🔐 Privacy Policy – Building Dues
This policy explains how the Building Dues: HOA Manager mobile app (the "App"), developed by Sogepps, handles data.
In short
- The app has no account or sign-in and no server of our own; as the developer we cannot access your data. It shows ads through Google AdMob, offers one optional one-time in-app purchase ("Remove ads") and needs an internet connection to load ads.
- Your buildings, units (owner and tenant names, phone, m², land share), dues and payment records, expenses, receipt photos and settings are stored only on your phone; they are not sent to us.
- You export the backup file, month-end and annual reports, receipts, notices (PDF), reminder text and CSV files yourself; they go only to the app or folder you choose in Android's share menu.
- When you add a receipt photo, your phone's camera or gallery app opens; the photo is kept only inside the app. The app asks for the notification permission only for the start-of-month dues reminder (optional). It does not ask for location, microphone, contacts or storage permission.
- Uninstalling the app or clearing its data deletes all your records. In case you lose your phone, share a backup file yourself from time to time.
1. We do not collect personal data
We (Sogepps), the developer of Building Dues, do not collect your personal data, do not store it on our own servers and do not share it with anyone. The only data handled outside your device is the ad-related data Google processes under its own policy (see section 5); we do not receive it.
2. Information that stays on your device
The buildings you add (name, address, manager name, optional bank account), units (number, floor, block, owner and tenant names, phone, m², land share, notes), dues plans, payment and receipt records, expenses, the receipt photos you add and your settings are stored only on your phone, in the app's local storage. Photos are shrunk and kept inside the app. This information is never sent to us. The app makes an automatic backup copy on your phone every day (the last 14 days are kept); these copies also stay in the app's own folder. As the manager you enter the names and phone numbers of the people in the units; it is your responsibility to handle that information and the reports you share in line with personal data protection rules.
If Android's device backup is turned on, Android may back up app data to your Google account under its own rules. Android does this; we cannot access that backup and we do not see your data.
3. Files you export
You export the backup file (optionally with photos), month-end and annual reports (PDF), payment receipts (PDF), notices (PDF), the budget plan (PDF), reminder and notice texts and CSV files yourself. They go only to the app or folder you choose in Android's share menu (for example a messaging, e-mail or file app). You decide whether the names of units that owe appear in the month-end report. How the apps you share with handle your data depends on their own privacy policies.
When you restore a backup or pick a photo from the gallery, only the file you choose is opened by the app.
4. Permissions
Camera and gallery: when you tap the button to add a receipt or invoice photo, your phone's camera or gallery app opens; the app does not request the camera permission itself. The photo is saved only inside the app and is never sent to us. Notifications: optional, used only to tell you at the start of the month that dues were charged and when to remind those who owe; if you do not allow it the app keeps working. To show notifications on time and reschedule them when the phone restarts, Android's alarm, boot-completed, wake-lock and vibrate permissions are also used. Location, microphone, contacts or storage permissions are not requested. For ads, the connection check and the purchase the app also declares these permissions: INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE (to load ads and check the connection), com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID (advertising ID, used for ads) and com.android.vending.BILLING (Google Play purchase).
5. Ads and purchases
The app shows interstitial (full-screen) ads through Google AdMob (Google Mobile Ads SDK), only at natural breaks (for example after you share or export a file or close a screen) and at most about once every 3 minutes. In the EEA, UK and Switzerland, Google's consent message (UMP, User Messaging Platform) asks for your consent first; you can change that choice at any time under "Ad privacy options" in the app's Settings. Google/AdMob may collect and process your advertising ID, device and app information, IP address (and the approximate location derived from it), ad interactions and crash/diagnostic data to deliver, measure and personalise ads and to prevent fraud, under Google's own privacy policies: <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy">Google Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites">how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services</a>. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in Android settings. The app also offers one optional one-time in-app purchase, "Remove ads", through Google Play Billing. Google processes the payment; we (Sogepps) never receive your card or payment details. The app only checks with Google Play whether the purchase is owned. Collection records in the app are only a ledger you keep; no real payment is made.
6. Internet access
The app needs an internet connection, to load ads and to check the connection (it checks whether www.gstatic.com and sogepps.tr are reachable). Without a connection it shows a "connection required" screen. We have no server that stores your data: your buildings, units, dues, receipts and photos stay only on your phone and are never sent to us.
7. Children
Building Dues is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
8. Deleting your data
All your data stays on your device. You can permanently delete your records by uninstalling the app, by clearing the app's data in Android settings or by using "Delete all data" in the app's Settings; you can also delete buildings, units, payments and expenses one by one in the app. There is nothing to delete on our servers. Backups and files you exported earlier are outside the app, so you must delete them yourself; for the copy kept in an Android backup you can use your Google account's backup settings.
9. Changes to this policy
When this policy is updated, the new text is published on this page.