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Privacy Policy for Sharp Studio: Focus

By Leap & Know

Effective Date: 2 October 2026
Last Updated: 7 October 2026

Introduction

Leap & Know (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how Sharp Studio: Focus (“the App”) collects, uses, and safeguards your information.

Our Promise: We respect your privacy. We do not sell your data, we do not ask you to create an account, and everything you achieve in the App stays on your device.

Sharp Studio: Focus is supported by advertising. That is the main thing this policy has to explain, and we would rather say it in the first paragraph than bury it. Section Advertising below sets out exactly what that means and what control you have over it.

Information We Collect

1. Information You Provide Directly

The App has no sign-up, no login, and no profile. There is no field anywhere in it that asks for your name, your email address, or anything else about you.

Your progress

Your times, scores, personal bests, daily streak and focus minutes are stored only on your device, using a local database (Hive).
We cannot see them. They are never uploaded to us or to anyone else.
Specifically, the App stores locally: your best result per activity and difficulty, your current and longest streak, your total and per-day focus minutes, your session counts, your sound and haptics settings, whether the daily reminder is switched on and the time of day you chose for it, and whether you currently have an ad-free period running.

Sharing a result card

When you tap Share, the App renders an image on your device and hands it to your operating system’s standard share sheet.
What happens next is entirely your choice — which app you send it to, whether you save it, whether you send it at all.
The App does not read your photo library, your contacts, or your messages. It only hands one image out; it never reads anything back.

2. Information Collected Automatically

Analytics Data (via Firebase / Google Analytics)

To understand how the App is used and to improve it, we collect anonymous usage data.

What we DO collect:

Which activity you opened, and when a session started, was completed, or was abandoned
How long a session lasted, and your score or time for it
When you set a personal best, and the previous best it beat
When your daily streak extends or breaks, and its length
When you open a share card and when you complete a share
Which ads were shown, where in the App they appeared, and whether a rewarded ad was watched to the end
Whether you were offered the daily reminder, whether you allowed notifications, the hour you chose for the reminder, and when a reminder was opened
Purchase and review-prompt events (see Purchases below)
Technical information: device model, operating system version, app version
Crash reports and the errors that caused them

What we DO NOT collect:

Your name, email address, or any account identifier
Your photos, contacts, files or messages
Your location
Payment or card details — these are handled entirely by Apple or Google
Anything you type; the App has no text input

Anonymous identifiers:

Firebase assigns a random, app-scoped identifier to your installation.
It is not your name, your email, or your device’s permanent serial number, and we cannot use it to work out who you are.
Deleting and reinstalling the App produces a new one.

Crash reports (via Firebase Crashlytics)

When the App crashes or hits an unexpected error, we receive a report so we can fix it. A report contains:

the error and the stack trace — which line of our code failed
device model, operating system version and app version
the same anonymous, app-scoped installation identifier used for analytics

It does not contain your name, your progress, or anything you have typed — the App has no text input.

Advertising

The App shows ads from Google AdMob. There are three kinds:

a banner, at the bottom of the home screen and at the bottom of the result screen after an activity finishes — never during an activity itself;
an occasional full-screen ad when you leave an activity, at most once every few sessions;
optional rewarded ads that you choose to watch, in exchange for 24 ad-free hours or for trying the next difficulty tier for a day.

We deliberately show no ads during a session. A session is the thing the App is for.

What this means for your data

To serve ads, Google receives:

an advertising identifier — the Advertising ID on Android, or the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) on iOS if, and only if, you allow it;
your approximate location as inferred from your IP address (not your device’s GPS location, which the App never requests);
device and app information, and which ads you were shown or interacted with.

Google uses this to select ads, to measure them, and to prevent fraud. Its use of that data is governed by Google’s own policies:

Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
AdMob / Google Ads data disclosure: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/6128543

Your choices about ads

If you are in the European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, the App shows you a consent form, provided by Google’s User Messaging Platform, the first time you open it. You can choose whether to allow personalised ads. You can reopen that form and change your answer at any time from the privacy option in the App.

If you do not consent to personalised advertising, you still get the App — the ads simply become non-personalised. Non-personalised ads still use limited information (such as approximate location and general context) to serve and frequency-cap the ad.

On iOS, the App additionally asks for permission to track via Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt. If you decline, the IDFA is not made available and ads are non-personalised. You can change this later in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

On Android, you can reset or delete your Advertising ID, and opt out of ads personalisation, in Settings → Google → Ads.

Removing ads entirely. The App offers a one-time “Remove Ads” purchase. If you buy it, no ads are requested at all.

Notifications and the Daily Reminder

The App can send you one notification a day: a reminder to keep your streak going, at a time you choose.

You are asked for it once, and only after you have a streak worth keeping. It is off until you say yes. If you decline, you are not asked again — you can still switch it on later in Settings.
Saying yes opens your operating system’s own notification permission dialog. You can refuse there, and you can revoke it at any time in your device’s system settings.
The reminder is scheduled on your device and fires from your device. The App has no push-notification service — we do not send it, we cannot see it, and it works with no network connection at all. Nothing about the reminder leaves your phone.
The reminder’s wording is fixed and generic. It contains no personal information and no detail about your results.
To turn it off: Settings inside the App, or your device’s notification settings for Sharp Studio. Turning it off cancels anything already scheduled.

We do log whether you were offered the reminder, whether permission was granted, the hour you picked, and when a reminder was opened — so that we can tell whether the feature actually helps. That is analytics data, covered by everything above, and it never includes the content of a notification.

How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information to:

Improve the App — understand which activities people actually return to
Fix bugs — identify and resolve crashes and technical issues
Optimise performance — make the App faster and more reliable
Decide what to build next — prioritise based on real use
Serve and measure advertising, as described above
Provide support — help troubleshoot issues you report

We DO NOT:

Sell your data to third parties
Build a profile about you as an identified person
Share your progress, scores or streak with anyone
Track your location
Access your personal files or photos

Data Storage and Security

Local storage

All of your progress is stored locally on your device using Hive.
It never leaves your device unless you explicitly share a result card.
We do not offer cloud backup or cross-device sync. If you change device or delete the App, your progress does not follow you.
The App also opts out of your operating system’s own backup. On Android, apps are included in Google Drive backup by default; Sharp Studio switches that off, so your progress is not copied there and does not survive a reinstall. We would rather the App behave the way this page describes than quietly keep a copy somewhere you did not ask for.

Analytics and advertising data

Analytics data is processed by Google Firebase and stored on Google servers.
Advertising data is processed by Google AdMob.
Data in transit is sent over HTTPS.
We hold no servers and no database of our own. There is no account for an attacker to break into, because there are no accounts.

Third-Party Services

Firebase (Google)

We use Firebase Analytics for anonymous usage statistics and Firebase Crashlytics for crash reports.

Firebase Privacy Policy: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Data shared with Firebase:

Anonymous, app-scoped installation identifier
App usage events, as listed above
Device model, OS version, app version
Crash reports and stack traces

Data NOT shared: your name, your contacts, your photos, your location.

Google AdMob

See the Advertising section above.

Apple and Google (payments)

When you make an in-app purchase:

Payment is processed by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play)
We never see or store your card or payment details
We receive only a confirmation that a purchase completed
Apple’s privacy policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Purchases

The App offers a single, optional, one-time purchase: Remove Ads. It is not a subscription and it does not renew.

Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their own terms, not by us.

Your purchase is remembered on your device. You can restore it on a new device or after reinstalling using Restore Purchases in the App.

Your Rights and Choices

Your progress

Stored only on your device.
Deleting the App removes all of it, permanently and immediately. There is no copy for us to delete, because we never had one — and none in your operating system’s backup either, because the App opts out of it.

Analytics data

Anonymous, and not linked to you as a person.
On iOS, declining the App Tracking Transparency prompt, or turning off Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, limits what can be used for advertising purposes.
On Android, Settings → Google → Ads lets you opt out of ads personalisation and reset your Advertising ID.
If you would like us to delete analytics data associated with your installation, email us at the address below. Because the data is anonymous we may need the Firebase installation identifier to find it, and we will explain how to get it.

If you are in the EEA, UK or Switzerland, you can reopen the consent form at any time from the privacy option in the App and change your answer.

Children’s Privacy

Sharp Studio: Focus is a general-audience app. It is not directed to children under 13, and it displays advertising, including advertising that may be personalised where you have consented to it.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13
We do not require account creation
Analytics data is anonymous

Parents/Guardians: if you believe your child has provided personal information, or that a child under 13 is using the App, please contact us and we will help.

International Users

India-specific information

Compliance with Indian law:

We comply with applicable Indian data protection law, including the Information Technology Act 2000 and its rules
No sensitive personal data, as defined in those rules, is collected
Analytics data is anonymised
Data is processed by Google, which operates servers worldwide

Data Controller:

Leap & Know (India-based individual developer)
Contact: leapandknow@gmail.com

Legal basis for processing:

Consent — for personalised advertising, for the associated identifiers, and for analytics. You give or refuse this in the consent form on first launch, and you may withdraw it at any time from the privacy option in the App.
Until you answer that form, nothing is used. The App tells Google that consent is withheld before it starts, and lifts that only once the form has been answered — or once Google’s consent SDK confirms that no consent requirement applies where you are. If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland and have not answered, your usage data is not used for analytics or for advertising.
Legitimate interest — for crash reports, and for non-personalised advertising, which funds the App. Crash reports are the one thing that runs from the moment the App starts: they contain no advertising identifier and nothing about you, and without them a crash during start-up — the kind that stops the App opening at all — would be invisible to us and unfixable.

Your rights:

Right of access
Right to erasure
Right to object to processing
Right to data portability
Right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing carried out before you withdrew it
Right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority

Data transfer: analytics and advertising data is processed by Google, which is US-based. Google relies on Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU–US Data Privacy Framework for these transfers.

Data Retention

Your progress: kept on your device until you delete the App
Analytics data: retained by Google for up to 14 months
Crash reports: retained for 90 days (Crashlytics default)
Advertising data: retained by Google under its own retention policy
App deletion: all local data is removed when you delete the App

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect new features, changes in regulations, or improvements to our data practices.

When we update:

We will change the “Last Updated” date above
Significant changes will be announced in the App
Continued use of the App after an update constitutes acceptance

Security

Technical measures:

Local data uses your device’s own storage protection
All data in transit is sent over HTTPS
Firebase and AdMob use industry-standard security
No payment data is stored by us

Your responsibility:

Keep your device secure with a passcode, Face ID or fingerprint
Keep your operating system updated

Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests about this Privacy Policy:

Email: leapandknow@gmail.com
Developer: Leap & Know
App: Sharp Studio: Focus
Location: India

Response time: we aim to respond within 7 business days.

Legal Information

Developer: Leap & Know (Individual Developer)
Country: India
Governing Law: Laws of India
Jurisdiction: Courts of Karnataka, India

Summary (TL;DR)

What we collect:

✅ Anonymous usage analytics — which activities you play, how long, your scores
✅ Crash reports, so we can fix what broke
✅ Advertising identifiers, so Google can serve and measure ads
❌ No personal information, no account, no location
❌ No access to your photos, contacts or files

What we do:

✅ Improve the App and fix bugs
✅ Show ads, which is how the App is paid for
❌ Never sell your data
❌ Never upload your scores, streak or progress

Your control:

✅ All progress stays on your device — not even in your phone’s own backup; delete the App and it is gone
✅ The daily reminder is optional, off until you ask for it, scheduled on your own phone, and switchable off in Settings at any time
✅ In the EEA/UK, choose whether ads are personalised — and change your mind later
✅ On iOS, decline tracking; on Android, opt out of ads personalisation
✅ Buy Remove Ads and see none at all

Questions? Email: leapandknow@gmail.com

By using Sharp Studio: Focus, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use the App.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date above and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

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