Parchi Privacy Policy

Effective date: 6 November 2026

Publisher: Sachin Singh, individual developer, India. In this policy, "we" and "us" mean the publisher.

Contact: skydays.support@gmail.com. That address is also the support address for Sky Days, our other app, so please put "Parchi" in your subject line.

Parchi (on Google Play as "Parchi: Home Bills & Hisaab") is a household ledger for Android: milk, newspaper, house help, monthly bills and similar accounts. It is free, with no ads and no purchases. It has no account or login, and we run no server for it. The app has no internet permission, so it cannot send anything over the internet itself. We don't receive your records, and we don't collect or share any data from the app.

What the app keeps on your phone

The accounts you set up (names you type, such as a helper's first name, rates, usual quantities and days), the days you mark, payments and other amounts you enter, day notes, bills you have sent (their totals, so the app can tell you if one changed), and your choices in Settings, such as the language and reminder time. The app also keeps a short list of the next days' choices so the home-screen widget can work. All of this is kept in the app's private storage on your phone. We can't see any of it.

The home-screen widget, if you add one, shows up to three account names and today's marks on your home screen. The evening check and the month-end note, if they are on, show account names in your notification shade. No amounts are shown in notifications.

Ways your records can leave your phone

Only these, and none of them reaches us.

• Bills you send. When you tap Send as image or Send as text, the app hands the bill to Android's share sheet, and you choose the app and the person, for example a WhatsApp chat. A bill shows the account's name, the days, the amounts and that month's day notes. What happens to it then is up to the app you chose and the person you sent it to.
• Backup files you make. A backup file holds all your records, names and notes. It is saved where you choose, or sent where you choose through the share sheet. It is not encrypted, so anyone who has the file can read it. Keep it somewhere private.
• Android's own backup. If backup is turned on in your phone's settings and your phone has a screen lock (PIN, pattern or password), Android may copy the app's records to your Google account. The app allows this only when Android can encrypt the copy with your screen lock, so neither we nor Google can read it. On Android 8.1 and older, and on phones without a screen lock, the app's records are left out of this backup. This is Android's feature, run by Google under your Google account settings and Google's Privacy Policy; the app sends nothing itself. When you move to a new phone with a direct phone-to-phone transfer (by cable or Wi-Fi during setup), Android can copy the records across too.
• Share this app. This sends a short message with the app's Play link through the share sheet. It contains none of your records.

Permissions

• Notifications (Android 13 and later ask you first). Used only for the optional evening check ("Anything different today?") and the month-end "bills are ready" note. You can say no, and you can turn either off in Settings or in your phone's settings.
• Run at startup. After the phone restarts, the app sets the evening check again and redraws the widget. Nothing is sent anywhere.

The app asks for no internet, location, contacts, camera, microphone, phone, SMS or storage permission. Backup files are opened and saved through Android's own file picker, which gives the app only the file you pick.

Ads, analytics and other companies' software

There are no ads, no analytics, no crash reporting and no tracking in the app. It contains no advertising, analytics or other third-party data-collecting software development kits (SDKs), and it does not use the Android Advertising ID. Its only libraries are Google's Flutter framework, Android's AndroidX libraries and the Kotlin language's own libraries, which run on the phone and send nothing.

What we hold ourselves

• Emails you send us: your address, your message and anything you attach. Please don't attach a backup file unless we ask for one to fix a problem, because it holds your records. We use emails only to answer you, and delete them 24 months after our last contact with you, or sooner if you ask.
• Reports from Google Play: Google Play shows us install counts, ratings, reviews and, from phones whose owners allow Android to share diagnostics, crash and performance reports (phone model, Android version and technical logs). Google collects these under its own policy, not through the app. They don't include your records.
• These web pages: they're hosted on GitHub, which logs visitors' IP addresses for security. The pages have no ads, trackers or cookies of ours.

Deleting your data

To erase everything the app keeps on your phone, open Settings and use Delete all data, or uninstall the app. Delete all data can't be undone. It doesn't touch backup files you saved or sent: delete those yourself. To remove a copy in Android's backup, manage backups in your phone's settings or your Google account. There is nothing for us to delete on a server, because we have no copy.

Children

Parchi is a household tool for adults. It is not directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect any data from anyone, including children.

Not a legal record

The app is a private household notebook. Its bills and pay notes are not a legal wage record, payroll or tax document.

Changes

If the app changes what it does with data, we'll update this page and its effective date before that version is released, and where a change matters to you we'll say so in the app's update notes on Google Play.

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