Widget Pulse Privacy Policy
Last Updated: November 2, 2026
Effective Date: November 2, 2026
Information stays on your device wherever the feature allows it. This policy explains the exceptions and your controls.
App: Widget Pulse / WidgetPulse: Aesthetic Widgets
Android package: com.gigasonet.widgetpulse
Provider: Gigasonet
Privacy, support, and deletion requests: contact@gigasonet.com
At a glance
Widget Pulse provides Android home-screen widgets. The current app has no account system, analytics SDK or in-app purchase system. It shows ads from Google AdMob inside the app, never on your home-screen widgets. Favourites and custom widgets are stored only on your device. Clock fonts are bundled inside the app and are not downloaded. Optional weather requests contact Open-Meteo. App-version checks contact Gigasonet. Optional health and music features use Android permissions and device services. Gigasonet does not operate a server that receives your widget content, health readings or music history through this version of the app.
1. Information used by the app
The app uses the following information only as needed for the features you choose:
| Information | Purpose and handling |
|---|---|
| Widget settings and content | Selected designs, sizes, colors, city choices and other widget configuration are stored in private app storage to create, update and restore your widgets. Existing compatible widgets may also store notes, task lists, habits, countdown dates, timer lengths, step goals, timezones and selected app shortcuts locally. |
| Favourites | Favourite designs, fonts and colours and saved custom widgets with their names and style choices are stored in private app storage so you can reuse them. They are never uploaded. You can delete them at any time with Settings > Your data > Clear favourites. Widgets already on your home screen are not changed by this action. |
| Device information | Time, date, timezone, battery and charging state, available storage and alarm information are read locally where a widget uses them. The app does not transmit these readings to Gigasonet. |
| Weather city | Your city search text and the selected city's coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo to find cities and retrieve forecasts. The chosen city and forecasts are cached locally. The app uses city coordinates, not GPS tracking, and does not request device location permission. |
| Health records | With the applicable Health Connect read permission, the app displays today's aggregate steps and/or your latest recorded heart rate within the previous 24 hours. With the Physical activity permission, it can also count today's steps on the phone. Details appear in section 2. |
| Music information | With notification access, active Android media sessions supply the track title, artist, artwork, playback position, duration, state and supported controls. Audio volume information is used to display and adjust playback volume. Details appear in section 3. |
| Photos and calendar | Compatible photo widgets use the system photo picker and copy a selected image to private app storage. Compatible calendar features request calendar read access during setup and read relevant event information locally. The app does not upload selected images or calendar entries. |
| Clock timing and refresh | Clock widgets redraw once a minute while the screen is on. If you allow Alarms & reminders, Android lets the app schedule exact timers so clocks with custom fonts change on the minute and focus timers finish on time. Boot completion is used only to restore widget refresh schedules after a restart. These timers do not collect information. |
| Support messages | If you contact us, we receive the email address, message and any attachments you choose to send through your email provider. Please avoid sending health records, private notifications or unrelated personal information. |
Android permissions used
Every permission below is optional except network access and boot restore. The app explains each one with a visual guide before Android shows its own request, and you can manage all of them in Settings > Permissions.
| Permission | Why it is used |
|---|---|
| Internet | Weather search and forecasts from Open-Meteo, and public app-version checks from www.gigasonet.com. |
| Calendar (read) | Requested only when you set up a calendar or agenda widget, to show your next event and the month view. Events are read on the device and never uploaded. |
| Physical activity | Lets Google Play services count today's steps on the phone for step widgets. |
| Health Connect: steps, heart rate and background reading | Reads today's step total and the latest heart-rate sample for health widgets. Background reading keeps those widgets current while the app is closed. Nothing is written to Health Connect. |
| Notification access | Required by Android to read the active media session for the music widget. Notification messages are not read or stored. |
| Change audio settings | Adjusts playback volume from the music widget when you tap its volume controls. |
| Alarms & reminders (exact alarms) | Optional. Lets clocks drawn with custom fonts update exactly on the minute, and lets focus timers finish on time. You grant or remove it in Android settings. |
| Unrestricted battery | Asks Android to stop pausing the app for battery saving, so widgets keep refreshing after you close it. Optional. You can change this at any time in Android's app battery settings. No data is collected through this setting. |
| Notifications | Shows an alert when a focus timer finishes. Optional and requested only from a focus timer. Nothing is sent outside the device. |
| Advertising ID | Used by Google AdMob to serve and measure ads, subject to your ad choices. You can reset or delete it in Android settings. |
| Run at startup | Restores widget refresh schedules after the phone restarts. |
Widget Pulse does not request location, camera, microphone, contacts, SMS, call log or file storage permissions. Photos are chosen through the Android system photo picker, which shares only the image you select.
2. Health Connect and sensitive health information
Health access is optional and requested only when setting up a widget that displays the corresponding readings. The app requests read access to steps and/or heart rate. It does not write, edit or delete source records in Health Connect. It does not connect directly to a smartwatch or measure heart rate. A compatible phone or watch companion app must first share records with Health Connect.
Steps counted on this phone: If you choose Count steps on this phone and allow Android's Physical activity permission, Widget Pulse asks Google Play services to record step counts from the phone's own sensors using its on-device Recording API. These counts stay on the device and are not linked to a Google account. Widget Pulse reads only today's total and shows the higher of this total and the Health Connect total. Steps taken before you turn this on are not included. You can turn it off by removing the Physical activity permission in Android app settings.
Only today's step total, the latest valid heart-rate sample from the previous 24 hours and their relevant timestamps are cached in private app storage. Historical health records are not imported into an app history database. Readings can be missing, delayed or unavailable; they are shown as -- when unavailable or expired. These widgets are informational displays, not medical devices, diagnostic tools, emergency monitors or substitutes for professional medical care.
On supported devices, you may separately allow health-data reading in the background so the existing scheduled widget refresh can obtain updated readings when the app is closed. Without it, the app reads while it is visible and widgets use the last valid cached reading. Android controls background scheduling. The app does not run a continuous sensor-monitoring service. If you choose to allow Unrestricted battery, the app shows Android's own prompt, and you can change that choice at any time in Android settings. This setting does not change what health information the app reads.
Health information is used only to show the readings you requested. It is not sent to Gigasonet, weather providers, advertising networks or analytics services. We do not sell health data, use it for advertising, profiling, credit or insurance decisions, or use it to train general-purpose AI models. Our use of Health Connect information is subject to the Health Connect Permissions policy, including its Limited Use requirements.
Android stores actual grants. You may allow individual scopes, refuse access or revoke it in Health Connect. A declined request is explained once, and continuing without access stops offers for that setup session. A later widget setup or edit can offer access again. When a revoked scope is detected, its cached values are removed and affected widgets use unavailable readings. Removal from previously rendered launcher views can take until the next allowed refresh.
3. Music controls and notification access
Android requires an enabled notification listener for access to other apps' active media sessions. Before directing you to Android settings, Widget Pulse explains this access. Although the system permission is broad, this implementation uses the media-session interface only. It does not process notification messages, conversations, notification action text or message attachments, and does not store or upload notification contents.
The app keeps the current track information and a small artwork thumbnail in memory to draw the widget and send your requested playback, seek, rating and volume commands to the active player. It does not build a persistent listening history or upload music information. Metadata and artwork references are released when monitoring is no longer needed or access is revoked and detected. The music player and Android control which commands are available and how those commands are handled.
The widget does not download or stream music. Artwork may be supplied by the media session or a permitted local content provider; the app does not fetch remote artwork URLs. You can disable Widget Pulse music controls in Android's notification-access settings. A player may expose fewer controls, use a fixed-volume output or require actions such as saving a favorite to be completed in that player's own interface.
4. Information sent outside the device
App-version checks: While the app is open, and about every 15 minutes while a widget is on your home screen, Widget Pulse requests public version and maintenance settings from www.gigasonet.com using its Android package name. Gigasonet receives ordinary connection information, including the public IP address. These requests do not contain widget content, health records, music metadata, photos, calendar contents or a device identifier. Responses are cached in private app storage to reduce network use. If an update is required, or during maintenance, the settings can temporarily block access to the app, and widgets on your home screen show a notice instead of their usual content until the update is installed or maintenance ends. Optional updates are not shown.
Weather services: City searches use geocoding-api.open-meteo.com and forecasts use api.open-meteo.com. Requests contain search text or city coordinates and ordinary connection information, including the public IP address visible to the service. Weather requests do not include health records, music metadata, calendar contents, selected photos or widget notes. You can use non-weather widgets without making these requests.
Open-Meteo operates its services under its own terms and privacy practices. Its published policy states that API logs may contain IP addresses and geographical coordinates and are deleted after 90 days. This is provider-controlled retention and may change; weather requests must not be treated as purely ephemeral processing. See Open-Meteo terms and privacy information. Weather data attribution: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0.
Android and your chosen apps: Android, Health Connect, your music or watch apps, the system photo picker, calendar providers, launcher, app store and email provider handle their own information under their own policies. Actions that open those apps or a Gigasonet website leave the local widget interface. Website visits are governed by the notices applicable to that website.
Support and legal obligations: Information you voluntarily email may be handled by the email and hosting providers needed to receive and answer it. We may disclose information we actually hold if required by applicable law, a valid legal process, or to protect lawful rights and safety. We cannot disclose device-only information that has not been provided to us. The app does not sell personal information or share health information for advertising.
Advertising
The app shows ads from Google AdMob, operated by Google. Ads appear only inside the app, never on your home-screen widgets. To serve ads, measure them and prevent fraud, Google may collect your device's advertising ID, IP address (which can indicate approximate location), device and app information and how you interact with ads. Your widget content, health records, music information, photos and calendar contents are never used for ads or shared with advertising services.
In regions where the law requires it, including the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the app asks for your choice before personalised ads are shown. Choices are managed through Google's User Messaging Platform. You can change your choice at any time in Settings > Privacy > Ad privacy choices, where that option applies to your region. If you do not consent, the app may show non-personalised or limited ads instead.
You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in Android settings. Learn how Google uses data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
5. Storage, retention and deletion
- Widget settings, selected content, saved city information and copied photos remain in private app storage until changed, removed through the relevant feature, cleared in Android app storage settings or uninstalled. Removing a home-screen widget removes its active configuration; shared cached resources may remain until replaced or app storage is cleared.
- Forecasts are cached to support offline display and normally refreshed after one hour. Older forecast rows may remain in local storage until app data is cleared; the app does not automatically erase every expired forecast.
- Health caches retain only the current daily total and last reading. New readings replace these values; stale readings are filtered before display. Cached health keys are cleared when revoked access is detected, and clearing app storage removes the health cache.
- Favourites and custom widgets stay in private app storage until you clear them in Settings > Your data, clear app storage or uninstall the app.
- Current music metadata and the bounded artwork cache are held in memory rather than saved as a listening-history file. Permission-prompt history is stored locally so the app can avoid repeated prompts.
- This version disables app backup and excludes its app data from Android cloud backup and device-transfer rules. System or device-provider behavior can vary.
- Support correspondence is retained for as long as needed to handle the request, maintain necessary support records or comply with applicable obligations. You may ask us to delete correspondence, subject to lawful exceptions.
6. Your choices and privacy rights
You can use widgets that do not require the optional permission, decline access, change the saved weather city, replace selected content, remove widgets, and revoke access using Android or Health Connect settings. Refusing an optional permission limits that feature; it does not grant the app access through another route.
To delete favourites and custom widgets only, use Settings > Your data > Clear favourites inside the app. To delete all locally stored Widget Pulse information, use Android Settings > Apps > Widget Pulse > Storage > Clear storage, or uninstall the app. Menu names vary by device. This does not delete original photos, source Health Connect records, music libraries or records held by other apps. Manage those through their respective providers. Revoking a permission does not delete the provider's source data.
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or obtain a copy of personal information, restrict or object to certain uses, withdraw consent, and complain to your relevant privacy regulator. Contact us to exercise rights concerning information Gigasonet actually holds. For data stored only on your device, we will explain the available local controls. We may request only the information needed to verify a request and will respond within applicable legal time limits. Withdrawing consent does not affect prior lawful processing.
7. Security and international processing
Private app storage, Android permission controls and HTTPS weather connections help protect information. No method of storage, software or transmission guarantees absolute security. Keep your device updated and protected. Avoid entering sensitive information in widgets that can be visible on a shared home screen.
Open-Meteo, app stores, email providers and other independent services may process information in countries different from yours. The laws and safeguards applicable to those services may differ. Gigasonet does not transfer your device-only health or music data through an app backend.
8. Intended audience
Widget Pulse is designed and marketed for adults aged 18 and over. It is not directed to children. It does not ask for a date of birth or operate a child-profile service. Availability and age-related access can also be controlled by Google Play and Android. If you believe a child has provided personal information to Gigasonet, contact us so we can assess the request and take appropriate action under applicable law.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the app's features, providers or legal requirements change. The current policy will show an updated date. Where required, we will provide additional notice and obtain consent before a new use of sensitive data. Future paid features, accounts, remote widget delivery or analytics are not covered as existing functionality; they require an updated policy and appropriate disclosures before introduction.
10. Contact Gigasonet
For questions, concerns or privacy-rights requests concerning Widget Pulse, email contact@gigasonet.com. Please identify Widget Pulse and describe the issue without attaching unnecessary sensitive records.
This policy describes the current app's practices. It does not waive rights provided by law, replace a provider's own policy or guarantee a particular app-store review result.