Privacy policy
H-sib Workshop lets a person make their own Android apps on their phone. It works with no account and no internet connection. Signing in is optional. This page says what is kept, where, and how to remove it.
On your phone
Everything you design, the apps you make and the signing keys of your made apps are stored on your phone, in the Workshop's private storage. So is a record that you accepted the Terms of use: which version, and the date. Signing keys never leave your phone unless you save a backup yourself, and a backup is locked with a passphrase that you type and that we never see or store. The Workshop's data is excluded from Android cloud backup and device-to-device transfer.
If you do not sign in
Nothing is sent anywhere. There is no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. We receive no information about you, your apps or your phone.
If you sign in with Google
Google gives the Workshop a sign in token. We keep, in Firebase (a Google service), only this about you:
- An account id, so that your own data can be found again. Your name and email stay with Google's sign in; we do not copy them into our own data.
- A small profile of counters: the date you joined, the date you were last seen, the app version, how many apps you started, made and synced, and how many of each template and starting design. It holds no words from your apps.
- A record that you accepted the Terms of use: the version, the date, and the Workshop version. It holds nothing else.
- If you use the Atelier: your public handle, the apps you publish (their design, name, one line description, the template permission you chose and their counts), the ratings you give and the words you write with them. Other people who sign in can see these. A small record of each app you viewed or used (your account id and the time) is kept with that app, so that each counts once. If you report an app, the report (the app, your reason and your account id) is kept until the developer has dealt with it.
- If you switch on sync: a copy of each app design (its pages and words), kept in a private area that only your account can read. The developer cannot read it. Signing keys and pictures are never copied.
The developer reads only the totals of the counters, to know how many people use the Workshop and what they make. Data is sent over encrypted connections and is kept until you delete it.
Services we use
Sign in and the cloud copy are provided by Google (Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore). Google processes this data for us under its own terms and privacy policy.
Your choices and your rights
- Switch off sync, or sign out, at any time in Settings, Account.
- Take an app out of the Atelier at any time. Copies other people already made stay theirs.
- Delete everything kept about you in the cloud, including your sign in record, your acceptance record, your handle, the apps you published and the ratings you gave, in Settings, Account, Delete my cloud data. Designs on your phone stay on your phone. The marks that an app was viewed or used stay with that app without a name, and a star you gave may still count in an average, but your words and your handle are gone.
- Hide a maker in the Atelier: this is kept only on your phone.
- If you cannot open the app, you can ask for your data to be deleted through the contact below. A hosted page, "Delete your account", explains the same steps.
- Uninstalling the Workshop removes everything stored on the phone.
The apps you make
They are yours. They keep their data on the phone where they are installed, ask for no permissions of their own, and send nothing to us. They can hand things to other apps, such as opening an email or message screen or sharing text, but only when someone taps a button that does it. The credit line "Created by (name) using H-sib" appears in every app made with the Workshop, and the name is the one you typed. You are responsible for the privacy of the apps you make and share, including what you tell the people who use them.
Permissions
The Workshop asks for the Internet and network status permissions, used only for the optional sign in and the cloud copy. It does not use your camera, microphone, location, contacts, files or phone. Some Google libraries it includes declare further permissions (for example for fingerprint sign in); the Workshop does not use them. Pictures that you pick for an app icon are read only to make that icon.
Who is responsible
H-sib Workshop is made by H-sib, an individual developer, who decides how the data described here is used. We do not sell data, show advertising or use other analytics services.
Where it is kept
What is kept when you sign in is stored by Google (Firebase) on servers that can be in other countries, including the United States, and is sent over encrypted connections. Security rules limit who can read it: you can read your own data, other people can read only what you publish in the Atelier, and the developer account can read the counters and the reports. No system is perfect, so keep your Google account safe.
How long it is kept
Until you delete it (see your choices above) or until the app or rating it belongs to is removed. A report is kept until the developer has dealt with it.
Your rights
Wherever you live you can see what is kept about you in the app, take it away yourself, and ask us to correct or delete it. Where the law gives you more (for example in the European Union and the United Kingdom: access, correction, deletion, objection and a copy of your data, and the right to complain to your data protection authority), you can use those rights too by writing to the contact below. We use your data because you asked for the feature (you chose to sign in, publish or rate), to keep the service safe, and where needed to follow the law.
Children
The Workshop is not directed at children under 13, and some places set a higher age for signing in to an online service. If you are under the age that applies to you, do not sign in. Without signing in, the Workshop collects nothing from anyone. If we find that an account belongs to a child under 13, we delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new text replaces this page and the date at the top changes. For an important change we will also say so in the app.
Contact
https://github.com/H-sib/hsib-workshop-legal/issues (open a new issue; issues are public, so do not write anything private there)