Privacy
Clovie, a calendar and shared space for two people.
Clovie is a calendar, a shopping list, a recipe book, a training log and a cycle tracker for two people.
Everything the two of you put in stays on the phone it was typed on until one of you signs in. The shared account is optional, and without it there is no server behind the app at all.
With the shared account, what the two of you write is also held in a database run by Firebase, a Google service, in Europe. That is what lets both phones show the same things, and what brings everything back when a new phone signs in. Only your two accounts can read it, the database enforces that rule itself, and nobody at this end has another way in. Nothing is sold, and nothing watches how you use the app.
Signing out keeps everything already on this phone and stops anything more from travelling.
A copy you save goes wherever you choose to put it. From that moment it is an ordinary file on your phone or your drive, under whatever protection that place gives it, and the app has no further say over it.
If you let the app read the calendars already on the phone, it only reads them. Those events are shown next to yours and are never changed, never deleted and never written back.
Reminders are set on the phone itself, so the time you pick is known to Android and to nothing else.
Erasing everything removes it from this phone for good, and from the shared space and the other phone when the two are paired. For about three months the shared space keeps a blank note in place of each removed row, holding nothing readable, which is how a phone that was off learns about the removal, and then the notes go too. A copy saved earlier is left alone, because by then it belongs to the folder it was put in rather than to the app.
Deleting your account, instead of just erasing what is on this phone, removes your sign-in for good. Your own seat in the shared space goes with it, right away rather than after the three months above. If someone is still paired with you, the calendar, list, recipes and everything else you both wrote stay exactly as they were for that person. Only your own seat and the sign-in behind it are removed. More on how to delete an account.
What the app asks the phone for
| Permission | Why | Without it |
|---|---|---|
| Internet | To reach the shared account, so both phones hold the same things | Sits unused without the shared account |
| Calendars | To show events already on the phone next to your own. Android grants reading and writing as one permission, and the app only ever reads | The rest of the app works, that overlay is empty |
| Notifications | To ring at the time you set on an event | Events still save, they do not ring |
| Run after restart | So reminders already set survive the phone restarting | A reminder set before a restart is lost |
Nothing is asked for at startup. Each one is asked for the first time you use the thing that needs it, and saying no leaves the rest of the app alone. The internet permission is the one exception, Android grants it with the install, and nothing uses it until somebody signs in.
Children
The app is not aimed at children and collects nothing that would identify anybody, here or anywhere else.
Changes
If this ever changes, the wording changes with it in the same release, and the app carries the current version of this page under Us, Privacy.
Contact
Questions go to pjoao.vaz@gmail.com.