Privacy Policy

Rescue is an app that helps you block adult content, distracting apps and sites. It is operated by Fliptle, a sole proprietorship in India. Questions: sales@fliptle.com.

What we collect

Your account

• Sign-in is through Google. We receive your Google account's email address and name.
• A display name, if you change it from what your Google account gave us.
• A random ID the app creates for each install, plus how many times you installed or reinstalled and when.

Your protection status

• Whether protection is switched on, and the last time the app checked in.
• Your progress through the uninstall process — saved to your Rescue account, like your block list and freeze status, so it survives a reinstall.

Your settings, saved so they survive a reinstall

• The apps and websites you chose to block and your Reels and Shorts switches.
• Your freeze status and timing.
• Your adult-content-blocking status, the date you turned it on, and your day count. This is sensitive information, and we treat it that way.

Your accountability partner

• If you choose to add one, their mobile number and an optional note you write for them (up to 200 characters). We do not ask for, or store, their name.

Payments

• Your plan, amount, payment status, the Razorpay payment and order IDs, and when your paid access expires. Razorpay handles your card or UPI details. We never see or store them.

On this website

• If you join the waitlist: your email, the time, and your browser's user-agent text.

Analytics

• Firebase collects an app instance ID and device and usage statistics.

What we do not collect

Why Rescue uses Accessibility

Rescue's Accessibility service has one job: blocking what you chose to block, and nothing else. It watches only web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Samsung Internet and others), Instagram and YouTube — no other app sends it anything.

What it reads.

• In a browser: the address bar. If it can't find the address bar by its known ID, it falls back to reading the visible text on the browser's screen, looking for something that looks like a web address or search term — this is the one case where it reads on-screen text beyond the address bar itself.
• In Instagram and YouTube: how the screen is built — which views are present and how they're arranged — not your feed's content, not any text or images in it. This is only ever used to recognise the shape of a full-screen Reels, Stories or Shorts player.

What it does, on a match.

• Shows a block screen over the page.
• Presses the phone's Back action to leave it; if the same page reappears right away, presses Home instead.
• For a blocked search, opens a safe-search address in place of the one you searched, instead of just leaving the page.
• For an adult-content or custom-domain match, or a blocked search word, blocking only applies once you've turned on adult-content blocking; your own domain list always applies.
• For Reels, Stories or Shorts (when that toggle is on): shows the block screen and leaves the player the same way.

What stays private. Every check happens on the phone, against the block list stored on the phone. Nothing it reads — the address, the screen's structure, or anything else — is stored or sent anywhere, by Rescue or to anyone else.

What it can't do. This service (and nothing else in Rescue) cannot prevent uninstalling the app, clearing its data, or force-stopping it. Turning Accessibility off (in Android's own settings) stops this feature completely; Rescue can't protect you without it.

Why we use it

To run the app, keep your protection and settings, send you emails about your account, process payments, notice when protection stops, and — only if you've added a partner — send them a one-time alert if protection stops reporting before you finish removing the app.

Who handles your data

Google (Firebase) stores the app's data. Razorpay processes payments. Resend sends our emails. Meta's WhatsApp Business service delivers the accountability-partner alert, if you've added a partner. We do not sell your data.

Accountability partner

If you choose to add one accountability partner, we store their mobile number and your note so we can alert them — and only them — on WhatsApp if Rescue stops hearing from your phone for about 72 hours before you finish removing the app. This can also happen if your phone is off, offline, or you're signed out — not only when you're actively trying to remove it. That message includes your first name, your note, your days of protection, your exit status, and the date Rescue last heard from your phone. We send at most one alert per event, with at least 7 days between alerts to the same partner, and delivery through WhatsApp is not guaranteed.

Adding a partner requires you to confirm, in the app, that you've told them and that they're okay receiving these messages. Removing your partner, or replacing them with someone else, takes effect 72 hours after you ask — your current partner stays active until then. Your partner can reply STOP to any message at any time to stop all future messages from us — we keep a record of that opt-out (their number only, nothing that identifies you) so it is honoured even after you delete your account.

Deleting your data

Open the app, go to Account, and tap Delete my account. Your data — including your partner's number and note, if you added one — is deleted 72 hours after you ask, and you can cancel before then. You can also email sales@fliptle.com. Razorpay may keep payment records as the law requires, and if your partner ever opted out by replying STOP, we keep that record (their number only) so they stay opted out even after your account is gone. See the Delete Account page for details.

Your rights

Under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, you can ask to see, correct or delete your personal data. Email sales@fliptle.com. Rescue is for people aged 16 and over.

Security

Data travels over encrypted connections.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update the date above. Contact and grievances: sales@fliptle.com.