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Group 2 Reels: Privacy policy
LS Info publishes EO Reels and Group 2 Reels under Minute Mark. This page explains what Group 2 Reels collects, how we use it, and how to contact us about your data. EO Reels has its own policy.
We transmit data to Google services over encrypted connections. For privacy questions or deletion requests, email privacy@minutemark.in and name the app.
About this app
Group 2 Reels ("the app") is a study app for the APPSC Group-II exam, published on Google Play by LS Info. This policy explains what the app collects and why.
Same Firebase project as EO Reels
LS Info also publishes EO Reels, a study app for a different exam. Both apps use the same Google Firebase project, because it is simpler for us to run. We say this plainly so you are not surprised. The two apps' data are kept apart: this app's saved progress is stored in its own area (called g2users), its notifications go to its own topic, and its settings have their own names. Your saved progress in one app is not mixed with the other. Because it is one project, your Google sign-in account is the same in both apps if you use the same Google account, but each app saves its own progress and passes separately. We use the data of one app only to run that app.
What stays on your phone
Your study progress stays on your phone: what you have read, your answers, your flashcards, including cards you make from your own notes, your plan, your settings and your streak. Raw question-by-question attempts stay on the phone and in a backup file you choose to export. Optional account backup and usage measurement are described below. The store app disables Android automatic cloud backup and excludes its app storage from standard device transfer. Backups made by an earlier internal-test version or by your device’s own backup tools can remain under that provider’s controls.
Your setup answers and review history
Setup asks about your study approach, weekday and weekend study time, preparation level and subjects where you would like help. You can explore first and change your plan later. These choices and your target are kept on the phone. While Share usage data is on, the app can send permitted setup/plan choices to Google Analytics for Firebase as events; study approach, time, target, help subjects and whether setup was skipped can also become user properties. We do not send your question answers, free-text notes, name or email in these usage events.
The record of what you have reviewed, which the app uses to time your revision, stays on your phone. The detailed revision log is included in an exported backup file. The account copy can include the current memory schedule, plan and progress summaries; detailed attempt rows and the raw revision log are not part of that account copy.
Usage data and the Share usage data switch
The app keeps a short log of your taps on your phone: which button or screen, and when. It holds at most a few thousand lines, is stored on the phone only, and is part of your backup file (not of the copy saved to your account). The log never holds your name, your email, anything you type, your answers to questions or your results.
The same taps, and the choices you make in setup, the plan, the unlock screen and the mock menu, are sent to Google Firebase Analytics in small batches, so we can see which screens are used and fix the ones that confuse people. These events can also say how many questions you have answered so far (at a few milestones) and, when you finish a mock, how many questions it had and how many you answered; never your marks or the options you chose. If you tell the plan whether you qualified in the Prelims, that result stays on your phone and is never sent: usage events only say whether the Prelims is still ahead or already written.
Settings has a Share usage data switch. It is on by default. Switch it off and the app stops sending these events at once, and Google Analytics for Firebase stops collecting on this phone, including its automatic app events. Anything sent before you switched it off is not recalled. The log on your phone stays. Nothing from your question answers is sent: those stay on your phone.
If you sign in with Google (optional)
Signing in lets the app save your progress to your account, so it comes back on a new phone or after a reinstall. When you sign in, we keep:
- your Google account's name, email address and an account identifier, to know which progress is yours;
- a copy of your study progress;
- if you bought the pass, a one-way fingerprint of the Google Play purchase (it cannot be turned back into the purchase), to see how many phones use one pass;
- the phones the account is used on: a random identifier this app creates for each install, the phone's make and model, and when it was last used.
These are stored in Google Firebase (Google Cloud). We use them only to save and restore your progress and to see how many phones use one account or one pass. We do not sell this account-backup data or use it for advertising. Google processes it as our service provider to operate these features.
Purchases
The one-time pass is bought through Google Play. Google handles the payment. We never see your card, UPI or bank details. The app only learns from Google Play whether you own the pass.
Notifications, settings and content updates
The app can show study reminders, which are set on your phone. It can also receive announcements and offers sent to all of this app's users through Firebase Cloud Messaging. It reads app settings such as exam dates through Firebase Remote Config, and, when an update service is configured, it can download content updates over HTTPS from our Firebase Hosting content service. Bundled study material remains available offline. We do not promise a monthly update schedule. These services process identifiers and connection information needed to deliver the features.
Measuring our ads
The current Android build uses Google Analytics for Firebase. While Share usage data is on, it can collect automatic app/installation and purchase events, device or app identifiers and advertising-ID information where available. Permitted events include setup/plan choices, feature use and a weekly aggregate check of the memory model. That aggregate contains counts and prediction statistics, not question text, selected answers or chapter names. While the switch is on, a one-way purchase fingerprint is also used to understand pass use across devices.
Switching Share usage data off turns off Google Analytics for Firebase collection on this phone from then on: the app's own events, Google's automatic app and purchase events, the purchase fingerprint and the setup user properties are no longer sent. It does not change Google Play's own processing of a purchase. The current build does not enable Meta SDK event collection. If that changes, this policy and the Play disclosures must be updated before the changed build is released.
You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings (Settings → Google → Ads, or Settings → Privacy → Ads).
What we do not do
- There are no ads inside the app.
- Google Analytics for Firebase estimates approximate location, such as city or region, from IP addresses. Group 2 Reels does not request Android location permission or collect contacts, photos or files.
- We do not sell personal data. The Google services above process data to operate the app and measure its use, as described above.
Retention and deleting your data
Saved account progress is kept until you delete it. Deleting the account copy does not automatically erase previously collected Analytics data or Google Play's purchase records. Google processes those under its own retention settings and policies. You can contact us to request deletion of identifiable app data; we will explain any records that a service provider must retain.
- In the app: Settings → Your account → "Delete my account and data". This removes the Group 2 progress saved to your account and signs you out. The shared app sign-in record is removed only when the app can confirm that no EO Reels data needs it; your Google account itself is not deleted. Offline progress on this phone and backup files you exported remain until you reset/delete them or uninstall the app.
- Or email privacy@minutemark.in from the address you signed in with, and we will delete it within 30 days. See also Delete your account.
- Uninstalling removes the app’s local storage. Backup files you exported remain until you delete them.
Children
The app is meant for adults preparing for a government recruitment exam. It is not directed at children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.
Messages you send us
If you write to us by email or on WhatsApp, we see your email address or phone number and what you write. We use them only to reply, and we do not add you to any list or share them.
Contact
Group 2 Reels is an independent study app. It is not run by, affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) or any government body. Exam information comes from public sources: APPSC's notifications, syllabus and question papers at psc.ap.gov.in. Always check the official notification for dates, posts and rules.