Privacy policy
This policy explains what data the Fishing Notes mobile app (“the App”) collects, how it is used and what rights you have. The App runs on Android and is distributed through Google Play.
1. Who is responsible
The App is the project of a private individual, not a company. For anything to do with privacy, write to kondzio6@gmail.com.
2. Data stored on your device
The App saves the following in your phone’s own storage:
- catches — species, weight, length, date, fishing method, lure and rod,
- photos you take with the camera or pick from the gallery,
- the coordinates of a fishing spot, if you choose to save one,
- the list of your gear (lures, rods), built from what you enter on your catches.
None of this is sent to any server belonging to the author. The App has no user account and no sign-in.
3. Android Auto Backup
The App uses Android’s built-in Auto Backup. The database and photos may therefore be included in the encrypted backup held on your own Google Drive, according to your Android settings. That backup belongs to you and is not accessible to us. You can turn backups off in your Android settings.
4. Permissions the App asks for
- Camera — to photograph a fish you have caught. Photos are stored locally.
- Location — used only at the moment you save a spot or pick one on the map. The App does not track your location in the background.
- Internet — needed to draw Google Maps and to load ads.
5. Third-party services
The App uses the services below. What they collect is governed by their own privacy policies.
6. Google Maps
The map is provided by the Google Maps SDK. When you open a map view, Google may collect the technical data it needs to serve it — approximate location, IP address, device information. See Google’s privacy policy.
7. Google AdMob (ads)
The App shows ads served by Google AdMob, including the video ad that unlocks the advanced report. AdMob may use the Android advertising ID, IP address, device information and your interaction with the ads in order to serve personalised or contextual advertising and to measure it.
- See how Google uses data in AdMob.
- You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your Android settings (Settings → Privacy → Ads).
- The App asks for your consent before loading any ad, and no ad is requested until you have answered. You can change that answer at any time in the App under Settings → Consent settings.
8. The advanced report
The advanced report is calculated entirely on your device from the catches you have saved. It is unlocked for the session by watching a video ad; nothing about your catches is sent to the ad network, to us or to anyone else in the process.
9. Children
The App is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data.
10. Sharing your data
The author of the App does not sell or share your personal data. The only exception is the scope described above under Google Maps and Google AdMob, which follows from using those services and is required for the corresponding features to work.
11. Keeping and deleting data
Data saved in the App stays on your device until you remove it. At any time you can:
- delete a single catch from inside the App,
- clear all of the App’s data in your Android settings (Settings → Apps → Fishing Notes → Storage → Clear data),
- uninstall the App, which removes the local data with it (a backup on Google Drive may still exist and is managed from your Google account).
12. Security
Data is held in the App’s private directory, which on a standard device is readable only by the App and the operating system.
13. Your rights
Because the data lives on your device, you control it directly. Under the GDPR you have the right to access your data and to have it corrected, erased or its processing restricted. For matters concerning ads and maps, those rights are exercised with Google directly, under their policies.
14. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated. The date of the last change is shown at the top of the page. Significant changes will be announced in the App or on this page.
15. Contact
For anything to do with privacy: kondzio6@gmail.com.