Big Timer privacy policy
Effective November 9, 2026. Big Timer (com.maxiteer.bigtimer) is provided by Iyed Becheikh. Contact becheikh.iyed@gmail.com for support or privacy requests.
In short
The timer works offline and keeps your settings on your phone. Big Timer is free and shows a banner ad from Google AdMob on its main screen; full screen mode shows no ads. The ads are the only part of the app that uses the internet, and the data they use is described below. Big Timer has no account, analytics or crash reporting of its own.
What stays on your phone
Big Timer saves six settings in its private app storage so your timer is ready the next time you open it: the last duration you started, whether voice and loop are on, whether the screen stays on while a timer runs, the disc colour and the theme. They are used only to restore those settings and are never sent to us or to Google.
Ads by Google AdMob
The Google Mobile Ads SDK requests and shows the banner ad. To do that, Google collects information from your device, including your advertising ID and other device identifiers, your IP address (which gives an approximate location), your interactions with ads, and diagnostic data about ad performance. Google uses this data to serve, measure and personalise ads, for analytics and to prevent fraud and abuse. Google processes it under its own policies; see how Google uses information from apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.
We do not receive your advertising ID or any other personal information from these ads; AdMob gives us only aggregated reports such as the number of ads shown and earnings.
Your ad choices
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Big Timer asks for your consent before personalised ads are shown, using Google's consent message. You can accept, refuse or manage your choices, and you can change them at any time in Display options → Privacy choices. Elsewhere, you can limit ad personalisation or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings (Settings → Privacy → Ads, or Google → Ads, depending on the device).
The spoken countdown
Spoken announcements use the text-to-speech engine already installed on your phone. It receives only the words being spoken, such as “5 minutes”, “10 seconds” or “Time's up”. Your phone's speech engine handles them under its own settings and policy.
Permissions
Big Timer uses the vibration permission for its finish alert. The Google Mobile Ads SDK adds the internet, network state and advertising ID permissions it needs to show ads. Big Timer does not request access to your contacts, files, photos, camera, microphone or location.
Backups
Android may include Big Timer's settings in your device backup, according to your phone's backup settings. Those backups are handled by your device and backup provider, not by us.
Deleting your data
Clearing Big Timer's storage in Android settings, or uninstalling the app, removes its settings and your ad consent choices. There is no account and we hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for us to delete. To reset the identifier used for ads, delete or reset your advertising ID in your phone's settings.
Children
Big Timer is intended for users aged 13 and over and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes
If Big Timer's data practices change, this page will be updated with a new effective date. Questions go to the email above.