Hake collects nothing about you, and sends us nothing at all. The app has no internet permission, so it is technically incapable of opening a connection. There are no accounts, no analytics, no crash reporting and no advertising. Two things do involve somebody else, and in both cases that somebody is Google rather than us: buying Hake Pro, which Google Play handles from end to end, and Android's own backup, which copies about four kilobytes of settings to your Google account if you have backup switched on. Your paintings stay on your device. All of it is set out in full below.
This policy applies to the Hake mobile application for Android (package name
com.hake.app), distributed through Google Play, and to this website.
Throughout this document, "Hake", "the app", "we" and "us" refer to the developer of Hake;
"you" refers to the person using the app.
By installing or using Hake you agree to this policy. If you do not agree with it, please do not install or use the app.
Hake collects no user data. Because this is a stronger claim than most apps make, here it is spelled out against the categories Google Play asks developers to disclose:
| Data type | Collected? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Name, email address, or any personal identifier | No | Hake has no accounts and no sign-in. Hake Pro is attached to the Google account that bought it — that is how it follows you to a new device — but Hake is never told whose account that is. |
| Location, precise or approximate | No | No location permission is requested. |
| Financial or payment information | No | Hake Pro is a one-time purchase, handled entirely by Google Play. The app never sees or stores card details, billing addresses or any other payment information, and there is no subscription. Hake reads one yes-or-no answer from the Play Store — whether this account owns Hake Pro — and keeps no purchase history. See section 7. |
| Contacts, calendar, SMS, or call logs | No | No such permission is requested. |
| Photos and videos | No | See section 4 — images you import are read on your device, kept inside the project, and never sent to us. Like the rest of your paintings they stay out of the cloud backup entirely. |
| Audio or microphone | No | No microphone permission is requested. |
| Device or advertising identifiers | No | No advertising ID, IMEI, MAC address, serial number or similar is read. |
| App activity, usage or diagnostics | No | No analytics or telemetry of any kind. |
| Crash logs | No | No crash reporting SDK is present. |
| Health, fitness, or biometric data | No | Not applicable. |
We do not create user profiles, we do not track you across apps or websites, and we do not sell or share information with anyone — because there is nothing to sell or share.
Hake is not granted the android.permission.INTERNET permission. This is not
a policy commitment that could quietly change in a later build without you noticing; it is a
property of the installed application that Android itself enforces. Without that permission the
operating system refuses every attempt to open a network connection, whether by the app or by
any library inside it.
You can verify this yourself: on Android, open Settings, find Hake in the app list, and inspect its permissions. You can also inspect the app's manifest with any APK analysis tool.
Two things you will find when you do, both listed in section 5. Hake requests
com.android.vending.BILLING, which despite naming a Google service is
not a network permission and grants no network access — it lets Hake ask the Play Store
app already on your device what you own. And it declares one permission of its own,
com.hake.app.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION, which Android's AndroidX
libraries generate automatically so that messages Hake sends to itself cannot be picked up by
other apps. Neither reaches anything of yours, and neither can open a connection.
In the same place you will find a <queries> entry naming the Play Store's
billing service. On Android 11 and later an app cannot even see that another app exists unless
it says so in advance, and this is Hake saying it needs to find the Play Store in order to ask
about Hake Pro. It is a declaration about one Google app, not a view of what else you have
installed.
One note for anyone comparing tools: because Hake declares WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
for Android 9 and below, some APK analysers will also list READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
beside it. Android infers that one from the write permission; it is not written in the app, and
on Android 10 and newer neither is requested.
Hake stores several things so the app is useful between sessions. All of it is written to your device only.
This lives in the app's private storage area, which Android isolates from other apps, and it is removed when you uninstall Hake. Hake transmits none of it. Two small files are an exception, and the exception belongs to Android rather than to Hake — see Android's backup below.
Pictures/Hake when you press the save button and confirm.Movies/Hake when you stop a recording.These are ordinary files in your own media library. They belong to you, they are not tracked by the app, and because they live outside the app's private storage they remain on your device after you uninstall Hake until you delete them yourself.
Android offers every app a backup service, and Hake takes part in it. The copying is done by the operating system, not by Hake — the app has no internet permission and uploads nothing — and it goes to your own Google account. It does not come to us. We cannot see it, reach it or ask for it.
Hake names exactly what may be copied, and the list is deliberately short:
If you would rather none of that happened, Android's backup can be switched off in your device's own Settings, under Google or Backup, where you can also see what has been stored and delete it. Turning it off changes nothing about how Hake behaves.
When you import a reference image or a mask, Android's own system file picker asks you to choose a file. Hake receives only the single file you picked, reads its pixels into the painting, and keeps a copy inside the project. The app has no ability to browse your gallery on its own and never sees any file you did not explicitly select.
| Permission | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE |
Android 9 (API 28) and older only | Required by older versions of Android in order to save an exported picture or time lapse into your public Pictures and Movies folders. On Android 10 and newer this permission is not requested at all, because the modern media APIs do not need it. |
com.android.vending.BILLING |
All Android versions, from Hake 3.10 onwards | Lets Hake ask the Google Play Store app already installed on your device whether you own Hake Pro, and hand a purchase over to it. It is not an internet permission and grants no network access. The Play Store carries out the transaction under its own permissions, as it does for every app that sells anything. See section 7. |
com.hake.app. |
All Android versions | Not a permission over anything of yours, and not one you will be asked to grant. Google's own AndroidX libraries generate this automatically for every app that uses them. It exists so that messages Hake sends to itself, inside the app, cannot be received by any other app on the device — it is a lock, not a key. It is held only by Hake and gives access to nothing. |
That is the complete list — three entries, and those three are exactly what you will find if you inspect the app yourself. Hake requests no others: no internet, no location, no camera, no microphone, no contacts, no phone state, no background activity.
Hake contains no third-party analytics, advertising, attribution, A/B testing, crash reporting or social media components. Specifically, and without limitation, the app does not include Google Analytics, Firebase, Google AdMob or any other ad network, Facebook or Meta SDKs, or any similar service.
The app is built on Google's standard Android and Jetpack Compose libraries, which run entirely on your device and transmit nothing.
Since version 3.10 it also includes the Google Play Billing Library, which is what makes the Hake Pro purchase possible, and it is the only component in the app that involves anyone else. It opens no network connections of its own: it passes the purchase to the Play Store app installed on your device, which does the rest. It reports nothing to us. The one part of it that would ordinarily send usage reports to Google has had the network permissions it needs removed from the app, so it cannot run — which is also why Hake still has no internet permission, even though it can now sell you something.
This website serves no cookies, runs no analytics and loads no external fonts, scripts, images or trackers. Every page is a single self-contained file.
Hake is distributed through the Google Play Store. Although the app itself collects nothing, Google acts independently as the app store and collects information about downloads, installs, purchases, device compatibility and, if you submit one, your review. That processing is governed by Google's own privacy policy, not by ours, and we have no control over it.
Google Play also reports to us on the app itself: installs and uninstalls by device model, country and Android version; ratings and reviews; crashes and freezes gathered by Android on devices whose owners have agreed to share them, which is a service of the operating system rather than anything Hake does; and, now that Hake Pro is for sale, the orders Google has processed on our behalf. An order report carries an order number, a date, a price, the tax, and the country and postal district Google needs in order to account for it. It carries no name, no email address and no payment details, and we cannot use it to identify you.
See Google's Privacy Policy for details.
Hake is free to download and free to paint with. Hake Pro is a single one-time purchase that unlocks further features of the painting tools. It is not a subscription, there is nothing recurring and nothing to cancel.
Google Play carries out the entire transaction. The card, the receipt and the confirmation email are Google's. We never see them, and no payment information of any kind — card number, billing address, name or email — reaches Hake or us at any point.
What Hake does is ask the Play Store app already installed on your device a single question: whether this Google account owns Hake Pro. It unlocks the features when the answer is yes. That exchange happens between two apps on your own device, and Hake still has no way of its own to reach the network. Because the purchase belongs to your Google account rather than to one handset, it is restored automatically when you reinstall Hake or sign in on another device.
Google is the seller and keeps its own record of the purchase, including for refunds, which are handled under Google Play's refund policy rather than by us. We have no access to that record beyond the anonymous sales totals described above.
Hake is a drawing and painting app suitable for all ages, and its target audience includes children. We have committed to comply with the Google Play Families Policy.
Because Hake collects no data at all, it collects no personal information from children. It contains no advertising, no social features, no chat, no user-generated content sharing, and no mechanism by which a child could send anything to us. The one thing inside the app that reaches anybody else is buying Hake Pro, described below; apart from Google's own purchase sheet, there are no links out of the app.
Hake Pro is a single one-time in-app purchase that unlocks features of the painting tools. It is not a subscription, and it is bought and paid for through Google Play rather than through us. No payment information reaches Hake, and buying it collects no data about the person who bought it.
If you are a parent, the controls for this are in the Play Store, not in Hake. Whether a password, PIN or fingerprint is required before a purchase goes through is a setting in the Google Play Store app — open it, then Settings, then Authentication — and it belongs to the account holder rather than to us. Family Link and Google Play's parental controls apply to Hake exactly as they do to any other app. A purchase made by mistake is handled through Google Play's refund process, which is both faster and more certain than writing to us, although you are welcome to do both.
This means we comply, by design, with the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), with Article 8 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and with equivalent children's privacy laws elsewhere. We do not knowingly collect personal information from any person of any age, children included. If you believe a child has somehow provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will investigate — though as described above, there is no route by which the app could have received it.
Privacy laws including the EU and UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA, and similar legislation give you rights over personal data held about you: the right to access it, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to its processing, port it elsewhere, and not to be subject to automated decision-making.
Hake sends us nothing about you. For everything the app itself does there is nothing for us to disclose, correct, export or erase, and no request is necessary to exercise any of these rights. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA, and we never have.
There is one exception, and it exists only if you have bought Hake Pro. Google, as the seller, gives us a record of each order through the Play Console: an order number, the date, the product, the price and the tax, and the country it was bought in. We are not given your name, your email address or your payment details, and we cannot search those records for a person. If you want to know what such a record says, or want something done about it, write to us at the address in section 14 and we will help as far as we can — but Google sold you the product and Google holds the transaction, so Google is where a purchase record ultimately lives.
All data created by Hake is under your direct control on your own device. You may delete it at any time as described in the next section.
The strongest security property an app can have is not holding your data in the first place, and that is the position Hake takes. Your work is stored in Android's private per-application storage, which the operating system isolates from other installed apps, and it is protected by your device's own lock screen and disk encryption. Because Hake opens no network connections of its own, there is no traffic of ours to intercept, and we run no server that could be breached. The two exchanges that do reach a network — buying Hake Pro, and Android's backup if you have it on — are carried out by Google's own apps over Google's own encrypted connections, and neither passes through us.
Nothing reaches us, in any country. We operate no servers and receive nothing from the app, so there is no transfer to or from us to describe.
Two things can cross a border without involving us. If you buy Hake Pro, the transaction is between you and Google, and Google may process it outside your country under its own privacy policy and transfer safeguards. If Android's backup is switched on, the four kilobytes described in section 4 are held in your Google account, wherever Google keeps it. Both are governed by Google's terms rather than by ours, and both are described above.
If a future version of Hake ever changes what it does with data — if it gained a network feature of its own, or began keeping something it does not keep today — this policy will be updated before that version is released, the "last updated" date at the top of this page will change, and the app's Data Safety declaration on Google Play will be revised to match. Material changes affecting how your information is handled will be made clear within the app itself.
We encourage you to review this page from time to time. Continued use of the app after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
Questions, concerns or requests about this policy or about privacy in Hake are welcome:
We aim to respond within 30 days.
Summary for the record: Hake collects nothing about you, sends us nothing, shares nothing with anyone, and contains no advertising or tracking of any kind. It opens no network connection of its own. Its full permission list is in section 5 and has three entries, two of which do anything at all: legacy storage access on Android 9 and below, so it can save your own artwork to your own device, and Google Play billing, so the Play Store can tell it whether you own Hake Pro. The only things that ever leave your device are the ones you choose — a picture you export, a purchase you make — and the four kilobytes of settings Android's backup copies to your own Google account, if you have it switched on.