Businessly ("the app", "we") is a digital khata (ledger) for small shopkeepers. This policy explains what data the app handles, why, who processes it, and how you can delete it. It is written to match what the app actually does.
Data controller: Zubair Ahmed Khan (individual developer).
Contact for privacy questions and data-deletion requests:
appzubair@gmail.com.
| Data | When / why | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Google account email, display name, and user ID | When you sign in with Google, to authenticate you and tie your ledger to your account. | Google (Sign-In); our authentication backend (Supabase). Cached on the device. |
| Your ledger / business records (customers, suppliers, sales, purchases, payments, balances, cash, expenses, business name, settings) | This is the core of the app — the records you create. | Stored in an encrypted database on your device; synced to our server (Supabase) when you use more than one device; and backed up to your own Google Drive. |
| Contacts (a name and phone number) | Only when you tap "Import from contacts" to add a customer or supplier. We read just the contact you pick. | Becomes part of your ledger entry (so it is stored / synced / backed up the same way as your ledger). |
| Anonymous usage counts (an anonymous device identifier, platform, app version, OS version) | Once per day, to count how many devices use the app — and to tell a returning device from a new
one — so we can support every platform properly.
The identifier is a one-way hash of a value your operating system already assigns to your device (on Android, its settings identifier; on Windows, its machine identifier). The original value never leaves your device, the hash cannot be turned back into it, and it is not linked to you, your account, or your ledger. Because it comes from the operating system rather than the app, it stays the same if you reinstall — that is what lets us count devices instead of installations. It changes if you factory-reset the device (Android) or reinstall Windows. |
Our backend (Supabase). Never shared or sold. |
| Advertising ID (Android) | Used by Google AdMob when the app shows a small banner advert (settings screen only — never on your ledger or money screens). Ads may be off entirely; when off, no ad requests are made. | Google AdMob (third party). See section 3. |
We do not collect location, photos, messages, or crash telemetry, and your ledger data is never used for advertising. The app contains no third-party analytics SDKs.
Your synced ledger remains on the server while your account exists. The app keeps the most recent 5 Google Drive backups and removes older ones automatically. When you delete your data (section 6), the server copy and Drive backups are removed.
com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID) — used only by Google
AdMob for the banner advert described above.Businessly is a business tool intended for users 18 and over. It is not directed at children.
We will update this page and its effective date when the app's data practices change. Material changes will be reflected here before the corresponding app version is released.