Your information. Your control.

Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 5, 2026

Effective date: August 5, 2026

PolitiBlock respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information is accessed, processed, collected, used, retained, and disclosed when you use:

1. Summary of Our Privacy Practices

PolitiBlock is designed to filter unwanted text messages according to rules selected or created by the user.

The application may access text messages and contact information on the user’s device solely to provide its message-filtering and trusted-contact features.

Under the current design:

2. Information Accessed by the PolitiBlock Application

Text messages

PolitiBlock may access incoming text messages so it can compare their content against enabled filtering categories and user-created blocking terms.

This access is used to determine whether a message should be allowed or filtered.

Message content is processed locally on the device and is not transmitted to PolitiBlock or stored on our servers.

Contact information

PolitiBlock may access the user’s contacts to determine whether the sender of a message is saved in the user’s contact list.

Messages from saved contacts may be allowed through even when they contain a word or phrase included in an enabled filter.

Contact information is checked locally on the device. PolitiBlock does not upload, transmit, sell, or share the user’s contact list.

Custom filtering terms

Users may enter their own words or phrases to supplement PolitiBlock’s four preconfigured filtering categories.

These custom filtering terms are stored locally on the user’s device and are used only to provide the filtering rules selected by the user.

App settings and preferences

PolitiBlock may store settings locally on the device, including:

These settings remain on the device unless the user removes them, clears the application’s storage, or uninstalls the application.

3. Android Permissions

Depending on the final application configuration and Android version, PolitiBlock may request access to functions such as:

PolitiBlock requests permissions only when they are needed to provide a feature.

Users may deny or revoke permissions through their Android device settings. Revoking a required permission may prevent some or all filtering features from functioning properly.

4. Information Collected Through politiblock.com

Information you provide voluntarily

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you:

This information may include:

Do not send us copies of private text conversations, contact lists, passwords, financial information, or other sensitive information unless it is necessary for resolving a support issue.

Website server logs

Our website hosting provider may automatically process limited technical information when someone visits politiblock.com, such as:

This information may be used to operate the website, prevent abuse, investigate technical problems, maintain security, and understand basic website performance.

Cookies and tracking technologies

PolitiBlock does not intentionally use advertising cookies or cross-site behavioral tracking.

The website’s hosting provider or essential service providers may use strictly necessary cookies or similar technologies to operate, secure, or deliver the website.

If analytics, embedded media, contact forms, content-delivery services, or other third-party website tools are added in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated to describe their data practices.

5. How We Use Information

We may use information collected through the website or voluntarily submitted by users to:

We do not use text-message content, contact information, or custom filter terms for advertising, marketing profiles, or data brokerage.

6. How We Share Information

We do not sell or rent personal information.

We may disclose limited information in the following circumstances:

Service providers

We may use companies that provide services such as:

These providers may process limited information only as needed to perform services for us and subject to their applicable agreements and privacy practices.

Legal requirements

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

Business transfers

If PolitiBlock or its operating company is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, reorganization, or similar transaction, information under our control may be transferred as part of that transaction.

Any successor would remain subject to this Privacy Policy unless users are notified otherwise.

7. Data Retention

Information stored on the device

Text-message analysis, contact checks, custom filter terms, and application settings are stored or processed locally on the user’s device.

Users can remove locally stored application data by:

Support communications

We may retain support emails and related correspondence for as long as reasonably necessary to:

Website logs

Website logs may be retained temporarily for security, diagnostic, and operational purposes. Retention periods may depend on the practices of our hosting and infrastructure providers.

We delete or anonymize information when it is no longer reasonably needed, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

8. Data Deletion Requests

Because message content, contacts, custom terms, and application settings are processed or stored locally, we generally do not possess that information and cannot remotely delete it.

Users can delete locally stored information by clearing the application’s storage or uninstalling the application.

We may retain limited information when required for legal compliance, fraud prevention, security, dispute resolution, or the establishment and defense of legal claims.

9. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information under our control.

No electronic transmission, device, website, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users are responsible for protecting access to their devices, accounts, and communications.

Keeping message processing and contact checks on the user’s device reduces the amount of sensitive information transmitted to or retained by PolitiBlock.

10. Children’s Privacy

PolitiBlock is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If we learn that a child under 13 has submitted personal information to us, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

11. User Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning personal information we hold about you, including the right to:

These rights may be subject to legal limitations and verification requirements.

PolitiBlock does not sell personal information or use personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

12. Third-Party Services and Links

The website may contain links to Google Play or other third-party websites and services.

We do not control third parties and are not responsible for their privacy, security, content, or data-handling practices. Users should review the privacy policies of those services before providing information.

Downloading and using the PolitiBlock application through Google Play may also involve information processed independently by Google under Google’s own terms and privacy policies.

13. International Users

PolitiBlock is operated from the United States.

Information submitted directly through the website or support channels may be processed and stored in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws where the user resides.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when:

The updated policy will be posted at politiblock.com with a revised effective date.

Material changes may also be communicated through the application, website, Google Play listing, or another appropriate method.