Privacy Policy for Orbit

Effective 29 August 2026 · Last updated 21 September 2026

Orbit is a calendar, task and note app made by rdotbytes. This policy explains what happens to the things you write in it. The short version is: they stay on your phone.

What Orbit collects about you

Nothing. Orbit has no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no advertising identifier. It does not know who you are, does not ask, and has no way to find out.

There is one exception, it is technical rather than personal, and it is described in full further down under Technical diagnostics. It contains nothing you have written.

Where your information is kept

Everything you create in Orbit — your tasks, notes, calendar entries, reminders, categories and any files you attach — is stored only in Orbit's own private storage on your device. Android prevents other apps from reading it.

None of it is uploaded, backed up to a server, or shared with rdotbytes or anyone else. We cannot see it, and we could not retrieve it for you if you asked, because we never have it.

The one time Orbit uses the internet

Orbit works completely offline. There is a single exception, and it only happens if you switch it on.

If you turn on Public holidays in Settings and choose a country, Orbit downloads that country's public holiday calendar from Google's public calendar service (calendar.google.com). The request contains only the country calendar you picked. It carries none of your tasks, notes or personal information, and no identifier for you or your device. Once downloaded the holidays are stored on your phone and the feature works offline too.

This setting is off unless you turn it on. If you leave it off, Orbit never contacts the internet at all.

Photos, files and the camera

Orbit can attach files to a task or note, and can read text out of a picture.

• You choose every file. Orbit uses Android's own file and photo picker, and only ever receives the specific item you select. It has no permission to browse your gallery or your storage.
• A file you attach is copied into Orbit's private storage and stays there. It is never uploaded.
• Reading text from a picture happens entirely on your phone, using recognition software bundled inside the app. The picture is not sent anywhere, and no internet connection is needed or used for it.

Technical diagnostics

The text-recognition feature is built on Google's ML Kit. The reading happens entirely on your phone, and your picture is never sent anywhere — but the library itself reports technical information back to Google, and we are telling you rather than leaving it out.

What it sends:

• Your phone's make, model and Android version
• Orbit's package name and version number
• How long a scan took, whether it worked, and any error code
• A per-installation identifier, which Google states is not designed to identify you or your device

It contains none of your notes, tasks or pictures, and no name, email or contact details. This is Google's own software running inside Orbit; there is no setting that turns it off, and rdotbytes never sees any of it. Google's description of it is published at developers.google.com/ml-kit/android-data-disclosure.

If you never use photo-to-text, this never runs.

Notifications

Orbit asks permission to show notifications so it can deliver the reminders you set. Reminders are scheduled by your phone, on your phone. Nothing about them leaves the device, and Orbit does not use push notifications.

Backups you make yourself

Orbit can export everything into a single backup file. That file is created by you, on your device, and you choose where it goes — saved to your storage, sent to yourself, or copied to another app.

From the moment you choose a destination, that file is in your hands and covered by the privacy policy of wherever you sent it. rdotbytes never receives a copy and has no access to it.

Children

Orbit is not directed at children, and it collects no personal information from anyone of any age.

Deleting your information

Items you delete go to Orbit's Bin and can be restored until you empty it. Emptying the Bin removes them permanently.

Uninstalling Orbit deletes everything it holds — the database, every attached file and all settings — because all of it lives inside the app's own storage. There is no account to close and no request to send us, because there is nothing held anywhere else.

Changes to this policy

If Orbit ever changes what it does with information, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change. Any change that meant collecting something new would be announced in the app before it took effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about Orbit: rdotbytes@gmail.com