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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 24 October 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what information Not-An-Alarm, developed by Valerio Technologies AB, collects, how it is used and shared, how long it is kept, and the choices you have.

Who we are

Not-An-Alarm is an Android app that wakes you up with a spoken briefing written for your day, using the sources you choose: the weather, Google Calendar, Google Tasks and news. It is developed by Valerio Technologies AB. Contact: andy@valerio.nu.

What we collect

  • Your account. If you sign in with Google: your name, email address and profile picture. You can also start without signing in; the app then creates an anonymous account for your settings.
  • Your alarm settings. Your wake time and days, voice and language, what goes into your briefing and in which order, its length and style, the times you want a rain check, your news topics, and any instructions you write in your own words.
  • Your city. The city you choose for the weather, stored as its name and coordinates. If you tap “Use my location” instead, the app reads your phone’s approximate location once to find your city. It never tracks your location.
  • Your time zone, as reported by your phone, so your alarm rings at the right local time.
  • Google Calendar and Google Tasks (optional, read-only), only if you connect Google: the day’s events from the calendars you choose, and the tasks that are due that day or still open from earlier days. To read them every morning, we store a Google access token and refresh token.
  • Calendar links (optional): the private address (ICS link) of any calendar you add, for example from Outlook, iCloud or Proton, and the name the calendar gives itself. Anyone who has such a link can read that calendar, so we keep it on our server only: the app shows its name, never the link. Every morning we download that day’s events from it.
  • Your briefings. The text of each briefing, its audio, and the summary shown in the Today tab: the weather, event titles and times, task titles, headlines and their links.
  • Your feedback, when you rate a briefing or choose a quick fix.
  • Premium. If you subscribe through Google Play: which plan, when it started and ends, its state (for example active or cancelled), and the purchase token Google Play gives us to check it. We never see your payment details; Google Play handles payment.
  • Invites. Your invite code, and the accounts that joined through it.
  • Counts. How many previews you used today, and, for accounts without Google, how many mornings they have had.
  • Technical data. A Firebase Cloud Messaging token, to deliver your briefing to your phone, and app usage statistics and device information collected by Google Analytics for Firebase.
  • Ads, on the free plan. The free plan shows one ad on the Today screen, from Google AdMob. AdMob collects your phone’s advertising ID and app set ID, your IP address (which gives an approximate location), your interactions with the ad, and diagnostics, to show and measure ads and to prevent fraud. In the UK, the EU and Switzerland, Google’s consent form asks first. Premium has no ads.

How we use it

  • To write, deliver and show your daily briefing, and to improve the app.
  • Every morning before your alarm, our backend gathers the weather, the day’s events and tasks, and news headlines, writes your briefing, turns it into speech and sends it to your phone.
  • We don’t sell your data. Your settings, calendar, tasks and briefings are never used for advertising.

Who we share it with

  • Google Gemini (Vertex AI): the day’s weather, events (from Google Calendar and your calendar links), tasks and headlines, and your briefing preferences, to write your briefing. Other people’s email addresses (attendees, organisers, creators) are removed first.
  • Google Cloud Text-to-Speech (Chirp 3 HD voices): the text of your briefing, to turn it into audio.
  • Google Firebase: hosts our backend, database, file storage, sign-in, notifications and analytics.
  • Google AdMob (free plan only): shows the ad on Today and receives the data listed above, under Google’s advertising policies. It gets nothing from your briefings, calendar, tasks or settings.
  • OpenWeatherMap: your city’s coordinates, rounded to about 10 km, or the name you type when searching for a city, to get the forecast and the air quality. Answers are shared between people in the same area for a few hours, so no single request is about you.
  • The Guardian Open Platform: only the news topics you choose. No personal data.
  • The service that publishes a calendar link you add (for example Outlook or iCloud): our server downloads the calendar from it each morning. It sees a request from our server, nothing else about you.
  • Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation), for On this day: only the date and your briefing’s language. No personal data.
  • Google Play: handles subscriptions and payment, under Google’s own privacy policy. We ask it about your subscription to know whether you have Premium.

These providers process the data on our behalf. Data obtained through Google Workspace APIs (Google Calendar and Google Tasks) is not used to develop, improve, or train generalized AI and/or ML models.

Google API Services

Not-An-Alarm’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

How long we keep it

  • Briefings (text, audio and summary) and your feedback on them: 30 days, then deleted automatically.
  • Calendar events and tasks: read each morning to write that day’s briefing, and not stored beyond what appears in the briefing and its summary.
  • Your account, settings and Google tokens: until you disconnect Google (for the tokens) or delete your account.
  • Premium, subscription and invite records: until you delete your account. Records Google Play keeps are under Google’s own policy.
  • Calendar links: until you remove them in Settings or delete your account. Their events are read each morning, like Google’s, and not stored beyond what appears in the briefing and its summary.

Your choices

  • Connect or disconnect Google Calendar and Tasks at any time in Settings, and choose which calendars are read in Customize. You can also revoke access at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
  • Add or remove calendar links at any time in Settings.
  • Change or remove your city at any time, and switch off any part of your briefing.
  • Change your answer about ads at any time in Settings → Ads, or choose Premium for no ads. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in Android’s settings.
  • Delete your account in the app, under Settings → Delete account. This deletes your account, settings, city, Google tokens, calendar links, briefings, audio, feedback, and your Premium and invite records. It doesn’t cancel a Google Play subscription: cancel that in Google Play first. You can also ask for deletion on the Delete Account page or by email.

Security

Data travels over encrypted connections. Your settings and tokens are stored in Firebase, protected by security rules. Briefing audio is kept in private cloud storage, and your phone downloads it through a private link.

Children

Not-An-Alarm is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

When this policy changes, we update it on this page and change the date at the top. For major changes we’ll also let you know in the app or by email.