Privacy Policy

Zerk Studios provides the Lemon: Car Care mobile application (the “App”). This Privacy Policy explains what information the App accesses, how that information is used and stored, when information may be sent to third parties, and the choices available to users.

Information you provide

Depending on the features you use, the App may store:

• optional profile information, including an email address;

• vehicle information, including nickname, make, model, model year, VIN, license plate, mileage, acquisition information, vehicle notes, and maintenance-schedule information;

• maintenance and service information, including service dates, mileage, completed services, notes, and assigned mechanic;

• mechanic information that you enter, including name, location, notes, telephone number, and website;

• vehicle photographs and photographs or documents selected or created for maintenance-record scanning; and

• App preferences, including notification and appearance settings.

The App does not require a Car Care account and Zerk Studios does not operate a server that stores this information.

Network requests and third parties

The App may make network requests when a user confirms vehicle details, requests maintenance-schedule information, or supplies a schedule webpage. These requests may provide vehicle make, model, and model year, or the user-supplied webpage address, to the relevant service. The service will also ordinarily receive technical connection information such as the device’s IP address and user-agent information.

Depending on the feature and vehicle, these services may include the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Product Information Catalog (NHTSA vPIC), vehicle-manufacturer or manufacturer-owner websites, and a website whose address the user specifically asks the App to access. Those third parties process information under their own privacy policies.

The App does not send the user’s profile email, VIN, license plate, service notes, mechanic information, photos, or service history to these vehicle-information websites.

User-directed backups

The App allows the user to create a JSON backup through Android’s system document picker. The user chooses where the backup is saved, which may include local device storage, Google Drive, or another installed document provider. A backup may contain the profile, vehicle, mechanic, and service information stored in the App, as well as references to photos. It does not embed the photo files themselves.

When a user selects a cloud provider, that provider receives and stores the backup at the user’s direction and under that provider’s terms and privacy policy. Zerk Studios does not receive a copy of the backup.

Data and analytics

Zerk Studios does not sell user information. The App does not contain advertising SDKs, behavioral tracking, or analytics services, and it does not share user information for advertising or marketing.

App data remains on the device until the user edits it, deletes an individual vehicle or mechanic, uses the App’s Reset app feature, clears the App’s storage in Android settings, or uninstalls the App, subject to any device or platform backup retained under the user’s backup settings.

Using Reset app deletes the profile, vehicle, mechanic, and maintenance information stored in the App on that device. It does not delete separately exported backup files, photos saved in shared photo storage, documents controlled by another storage provider, or copies retained by a device or cloud-backup provider. Users must delete those items through the relevant Photos, Files, Drive, or provider application.

Because Zerk Studios does not maintain user accounts or a Car Care server database, Zerk Studios generally has no remotely stored App account data to locate or delete. Privacy and deletion questions may be sent to the contact address above.