Privacy Policy

ClearNext finds requests, deadlines and schedule changes in the notifications on your phone. To see them, it needs Android’s notification access, which you turn on yourself in Android’s settings after agreeing to it in the app. While access is on, Android passes each new notification to ClearNext in the background as it arrives, including while ClearNext is closed.

Android gives this access for all apps at once, so ClearNext applies your choices itself:

• It checks which app a notification comes from before reading anything else. Notifications from apps you haven’t chosen are ignored without their content being read. Nothing is read while monitoring is paused, before you’ve agreed in the app, after you withdraw your consent, or while every kind of action is switched off.
• It skips, without reading their text, Android’s system and background-service notifications, calls, media playback, navigation, progress bars such as downloads, other ongoing notifications, and summaries of grouped notifications.
• If you turn off group chats, it checks only whether a notification belongs to a group conversation, and skips it if it does.
• Apps it recognises as banking, payment or e-wallet, cryptocurrency, password-manager or authenticator apps are hidden from the apps you can choose.

From the notifications of the apps you choose, ClearNext reads the title and text, the name of the person who sent the message, the name of the conversation and when the message was sent. In a conversation it uses only the three latest messages and ignores any you sent yourself. It can’t see messages that didn’t come with a notification, or earlier messages in the other app.

ClearNext only reads notifications. It never replies to them, dismisses them or changes them.

All of this happens on your phone.

• Codes, passwords and banking messages are dropped straight away, and nothing about them is kept except a count. ClearNext recognises them by their wording, which can miss some, so choosing apps carefully is your strongest control.
• Ads, order and delivery updates, likes and reactions, and messages with nothing to do are dropped too, without keeping their text.
• If a message looks like a request, a deadline or pick-up, or a schedule change or invite, ClearNext saves a suggestion for you to review. Messages of a kind you’ve switched off are still checked, to tell what kind they are, then dropped without keeping any of their text.
• Nothing becomes a task until you tap Confirm task. When you dismiss a suggestion, it is deleted.

ClearNext saves the following in its private storage on your phone, where other apps can’t read it:

• Suggestions waiting for your review: a short title, the due date and time if it found one, an excerpt of the message that led to it (up to about 220 characters), the sender’s name, the app it came from and what kind of action it is. The title, excerpt and sender’s name are encrypted. In strict privacy mode, sender names aren’t stored.
• Tasks you confirm: the title (encrypted), the due date, the reminder time, the app it came from and whether it’s done. The excerpt and the sender’s name aren’t copied into the task.
• Fingerprints: so that it doesn’t suggest the same thing twice, ClearNext keeps fingerprints of the messages it has checked and of the suggestions you confirmed or dismissed. A fingerprint is a code calculated from a message with a secret key; the message can’t be read back from it.
• Activity counts: how many notifications were analysed, skipped or turned into suggestions each day, by type of app (such as chat or email), and when ClearNext last connected to Android’s notification service. Counts never include message text, sender names or app names.
• Your settings: the apps you switched on or off and their category, the kinds of action to look for, group chats, how long to keep suggestions, strict privacy mode, whether monitoring is on, and when you agreed to notification analysis or withdrew your consent.
• Text you add yourself: when you paste text, share it to ClearNext or import a text file, ClearNext keeps only the suggestion made from it, not the whole text. It reads at most the first 10,000 characters of a file you pick.

Apps are identified by their package name (for example com.example.app).

• Notifications from apps you haven’t chosen, and notifications it skips.
• Verification codes, passwords and banking messages.
• The text of the messages it reads, beyond the excerpt saved with a suggestion.
• The list of apps on your phone. To show you the apps you can choose, ClearNext reads the names, icons and package names of apps you can open, of email, calendar and messaging apps, and of some well-known chat, email, calendar and shopping apps. Only your choices are saved.
• Your clipboard. ClearNext never reads it on its own; it only sees text you paste into it.

Nothing. ClearNext has no internet permission, so Android doesn’t let it connect to the internet, and it contains no advertising, analytics or crash-reporting tools. We don’t run servers for it. We can’t see your notifications, suggestions or tasks, and we can’t recover them if you lose your phone.

If you email us, we receive your email address and what you write. We use it only to reply and to help with your request, and we delete it when it’s no longer needed, at the latest 12 months after the conversation ends, unless the law requires us to keep it longer.

Google Play

ClearNext is distributed through Google Play. Google processes your Google account details and app installs under the Google Privacy Policy. If your phone shares usage and diagnostics with Google, Google may give us crash reports and performance statistics for ClearNext through its developer console. We don’t receive anything else.

Android

ClearNext uses Android’s notification access, notifications and alarms on your phone. The alarm that triggers a reminder carries only the task’s number, never its text, and on a locked screen that hides sensitive content, a reminder shows only “Task reminder”.

ClearNext opts out of Android’s cloud backup and of phone-to-phone transfer, so none of its data is copied to your Google account or to another phone. Its encryption keys can’t leave your phone, so a copy would be unreadable anyway. On a new phone, ClearNext starts fresh.

ClearNext doesn’t ask for access to your SMS, contacts, location, microphone, camera, files or clipboard, and doesn’t use Android’s accessibility features. You pick any file you import yourself, one at a time.

• Choose which apps ClearNext reads in Monitored apps, and what it looks for in What ClearNext looks for.
• Switch off Automatic monitoring in the Privacy center to pause ClearNext. It stops at once.
• Turn on Strict privacy mode: suggestions are kept for one day, sender names aren’t stored (and those already stored are removed), and ClearNext’s screens are kept out of screenshots and the recent-apps view.
• Choose how long suggestions are kept: 1, 7 or 30 days.
• Dismiss a suggestion, or delete a task, at any time.
• Withdraw consent in the Privacy center. ClearNext stops analysing notifications immediately and keeps your tasks. Android’s notification access stays on until you turn it off in Android’s settings.
• Delete all local data in the Privacy center. Every suggestion, task, reminder, fingerprint and activity count is deleted, and the encryption keys are destroyed, so anything left behind in storage can’t be read. Your settings, app choices and consent are kept.
• Turn off ClearNext’s notification access in Android’s settings.
• Uninstall ClearNext to remove all of its data from your phone.

A daily clean-up on your phone removes what has expired.

ClearNext is made for adults and isn’t directed at children. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

ClearNext keeps its data in the app’s private storage. Titles, excerpts and sender names are encrypted one by one with AES-256-GCM, under keys protected by a key in Android Keystore that can’t be exported from your phone. Fingerprints are made with HMAC-SHA256 and a secret key. Anyone who can unlock your phone can open ClearNext, so protect your phone with a screen lock.

Because we don’t hold your app data, you control it directly in the app. If you’ve emailed us, you can ask to see, correct or delete that correspondence by writing to the address below. These rights apply under laws including Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 and, where they apply to you, the EU and UK GDPR.

If we change how ClearNext handles information, we’ll update this page and the date at the top, and point out significant changes in the app or its release notes. If a change affects what ClearNext reads or keeps, the app will ask you to agree again before it reads any more notifications.

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