🔐 Privacy Policy – Work Hours
This policy explains how the Work Hours & Overtime Tracker 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 workplaces, work and leave records, shift plans, pay details, start date at work, an optional date of birth, reminder settings and other settings are stored only on your phone and are not sent to us. There is no way in the app for your employer or anyone else to reach this data.
- You export the backup file, the PDF time card, CSV files and the text summary yourself; they go only to the app or folder you pick in Android's share menu.
- The app does not ask for camera, location, microphone, contacts or storage permission. The notification permission is requested only if you turn reminders on, to show shift start and end reminders (optional); Android's alarm and restart permissions may also be used so reminders run on time.
- Uninstalling the app or clearing its data deletes all your records. In case you lose your phone, share a backup file now and then.
1. We do not collect personal data
We (Sogepps), the developers of Work Hours, do not collect your personal data, store it on our own servers or 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 workplaces you add, your start and end times, break lengths, notes, leave and sick records, shift plans, pay and calculation settings, your start date at work and (if you enter it) your date of birth, and your reminder and appearance settings are stored only on your phone, in the app's local storage. The app also makes an automatic backup copy on the device every day (the last 14 days are kept); these copies never leave your phone either.
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, the PDF time card, CSV files and the text summary yourself. They go only to the app or folder you pick in Android's share menu (for example a messaging, email or files app). These files are under your control; you decide who receives them.
When you restore a backup, only the file you choose is opened by the app.
4. Permissions
Notifications: optional; used only if you turn reminders on, to show a local notification at shift start and end. Notifications are set up on your phone without internet; if you decline, the rest of the app works the same. Alarms and restart: used so Android shows reminders at the right time and sets them up again after the phone restarts. Vibration: a very short vibration when you tap Start shift. The app does not ask for location, camera, microphone, contacts or storage permission. 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.
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 work records, shift plans and pay details stay only on your phone and are never sent to us.
7. Children
Work Hours is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
8. Deleting your data
All of your data is on your device. You can delete your records permanently by uninstalling the app, by clearing its data in Android settings, or with "Delete all data" in the app's Settings; you can also delete individual entries and workplaces in the app. There is no data on our servers to delete. Backups and files you exported earlier stay outside the app; you can delete them yourself.
9. Changes to this policy
When this policy is updated, the new text is published on this page.