Hourside privacy

Effective 14 November 2026. This notice covers Hourside 1.0.0 and its official website. Hourside is provided by Big Small Services, a sole proprietorship of Udit Gandhi in India. Contact us for privacy questions or requests.

What stays on your device

Hourside is an offline world clock and time planner. No account is required. The app stores your saved cities, labels, contact hours, reference time zone, appearance preferences and widget configurations in its private local storage. Labels and contact hours are information you enter; Hourside does not read your address book.

The app does not request internet, location, contacts or broad storage permissions. It does not send your saved information to Big Small Services and has no advertising, analytics or third-party telemetry SDK. City selection and time calculations work locally using the app's city list and your device's time and time-zone information.

Export, import and recovery

You can explicitly export your saved cities, labels, contact hours, reference time zone, appearance and widget templates as a JSON file. Android's document picker lets you choose where to save or open it. The file is readable and is not encrypted by Hourside. Anyone who can access it can read those details. Keep it somewhere you trust and do not include sensitive information in labels.

You may choose a cloud drive or another document provider in the picker. That provider then handles the file under its own terms and privacy policy. Hourside does not operate that service or automatically upload the file. Hourside disables Android automatic cloud backup and device-transfer backup for its private app data.

Import requires your confirmation before replacing saved cities and settings. A local recovery copy of the previous state is kept so you can undo the latest import. This recovery copy is stored privately on your device. Widget configurations can be imported as templates; launcher widgets must be added again after moving between apps or devices. Import does not silently reconfigure existing launcher widgets.

Removing your information

You can edit or delete saved entries in the app. Clearing Hourside's app storage in Android settings or uninstalling it removes its private local data, including the import recovery copy. Exported files remain wherever you saved them; delete them separately, including any copies or deleted-file folders held by your document provider. We cannot retrieve app data that stayed on your device.

Links, downloads and support

Opening the website, update page or an email link is your choice. These open in your browser or email app, whose provider may process data under its own policy. The app does not automatically send diagnostics or attach your backup file.

If you email support, we receive your email address, message and anything you attach. We use that information to answer you, investigate the issue and handle related security or legal matters. Share only what is needed. We do not sell support correspondence or use it for advertising. You may ask us to correct or delete it; we will respond subject to applicable retention requirements and legitimate unresolved issues. Email providers process messages to deliver and store them.

The website

Visiting hourside.bigsmallservices.com or downloading an APK makes a network request. Hosting and delivery providers may process technical information such as your IP address, request time, requested file, browser information and security logs to deliver and protect the site. This differs from the offline app. We do not add advertising trackers, analytics scripts or marketing cookies to the site. Provider security mechanisms may operate separately.

Changes and your rights

We will update this notice when app behavior or our handling of information changes and show a new effective date. You may have rights under applicable law concerning information you send us. Use Contact us above to make a request or raise a concern. This notice does not reduce those rights.