Privacy Policy — HelpTap
Last updated: October 7, 2026
HelpTap ("the app", "we", "our") is developed by JBZLS Labs. This policy explains what data the app handles and how, for both the phone app and the Wear OS companion app.
Summary
HelpTap is offline-only. There is no account, no sign-in, and no server. All data stays on your phone and watch unless you personally choose to share a recording using Android's share sheet.
What the app records
- Audio recordings. Started by you, via a tap gesture on the watch face or from the app itself. Stored as audio files on the watch's internal storage, then transferred to the phone's local app storage when you sync.
We do not collect analytics, advertising identifiers, location data, or any other personal data.
Where your data goes
- Recordings are stored locally on your watch and phone only.
- Nothing is uploaded to a server or cloud service operated by us — we don't run one.
- Recordings move from watch to phone only over a direct Bluetooth connection between your own paired devices, initiated by you.
- Recordings leave your device only if you explicitly use Android's Share function to send a file to another app (e.g. Messages, email, cloud storage of your choice). That is entirely your decision, made per recording.
Permissions the app uses
- Microphone (watch) — to record audio when you start a recording. Recording only happens while you have started it; there is no background or continuous listening.
- Notifications (watch) — to show the ongoing recording as a foreground service, as required by Android.
- Vibration (watch) — to confirm a recording has started or stopped without needing to look at the screen.
- Bluetooth (phone and watch) — to detect your paired watch and transfer recordings between your own devices.
Data retention and deletion
Recordings remain on your device until you delete them from within the app. Uninstalling the app removes its locally stored data, subject to normal Android app-storage behavior.
Data controller
For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data controller is:
JBZLS s.r.o.
Železničná 347/152
905 01 Senica, Slovakia
Email: hi@jbzlslabs.com
Your rights under GDPR (EU/EEA users)
HelpTap doesn't send your recordings or usage to us, so there's almost nothing about you on our side to act on — but you still have the following rights over whatever limited personal data we do hold, such as an email you send us:
- Access — ask what personal data we hold about you.
- Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate data.
- Erasure — ask us to delete data we hold about you.
- Restriction — ask us to limit how we use your data.
- Portability — ask for a copy of your data in a portable format.
- Objection — object to processing based on legitimate interest.
- Withdraw consent — at any time, where processing relies on consent.
To exercise any of these rights, email hi@jbzlslabs.com. We'll respond within one month, as required by GDPR Article 12.
Legal basis for processing
The only personal data we ever process is whatever you choose to include if you email us directly (e.g. your email address and message content) — processed under legitimate interest (responding to you) or your consent (the act of emailing us). Audio recordings and app permissions are processed entirely on your own device, under your control — that processing is never sent to us, so GDPR's controller/processor framework doesn't apply to it; we simply never receive or process it.
International data transfers
We don't transfer personal data internationally — we don't collect any to begin with. If you email us, that message is handled through standard email infrastructure, which may process data outside the EEA under its own standard contractual clauses; see your email provider's own privacy policy for details.
Right to lodge a complaint
If you believe your data protection rights have been violated, you can lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. In Slovakia, that's:
Úrad na ochranu osobných údajov Slovenskej republiky
Hraničná 12, 820 07 Bratislava 27, Slovakia
dataprotection.gov.sk
Automated decision-making
We don't use automated decision-making or profiling of any kind.
Children's privacy
HelpTap is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: hi@jbzlslabs.com