Bonafide privacy policy
In short: Bonafide works on your phone. Your chats, photos, documents and the evidence files it builds stay in the app's private storage on your phone. There is no account, no developer server, no advertising and no analytics. The developer does not receive your content.
Who is responsible
Bonafide is published by Masood Ur Rehman, an individual developer (the "developer"). Because the app processes your content only on your own phone and the developer never receives it, the developer does not hold or control your chats, photos or documents. For the small amount of information the developer may receive in connection with a support email, the developer is the controller for the purposes of UK GDPR and EU GDPR. Contact: masoodbarkiwork@gmail.com.
What the app stores on your phone
When you choose to import them, the app copies into its private storage: WhatsApp chat exports you pick (message dates, senders and text), photos you pick with the Android Photo Picker, and documents you pick with the system file picker (for example PDFs). It also stores the case details you type (names, relationship start date, captions, chosen destination), your choices about which items to include, the bundle files you build, your app settings, and records that a case has been unlocked.
These materials can reveal sensitive things, such as religion, health or sex life. They never leave your phone through the app. Photos are stored as you added them, including any location they carry; photos in the files you build leave location out unless you switch "Remove location from photos" off for that case.
The app does not request broad access to your photos or files. It uses the Android Photo Picker and the system file picker, so it sees only what you choose.
What the app does not do
- No account, sign-in or registration.
- No advertising and no advertising ID.
- No analytics and no crash reporting that includes content. The app's own code does not log message text or file names.
- No third-party AI or translation service reads your content.
- No upload by the app. The files it builds are shared only when you choose Share and pick where they go (for example Files, email, or another app). Uploading to any government or agency portal is something you do yourself.
- Android backup is turned off for the app's data.
Network use and Google Play
The only network use is Google Play Billing, for the one-time unlock of a case. Purchases are processed by Google Play under Google's terms and privacy policy; the developer does not see your payment details. The Play Billing library, which is part of Google Play services, can send its own diagnostic and usage information to Google; the app does not control or see it. See Google's privacy policy. The unlock is recorded locally on your phone. The app does not detect refunds.
If you tap a link to an official agency page, the link opens in your browser; no content is attached.
Permissions
- Notifications: shows progress while a bundle is being built.
- Foreground service (data sync): lets a long build keep running while the app is in the background.
- Biometric or device credential: optional app lock.
- Network state, wake lock, run at start-up: used by Android's work scheduler and by Play Billing.
- Internet and billing: Google Play purchases only.
Screen protection
Release builds block screenshots and recent-apps thumbnails on the screens that show your evidence, to keep it private on a shared phone.
Keeping and deleting your data
Your data stays on the phone until you remove it. In the app, Delete case removes one case, its files, its built bundles and its records, and Delete everything removes all cases and files and clears the unlock records. Deleted database text is overwritten and the database is compacted. Uninstalling the app or clearing its storage in Android settings also removes everything it stores. Files you have already shared or saved elsewhere are outside the app and must be deleted where you saved them. The developer has no copy to delete.
Your rights
Because the developer does not receive or keep your content, there is normally nothing for the developer to disclose or erase. If you are in the UK or EU you have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection over personal data the developer holds about you (for example an email you send to support), and the right to complain to a supervisory authority, such as the UK Information Commissioner's Office. Write to the contact address above.
Children
Bonafide is intended for adults aged 18 and over and is not directed at children.
Not legal advice, no government affiliation
Bonafide organises and formats material you provide. It is not legal advice and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government or immigration agency.
This website
This page is static, with no analytics, cookies or trackers. It is hosted by GitHub Pages, which may process visitors' IP addresses under its own privacy statement.
Changes
This policy will be updated when the app's features or data practices change; the effective date above identifies this version.