Last updated: November 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how LogicGateGames LLC handles information when you use Tabulo (the "App"), a collection of home-screen widgets for Android, such as clocks, calendars, photos, contacts, shortcuts, notes, checklists and quotes. By using the App you agree to the practices described here.
1. Your Widgets Never Leave Your Phone
Everything you put in a widget - its design, colours and transparency, and anything you type, pick or add to it, such as notes, lists, quotes, photos and contacts - stays on your phone. There is no account, no sign-in and no cloud. We operate no servers for your data, so there is nowhere for it to be sent.
The App uses the internet for three things only: to talk to Google Play about your "All designs" purchase, to ask Google Play to show its rating sheet, and to send a crash report if the App crashes. Nothing you put in a widget is part of any of them.
The App does not ask for your location. A sun-times widget works out sunrise and sunset on your phone from a list of cities built into the App; you choose the city, and nothing is looked up online.
2. Contacts
A contact or favourite-people widget asks Android's own contact picker for one phone number per person. Android hands the App that one entry only, and the App cannot see any others. The name and number are copied into that widget's settings on your phone. If the contact has a photo and you want it on the widget, the App asks for the Contacts permission at that moment; granted, it reads that one photo and copies it into the widget's settings, and nothing else. You can say no and keep the contact's initials instead. Tapping the widget opens your phone app or messaging app with the number filled in; Tabulo never places a call or sends a message itself.
3. Photos
A photo widget uses Android's own photo picker. The App sees only the photo you pick, and keeps a copy of it in its own storage so the widget can show it. It asks for no storage or photo permission.
4. Apps, Shortcuts And Background Updates
To let you choose apps for a shortcut widget, the App lists the apps on your phone that have a launcher icon. That list is read on your phone when you open the picker and is never sent anywhere. Search widgets open Google search or voice search; what you type there goes to that app, not to Tabulo. Settings shortcuts open Android's own settings panels (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, volume and others); the App does not change any setting itself.
Widgets that redraw on a timer, such as calendars, countdowns, checklists, sun times and battery, can be paused by Android's battery optimization. The App therefore holds Android's permission to ask for an exemption (REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS). After you place such a widget it asks once, through Android's own "run in the background" dialog; you can say no, and you can change the choice later in Android's battery settings. The App uses this only to keep widgets up to date and collects nothing through it.
5. Information Collected By The Services In The App
We do not collect your name, email address or phone number, and we do not sell personal information. The Google services built into the App do collect some data, and we list them here because having no server of our own is not an exemption:
- Firebase Crashlytics - If the App crashes, or hits certain errors it recovers from, a report is sent so we can fix the problem. It contains the technical details of the error, the device model, Android version, app version, a random installation ID and which app installed Tabulo (for example Google Play). Reports contain no name, email or advertising ID, and nothing you put in a widget. Reports are kept for up to 90 days.
- Google Play Billing - Handles the one-time "All designs" purchase. Google tells the App whether you have it. To tag the purchase, the App sends Google a random installation ID, scrambled with a one-way hash; it is not your name or your account. We never see your card or payment details.
- Google Play In-App Review - After you have set up a few widgets, the App may ask Google Play once to show its rating sheet. Your rating goes to Google Play; the App is not told whether or how you rated it.
6. What Is Stored On Your Device
- Each widget's design, colours, transparency, size and font, and what you put in it: titles, captions and note text, counter value and goal, countdown event and dates, checklist items and which are ticked (with this week's ticks), quote lines, world-clock and sun-time cities, work-hours start and end times and working days, chosen apps, the name and number of a contact or of each favourite person, and photos (including a contact's photo, if you allowed it).
- Your settings and choices: language, theme, designs you marked as liked, and which tips you have dismissed.
- Whether you have bought "All designs", Google Play's signed purchase receipt for it, and a random installation ID used only to tag purchases.
The App is excluded from Android's cloud backup. On Android 12 and later, a phone-to-phone transfer by cable or nearby connection carries your placed widgets' settings and photos so the widgets come back as they were; nothing goes to a cloud. Settings has an Export that saves your settings to a file where you choose, for a new phone. Everything the App stores is removed when you uninstall it.
7. Children
Tabulo is a general-purpose widget app. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
8. Changes To This Policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date.
9. Contact
Questions about this policy: logicgategames@gmail.com