Privacy Policy for Neighborhood Pulse
Effective Date: November 9, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how Neighborhood Pulse ("we", "our", or "the App", package ID com.neighborhood.pulse) handles information when you use the Neighborhood Pulse mobile application.
1. Information We Collect
Neighborhood Pulse does not require you to create an account, sign in, or provide personal details such as your name, email address, or phone number to use the app.
- Local Preferences & Saved Items: Your selected city, pinned civic signals, text highlights, trash bin items, and appearance theme (Light/Dark) are stored locally on your device using Android on-device storage.
- Coarse City / IP Lookup: When launched, the App may perform an ephemeral IP-based city lookup solely to select the nearest supported municipal feed (or defaults to San Francisco, CA). No precise GPS location permission is requested or required.
- Device or Other IDs & Advertising Data: We use Google AdMob (Google Mobile Ads SDK) to display clearly labeled native advertisements inside the feed. Google AdMob may automatically collect and share your device's Advertising ID, coarse IP-based location, app interaction events, and diagnostic performance data to serve, measure, and prevent fraud in advertisements in accordance with your device privacy settings.
- Product Analytics, Session Diagnostics & Crash Reporting: We use PostHog Analytics to collect anonymous app interaction telemetry, API latency diagnostics, crash logs, and UI session recordings (with no user accounts or personal contact details) to identify bugs and improve app reliability.
2. How We Use Information
- To fetch and display live municipal 311 service dispatches, building permits, National Weather Service observations, and USGS geological events for your selected city.
- To preserve your pinned cards, highlights, and 30-day Trash history locally on your device.
- To display non-intrusive native advertisements via Google AdMob.
3. Data Sharing & Third-Party Services
All data transmitted by the App and third-party SDKs is encrypted in transit via HTTPS/TLS. We use the following public data APIs and service providers:
4. Data Retention & User Controls
Because Neighborhood Pulse does not use user accounts, no personal profile is stored on our servers. You can delete all local app data at any time by clearing the app's storage in your Android device settings, or reset/opt out of personalized advertising in your Android settings under Settings → Google → Ads.
5. Children's Privacy
Neighborhood Pulse is a general-audience civic utility and weather application and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:
Email: abkhaan95@gmail.com
Phone: +92 347 9148821
Website: https://neighborhoodpulse.web.app