Privacy, Personal Data & Week Calendar
Week Calendar
DOES NOT transmit, store or collect any of your personal data at all.
We simply don't have any interest in your data - it's yours, after all. We are only interested in building the best calendar app for iOS.
Week Calendar:
- does not send any (personal) data to our servers
- does not track your location
- only uses your data inside the app, without sending it over the internet
So, what does Week Calendar use to function?
In order to function properly, the app does need to have some access to data sources of your iPhone/iPod touch.
We've listed them all here, with
the reason the app accesses them:
Calendar Data (EventKit)
Being a calendar app that integrates with your iPhone, the app obviously reads and writes to your calendars:
- Showing Events
To display your events in the calendar, the app reads events from your iPhone and displays them on screen.
The app only reads events from calendars which are configured to be used.
- Saving Events
When you Add a new event or paste an event, the app saves it one of your iPhone calendars.
- Showing Calendar Accounts
The app shows your calendars grouped by account, so you can hide them or change their color. We do not read any account information, such as account names or passwords.
Contacts (Address Book)
Week Calendar does access your Address Book data for correct functioning of the app:
- Birthdays (Age)
When a birthday event is shown, the age of the contact is calculated using the birthday date
from the address book.
- Event to Contacts Linking
When a phonenumber or emailaddress is used in an event,
your contacts are searched once when you open the event details only,
to show their name and show a link to the Address Book Page.
To disable this, set Settings > General > Contacts Linking to OFF.
- Adding contacts to events
When you explicitely add a contact to an event, the emailaddress of that contact is copied into the event details.
- Location picking
When you explicitely pick a location from a contact, the address of that contact is copied into the event details.
That's all. No contact information is send to us at any time.
Locations (CoreLocation / Maps)
Week Calendar itself does not access your location data in any way, since we simply have no use for it.
Week Cal does use the iPhone's Map capilities:
- Adding a location to an event
When you explicitely tap on the Add location button, we show a Google Maps screen so you can pick the location from Maps.
Google Maps accesses your GPS location data, in order to show your current position on the map.
No location information is transmitted to us at all.
Premium Calendars
When you go to the
Premium Calendars screen inside Week Cal, the app once in a while checks
(once every 24 hours at max) with our server to see if there are new Premium Calendars that we can show.
If there are new Premium Calendars, the app will download them and show them in the app.
When checking for new data, the app sends the following information in the update request:
- App version (e.g. 4.2)
So we can send back the correct version of Premium Calendars
- Language (e.g. english)
So we can send back new Premium Calendars info in your language own, so you can actually read it
- Regional format (e.g. usa)
So we can send back new Premium Calendars for your country. For example, we have different calendars available for
British users (e.g. Soccer calendars), than we have for USA users (e.g. Football calendars)
- Data version you downloaded earlier (e.g. 1)
So we only sent new data once, to save bandwidth.
We
DO NOT STORE any of this information at all.
FAQ & Manual
When you use the
built-in integrated FAQ and manual, Week Calendar will display the
http://utilitap.com/weekcalendar/help/ web page inside the app.
The FAQ/Manual only allow access to webpages within the help system.
The following information is send to our webserver, when you access the FAQ:
- Language (e.g. english)
So we can show you the FAQ in your own language, if we have it available.
- Regional format (e.g. usa)
So we can show you the FAQ adjusted to your own country, if we have it available.
We
DO NOT STORE any of this information at all.
Browsers / Accessing Web Pages
Any link displayed inside Week Calendar will be opened in Safari. This way, Restrictions on Safari usage cannot be bypassed inside Week Calendar.
Upload / Share with Messages
When uploading an event or using the 'Share with Messages' functionality, Week Calendar will send the event selected
to WeekCal.com where it gets stored. We do this, so you can send a small and unique weblink to others, which can use
this weblink to import the event into their calendar.
The reason for uploading the event is that it is impossible to share events via Messages/Text/SMS in any other way:
only text and weblinks are possible.
If you do not want to upload events to WeekCal.com, you can simply not use the 'Share with Messages' functionality.
On first use of the 'Share with Messages' option, the app will also ask if for your explicit permission to upload the selected
event:
simply say No, to not upload any events X.
Statistics
WeekCal HD does store and send statistics about which devices are still in use; We do this, so we can make WeekCal HD better by
having realistic data about which devices and iOS versions are still in major use.
For example, if we find out that none of our users
are still using iOS 4.3, we can stop testing and building for iOS 4.3 and move on to iOS 5 as a minimum requirement, which allows
us to simply create a better application by focussing on new stuff, instead of supporting legacy.
You can disable this behaviour in Settings > General > Statistics > by switching off the 'Anonymously collect usage statistics'
switch. After doing that, no information about your iOS or device model will be sent.
Questions?
Feel free to contact us via
@weekcalendar on Twitter or via
e-mail.
