About this policy
PawPaw operates Pipi Launcher (Pipi), a home screen app for Android phones. Pipi needs no account and has no advertising or tracking tools. It doesn’t ask anyone, including children, for a name, email address, phone number, or other contact details. Pipi reads your apps, notifications, contacts, and calendar on your phone to show them on your home screen, and none of it is sent to PawPaw. Pipi sends information off your phone only as described under Notifications, Web and Play Store search, and Free trial and purchases.
Your apps and your home screen
Pipi reads the list of apps installed on your phone, including work profile apps, so it can show and open them. What you set up is saved on your phone: favorites, hidden apps, the names and short names you give apps, the letters you hold to open them, the look you choose, the fonts you add, and your own wallpaper image, which Pipi copies into its storage. To put the apps you open most first, Pipi also keeps how often and when you last opened each app from Pipi, and which app you opened after typing the first few letters.
Notifications
If you allow notification access, Pipi reads the notifications on your phone, such as the app, the sender, the title and text, the time, and their reply and action buttons, to show dots and chips beside your apps, the Hub, and the people waiting for you. Pipi keeps them in memory only while they’re on your phone. It doesn’t save them to storage or send them anywhere.
Smart chips under a notification come from its words, read on your phone by Pipi’s own rules, with no model and nothing sent: a one-time code, a parcel’s tracking number, or a date and time. Copy code puts the code on your clipboard, marked so Android doesn’t show it in its clipboard preview. Track with a carrier opens that carrier’s tracking page in your browser with the tracking number in its address, so the carrier receives the number. Add to calendar opens your calendar app’s new event with the time and the notification’s words filled in, and nothing is saved until you save it there. You can turn smart chips off in Settings › Notifications.
When you reply from Pipi, your reply goes to the app that posted the notification through Android, and that app sends it. When you clear a notification in Pipi, it’s also cleared from your notification shade. You can turn notification access off at any time in Android Settings.
Contacts, calls, calendar, and alarms
If you turn on people in search and allow contacts, Pipi reads names and phone numbers from your phone’s contacts to find people as you type. If you also allow phone calls, the Call key can call the person you found; otherwise Pipi opens your phone app with the number filled in.
If you allow calendar access, Pipi reads your next event, its title and time, to show it under the clock. It also shows your next alarm from Android. These are read on your phone and aren’t saved or sent.
Usage access and the control centre
When you ask Pipi to fill your favorites, it uses Android’s usage access, which you turn on in Android Settings, to see which apps you used most. It reads this only when you ask, on your phone.
The control centre shows your Wi-Fi, sound, Do Not Disturb, and battery state, and changes Do Not Disturb or brightness only when you use those controls. Brightness needs permission to modify system settings.
Backup files
Pipi creates a backup file only when you tap Make a backup file, and saves it only where you choose in Android’s file picker, such as your phone’s storage or Google Drive. The file is a ZIP that holds your settings (favorites, hidden apps, names, and look), the fonts you added, and your own wallpaper, without encryption. PawPaw doesn’t receive it. Restore from a backup reads only the file you choose.
Web and Play Store search
If you choose to search the web or the Play Store for what you typed, Pipi hands those words to your browser, search app, or the Play Store, and their privacy practices apply. Pipi does this only when you pick that line.
Free trial and purchases
The 14-day free trial is counted on your phone. Pipi saves when it started there, and asks for no payment details.
Pipi Pro is bought on Google Play, and Google processes the payment. Pipi checks your purchase with Google Play Billing on your phone and never receives your payment details. Whether you have Pro is also saved on your phone.
Pipi uses RevenueCat so that PawPaw can see how many people use Pipi each day and its sales. When Pipi opens, it sends RevenueCat an anonymous identifier created by the app and technical data such as device brand and model, Android and app version, language, Google Play country, and network information, but not the Android ID, the advertising ID, or any other device identifier. When you buy or restore Pipi Pro, it also sends Google Play’s record of that purchase. Even an anonymous identifier can link RevenueCat’s records to one another. Your apps, notifications, contacts, calendar, and usage are never sent to RevenueCat. See the RevenueCat and Google privacy policies.
Pipi may ask for a rating with Google Play’s in-app review sheet, which Google shows and handles.
Retention and deletion
Your settings, fonts, and wallpaper stay until you change them or delete the app. Deleting Pipi removes everything it saved on that phone. If backup is on in Android, your settings, fonts, wallpaper, and when the free trial started are included in your Google Account backup and come along when you restore it or copy your data to a new phone. Whether you have Pro isn’t backed up; a new phone asks Google Play again. Google stores the backup under its terms, and PawPaw can’t access it.
Google and RevenueCat keep purchase records under their own policies and legal obligations. Deleting the app doesn’t erase them or stop you from restoring Pipi Pro.
Your choices and contact
You can turn notification, contacts, phone, calendar, and usage access on or off at any time in Android Settings. Pipi keeps working without them; only the parts that need them stop.
PawPaw never receives your apps, notifications, contacts, or calendar, so it can’t view, retrieve, or delete them for you. Your rights under applicable privacy law remain available. For privacy, deletion, or support requests, contact support@pawpawdigital.com. If you ask for deletion, PawPaw deletes the customer record RevenueCat keeps for your purchases. Records kept by Google or Cloudflare may require a request to them, and RevenueCat and Cloudflare may process data outside your country, such as in the United States, under their privacy policies. See Pipi Launcher Support and the Terms of Use.
If you contact support, PawPaw uses the contact details and information you choose to send only to respond. Visits to this website may also generate ordinary hosting records, such as IP address, request time, and browser information, to deliver and protect the site.
Changes to this policy
If Pipi’s data practices change, PawPaw will update this page and its date.