Privacy at a glance
Higxel is designed to turn purchase information into useful expense records while giving you practical control over optional data sources and connected services.
Higxel uses your information to provide the features you choose. We do not sell personal information or use your expense data for advertising.
Information we collect
Depending on the features you use, Higxel may collect or process the following categories of information:
Account and profile information
When you sign in with Google, Higxel may receive information made available through the sign-in flow, such as your name, email address, profile image, and a Google account identifier.
Expense and budget information
This may include merchant names, purchase dates, receipt items, quantities, prices, taxes, discounts, totals, categories, notes, groups, budgets, and spending insights created from your records.
Receipt and imported content
This includes receipt photos or files you choose to scan, OCR text, extracted fields, corrections, and other details you submit while reviewing an expense.
Optional notification-derived information
If you enable Smart Expense Suggestions, Higxel may process supported notification content that appears likely to describe a purchase, payment, transfer, bill, refund, or similar expense-related event.
Connected-service information
If you connect Google Sheets or Google Drive, Higxel may process spreadsheet identifiers, file or folder references, sync settings, and the expense data you choose to send or back up.
Technical and support information
Higxel may process app and service information needed to operate, diagnose, secure, and support the service, such as app version, update eligibility, request timing, error details, sync status, and reliability logs.
Receipt scanning, OCR, and AI processing
When you scan or import a receipt, Higxel may use optical character recognition (OCR), rules, and AI-assisted processing to convert the receipt into editable expense data. Processing may occur on your device, through Higxel’s backend, or through contracted service providers, depending on the feature and configuration.
What may be sent for processing
Depending on the extraction mode, this may include the receipt image, a reduced or optimized copy of the image, OCR text, image-quality signals, and instructions needed to return structured expense fields.
How to understand AI results
AI and OCR output is probabilistic and may be incomplete or incorrect. Higxel presents extracted information for review; you remain responsible for confirming merchant names, amounts, dates, categories, and line items before relying on them.
Higxel uses AI as an extraction assistant, not as an authority over your finances. The goal is to reduce typing by suggesting structured data from a receipt, while keeping the final record editable by you.
Smart Expense Suggestions and Android notification access
Smart Expense Suggestions is an optional Android feature. If you enable notification access in Android settings, the operating system allows Higxel to receive notification content posted by apps on your device. Higxel uses this access to look for supported expense-related notifications and suggest possible expense records.
- Supported notifications that appear expense-related
- Relevant fields such as source app, notification text, time, merchant, amount, or transaction reference
- Only the information needed to create or improve an expense suggestion
- Your complete email inbox
- Your historical SMS database
- Message threads or unrelated notification content for general browsing
Notification access is not required to scan receipts, add expenses manually, review spending, or use other core expense-tracking features. You can turn it off at any time in Android settings. When disabled, Higxel stops receiving new notification events through that access.
Higxel presents detected transactions for your review. You can edit, dismiss, or save a suggestion before it becomes an expense.
Google sign-in, Google Drive, and Google Sheets
Higxel may offer Google services that you choose to connect. The permissions requested are displayed during Google’s authorization flow and should be limited to the functions you enable.
Used to authenticate your account and associate your Higxel data with the correct user profile.
Used to create, select, or update spreadsheet data when you enable expense synchronization. Higxel processes the rows and settings needed to perform the sync you request.
Used to select and access the spreadsheet files needed for the Google Sheets sync you choose to enable.
You can disconnect Google integrations from Higxel and can also review or revoke Higxel’s Google permissions through your Google Account. Disconnecting a service may stop future synchronization but may not automatically delete information already stored in Higxel or previously written to your Google files.
Higxel’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.
How information is used
Higxel may use information to:
- create and maintain your account;
- scan receipts and extract editable purchase details;
- categorize, group, store, search, and display expense records;
- calculate budgets, trends, summaries, and spending insights;
- generate optional expense suggestions from supported notifications;
- sync or back up data through features you enable;
- detect errors, prevent abuse, secure the service, and troubleshoot failures;
- respond to support requests and communicate important service or policy information; and
- improve reliability and extraction quality by diagnosing failures and evaluating corrections made during normal app use.
Higxel does not sell your personal information, use your expense records for targeted advertising, or operate advertising features. Data sent to service providers is limited to providing, securing, and maintaining Higxel’s features.
Storage, security, and retention
Where information may be stored
Higxel may store data locally on your Android device and, when account backup or synchronization is enabled, on Higxel’s backend or connected Google services. Local records may remain available offline until they are deleted, replaced, restored, or cleared from the device.
Security
Higxel transmits data over encrypted connections and protects backend data with account authentication and cloud access controls. No storage or transmission system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Retention
Information is retained for as long as needed to provide the service, maintain backups, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, and enforce agreements, subject to the deletion choices described below. Different data types and backup copies may have different deletion timelines.
| Data category | Typical retention rule |
|---|---|
| Account and cloud expense data | Kept while your account is active or until you delete the relevant records or your account. |
| Receipt images and OCR content | Kept as needed to process and support the associated expense, then removed when the related stored data or account is deleted, subject to limited backup rotation. |
| Notification-derived suggestions | Kept until you save or clear the suggestion, disable and clear the feature, or delete your account. |
| Backups and logs | Kept for a limited operational period for recovery, security, and reliability, then rotated or deleted. |
Third-party service providers
Higxel may use service providers to perform functions on its behalf. Providers should receive only the information reasonably needed for their role and are subject to their own terms and privacy practices.
Google sign-in, Sheets, Drive, and related authorization functions that you choose to use.
Receipt extraction, categorization, grouping, and optional expense-suggestion review.
Backend hosting, cloud storage, networking, backups, and operational security.
Service errors, request timing, performance, and issue diagnosis.
Higxel may also disclose information when required by law, to protect the rights and safety of users or the service, in connection with a business transaction, or with your direction or consent.
User controls, export, deletion, and account deletion
Your available controls may include:
Edit merchant details, dates, categories, groups, line items, and amounts before or after saving, subject to app functionality.
Decline or disable Android notification access, disconnect Google integrations, and continue using supported manual or receipt-based workflows.
Sync supported expense data to the Google Sheet you choose when Google Sheets sync is enabled.
Remove expenses, receipt images, groups, categories, or other records through the relevant in-app controls where available.
Use the account-deletion option in Higxel’s Settings screen to remove the account data associated with your signed-in account. For help, use the Higxel support page.
Deleting the app from your device does not necessarily delete cloud data associated with your account. Use the account-deletion method above to request deletion of server-side account data.
Children’s privacy
Higxel is a personal expense-management service and is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us using the method in Section 12 so we can review the situation and take appropriate action.
Policy updates
This policy may be updated as Higxel’s features, providers, legal requirements, or data practices change. The updated version will show a revised effective date. Where required, Higxel will provide additional notice or request consent before materially different processing begins.
You should review this page periodically and whenever Higxel presents an update notice.
Contact and support
Questions, privacy requests, account-deletion requests, and concerns about Higxel’s data practices can be sent to:
Higxel privacy@higxel.com Privacy and data requestsDo not include passwords, full payment-card details, or unrelated sensitive information in a support message.