HALO — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 26 June 2026

HALO ("the app", "we", "us") is a personal-safety app published by Gleapx. This policy explains what we collect, why, and your choices. HALO is local-first and privacy-first: we collect the minimum needed to keep you safe, and we never sell your data or use it for advertising.

Information we collect

• Account — your name and phone number. Sign-in uses phone-number verification (one-time SMS code) via Firebase Authentication.
• Your trusted circle (guardians) — the names and phone numbers you manually enter for the people you choose to alert. We do not read your device address book.
• Location — your precise GPS location, collected only when you trigger an SOS, start a Safe Walk, a Check-in, or a Live Share. It is shared with the guardians you choose for that session and stops when the session ends.
• Subscription status — whether you have an active HALO Premium subscription, processed via Apple and RevenueCat. We never see your card details.
• Diagnostics — crash reports via Firebase Crashlytics, to fix bugs, associated with your account identifier.
• Identifiers — an account ID used to sync your profile and circle.

Stays on your device

Photos, video and audio you capture in the Evidence vault are encrypted on your device with AES-256; the key lives in your device's secure keystore. This evidence is never uploaded to us or anyone else.

How we use your information

Only to provide HALO's safety features — alerting your circle, sharing your live location during an event you start, managing your subscription, and improving reliability. We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising or cross-app tracking.

Who we share it with

• Your guardians — the location/alert you choose to send them.
• Service providers who process data on our behalf: Google Firebase (authentication, database, crash reporting) and Apple / RevenueCat (subscriptions). SMS alerts are sent from your own device.

Retention & deletion

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Account inside the app. This erases your profile, your circle, and associated cloud records, and signs you out. On-device evidence is removed when you delete the app.

Security

Evidence is AES-256 encrypted on-device; location is shared only with people you choose and only during a session you start; sign-in is protected by phone verification and an optional biometric app-lock.

Children

HALO is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Your rights

You may access, correct, or delete your information. To make a request, contact us at the address below.

Changes

We may update this policy; material changes will be reflected here with a new date.

Contact

Questions or requests: bsnguangyi@gmail.com.

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