Privacy Policy

PayClose keeps your shift and pay records on your device. It has no account and no server that we operate. This policy explains the limited data the app does send, and to whom.

Last updated: 7 September 2026

1. Who we are

PayClose ("the app") is published by LzyLabs ("we", "us"), the data controller for any personal data described here. PayClose is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with your employer or any payroll provider, and it produces gross-pay estimates from the rules you enter — not tax, net/take-home pay, or legally owed wages.

Contact: agents@lzylabs.com.

2. Data that stays on your device

Everything you enter to track your pay is stored in PayClose's private application storage on your device and is never transmitted to us or to any third party:

• Employer names, hourly rates, work-week and overtime rules, pay-period settings and timezones
• Planned and worked shifts, breaks, shift differentials and bonuses
• The gross-pay amounts you were actually paid, and closed pay-period records
• Optional shift labels you type

This data is excluded from Android cloud backup. If you move to a new device using Android's device-to-device transfer, only the pay ledger file is carried over; your privacy and purchase settings are not, so you are asked for them again on the new device.

You can export a closed pay period as a CSV file, or export a full backup file, at any time. Those files are created only when you ask for them and are handed to your device's own file/share picker. Their contents are never sent to us and never included in analytics.

3. Data the app sends

Usage analytics and crash diagnostics are part of the app rather than a per-user setting: there is no in-app switch for them. The lists below are the complete description of what leaves your device. None of it includes your pay records. If you would rather send nothing at all, do not install the app, or uninstall it.

Usage analytics (Google Analytics for Firebase)

The app records a fixed list of fifteen interaction events describing your progress through the app — for example that onboarding was viewed, a job was set up, a shift was confirmed, a pay period was closed, a CSV was exported, or PayClose Pro was purchased — plus a numeric funnel-step and a single property indicating whether you are a free or Pro user. The event and screen names are fixed in the app's source; nothing you type can become one. Firebase also collects standard identifiers automatically: an app-instance ID, device model, operating-system version, app version, coarse (country/region-level) location derived from IP, and language.

We do not send pay amounts, employer names, rates, shift times, typed labels, file names, or the contents of any export.

Crash diagnostics (Firebase Crashlytics)

The app reports crashes and unhandled errors: a stack trace, an internal error code, the error's programming type name, device state at the time, and a Firebase installation identifier. Exception messages are removed before sending so that a wage, an employer name or a file path cannot leak into a report.

Remote configuration (Firebase Remote Config)

The app retrieves advertising-frequency settings from Firebase. This request sends standard Firebase installation data (an installation ID and basic app/device metadata). No information you entered is sent.

4. Advertising

The free version of PayClose shows ads through Google AdMob:

• You are first shown Google's consent request (the User Messaging Platform prompt). No ad is requested until you respond, and you can choose non-personalised ads. Where Google offers it, an Advertising privacy choices control in Settings reopens that form so you can change your answer later.
• AdMob may collect device identifiers, IP address and approximate location, and ad-interaction data, in line with Google's use of this data. In debug and test builds, only Google's official test ad units are used.
• There are two placements. A banner sits at the end of the pay-review report, below your figures — never over a field you are typing into. A full-screen ad may appear only after you finish a task such as closing a pay period or saving an export, never during your first 24 hours with the app, never more often than once every 90 seconds, and never more often than once every few completed tasks.
• Your pay records are never used to target ads. We send AdMob nothing you entered.
• PayClose Pro removes all advertising and stops the ad SDK from requesting ads.

5. Purchases

PayClose Pro is a one-time purchase processed by Google Play Billing. To grant and restore it, the app receives a purchase token and order identifier from Google Play. These are verified on your device and stored locally as proof of your entitlement. They are not shared with us and are never placed in analytics or diagnostics. Google processes the payment and retains transaction records under its own terms.

6. Who we share with

We do not sell personal data and we do not operate a server that receives your information. The data described above is processed by Google as the provider of the Firebase and AdMob SDKs, under Google's own privacy terms:

Relevant Google policies: Google Privacy Policy, Firebase & privacy, AdMob & data. Data processed by Google may be transferred to and stored on servers outside your country.

7. Retention

• On-device records: kept until you delete them in the app or uninstall PayClose. Uninstalling does not remove any CSV or backup files you previously saved elsewhere.
• Analytics: retained by Firebase according to the configured data-retention period (currently up to 14 months for event-level data); aggregated reports may be kept longer.
• Crash diagnostics: Crashlytics documents removal from its systems beginning about 90 days after a crash.
• Purchases: retained by Google Play under its terms.

We hold no separate copy of any of this data.

8. Your choices and rights

• Change your advertising consent at any time through the Advertising privacy choices control in Settings, where Google offers it for your region.
• Limit ad personalisation at the device level: on Android, Settings → Privacy → Ads lets you delete or opt out of your advertising ID, which the ad SDK must honour.
• Buy PayClose Pro to remove advertising entirely.
• Use Delete all records in the app to erase every pay record from the device.
• Uninstall PayClose to remove the app and its on-device data.
• Depending on where you live (for example the EEA/UK under the GDPR, or California under the CCPA/CPRA), you may have rights to access, correct, delete, port or object to the processing of personal data, and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Because we do not hold your data ourselves, most requests are satisfied by the in-app controls above; for anything else, contact us and we will respond within the time limits that apply.

9. Children

PayClose is a workforce-pay tool for working adults. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13 (or under the minimum age of digital consent in your country). If you believe a child has provided data, contact us and we will address it.

10. Security

On-device records are held in PayClose's private application sandbox, which other apps cannot read. Any network requests the Firebase and AdMob SDKs make use encrypted (HTTPS/TLS) connections. No method of storage or transmission is perfectly secure, but because your pay data never leaves your device, its exposure is limited to that device.

11. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the page and the "last updated" date above. Material changes that affect data we collect will also be surfaced in the app.

12. Contact

Questions, requests or complaints about privacy: agents@lzylabs.com.