Effective date: April 11, 2026 Last updated: April 11, 2026
BudgeTrak is a personal budgeting app. Your financial data lives on your device. If you choose to enable the SYNC feature to share your budget across multiple devices in your household, that data is end-to-end encrypted before it leaves your device — neither we nor any cloud provider can read your transactions, balances, or merchant names. We do not sell your data, we do not show it to advertisers, and we do not analyze it to build a profile of you. The full policy below explains exactly what is collected, where it goes, and how to delete it.
BudgeTrak is published by Tech Advantage LLC (“we”, “us”, “our”). You can contact us at techadvantagesupport@gmail.com for any privacy-related questions or requests.
We try to collect as little as possible, and we keep most of it on your device only.
When you use BudgeTrak, the following information is stored on your device in the app’s private storage:
This data never leaves your device unless you explicitly enable a feature that sends it elsewhere (described below). If you uninstall BudgeTrak, all on-device data is deleted by Android automatically.
BudgeTrak includes an optional feature called SYNC that lets you share a single household budget across up to five devices. SYNC is off by default and only activates if you explicitly create or join a SYNC group.
If you enable SYNC, the following happens:
When you leave a SYNC group or dissolve it, your local data is preserved on your device but the cloud copy is deleted (with a 90-day cleanup window for orphan data).
To keep BudgeTrak stable and identify bugs, we use Google Firebase Crashlytics to collect crash reports and basic diagnostic information. This collection is on by default but can be turned off at any time in Settings → Privacy → Send crash reports.
When crash reporting is enabled, the data we collect includes:
healthy, dead, or off); the number of devices in your SYNC group; and the date of your last period refresh.Crash data does not include any of the following: the contents of your transactions, merchant names, amounts, dates, descriptions, categories, receipt photos, encryption keys, or any other personal financial information. We hash the only piece of financial data that touches Crashlytics (your cash balance) precisely so that even we cannot read it.
If you disable crash reporting, none of the above is collected — and the daily diagnostic snapshot we use to confirm devices are healthy is also skipped. We recommend leaving it on so we can detect and fix bugs that affect real users, but the choice is yours.
If you use SYNC, BudgeTrak signs you in to Firebase using anonymous authentication (no email or password required). Your device is also verified using Google Play Integrity (App Check) to prevent unauthorized clients from accessing the cloud relay. Neither of these systems collects personal information about you.
If you upgrade to a paid tier or subscribe to BudgeTrak Premium, the purchase is processed entirely by Google Play Billing. We do not see your payment method, credit card number, or billing address — Google handles all of that. We only receive a confirmation that your purchase is valid, used to unlock the corresponding features in the app.
The free tier of BudgeTrak displays banner ads served by Google AdMob. AdMob may collect a limited advertising identifier and basic device information to serve ads, subject to Google’s own privacy policy. You can reset or limit your advertising identifier in your Android device settings at any time. If you upgrade to a paid tier or subscribe to Premium, ads are removed and AdMob is no longer loaded.
We want to be specific about this. BudgeTrak does not collect:
We use the limited information we collect for exactly these purposes, and nothing else:
We do not:
No system is perfectly secure, but we follow industry best practices and have designed BudgeTrak to minimize what we ever have access to.
BudgeTrak relies on the following third-party services. Each has its own privacy policy that governs how they handle the limited data we share with them.
| Service | Purpose | What it sees |
|---|---|---|
| Google Firebase Firestore | Encrypted SYNC data relay | Encrypted blobs only |
| Google Firebase Cloud Storage | Encrypted receipt photo storage (SYNC) | Encrypted blobs only |
| Google Firebase Realtime Database | Device presence (online/offline) | Anonymous device IDs |
| Google Firebase Authentication | Anonymous sign-in for SYNC | Anonymous user token |
| Google Firebase App Check | Anti-abuse verification | Play Integrity attestation |
| Google Firebase Crashlytics | Crash reports and diagnostics | Crash data, no financial data |
| Google Gemini (opt-in AI features only) | Receipt reading; CSV transaction categorization | Receipt image contents; merchant, amount, date of imported bank transactions |
| Google Play Billing | Subscription and one-time purchases | Payment info (handled entirely by Google) |
| Google AdMob (free tier only) | Banner advertising | Advertising ID, basic device info |
You can review Google’s privacy practices at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
BudgeTrak offers two optional AI-assisted features powered by Google’s Gemini models, accessed through Firebase AI Logic.
When a subscriber taps the sparkle icon in the transaction dialog, BudgeTrak sends the receipt photo to Google Gemini to extract the merchant, date, amount, and category. The response is returned directly to your device and stored only in your transaction record.
When enabled in Settings, BudgeTrak sends the merchant name, amount, and date of newly-imported bank transactions to Google Gemini to choose the best-matching category for each one. Only transactions that BudgeTrak’s on-device categorizer cannot confidently classify are sent.
Free-tier users have no access to either AI feature, and no data from Free-tier accounts is ever sent to the AI provider.
You have full control over your data in BudgeTrak.
If you want us to confirm what data we hold about you (note: in nearly all cases, the answer is “nothing personally identifying”) or have any other privacy request, contact us at techadvantagesupport@gmail.com.
BudgeTrak is a personal finance tool intended for users aged 13 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us at techadvantagesupport@gmail.com and we will take steps to delete it.
BudgeTrak is published from the United States. If you use the app from outside the United States, please be aware that any data you choose to sync to the cloud (which is encrypted before it leaves your device) may be relayed through servers operated by Google in the United States or other countries where Google maintains infrastructure. By using BudgeTrak’s SYNC feature, you consent to this relay.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time, particularly when we add or remove features that affect what data is collected. When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify you within the app. Your continued use of BudgeTrak after a policy update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
If you have questions about this privacy policy or BudgeTrak’s data practices, please contact:
Tech Advantage LLC Email: techadvantagesupport@gmail.com
We will respond to legitimate privacy inquiries within a reasonable time, typically within 30 days.