Privacy Policy

01 Information we store on your device

When you use GigDesk, you enter information about your own business:

• Customer names, phone numbers, and email addresses — as you choose to enter them; GigDesk never requires this.
• Bookings: dates, times, services, prices, locations, and notes.
• Payments and expenses, including amounts and which account they used.
• Business settings: your business name, currency, and preferences.

All of this is stored locally in a database on your device. It is never transmitted anywhere unless you explicitly enable Google Drive backup.

02 Contacts

If you use the “Import from Contacts” feature, GigDesk opens your device's own contact picker. You choose a single contact; GigDesk receives only that contact's name and phone number to pre-fill a new customer record. GigDesk never requests ongoing access to your contacts and cannot read your contact list outside of this one-at-a-time picker.

03 Google Sign-In and Google Drive backup

Google Drive backup is optional. If you choose to enable it:

• Sign-in uses Google Sign-In to identify your Google account. This alone does not give GigDesk access to your Drive.
• Backup is a separate, explicit permission step using Google's drive.file scope — the most restrictive Drive scope available. GigDesk can only see, create, and manage files it creates itself, inside a “GigDesk” folder. It cannot see, read, or modify any other file in your Google Drive.
• Backups are copies of the local data described above, written to that folder as a database snapshot. The most recent 5 backups are kept; older ones are removed automatically.
• Backups are stored in your own Google Drive, subject to your own Google account's storage and Google's own privacy policy. We never receive a copy.
• You can disconnect Google Drive backup at any time from the app's Settings, which signs you out. Deleting the backup files themselves is done from your own Google Drive, or from the app's Backup & Restore screen, which lists and can restore or leave in place each backup.

04 Advertising (Google AdMob)

GigDesk is a free app supported by ads served through Google AdMob. AdMob may collect device and advertising identifiers to serve and measure ads. This data collection is performed by Google, governed by Google's own policies:

• Google's Privacy Policy
• How Google uses information from AdMob

If you're in the EEA or UK, GigDesk shows a consent form before any ad is requested, using Google's User Messaging Platform. You choose there whether to allow personalised advertising, or to manage or reject it where offered; your choice is stored on your device and can be changed at any time by clearing the app's data.

05 What we don't do

• We do not run our own backend server — there is nowhere for your business data to go except your device and, optionally, your own Google Drive.
• We do not sell or rent your data to anyone.
• We do not use analytics SDKs that track your usage of the app.
• We do not access your business data — it is technically inaccessible to us, since it lives on your device or in a Drive folder only your account can authorize access to.

06 Data retention and deletion

• Local data stays on your device until you delete it — by uninstalling the app, clearing app data, or deleting individual records within the app.
• Backup files in Google Drive stay until you delete them yourself, or until automatic pruning removes older backups beyond the most recent 5.
• Uninstalling GigDesk does not delete your Google Drive backups — this is intentional, since the whole point of the backup feature is to survive an uninstall or a lost device.

07 Delete your GigDesk account & data

GigDesk (developer contact: jfecardona@gmail.com) never creates a separate account of its own — “signing in” just authorizes the optional Google Drive backup feature using your existing Google account. Because of that, there's no GigDesk account to delete on a server; deletion happens directly on your device and in your own Google Drive, immediately, with no waiting period.

To delete everything, in order:

1. Open GigDesk → Settings. If you've enabled Drive backup, tap Disconnect Google Drive backup — this signs you out and stops any further backups immediately.
2. (Optional) In your own Google Drive, delete the “GigDesk” folder to remove any backup snapshots already stored there. GigDesk cannot do this for you remotely — it only ever has access to that one folder, never a way to reach into your Drive from outside the app.
3. Uninstall the GigDesk app from your device. This immediately and permanently deletes all locally stored data — customers, bookings, payments, expenses, and settings — since that data lives only in the app's local database.

You can also delete data selectively without uninstalling: any individual customer, booking, payment, or expense record can be deleted from within the app at any time, from that record's own screen.

What's deleted vs. kept, and for how long:

• Local data (on your device) is deleted immediately when you uninstall the app or delete a record — there is no retention period, because GigDesk has no server to hold a copy.
• Drive backups are deleted immediately once you remove them from your Google Drive yourself; GigDesk's automatic pruning also removes backups older than the 5 most recent on its own.
• GigDesk and its developer never receive or retain a copy of any of this data at any point, so there is nothing left on our side after these steps.

08 Children's privacy

GigDesk is a business tool intended for adults managing their own service business. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

09 Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update the “Last updated” date at the top. Continued use of the app after a change means you accept the updated policy.