RxBeacon Privacy Policy

Effective date: 10/14/26 Published by: Happy Helm Digital ("we", "us") Contact: support@happyhelmdigital.com

The short version

• We never see your data. RxBeacon has no accounts and no servers, so your medications, doses, notes, and side effects are kept on your phone and are never sent to us.
• We don't collect analytics or track you. If the app crashes, it can send a short, anonymous crash report — what went wrong and what kind of phone it happened on, never anything you entered. You can turn this off in Settings.
• The free version shows ads. Ads come from Google AdMob. They are non-personalized, and no information about your medications is ever used for them. If you pay to remove ads, no ads are shown and the ad service is not contacted at all.
• You are in control. You can clear your data inside the app, back it up to a file, or delete the app to remove everything.
• RxBeacon is a reminder and logging tool, not medical advice. It does not replace your doctor or pharmacist.

1. What RxBeacon keeps on your phone

When you use the app, it stores the following only on your device, in the app's private storage:

• The medications you add: name, dosage, category, color, notes, reminder intensity, and (if you turn it on) how many you have on hand.
• Your schedules, any pauses or time-zone choices, and your reminder settings.
• Your dose history: which doses were taken, skipped, or missed, and when, and any note you attach.
• Side effects you log: symptoms, severity, time, and any note.
• Settings such as light or dark mode, and a name you may type for printed reports.

This information is used to remind you, show your history, and build the reports and summaries you choose to create. It is not sent to us.

2. What we collect

Nothing about you or your health. We do not run a server for RxBeacon, we do not ask you to create an account, and the app does not send your health information to us or to anyone on our behalf.

The only information that reaches us at all is the optional crash report described in the next section. It is anonymous and technical, and contains none of the information listed in section 1.

3. Services that touch your phone

RxBeacon uses a small number of services provided by other companies. Each is described here so you know exactly what it does.

Advertising — Google AdMob (free version only)

The free version shows a banner ad powered by Google AdMob. When an ad is requested, Google receives technical information from your device that is needed to deliver and measure ads — for example your device's advertising identifier, IP address, device and operating-system details, and which ad was shown. RxBeacon asks for non-personalized ads only, and it does not give Google any of your medication, dose, or health information.

Google acts as its own controller for the information it receives. How Google uses it is described at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, Google's consent form is shown before any ad is requested, as the law there requires. No ad is requested until you have made a choice. Whatever you choose, RxBeacon still asks only for non-personalized ads. Your choice is remembered on your phone by Google's consent software, and you can change it at any time from Settings → Ads → Ad privacy choices.

Ads never appear on the screens where you add or edit a medication, or on the quick screen that opens from a reminder. If you buy Remove Ads, the ad service is not started, the consent form is not shown, and the app makes no ad requests.

Crash reports — Sentry

If RxBeacon crashes or hits an unexpected error, it can send a short report to Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.), a service we use to find and fix bugs. A report contains:

• what kind of error it was and where in the app's code it happened (a technical "stack trace");
• the app version;
• your phone's make and model, its Android or iOS version, and general facts about its state such as memory and storage size, screen size, orientation, battery level, and whether it was on Wi-Fi or mobile data;
• for a crash deep inside the app's low-level code (rather than in its screens and logic), also the phone's time zone and language setting, which of the permissions listed in section 5 the app had been granted, and a random identifier that Sentry's software creates when the app is installed. That identifier is not your advertising ID, your Android or Apple account, or your device serial number; it isn't connected to anything else about you and starts over if you reinstall the app.

A report does not contain: your medications, doses, notes, side effects, or the name you type for reports; any text from the screen or screenshots; a record of what you tapped or did before the crash; your name, email address, phone number, or account; your location; your advertising ID; or your device's name. We also ask Sentry not to store your IP address. Error messages from the app's own code are removed from reports, precisely because a message could otherwise contain something you typed.

Reports are sent only when something goes wrong, not while you use the app normally, and they are used only to fix bugs. Sentry keeps them for 90 days and stores them in the United States.

You can turn crash reports off at any time in Settings → Crash reports. When it is off, the crash-reporting software is not started and nothing is sent. Turning it back on takes effect the next time you open the app. This setting is separate from ads: buying Remove Ads does not turn crash reports off.

More about how Sentry handles information: https://sentry.io/privacy/.

Purchases — Google Play or the Apple App Store

If you buy Remove Ads, the payment is handled entirely by Google Play or Apple. We never see your payment details. The app asks the store, on your phone, whether your account owns the purchase so it can turn ads off, including when you tap Restore Purchases.

Notifications

Reminders are scheduled on your phone by the operating system. They do not go through any server of ours or anyone else's. Because a reminder shows the medication name, it can appear on your lock screen depending on your phone's notification settings; you can change that in your phone's settings.

Home-screen widget (Android)

If you add the widget, it shows your next dose on your home screen. It reads the same on-device information as the app and sends nothing anywhere.

Backups made by your phone

Your phone's own backup (Google's backup on Android, iCloud or a computer backup on iPhone) may include RxBeacon's data if you have those backups turned on. That is controlled by you and by that company's terms, not by us.

4. Things you choose to share

RxBeacon can create a doctor report, a weekly summary, a CSV file, or a backup file. These are made on your phone and go nowhere until you choose to send or save them. When you share one, it goes to the app, person, or place you pick (for example email, messages, or cloud storage), and from then on it is governed by that app's or person's practices — not ours. Temporary copies used to build a file may remain in the app's cache until your phone clears it.

5. Permissions the app asks for

RxBeacon does not ask for your location, contacts, camera, microphone, or photos. Saving and opening files goes through your phone's own file picker, so you choose each file and the app sees only that one.

6. How long we keep information, and deleting it

We hold none of your information, so there is nothing for us to keep or delete. The only data we can see is the anonymous crash reports described above, which cannot be linked to you and are deleted automatically after 90 days. On your phone, the information stays until you remove it:

• Settings → Clear Data lets you erase your history, your medications, or everything, permanently.
• Remove medication stops that medication's reminders and hides it from your lists. Its details and past doses stay on your phone, so your history and reports remain complete, until you use Clear Data.
• Uninstalling the app removes the app's data from your phone. Files you saved or shared, and any phone-level backups, are separate and you manage them yourself.

7. Children

RxBeacon is meant for adults and for people who help look after someone's medication. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

8. Your rights

Because we do not receive or hold your health information, there is nothing about you for us to look up, correct, or erase — and no way for us to identify you from it, including from the anonymous crash reports. Everything is in the app on your phone, where you can view, export, and delete it yourself. For information held by Google or Apple (such as advertising data or purchase records), use the controls and requests those companies provide.

9. Security

Your information is kept in the app's private storage on your phone and is protected by your phone's own security (screen lock and device encryption). RxBeacon does not add a separate passcode. Anyone who can unlock your phone can open the app. Exported files are not encrypted; treat them like any health document.

10. Medical disclaimer

RxBeacon records what you tell it and reminds you about it. It does not give medical advice, check drug interactions, or confirm that a dose is correct. Follow the instructions of your doctor or pharmacist, and in an emergency call your local emergency number.

11. Changes to this policy

If the app starts to behave differently — for example by adding a new service or collecting something new in crash reports — we will update this page and the effective date, and say so in the app's release notes.

12. Contact

Questions about this policy: support@happyhelmdigital.com