Privacy policy

1 · Who we are

Dawn & Gloaming 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 Dawn & Gloaming on Android, as distributed through Google Play, together with its home-screen widget and its reminders. They are parts of the same download.

Dawn & Gloaming is distributed through Google Play only, and has no edition in any other store.

On Google Play the app is listed as Dawn & Gloaming: Sun & Moon. This policy is the one linked from that listing.

3 · Your place, and where it stays

The times depend on where you are, so the app needs a place. You choose how it gets one:

• Your phone's location, if you allow it. The app asks Android for your approximate location — never the precise one, and only while the app is open: when you ask for it, and when you open the app and the location it last found is more than half an hour old. It never asks in the background, and the widget never asks at all. Android's own location service answers; on most phones that service is Google's or the phone maker's, and how it finds the phone is a matter between you and them, under their terms.
• A place you choose yourself — found by name among the more than 69,000 places the app carries, or typed as coordinates. The search runs on the phone; nothing is looked up online.

The app keeps the location it found rounded to two decimal places — about a kilometre — with the name of the nearest settlement if one is within 15 kilometres, the country and time zone it falls in, and when it was found. It is kept in a file of its own on the phone that no cloud backup includes, and widgets that follow the app's place use it. Forget the stored location, in the app's settings, removes it.

No place, from either source, is ever sent to us or to anyone else by the app. Refusing the location permission takes nothing away: a place you choose works in its stead.

4 · Everything else the app keeps

All of it stays in the app's own storage on the phone:

• Your settings — the places you choose and keep, the place each widget shows, the look and night mode, the units, the angles of golden and blue hour, the dawn convention you choose, the reminders as you set them, which one-time notices you have seen, and your directions.
• Directions of your own — a name and a number of degrees each. A direction taken toward a town, or toward the Kaaba, is worked out once and kept as that number with its name — the town's, unless you give it another; where the town is, is not kept.
• A few records about this phone — whether the unlock has been confirmed here and, if Google Play has since found no purchase, on how many separate days and the last of them; what each reminder last announced, so that none is announced twice; a few counts that decide when, rarely, to ask for a rating; and whether the step in section 9 has been taken.

The app keeps no history of where you have been, and holds none of your photos, contacts or files. We never see any of it. It is not sent to us, and there is no code in the app that could send it. The app keeps no identifier of any kind.

Erase all my data, in the app's settings, removes the places you chose, the stored location, each widget's place and what each reminder last announced, once you have confirmed it and typed a word. Your other settings, your directions and your purchase are kept. If the phone ever leaves one of the app's files unreadable, the app sets that file aside on the phone, unread, and starts a fresh one; the set-aside copy stays until the app is uninstalled. Uninstalling the app removes everything it keeps.

5 · The widget and the reminders

The widget shows the light at its place, and when it ends, with the place's name. It wakes once, at the next change of light, to draw itself again, and does nothing else in the background. Anyone who can see your home screen can read what it shows.

A reminder is a notification at the time you set — before golden hour or blue hour, or before or after dawn or sunset — worked out on the phone. There is none unless you set one up and allow notifications.

Neither makes a request of any kind, and we never learn that a reminder exists or when it was shown.

6 · What Android's backup and transfer include

If backup is turned on for your device, Android includes your settings — the places you keep, each widget's place and your directions among them — in the backup it makes to your Google Account. The location the app found is never included, and nor are the records about this phone.

When you move to a new phone with Android's own phone-to-phone transfer, your settings go too. If the old phone runs Android 12 or later, so do the stored location, the record of the unlock and what each reminder last announced; from an older phone, only your settings move. The rating counts and the note in section 9 never travel: a new phone starts them again.

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 phone in that backup only if backup is on, protected as Android protects the rest of your backup.
• Erase all my data removes your places from the phone at once, but not from a backup Android has already made: that copy stays until Android next backs the app up.
• Uninstalling the app removes everything from the phone. 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.

7 · Permissions

Two permissions are asked for, each only when you turn on what needs it:

• approximate location, when you choose your phone's location as the place. Decline, and a place you choose yourself works instead;
• notifications, when you turn on a reminder. Decline, and the reminder stays silent; nothing else changes.

Android grants a few more at installation, without a prompt:

• to run after the device restarts, so the widget and the reminders are set again after a restart;
• the Google Play billing service, full network access and view network connections, which belong to Google Play's billing library inside the app — see section 8. The app's own code opens no connection.

The app asks for nothing else: no precise location, no location in the background, no contacts, no camera, no microphone, no calendar, and no access to your photos or files.

8 · Google Play's parts of the app

Four features of the app are Google Play's own. Each runs through the Google Play app on your device, and it is Google that collects what each one needs, under its own privacy policy. The app itself collects nothing, and none of it reaches us; the one exception, the record of a sale, is in section 13.

• The unlock. Buying it opens Google Play's own purchase screen. Each time you open or return to the app, it asks Google Play whether your account owns the unlock, and Restore purchase asks again at once. The app reads the answer on the phone and unlocks what you bought. If Google Play finds no purchase on the account it was asked about on three separate days, with no confirmation between — after a refund, for instance — the unlock leaves this phone. Google Play's billing library in the app also reports to Google how its own calls fare — whether they succeed, and any trouble reaching Google Play — which Google uses to improve the library and to support errors. That is why the app has network access at all; we receive none of it, and cannot switch it off.
• 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. 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 age question, in the United States only — see section 9.

The app's Data safety section on Google Play lists this data, because Google Play asks every app to include what the Google Play libraries it uses collect. It is collected by Google, for the purposes above, under Google's privacy policy; section 12 says in what capacity.

9 · Age signals: the United States only

Some US states require an app to rely on the age information its app store holds about the person using it. Dawn & Gloaming does so in the simplest way it can.

The app first asks Google Play, on the phone, which country your Google Play account is in. Only if it is the United States, it then asks Google Play, once, for the age information Google Play holds for your account: an age range and how it was established, and — for an account a parent supervises — the parent's approvals and a code Google Play gives that installation. Google Play may first ask you, on its own screen, whether to share it.

The answer is read on the phone and dropped at once. It is not stored, not backed up and not sent anywhere, and it changes nothing: the app is the same for everyone. All the app keeps is a note that this step has been taken — the question asked, or the account found to be outside the United States — which no backup carries, so a new phone takes it again; if Google Play cannot answer, the app asks the next time it is opened. Outside the United States the question is never put.

10 · Where the app's links go

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

• Read the almanac and Privacy policy open pages of this website in your browser; the website's own privacy notice, at /privacy/, covers the visit.
• Read the licence opens, on creativecommons.org, the licence the place names are used under; that site's own terms apply there.
• Send feedback opens your email app with our support address.
• More from the same developer opens one of our other apps in Google Play.

Google Play's own terms and privacy policy apply on its pages. Nothing is sent to us, except an email you choose to send.

11 · What we never do

The app collects no personal data and sends nothing to us. We run no servers of our own. We do not sell, rent or trade anything about you. 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 6 says what does leave it, section 8 what Google collects, and section 13 the one record that reaches us.

12 · The role of Google

Google is not our processor: it handles your data under its own terms, not on our instructions — even where, as below, it sells to you on our behalf.

• 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 to download.
• For what you buy in the app, Google takes the payment and keeps your payment details and the record of your purchase, under the same terms and policy. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and some neighbouring territories, Google is the merchant of record for the sale, acting as our agent; elsewhere it handles the payment for the sale. What it gives us is described in section 13.
• 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 8. 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 6 under your Google Account and your agreement with Google.

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

13 · What we receive when you buy in the app

Anything you buy in the app is bought through Google Play's billing system, and Google takes the payment. Your payment details stay with Google: we never see your card or bank details, and Google gives us neither your name nor your e-mail address.

For each sale, Google Play gives us a record of it, in Google Play Console — the service through which we publish the app — and in its monthly reports to us:

• the order number and Google Play's own code for the purchase, the date and time, the product, its price and the tax charged;
• the country of your Google Play account, and the model of the device the purchase was made on;
• in some cases your state or region, and — where Google is not the merchant of record for the sale, as section 12 explains — your postal code and your city, which Google provides for tax.

Nothing else comes with it: nothing about how you use the app, and nothing from it. The app sends us nothing about the purchase either; it asks Google Play, on the device, whether the purchase is yours, and unlocks what you bought.

We use these records for our accounts and our tax returns, and for nothing else. They are seen only by whoever keeps our accounts and by authorities entitled to them by law. Because no name comes with them, we cannot tell whose purchase a record is unless you tell us: Google Play's receipt shows the order number, which begins GPA.

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 it 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 Google Play gives us the record of a purchase, described in section 13, the basis is Article 6(1)(c): accounting and tax law require us to keep it.

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. What you keep in it sits on your device and, if Android backup is on, in your own Google Account's backup — never with us. Uninstalling the app removes it from the device, and the app's own erase removes what you made in it sooner; 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.

The record of a purchase, if you bought something in the app. We hold what section 13 lists, and no name comes with it — so send us the order number from Google Play's receipt, and we will tell you what the record says, or correct it. We cannot delete it while the law requires us to keep it, and we delete it when the law no longer does.

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 three 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, and purchase records because the law requires it. We would rather say so than list a right we could not honour.

16 · Children

The app is meant for people aged 13 and over, and is not designed for children. It does not ask your age. In the United States only, it asks Google Play for the age range Google Play holds for your account, as section 9 describes, and keeps no record of the answer. 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

The app itself sends us nothing, so there is nothing from it to schedule for deletion. Support correspondence is kept for 24 months.

The record of a purchase, described in section 13, is kept for as long as accounting and tax law requires us to keep the records it supports, and is then deleted.

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 the only personal information we have in connection with this app is the record of a purchase described in section 13, which we use for our accounts and nothing else. 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. Dawn & Gloaming is distributed through Google Play only, so this is its only policy.

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.