Data protection declaration of the DriversHat app

In Short

This app processes the following data:

• Personal data that you enter in the logbook, such as addresses, locations, times, people visited and reasons for driving.
  This data is stored on your mobile phone. If you have activated the backup of data for this app by Google in your mobile phone settings (for example to restore if a cell phone is lost) this data is also stored in a location managed by Google.

• Location data.
  To make it easy for you to keep the logbook, this app evaluates your previous logbook entries and their location. In this way, the APP can provide you with suggestions for your logbook entries. The collection, storage and processing of this data takes place on your mobile phone within this APP and is not shared with third parties for this purpose. As with the previous point Personal data , this data can also be accessed by Google stored in a Google managed location for recovery.
  Furthermore your location can may be used to select advertisement, which is erved to you.

• Activity tracking.
  In order to recognize whether the user is leaving his car without promptly finishing a trip started in the logbook there, a function is used to monitor the user\'s physical activities. These data are only processed within the app on your mobile phone. By processing this data, a reminder may be displayed. These data are not stored or passed on in any form by this app.

• Data of your user behavior in this app.
  In order to improve the function, performance and the user experience, this app collects data about which functions you use within the app. This data is anonymized and analyzed by statistics across the entire user base.

• Technical data to improve the APP performance.
  Data is collected about the status of your mobile phone, such as the operating system version, the language set, the image resolution and the country of the user. In addition, data on program crashes is collected, which makes it possible to identify which function was used shortly before a malfunction occurred. This data is collected anonymously.

• Tracking for advertising
  A technology from Google is used to place advertising within the app, which selects and displays personalized advertising content for you. If you do not want to receive personalized advertising, you can change this in your general mobile phone settings (usually under data protection and privacy). You can also opt out of advertising through in-app purchases in this app. Data such as the amount and duration of advertising displayed is shared within this app with the AdSense service from Google. The AdSense service from Google might also use your location for their service.

• Access to your contacts
  To make it easier for you to keep a logbook, you can access your address book from this app. So you can transfer names from there to the logbook. Since you have to select the contact before the transfer to the app and only this contact will then be transferred, no special Android authorization is required for this app.

In Detail

Contact person for data protection issues

If you have any concerns about data protection in this app, please contact:

Robert Huth

Email: mailto:robohatus@gmail.com

Postal address:

Robert Huth
Riesenfeldstrasse 16,
80809 Munich, Germany

Reason and legal basis

The data collected in this app are used to fulfill the purpose of keeping a logbook, the display of advertisements and the improvement of the performance and user experience of this app.

Data for keeping a logbook

All data that you enter in this app to keep a logbook are saved on your mobile phone and will not be passed on to third parties. If you use the Save app data in Google Cloud function, this data will also be saved in the Google Cloud. You can change this setting via the app management on your mobile phone. If you enter highly sensitive data in your logbook, be aware that that third parties can gain access to this data on your mobile phone through manipulation and that the app creator cannot be held responsible for the whereabouts and use of the data in the Google cloud.

Contact data from the address book of your mobile phone

For fields in the logbook where the user usually enters the name of a contact, the user can access the address book stored on the mobile phone by pressing a button and transfer contact data from there. If the user presses the corresponding button, he has to search for a contact directly in his address book. This is done outside of this app in the dedicated address book application on the mobile phone. Only after selecting a contact can this app access this contact and only the selected contact. This app does not have the necessary rights to access the contacts from the address book without this action and will never request them from the user.

Location data

Your location is determined and saved within this app. This happens every time you start or end a trip or enter an address. The purpose of this is to give you suggestions for addresses and other entries in the logbook. This location data is saved like the data for keeping a logbook. The previous section applies to these data. In addition, your location is used for advertising purposes (more details below) and to analyze app performance (more details below).

Data to identify the physical activities of the user

This app accesses a function of the mobile phone which allows conclusions to be drawn about the physical activities of the user. For this purpose, a function is used that is usually used in sports apps, for example to recognize whether you are jogging or cycling. The purpose of this is to recognize whether you have started a trip in the logbook app and later left your vehicle without promptly ending the trip in the logbook. This data is only processed within the app on your mobile phone and is not saved or shared. During the processing of this data, you may be shown a message as a reminder to finish your trip in the logbook.

Data for the placement of advertising

The AdSense service from Google is used to place advertising within this app. This service uses various techniques to identify users and present personalized advertising content. A wide variety of data such as user behavior and location data are used. It can be assumed that for this purpose data about the user from different areas are linked, to enable the service of personalized advertising. This data is stored in Google servers and the developer of this app cannot guarantee that this data is only used for this purpose and where and in which country this data is stored.

The display of personalized advertising can be deactivated on Android phones in the phone-wide settings. This can usually be found in the settings of your mobile phone under the item Data protection or privacy.

Data for determining the technical performance

In order to guarantee and improve the functionality of this app, this app collects data using the Firebase-Crashlytics service from Google. For this purpose, technical data about the device used, such as the operating system version, set language, region of the user and screen resolution are collected and stored on Google servers.

This data is then made available to the app developer via the display of statistics. In addition, in the event of app malfunctions, data is sent to Google servers that provide information about which program parts have led to a malfunction. The data can provide information about which function the user last used, before a malfunction occurred and in rare cases it could be possible to draw conclusions about the data last entered by the user. This data is stored in Google servers and the developer of this app cannot guarantee that this data is only used for this purpose and where and in which country this data is stored.

Data to improve the user experience

The Firebase Analytics service from Google is used to determine which functions of this app are used frequently. For this purpose, data is collected, such as length of stay in the views displayed in the app and the frequency with which buttons are pressed. This data is sent to Google and stored on their server. They are made available to the app developer in the form of statistics in order to determine which functions are used more or less frequently. This makes it possible to improve and further develop the app in order to improve the user experience. In addition, this data can be linked to statistics on advertisements and in-app purchases. This allows to target groups of users, such as paying users, to be considered separately in the app development.

This data is stored in Google servers and the developer of this app cannot guarantee that this data is only used for this purpose and where and in which country this data is stored.