Privacy Policy.

Effective date: November 2, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how 16 Bit Bytes LLC (“16 Bit Bytes,” “we,” or “us”) handles information in Spot Launcher, an Android launcher.

Information handled on your device

Your installed-apps list, categories, ring, layout, and settings stay on your phone. We don't receive them.

If you grant Calendar access (READ_CALENDAR), Spot Launcher reads calendar events on your device only. We don't receive calendar contents.

The notification badge is optional and off until you turn it on in Spot Launcher and allow it on Android's Notification access screen. It then reads only which app each notification comes from (its package name) and two flags (whether it is a group summary or ongoing), in memory, to show a count. It saves your per-app badge choices on your phone and never reads notification content. We don't receive that information.

Spot Launcher never reads wallpaper pixels.

If you tap the Sound tile and Android requires Do Not Disturb access to switch to Silent, Spot Launcher opens Android's Do Not Disturb access screen. Spot Launcher uses that access only to change the ringer mode.

Drawer search can show a calculator result, worked out on your device, and can hand what you typed to your own search app or browser through Android's web search action. Spot Launcher itself sends nothing for either. Your search app or browser handles the search under its own privacy policy.

App shortcuts that other apps share with Spot Launcher are read on your device to show in menus and on Home. We don't receive them.

Spot Launcher doesn't ask for access to your contacts.

Location, city search, and weather

Spot Launcher has three location modes.

Current location is optional, approximate, and foreground only. Spot Launcher asks for Android's approximate location permission only after you pick Current location. Spot Launcher never asks for precise or background location permission. The fix is rounded to about 1 km before use or storage. It is stored only on this device, isn't included in backups, and is deleted when you leave Current location mode. In Current location mode, Spot Launcher uses Android's platform geocoder to get a place name. On most phones that geocoder is backed by Google Play services, which may send the coordinates to the platform provider (for example Google).

City or town is picked from the GeoNames cities500 list (downloaded October 1, 2026, unmodified), which is bundled in the app. Attribution: “GeoNames” (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0. The search runs on the device, and what you type never leaves the phone.

Coordinates are a name, latitude, and longitude you enter. Because you type them yourself, they can be as exact as you enter them. They are stored on the device and in your backup file, and are cut to 4 decimal places before they're sent to MET Norway and, when Weather alerts are on, the National Weather Service.

Nothing from these weather requests goes to 16 Bit Bytes. When weather is on, MET Norway (api.met.no) gets the chosen place's latitude and longitude, cut to 4 decimal places before sending, over HTTPS only. Current location is already rounded to about 1 km; a city or coordinates you enter are sent to about 11 m. When Weather alerts are on, the U.S. National Weather Service (api.weather.gov) gets the same coordinates for any place, including places outside the U.S.; it only has alerts for U.S. areas.

The user agent on those requests is SpotLauncher/ followed by the app's version number and "(16 Bit Bytes; https://16bitbytes.com)". No account ID is sent. These requests can also expose network and request metadata, including your IP address, to those providers.

MET Norway's own privacy information covers what it keeps.

The National Weather Service's own privacy notice covers what it keeps.

Feeds you add

If you add a feed, Spot Launcher requests it directly, over HTTPS only. If the address you add is a web page, Spot Launcher follows that page's feed link, which can be on another host. It follows up to 3 HTTPS redirects and loads thumbnails from the image hosts the feed names. Each of those hosts can see your IP address and the user agent. No IDs or cookies are sent, and there is no Spot feed server. Spot Launcher doesn't look up site icons.

Backup and deletion

A Backup export is plain text. It holds your app list, ring, drawer, hidden apps, custom app names, folders, apps and shortcuts on Home, widgets layout, feeds, and settings. Widget stacks, other apps' widgets, and your trial and purchase state are not included. Settings include the location mode, coordinates you typed in (with their label and time zone), per-widget weather options, the animation switch, and the "touch and hold opens menu" switch. The current-location fix isn't included. You save it wherever you choose, for example Drive or Downloads, and Spot Launcher doesn't send it anywhere. It lives outside Spot Launcher, so uninstalling does not remove it. You delete that file yourself.

Spot Launcher has no account, and apart from the Google Play order details described under Purchases, we don't keep its data on a server. Clearing Spot Launcher's app data, or uninstalling it, deletes everything Spot Launcher stores. Android backup is off (allowBackup is off), so Android doesn't back up Spot Launcher's data to your Google account.

Purchases (Google Play Billing)

Spot Launcher starts with a free 7-day trial with every feature. After the trial, Spot Unlock is a one-time, non-consumable in-app purchase (product spot_full_unlock) for US $4.99; Google Play shows the price in your local currency. There are no subscriptions and no ads. Purchases go through Google Play Billing (the Google Play Billing Library is included in the app) and are processed by Google Play under Google's own terms and privacy policy. Google handles your payment, and we receive no card or other payment details.

Google Play Billing collects purchase history (the record of your purchase) each time the Spot Launcher home screen opens or you return to it, when you buy, and when you tap Restore purchase under Settings → Spot Unlock. The Google Play Billing Library and the Google libraries it includes also send Google billing diagnostics, which Google handles under its privacy policy. We don't receive the diagnostics.

Spot Launcher checks the purchase record Google Play gives it on your device and saves the result there, so Spot Unlock keeps working if Google Play can't be reached. We do not operate a server that stores your purchases. Trial timing is stored on your device.

Google Play may share order details with us as the app's developer, which may include an order ID, the purchase date, the item and price, the device model used for the purchase, and the buyer's country (and, for some orders, city, state and postal code); we use them only for orders, tax, accounting and refunds.

What we don't do

This version has no analytics, crash-reporting, or ads SDKs. Its only third-party SDK is the Google Play Billing Library, together with the Google libraries it includes.

Your choices

Current location, Calendar access, Notification access (the badge), Do Not Disturb access, web search hand-off, feeds you add, purchases, and a backup file are optional. You can choose a city or town, or enter coordinates, instead of Current location. You can revoke the location, Calendar, Notification access, or Do Not Disturb access permission in Android settings. You can leave the badge off, skip feeds, or avoid creating a backup.

Children

Spot Launcher is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes

We will update this policy and its effective date when the app's data practices change.

Contact

Questions about Spot Launcher may be sent to us through our contact form.

Entity: 16 Bit Bytes LLC. Effective date: November 2, 2026.