Privacy Policy – Dashcam (timestamp & GPS) DVR (iDVR)

1. Who we are

This privacy policy applies to the Android app Dashcam (timestamp & GPS) DVR (iDVR), published on Google Play by the developer ananshop. ananshop is the developer name of NINGANTAI, an individual developer in Taiwan, who is responsible for the app and for this policy. “We”, “us” and “our” mean NINGANTAI.

2. What we collect

We do not collect, sell or share any personal data. The app has no account system, no ads, and no analytics or tracking SDK. It does not ask for internet access and does not send data to any server run by us. Your videos, photos and location readings stay on your device unless you choose to share them.

3. Camera, microphone and recordings

• Camera – records video and takes still photos. The camera is used only while the app is on screen, full size or in picture-in-picture. Recording starts when the app opens unless you turn that off in Settings.
• Microphone – records sound with the video. You can turn audio recording off in Settings, or decline the permission, and the app records video without sound.
• Where recordings are saved – videos go to Movies/iDVR (protected and trimmed clips to Movies/iDVR/Protected) and photos to Pictures/iDVR, on the device’s storage or on an SD card you choose. These are shared media folders, so your gallery and other apps you have given media access can see them too. With loop recording on, the oldest unprotected clips are deleted when the storage limit you set is reached.
• Information written into the footage – depending on your settings, each frame shows the date and time, your own watermark text (for example a number plate), your speed and your GPS coordinates. These are part of the picture and cannot be removed from the file afterwards. When coordinates are on, a video file also stores the position where the clip started, and a photo stores its position, time and camera details in its EXIF data.
• Other people – recordings can show people, vehicles, number plates and places, and sound recordings can capture conversations in the car. Laws on recording and sharing such footage differ between countries; please follow the rules where you drive.

4. Location

Location is used only to show your speed and GPS coordinates on screen and in the recording, to write the position into videos and photos, and for the optional speed alert. The app reads it from Android’s own location service, not from Google Play services, and only while the app is on screen. It never asks for background location.

The app asks for location on first launch while the speed or coordinates display is on, which it is by default. You can decline, grant only approximate location, or turn both displays off in Settings; recording works either way. Location is never sent to us.

5. Motion, battery and temperature

The app reads the accelerometer to detect a collision and protect the current clip, and the battery level and phone temperature to lower the recording quality when the phone overheats or to save and stop when the battery runs low. These readings are used on the device as they arrive and are not stored or sent anywhere.

6. Data kept on your device

The app saves your settings (overlay and watermark text, speed unit and alert limit, video quality, camera lens, audio, automatic start and resume, picture-in-picture, heat and battery protection, segment length, loop recording, storage limit and location, and collision sensitivity), the recordings folder you give back to the app through the system folder picker after a reinstall, which permissions it has already asked for, and when it last offered the rating dialog. If Android backup is turned on for your Google account, Android may include the settings in your device backup, which Google manages. Recordings are not part of that backup.

7. Sharing and trimming

When you tap Share in the library, Android’s share sheet opens and the app you pick receives the selected videos or photos. What that app does with them is covered by its own privacy policy; we never receive them. The time, watermark, speed and position written into a file travel with it. Trimming a clip makes a new copy on your device and sends nothing anywhere.

8. Google services the app uses

The app uses the Google services below, through the Google Play Store app on your device. Data they handle is processed by Google under the Google Privacy Policy. We do not receive it.

• Google Play Licensing – checks with Google Play that this copy of the app was obtained from Google Play.
• Google Play In-App Review – may show Google’s rating dialog after you close Settings, once you have saved a few recordings. Ratings and reviews you submit go to Google Play.

9. Permissions

• Camera – to record video and take photos.
• Microphone – to record sound with the video. Optional.
• Location (precise and approximate) – for the speed and coordinates displays, the position in files and the speed alert. Optional.
• Storage – on Android 9 only, to save recordings to the shared folders. Later versions of Android need no permission for this.
• Check license – for the Google Play license check.
• Network state – added by an Android media library the app includes. The app has no internet access, so no data is sent.

The app does not access your contacts, calendar, call log, messages, or photos and videos made by other apps.

10. Links

The website and email entries in the About section of Settings open our website or your email app. What you send us by email is used only to reply to you.

11. Children

The app is a tool for drivers and is not directed at children. Because it collects no personal data, it collects none from children.

12. Deleting your data

• To delete recordings, select them in the app’s library and delete them, or delete them with your gallery or file manager. Recordings are kept in shared folders, so uninstalling the app does not remove them.
• To delete the settings saved on your device, clear the app’s storage in Android Settings, or uninstall the app.
• We hold no data about you, so there is nothing for us to delete. If you have a question, email us.

13. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

14. Contact

ananshop – NINGANTAI, Taichung City, Taiwan
Email: ningantai@gmail.com