Drug Shortage Alerts — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 31 August 2026 · Package: com.ibrahimtxy.rxshortage · Developer: ibrahimtxy

In short: this app collects no personal data, does not ask you to create an account and sends nothing to any server of ours — we do not operate one. Everything you enter stays on your phone. There is no advertising network, no analytics and no crash reporting.

Important: This app is NOT MEDICAL ADVICE and is not affiliated with the FDA. It reports what the FDA publishes about SUPPLY. It never suggests a substitute and must never be a reason to start, stop or change a medicine — talk to your prescriber or pharmacist. No account, no sign-in and no health record: the medicine name stays on your phone and is sent to the FDA's public endpoint as a search term.

1. What the app does

Drug Shortage Alerts checks what the FDA publishes about the supply of a medicine on the openFDA drug shortages endpoint at an interval you choose, and sends a notification to your phone when the FDA changes what it publishes about supply. An example watch: amphetamine, tell me when supply worsens.

The app never buys, reserves or holds anything. It points you at the FDA drug shortages database; you act there yourself.

2. Data we collect

None. The developer runs no server and receives nothing from your device — not your watches, not your device identifier, not your usage, not crash reports.

3. What is stored on your device

The watches you create (medicine name, generic or brand, which direction to watch), your interval setting, the records already seen so the app does not tell you twice, and the measured data usage. All of it lives in the app's private storage and is deleted when you uninstall the app.

4. Servers the app talks to

The app connects ONLY to the FDA's open data endpoint. There is no account and no sign-in; the medicine name you type is sent as a search term, exactly as if you typed it on their website. The address is:

api.fda.gov
www.accessdata.fda.gov

These requests are ordinary public web requests over HTTPS, the same ones your browser makes on the public FDA shortage list. They carry no identifier of you.

5. Permissions

Permission	Why
`ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`	To avoid pointless attempts while offline, and to tell mobile data from Wi-Fi.
`INTERNET`	To reach the public FDA shortage list.
`POST_NOTIFICATIONS`	To tell you the published supply of your medicine changed. That is the whole app.
`RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`	So your watches resume after the phone restarts.
`VIBRATE`	To vibrate when a notification arrives.
`WAKE_LOCK`	So the phone does not fall asleep in the middle of a check. The app does not ask for this itself; the background work library (Android Jetpack WorkManager) adds it.

6. Children

The app is not directed to children and collects no data from anyone.

7. Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.

8. Contact

ibrahimtopbasi@mail.com