Holidays+ Privacy Policy

Holidays+ (“the app”) is developed and published by Reimel Ltd. This policy explains, plainly, what the app does and does not do with your information and your staff’s.

What we collect: nothing

We do not collect, receive, store, transmit or share any personal data. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. Reimel Ltd never sees who works for you, when they are off, why, or what you pay them.

Everything you enter, your workers’ names, photos, working days, start and leaving dates, holiday allowances, hours worked that you enter for staff on irregular hours, time off (holiday, sickness, unpaid and other leave), any holiday pay you choose to record, and your settings, is stored only on your own device, in the app’s private storage. Android’s automatic cloud backup is switched off for this app, so that data is not copied to Google Drive either. If you want a copy, you make it yourself with Settings › Backup, and you choose where the file goes.

The records are about your staff, so you are responsible for them as their employer: the app simply keeps them on your phone. Reimel Ltd does not process them on your behalf, because they never reach us.

Internet access, and why the app asks for it

Holidays+ is free for up to three people, with optional Team and Business subscriptions for larger teams. To offer those, the app includes Google Play Billing, and that is the only reason it declares these permissions:

• com.android.vending.BILLING – lets Google Play process a subscription.
• android.permission.INTERNET – required by Google Play Billing to reach Play’s servers.
• android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE – required by Google Play Billing to check connectivity.

The app itself never uses the network. No name, photo, booking, allowance or pay record is ever sent anywhere. The only outbound traffic the app can generate is Google Play checking which plan you hold and completing a subscription if you choose to take one.

Subscriptions are handled entirely by Google Play. Reimel Ltd does not receive or store your name, email address, or any payment details. Google’s own privacy policy covers that transaction: policies.google.com/privacy.

The other permissions the app asks for

• android.permission.USE_BIOMETRIC and android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT – only for the optional App lock in Settings, which asks for your fingerprint or face before Holidays+ opens. Android performs that check itself and simply tells the app yes or no: your fingerprint or face is never seen, read or stored by Holidays+, and nothing about it leaves your device. Leave App lock off and these are never used.
• android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, android.permission.WAKE_LOCK and android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE – declared by Android’s own scheduling library, which the app uses for one small task: refreshing the home-screen widget just after midnight so “who’s off today” is right when the day changes. That task reads your records on the device and sends nothing anywhere.

Worker photos are chosen with Android’s own photo picker, which gives the app only the one picture you pick; the app has no access to the rest of your photos and asks for no storage permission.

The home-screen widget

If you add the “Who’s off” widget, it shows first names and dates on your home screen, where anyone who can see your phone can read them. The widget is optional, and removing it removes that view; nothing about it leaves your device.

Backups and sharing

When you save a backup file, the app writes it to the location you choose. If you turn on automatic backups, the app writes a dated file into the folder you picked, which may be a cloud-synced folder if that is what you chose. A backup file contains your records, including worker photos, so keep it as you would any staff record. That choice is yours, and the app has no other destination.

Your figures

Allowances, legal minimums and leavers’ untaken holiday are calculated on your device from the rules and dates you enter, following UK government guidance (gov.uk and Acas). For staff on irregular hours or part-year contracts, holiday is 12.07% of the hours you type in for them; the app records nothing by itself. The figures are your own records, not legal or payroll advice.

Children

The app is intended for adults running a business and collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

Any update to this policy will be posted on this page, with the date at the top changed.

Contact

Reimel Ltd, support@reimel.xyz.