Privacy Policy

薪水小偷 Wage Thief · Last updated 11 August 2026

薪水小偷 Wage Thief (“the app”) is a satirical break timer. It works out roughly how much your employer is paying you while you are away from your desk, and lets you spend that imaginary money feeding a virtual pet. This policy explains exactly what data leaves your phone and what does not.

The short version There are no accounts and no user database, and we run no server. Everything you enter stays in local storage on your phone, and deleting the app erases it permanently. The app shows ads served by Google AdMob, which may use an advertising identifier for personalization if you allow tracking.

What stays on your device

Your salary figure — the monthly or hourly rate you type in, plus working days per week and hours per day.
Your activity — completed break missions, their durations and amounts, daily and monthly totals, and lifetime statistics.
Your pet — its species, level, feeding history, evolution path, and the entries you have unlocked in the field guide.
Your canteen — wallet balance, food stock, and vouchers.
Your reminder schedule — the labels and times you set.

All of this is stored in the app’s local storage on your phone. It is never uploaded, never backed up to us, and we cannot see it. We have no server, so there is nowhere for it to go.

What is sent off your device

Nothing you enter or record. We operate no server and the app never uploads your salary figure, your activity, your pet or your reminders anywhere.

The only network traffic the app generates is Google AdMob requesting ads, described under Advertising below.

The salary figure

The number you enter is an estimate you choose yourself. The app never verifies it, never connects to any employer, payroll provider or bank, and never transmits it. It is used only to multiply against elapsed time so the on-screen counter has something to count.

Notifications

If you enable reminders, the app uses iOS local notifications, scheduled and delivered by your own device. No push server is involved, so no notification token is created and we have no way to know what you scheduled. You can turn reminders off inside the app, or revoke the permission entirely in iOS Settings.

Advertising

The app shows ads served by Google AdMob:

a banner above the tab bar;
an occasional full-screen ad when you start a break mission, capped at a few per day;
an optional video you can choose to watch in the canteen in exchange for a half-price voucher. It is always your choice, and skipping it costs you nothing but the voucher.

AdMob may use an advertising identifier (IDFA) to show ads relevant to you and to measure ad performance.

iOS asks whether to allow tracking (App Tracking Transparency). If you say no, or if you are in the EU/UK and do not consent via the on-screen form, you still see ads — they are just not personalized. Declining never blocks any feature of the app.

AdMob’s handling of this data is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy and, for advertising specifically, Google’s ads and data page.

Third parties

The app relies on one third-party service: Google AdMob, described in the Advertising section above. There are no analytics SDKs, no crash reporters, and no other trackers. We still run no server of our own.

What we do not do

No accounts, no sign-in, no email collection.
No analytics or behavioural tracking beyond AdMob’s advertising described above, which you can opt out of via the tracking prompt.
No connection to any employer, payroll, banking or HR system.
No selling or sharing of personal data with data brokers.

Not financial advice

Every figure in the app is a rough arithmetic estimate based on a number you typed in yourself. It is a joke about office life, not a payroll record, a timesheet, or financial advice. Do not rely on it for any employment, tax or financial purpose.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Your choices

Notification access can be revoked at any time in iOS Settings; every other part of the app keeps working.
Ad tracking can be turned off any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking; ads keep showing, just without personalization.
Resetting your statistics — tap 清算歸零 on the punch-clock tab to clear the lifetime ledger.
Deleting your data — delete the app to erase everything at once. Because it only exists on your phone, there is nothing for us to delete on our side, and no request you need to send us.

Changes

If this policy changes materially — for example if advertising is added in a future version — the updated version will be posted at this address with a new “last updated” date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: tommysmsteam@gmail.com