Yardstickly Home Planner: privacy policy

Last updated 5 November 2026.

This policy covers the Yardstickly Home Planner app for Android (package com.yardstickly.planner), published on Google Play by Kiteline Studio. The app and Yardstickly are operated by Pips Pulse Investment ("we", "us"). Our website has its own privacy policy, and the app's terms of service are separate.

The short version

• No account and no sign-in. We never ask for your name, email or phone number in the app.
• Your measurements, projects and shopping lists are stored only on your phone. We never receive them.
• The app shows banner ads from Google AdMob. Google may collect device and usage data to show and measure those ads, as described below.
• The app doesn't use your location, camera, contacts, photos or files.

What stays on your phone

Everything you enter (measurements, project names, calculations, shopping list items and ticks) and your settings (country, units and default allowances) is saved in the app's private storage on your device. It isn't sent to us or to anyone else, and the app doesn't back it up to the cloud. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data in Android settings deletes it permanently.

If you copy, share or print a shopping list, you choose where it goes; the app hands the text to the app or printer you pick and keeps no record of it.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

The app is free and is paid for by banner ads served by Google AdMob, a Google service. Ads never appear on the shopping list, and results are never locked behind an ad.

To show, limit and measure ads and to prevent fraud, the Google Mobile Ads SDK in the app may collect and share with Google:

• your device's advertising ID (which you can reset or delete in Android settings under Google › Ads, or Privacy › Ads);
• your IP address, which can indicate your approximate location (country or city, not your precise location);
• information about your device and the app, such as model, operating system version, language and screen size;
• how you interact with ads, such as when one is shown or tapped, and diagnostic information such as crashes in the ads SDK.

Google uses this data as described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy. We receive only summary reports (for example, how many ads were shown in each country), never anything that identifies you.

Your ad choices and consent

If you're in the UK, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, or in another place where the law requires it, the app asks for your choice through Google's consent message before any ad is requested. You can change that choice at any time in the app under Settings › Privacy options. If you don't consent, you may still see ads that aren't personalised, which use less data.

Anywhere, you can turn off personalised ads in your Google account at My Ad Center, and reset or delete your advertising ID in Android settings.

Analytics

The app has no analytics or tracking SDK of its own. We see only the anonymous, aggregated statistics Google Play gives every developer, such as install counts by country and crash rates. If we ever add analytics, we'll update this policy first, ask for consent where required, and never collect your measurements, project names or list contents.

Links to our website

Some screens link to guides on Yardstickly. Those open in your browser, and our website privacy policy applies there.

Children

The app is meant for adults planning home and garden projects and is not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children.

Security and retention

Your projects are protected by Android's app sandbox, so other apps can't read them. Because we hold no copy, we keep nothing about you; deleting the app deletes your data. Ad data is kept by Google under its own retention policies.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, UK GDPR or US state privacy laws), you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data, or to object to or limit its use. We don't hold personal data from the app, so most requests are handled on your device (delete the app or clear its data) or through your Google account for ad data. You're welcome to write to us with any request or question.

Changes

If we change how the app handles data, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches the app.

Contact

Pips Pulse Investment, for Yardstickly Home Planner: hello@yardstickly.com.