Teleph0ne privacy policy

Last updated: 8 October 2026. Teleph0ne (package com.g0mindo.teleph0ne) is published by G0mindo. Contact: the developer email shown on Teleph0ne's Google Play listing.

The short version

Teleph0ne has no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Your calls, call history and contacts stay on your phone. We never sell or share data.

What stays on your phone

• Contacts are read to show caller names and photos, for search and smart dial, and to let starred contacts always ring. They are never uploaded.
• Call history is read to show your recent calls. It is never uploaded, except to your own Google Drive if you turn on backups (below).
• Phone state and calling permissions let Teleph0ne work as your phone app: placing, answering and screening calls. Incoming numbers are checked against a spam list stored on your phone; they are not sent anywhere to be checked.
• Blocked numbers are kept in Android's own block list on your phone.

What leaves your phone, and only when

• Spam list download. Twice a day Teleph0ne downloads the public spam list from GitHub (github.com/rafgomindo/teleph0ne-spam-list) or from this site. This request contains nothing about you or your calls.
• “Report as spam” (optional). When you block a number and leave “Report call as spam” ticked, Teleph0ne sends only that number, a reason (for example “spam”), a random ID created when the app was installed, which says nothing about you, and whether that number called your phone in the last 30 days (“missed” or “answered”, with no time and no duration). That last part protects real people: only reports from phones the number actually called are counted. Your own number, contacts and call history are never sent. To limit abuse, the service stores that ID and your connection's IP address only as salted one-way hashes; neither is stored as is. A number is published on the public list (on this site and on GitHub) after several different phones report it.
• “Not spam” (optional). When the shared list warned you about a caller and you answer “Not spam” after the call, Teleph0ne sends that number with the same random ID and “missed” or “answered”, so a person who was wrongly reported gets off the list. If the number isn't on the list, nothing is sent.
• “Share your blocked numbers” (optional). Teleph0ne can offer to share numbers that are already in your block list. Nothing is sent unless you tick the numbers yourself and tap Share; numbers saved in your contacts start unticked. Each ticked number is then sent exactly like a “Report as spam” above, a few per day.
• Call history backup (optional, off by default). If you sign in with Google, your recent call history is saved to the hidden app-data folder of your own Google Drive. Only Teleph0ne can read it; we have no access to it. Signing out stops backups.
• Purchases (optional). Donations and the yearly subscription are handled entirely by Google Play. We receive no payment details.
• Search and Message buttons open your browser or messaging app only when you tap them.

Becoming a tester (website, optional)

If you sign up as a tester on this website, we receive the e-mail address you enter and the language of the page; our hosting provider (Netlify) also records the IP address and browser type that sent the form, to filter spam. This information is used only to add you to Teleph0ne's test on Google Play (and to filter spam sign-ups), is kept in Netlify's form storage, and is deleted once the test is over or whenever you ask. It is never shared or used for anything else.

Your choices

You can deny the contacts or call history permissions, turn off reporting per number, sign out of backups, or delete the backup from your Google Drive at any time. Uninstalling Teleph0ne removes all its data from your phone. To have a reported number reviewed, email the developer address on the Google Play listing.

Children

Teleph0ne is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data.