🔐 Privacy Policy – Invitation Maker
This policy explains how the Invitation Maker: Card Design mobile app (the "App"), developed by Sogepps, handles data.
In short
- The App has no account or sign-in and no server of ours; as the developer we cannot access your own content. It shows ads through Google AdMob, offers one optional one-time purchase ("Remove ads") and needs an internet connection; Google processes the ad data (see section 5).
- Your invitations, guest lists (names, phone numbers, tables and reply status), tasks, budget notes, added photos and settings are stored only on your phone and are never sent to us.
- You export the invitation picture, GIF, print PDF, guest CSV file, backup file and personal messages yourself; they go only to the app or folder you choose in Android's share menu.
- The App asks for no camera, location, microphone, contacts, notification or storage permission. When you add a photo, only the image file you pick is opened.
- Uninstalling the App or clearing its data deletes all your records. In case you lose your phone, share a backup file from time to time.
1. We do not collect personal data
We (Sogepps), the developer of Invitation Maker, do not collect your personal data, do not store it on our own servers and do not share it with anyone. The App has no account or sign-in and no analytics of our own. Ads are shown by Google AdMob and the optional purchase is handled by Google Play; Google handles data for those under its own policies (see section 5).
2. Information that stays on your device
The invitations you create (names, family lines, date, time, venue, address and notes), guest lists (person or family names, number of people, groups, optional phone numbers, table numbers and reply status), to-dos, cost and budget amounts, the photos you add and your settings are stored only on your phone, in the App's local storage. Photos are downscaled and kept inside the App. This information is never sent to us. Every day the App takes an automatic backup copy on your phone (the last 14 days are kept); these copies also stay in the App's own folder.
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 and QR codes you export
You export the invitation picture (PNG), the animated GIF, the print PDF, the guest list (CSV), the backup file and personal messages 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). The location and calendar QR codes you add to an invitation are generated on your phone; a QR code contains only your address or map link (and, for the calendar code, the event details). The phone of the person who scans it opens the map with its own internet connection; the App does not connect to that link.
When you restore a backup, import a CSV file or pick a photo, only the file you choose is opened by the App. Guests' phone numbers and names appear in the messages or files you decide to share; make sure you have the people's agreement before you share them.
4. Permissions
The App's manifest lists these permissions: vibration; internet and network state (to load ads and check the connection); the advertising ID (com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID); and Google Play Billing (com.android.vending.BILLING). No camera, location, microphone, contacts, notification or storage permission is requested. When you add a photo, Android's own file picker opens and only the file you pick is passed to the App.
5. Ads and purchases
The App shows interstitial (full-screen) ads through Google AdMob (Google Mobile Ads SDK), only at natural breaks (after sharing or exporting a file, or closing 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 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 prevent fraud, under <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google's Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google's partner-sites page</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, and the App only checks with Google Play whether the purchase is owned.
6. Internet access
The App needs an internet connection, to load ads and to check the connection (it checks that www.gstatic.com and sogepps.tr can be reached). Without a connection it shows a "connection required" screen. We run no server of our own that receives your content; your own content stays on your phone. Ad requests are made by Google's SDK as described in section 5.
7. Children
Invitation Maker 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 delete it by uninstalling the App, by clearing the App's data in Android settings, or with "Delete all data" in the App's Settings. Deleted data cannot be restored by us, so share a backup first if you need one.
9. Changes to this policy
When this policy is updated, the new text is published on this page.