Privacy policy

1 · Who we are

Quotes 2044 is published by Lustig Fairchild Ltd., a company registered in Bulgaria, in the European Union, with its seat and address of management at 14 Aleksandar Malinov str., apt. 7, Varna 9000, Bulgaria.

It is registered in the Commercial Register of the Registry Agency, Republic of Bulgaria under 208942846.

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation we are the controller for the limited processing this policy describes. Being established in the European Union, we are not required to appoint a representative under Article 27, and the nature and scale of the processing do not require a Data Protection Officer under Article 37. Neither appointment is made, and this policy says so rather than leaving you to infer it.

2 · What this policy covers

This policy covers Quotes 2044 on Android, as distributed through Google Play, together with its home-screen widget and its app shortcut. They are parts of the same download.

The App Store edition of the app is not covered here; it has its own policy, at /Quotes/PrivacyPolicy.html. The two editions are distributed by different companies, built for different systems and backed up by different ones, and one document cannot be true of both.

On Google Play the app is listed as Quotes 2044: Daily Wisdom. This policy is the one linked from that listing.

3 · What the app asks you for

Nothing. There is no account, no sign-in and no profile. The app never asks your name, your age, your e-mail address or where you are, and it has no field in which you could type any of them.

The quotes and their authors are built into the app. Which one you see is chosen by the app, and it keeps no history of the ones you have seen.

4 · What the app keeps on the device

What the app itself keeps is listed here, in its own storage on the device, and this policy calls all of it your settings, for short:

• Six settings — whether to show a quote on launch, whether to play the chime and how loudly, whether to speak quotes aloud, and the speaking speed and voice you chose.
• Six counters for the rating prompt — when you first used the app, how many times it has been opened, how many times since it last asked, how many quotes have been shown, and when and in which version it last asked. They exist so that it asks rarely.
• The quote each widget is showing, once you tap a widget for a new one — which quote, and the hour it is for, so the widget can keep it until the hour turns.

No quote you looked at, copied or shared is recorded, and there is no identifier of any kind. We never see any of it. It is not sent to us, and there is no code in the app that could send it.

Besides these, the system library that refreshes the widget keeps its own schedule of that work. It holds nothing about you, and it stays on the device.

5 · What Android's backup includes

If backup is turned on for your device, Android includes your settings — everything listed in section 4 — in the backup it makes to your Google Account. The app tells Android to back up those and nothing else — the widget library's schedule stays behind — and the same is all that moves when you transfer to a new phone.

That backup is made by the operating system, stored by Google under your Google Account, and restored by Android when you set up a device. We do not receive it, cannot read it and cannot delete it. Google provides it to you, under your agreement with Google — it is not something we do with your data.

The practical consequences, stated rather than implied:

• Your settings leave the device only inside that backup, and only if backup is on.
• Uninstalling the app removes them from the device. A copy can remain in your backup until Android replaces it or Google deletes it; you manage it in your device's backup settings.
• The only controls over this are Android's and Google's. The app has no switch of its own for it.

6 · Permissions

The app never asks you for a permission. It has no access to your location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos, files or calendar, it sends no notifications, and it has no network access — there is no internet permission to grant.

Android grants a few permissions at installation, without a prompt, to the system library that keeps the widget up to date: to finish its work briefly in the background, to see whether a network is available, and to carry on after the device restarts. None of them reaches any personal data, and none lets the app connect to anything.

7 · What Google collects for updates and ratings

The app uses two Google Play features: a check for a newer version, and Google Play's rating card. Both run through the Google Play app on your device, and it is Google that collects the information each one needs. The app itself collects nothing, and none of it reaches us.

• The update check. When you open the app, it asks Google Play whether a newer version is available. For this, Google collects information about your device, the app's version and the parts of it that are installed, and uses it to work out whether there is an update and how large it is. Google states that this data is encrypted in transit, is not transferred to third parties, and is deleted after a fixed retention period. If there is an update, Google Play may offer it on its own sheet, which you can decline; one you accept is installed when you next leave the app.
• The rating card. Rarely — at most once for each version, and only after the app has been in use for some days — the app asks Google Play to show its rating card, and Google Play decides whether it appears. If you rate the app or write a review, Google collects them and publishes them on the app's Google Play listing, as with any review. Google states that this data is encrypted in transit, and you can delete your review in Google Play at any time. The app is not told whether the card appeared or what you chose.

The app's Data safety section on Google Play lists this data, because Google Play asks every app to include what the Google Play features it uses collect. It is collected by Google, for the purposes above, under Google's privacy policy; section 13 says in what capacity.

8 · Copying and sharing a quote

Copy puts the quote and its author on your device's clipboard, which is what you asked it to do. The app never reads the clipboard; it only writes to it, and only when you tap Copy.

Some keyboards and phones keep a history of what you copy, or pass it to your other devices. That applies to everything you copy anywhere, is set up by you, and is not ours to see or control.

Share hands the quote to Android's share sheet. Where it goes from there is your choice, and it does not pass through us.

9 · Speaking the quotes

When speech is switched on, the quote and its author are spoken by the text-to-speech engine already on your device, with a voice installed there. The app offers only voices that work without a network connection. Nothing is recorded — the app has no access to the microphone — and the only words it hands the engine are the quote and its author.

10 · The widget and the app shortcut

The widget, Quote of the hour, shows a quote from the built-in collection that changes every hour. Tapping the quote draws another, which the widget keeps until the hour turns — the one thing it stores, listed in section 4. Its other button opens the app on the quote it was showing. It makes no request of any kind.

The app shortcut — press and hold the app's icon, then A quote — opens the app straight on a new one.

11 · Where the app's links go

Four rows in the app's settings hand you over to somewhere else, and only when you tap them:

• Enjoying Quotes? Leave a review opens the app's page in Google Play. It appears only when the rating prompt would be due, and tapping it counts as having been asked.
• More from the same developer opens one of our other apps in Google Play. It appears once one is available there.
• Share this app hands a link to the app's Google Play page to Android's share sheet.
• Privacy policy opens this page in your browser.

Google Play's own terms and privacy policy apply on its pages. Nothing is sent to us in any case.

12 · What we never do

We do not collect, and have never collected, personal data through this app. We run no servers of our own. We do not sell, share, rent or trade anything, because we hold nothing to trade. There is no profiling and no automated decision-making. The app does not read the advertising ID and is not enrolled in any attribution or measurement framework.

That is not the same statement as “your data never leaves your device”, which would be untrue here: section 5 says what does leave it, and section 7 what Google collects.

13 · The role of Google

Google is not our processor and does not act on our instructions.

• As the distributor of the app through Google Play, Google has its own relationship with you, under the Google Play terms of service and its own privacy policy. The app is free, so no purchase or payment is involved.
• Through the Google Play app on your device, Google runs the app's update check and its rating card, and collects what each one needs, as described in section 7. A rating or review you leave is published by Google Play, not by us.
• As your backup provider, Google holds the Android backup described in section 5 under your Google Account and your agreement with Google.

Google's handling of your data under either relationship is governed by Google's privacy policy, at policies.google.com/privacy, not by this one.

14 · Legal bases for processing

For the app itself, we process no personal data, so no legal basis arises. What the app keeps stays on the device, except that Android may include your settings in the backup it makes to your own Google Account; that backup is made and held by Google for you, under your arrangement with Google, and never reaches us.

Where you write to us, the basis is Article 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest in responding to correspondence about our software. You may object at any time by asking us to stop, and we will.

15 · Your rights, and how to exercise them

Under the GDPR and the UK GDPR you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction and objection, and the right not to be subject to automated decision-making. Write to support@lustigfairchild.com. We answer within one month, which is the period Article 12(3) allows.

It is worth being concrete about what such a request would be about here, rather than listing rights and leaving you to guess.

Not what is in the app. Your settings sit on your device and, if Android backup is on, in your own Google Account's backup — never with us. Uninstalling the app removes them from the device; the backup is yours to manage in your device's backup settings. There is nothing for us to produce, correct or erase, because we never had it.

Your correspondence, if you have written to us. That we do hold, and it is what a request would concern: what we have, correcting it, deleting it, or asking us to stop. Ask and we will do it.

That is the whole of it. We hold nothing else about you, so for anything beyond those two the honest answer to a request is that there is nothing to give you.

One right genuinely does not apply: portability under Article 20 covers processing based on consent or on a contract, and we process correspondence on the basis of legitimate interests. We would rather say so than list a right we could not honour.

16 · Children

The app is suitable for all ages. It asks no one their age, because it collects nothing from anyone. We do not knowingly process children's personal data, and there is no mechanism in the app by which we could.

17 · Retention, security and international transfers

We retain nothing from the app, so there is nothing to schedule for deletion. Support correspondence is kept for 24 months.

The app's own data never reaches us, so we make no international transfer of it and hold nothing of yours on any server of ours to secure. The security of your Android backup, and where in the world Google stores it, are matters for Google's privacy policy; on the device, the app relies on the operating system's own protection of app data.

18 · Notice for residents of the United States

We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are used in the California Consumer Privacy Act, and we have no personal information from this app to sell or share. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information beyond what is permitted. No financial incentive is offered for personal information, and nobody is treated differently for exercising a right.

The same holds under the comparable laws of other US states. You may contact us at the address in the last section in any case.

19 · Other jurisdictions

Where local law gives you stronger rights than this policy describes, those rights apply, and nothing here limits them.

20 · Changes to this policy

Every version is dated and numbered, and superseded versions stay published at /legal/archive/ so you can read what applied before. Where a change affects you, the version number moves by a whole number rather than a decimal.

This is the first version of this policy. It covers the Google Play edition only; the App Store edition has its own.

21 · Contact, and how to complain

support@lustigfairchild.com, or by post at the address in section 1.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority, and you do not have to come to us first. Ours is the Commission for Personal Data Protection in Bulgaria, at cpdp.bg. You may instead complain to the authority in the country where you live or work.