RiseUp TodayThe short version
- Your recordings stay on your phone. We never receive them.
- No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking.
- The only thing ever sent is a crash report, when the app breaks. It identifies nobody, is held in the EU, and you can switch it off.
- Uninstalling deletes everything the app stored on your phone.
Who we are
RiseUp Today is an Android alarm clock published by Alvin Donald Mills, an independent developer in South Africa (riseuptoday.app). “We” means the developer; “you” means the person using the app.
What stays on your phone
- Recordings you make, saved in the app’s private storage. They are not sent, analysed or shared.
- Audio files you import. The app keeps its own copy so the alarm can always play it; your original is untouched.
- Your alarms and settings: times, names, repeat days, mood, snooze and dismiss challenge.
- A log of what each alarm did (received, sound started, dismissed), so the app can warn you if an alarm failed. It holds no audio and no alarm names.
The app does not collect your name, email, phone number, contacts, location, advertising ID or device identifiers.
Android backup. If backup is on in your phone’s settings, Android copies your recordings and alarm list (nothing else) to your own Google account and restores them on a new phone. We never see that copy. After a restore, open RiseUp once so it can set your alarms again. You can turn backup off under Settings → Google → Backup.
Crash reports: the one thing that is sent
If the app crashes, it sends a report so the fault can be fixed. This is the only time it contacts a server.
A report contains
- The error and where in the app’s code it happened
- App version, Android version, phone make and model
- Technical state at the time, such as free memory, battery level, language and timezone
- A short trail of what the app was doing, with file paths and alarm names removed
It never contains
- Recordings or any audio
- Alarm names or times
- Your name, email, contacts or location
- Your device’s name, or any ID unique to your phone or install
Reports are handled for us by Sentry (Functional Software, Inc., a US company) as our data processor, and are stored in its EU data region (Germany). They are used only to fix faults: never sold, shared, or used for advertising or profiling. Sentry sees the network connection a report arrives from; we have set it to discard the approximate location that connection reveals.
To turn it off: Settings → Send crash reports. It is on by default, because a crash nobody reports never gets fixed, and switching it off takes effect immediately.
Where the law asks for a legal basis, we rely on our legitimate interest in keeping an alarm clock working, balanced by sending as little as possible, identifying nobody, and letting you opt out.
Permissions
Apart from crash reports, the app sends nothing to any server. Some permissions below come with the frameworks the app is built on; this is what each is used for.
| Microphone | Recording a speech, only while you are recording. |
|---|---|
| Notifications, alarms & full-screen | Ringing at the exact time and showing the alarm over the lock screen. |
| Display over other apps | Optional. Lets the alarm take over while you use another app. |
| Foreground service | Keeping an alarm ringing while the app is closed, for that one alarm only. |
| Run at startup | Setting your alarms again after the phone restarts. |
| Audio settings, vibration & wake lock | Raising the volume to your chosen level, vibrating and waking the screen while it rings. |
| Storage (Android 12L and older) | Reading an audio file you choose to import. |
| Network | Sending crash reports only. |
The shake challenge reads the motion sensor only while the alarm is ringing; readings are never stored.
Deleting your data
Delete recordings and alarms in the app at any time. Uninstalling removes everything the app stored on your phone. A copy in your Google backup is yours to delete there (Settings → Google → Backup, or Google One).
Crash reports are deleted on Sentry’s retention schedule. Because they identify nobody, there is nothing linked to you, but if you want us to try to find and delete reports from a particular phone, email us and we will do what we reasonably can.
Children
The app is not aimed at children under 13 and collects no personal information from anyone.
Your rights
Under South Africa’s POPIA, and the GDPR if you are in the UK or EEA, you can access, correct, delete and export your personal information. Here, that is in your hands already: everything is on your phone, and we hold nothing personal about you.
Changes
If a future feature (such as cloud backup or paid features through Google Play) needs data off your phone, it will ask for consent first, and this policy will be updated and re-dated before it ships.