of apps you moved into the work profile, and the fact that you moved any at all, never leaves the phone — not to Google, and not to us.
• Buying the unlock removes advertisements entirely, and with them these requests.

Your advertising ID belongs to you and to your phone, not to this app: Android lets you reset it, or delete it altogether, under Settings → Privacy → Ads. The app keeps working exactly as before if you do.

Your choice about advertising

If you are in the EEA or the UK, the first time a screen with an advertisement on it is opened, Google asks you what it may use. You can say no, and the app works exactly the same either way — nothing is withheld, delayed or degraded for refusing. You can change that answer whenever you like: the settings screen carries a row for it, behind your code, and it reopens the same choices.

The question is only ever asked from behind your code, on a settings screen you opened yourself. It never appears on either home screen, on the code entry screen, or during first-time setup.

Payments

Oak apple offers one purchase: a one-time unlock. Google Play handles it end to end. We never see your card, your billing address or any payment detail — Google tells us that a purchase happened, and the app stores one thing as a result: whether the unlock is held. There is no subscription and nothing recurring.

What the app keeps on your phone

All of this stays in the app's private storage on your device, and nowhere else:

• the code you choose, stored as a salted hash that cannot be read back — not by us, and not by anyone holding the phone;
• a second code, if you set one, stored in a form the app can show back to you when you ask for it from behind your first code;
• the lists of apps you chose, and your home-screen arrangement and appearance settings;
• a picture you chose as a background, if you chose one;
• whether the one-time unlock has been bought.

Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.

Network access

The app requests Android's INTERNET permission, and uses it for the two things above — an advertisement, and a purchase — and for nothing else.

Everything the app does works with no connection at all. Nothing waits on the network, no screen is blocked while something loads, and no feature is switched off when a request fails. An advertisement that cannot load is simply not there, and the app is meant to be used that way: it has to work where there is no signal.

Third-party code

Three libraries beyond Google's own Jetpack/AndroidX interface libraries: Google Mobile Ads, which serves the advertisement, Google Play Billing, which handles the purchase, and Google's User Messaging Platform, which asks the consent question above. All three are Google's. There is no analytics library, no crash reporter, and nothing from any other company.

No backup, no transfer

The app opts out of Android's cloud backup and of device-to-device transfer, so nothing it stores is copied off the phone by those channels either.

Permissions, and why

• Internet, and network state — to request an advertisement and to reach Google Play for a purchase. Nothing else in the app opens a connection.
• Advertising ID, and the Android ad services permissions — required by Google's advertising library, and requested by that library rather than written by us. They are what let an advertisement be served and counted.
• Install unknown apps — to place an app you chose into the work profile.
• Request package deletion — to ask the system to remove the visible copy of an app you moved. The system asks you to confirm; the app cannot remove anything on its own.
• Profile administration — the app administers the work profile it creates on your phone. That is what lets it move apps in and out of the profile, and clear an app's data there when you ask it to. It administers nothing else on your phone, and reports to no one.

Google's advertising and billing libraries add a few further permissions of their own that are not listed here one by one — keeping a device awake and running a foreground service while they work. They are visible in full on this app's Google Play listing.

The app does not ask to see every installed package. It asks Android only for the list of apps that can be launched, which is what any home screen needs.

Children

Oak apple is not directed at children.

Changes

If this page changes, the effective date above changes with it.

Contact

Jimmy E, contact@oak-apple.com