Privacy policy

Last updated: 12 November 2026

Who we are

ALFIGO is a budget app for Android phones, made by Hossein Zendehbad, an independent developer based in Italy ("we"). We are responsible for the little personal data described below that can reach us. You can write to us at alfigo.app@gmail.com.

What stays on your phone

Everything you add to ALFIGO is kept only on your phone: amounts, categories, notes, shops, bills, money put aside, goals, receipt photos and your settings. It is stored in a locked (encrypted) database. Its key is kept in your phone's secure storage and never leaves the phone. ALFIGO has no account and no server, so we have no copy of any of it.

What ALFIGO uses on your phone, and why

• Camera: only when you take a photo of a receipt. The text on the receipt is read on the phone itself. The photo stays on your phone, and goes into the Google Drive copy only if you turn that on.
• Notifications, alarms and start-up: to show the reminders you choose, on time, also after the phone restarts.
• Fingerprint or phone lock: only if you turn on "Lock ALFIGO". Your phone checks your fingerprint, face or PIN and only tells ALFIGO "yes" or "no". ALFIGO never sees or stores them.
• Internet: only for the Google Drive copy, if you turn it on.

The daily copy to Google Drive (optional)

This is off until you turn it on in Settings > Backups. When you turn it on, you choose a Google account and allow ALFIGO to use its own hidden folder in that account's Google Drive. ALFIGO asks Google for two things only:

• its own hidden app folder in your Drive. ALFIGO cannot see your other Drive files, and the folder doesn't appear among your files;
• your email address, to show you which account the copy goes to.

About once a day, ALFIGO sends a copy of your ALFIGO data and a lighter copy of your receipt photos straight from your phone to that folder, over an encrypted connection. The last 7 days are kept. The copy is stored by Google in your Google account, and Google's privacy policy applies to it. We cannot see it.

If you turn the copy off, the copies already in Drive stay there, so you can still restore them. To delete them, open Google Drive on a computer, go to Settings > Manage apps, find ALFIGO, then choose Options > Delete hidden app data. You can also remove ALFIGO's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

ALFIGO's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. ALFIGO uses this access only to keep and restore your own copies, and for nothing else.

Files you choose to send

"Send a backup", "Export to Excel" and sending the 730 health list make a file on your phone. It goes only where you choose, using your phone's own share screen (for example your email, Google Drive or OneDrive). A backup file is not locked with a password: anyone who has the file can read it, so keep it somewhere safe. When you import a file from Excel or your bank, it is read on your phone and not sent anywhere.

The app diary

To help find problems, ALFIGO keeps a short diary on your phone: errors, and steps such as "opened Bills". It never holds amounts, names, shops or photos (numbers are blotted out), and it keeps only the last 4 weeks. It is never sent by itself.

If you tap "Send the app diary", your email app opens with the diary attached and our address filled in. You decide whether to send it. If you do, we receive your email address, your message and the diary.

Emails you send us

When you write to us, by email or with the app diary, we use your email address, your message and any file you attach only to answer you and to fix problems. We don't share them with anyone, and we delete them when they are no longer needed, at the latest 12 months after our last exchange. The legal basis is answering your request (GDPR, Article 6(1)(b) and (f)).

What we don't do

• We don't show ads, use analytics or track you, in the app or on this website.
• We don't sell, rent or share your data with anyone.
• This website uses no cookies. The company that hosts it (Cloudflare) may briefly process technical data, such as your IP address, to deliver the pages and keep them safe.

Google Play

When you install ALFIGO from Google Play, Google handles the download and updates under its own privacy policy. If you allowed it on your phone, Google may also share crash reports and usage numbers with us. These don't include your ALFIGO data.

Your choices and rights

Your ALFIGO data is on your phone and fully in your hands. You can see and change it at any time, export it to Excel, and delete all of it with Settings > Start again or by uninstalling the app.

For the data that can reach us (your emails), you have the right to ask for a copy, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object. Just write to alfigo.app@gmail.com. You can also complain to the Italian data protection authority, Garante per la protezione dei dati personali.

Children

ALFIGO is not meant for children under 14.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. Important changes will also be mentioned in the app's update notes.