PRIVACY POLICY - Automation Showroom

Your privacy matters. Automation Showroom was built to give you a substantial ten-minute sparring on your operations bottleneck — not to collect your data.

1. What Data Does the App Collect?

Locally Stored Data:

• →Sparring sessions: Your answers to the seven sparring questions and the resulting diagnosis and recommendations
• →Friction log: Your logged frictions (category, minutes, optional note) and the hourly rate you set
• →Profile: Industry, company size and work area you optionally provide (to pre-fill the sparring)
• →Bookmarks: Cookbooks and learning items you've saved
• →Progress: Which learning items you've already read
• →App settings: Language, appearance, onboarding status

Data that is NOT collected:

• →No user accounts or registration
• →No analytics, no tracking, no telemetry
• →No crash reports to external servers (no Sentry, Firebase, Crashlytics or similar)
• →No device information or advertising IDs (no IDFA, no AAID)
• →No location data
• →No usage statistics shared with third parties
• →No contacts, photos, camera or microphone

2. Where is Data Stored?

Exclusively on your device

• →MMKV (encrypted key-value store): Sparring sessions, bookmarks, progress and settings
• →No cloud synchronization by us — your data is, however, part of the regular iOS/Android device backup (e.g. iCloud backup), which you control in your system settings
• →File export: You can export a backup file anytime (Profile → Data backup) and save it e.g. to iCloud Drive — you decide where it goes
• →No external servers on our side
• →No database on our side

If you uninstall the app, your data is gone — we don't keep backups (only the ones you exported yourself or that live in your device backup).

3. Permissions

iOS

The app does not request any special permissions. No access to camera, microphone, photos, contacts, location, calendar or tracking.

Android

• →INTERNET: Required to open external links (e.g. automationshowroom.com, the contact mailto: address, the YouTube channel) via the system browser / Custom Tabs — and to fetch editorial content (new cookbook cases) from automationshowroom.com on app start. This request contains no user data, no identifiers and no device information; it only downloads content.

4. Data Transmission

What the app does

• →Export & sharing: Sparring memos, friction-log reports and data backups are generated locally and shared via the system share sheet (email, messenger, Files app). You decide where they go.
• →Content fetch: On app start, the app fetches editorial content (cookbook cases) from automationshowroom.com. The request contains no user data and no identifiers — technically indistinguishable from a normal website visit. Without internet, the app uses its bundled content.
• →External links: When you tap a link like "Read more on automationshowroom.com" or "Request a live sparring", the link opens in the in-app browser or your mail client with an aggregated attribution parameter (e.g. `?source=app-sparring`). The only information transmitted is "this click came from the app" — no personal data, no session ID, no device information.

What the app does not do

• →No transmission of your sparring answers, friction-log entries or other inputs to external servers
• →No transmission of your bookmarks, progress, profile or settings
• →No background traffic beyond the content fetch on app start described above
• →No in-app purchases, no subscriptions

5. App Stores and Distribution

Apple App Store / TestFlight (iOS)

• →Processed data: Apple handles download and, where applicable, TestFlight distribution; in doing so Apple processes your Apple ID under Apple's privacy policy.
• →What we receive: Aggregated, anonymised download counts via App Store Connect.

Google Play (Android)

• →Processed data: Google handles download and distribution under Google's privacy policy.
• →What we receive: Aggregated, anonymised download counts via the Google Play Console.

6. License / Terms of Use

• →iOS: Apple's standard End User License Agreement (EULA) applies: <https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/>
• →Android: The Google Play Terms of Service apply (<https://play.google.com/about/play-terms/>). No separate EULA is in place at this time. The app is offered free of charge, with no advertising and no in-app purchases. Use is at your own risk; the content (sparring recommendations, cookbooks, learning material) does not replace individual tax, legal or IT advice.

7. Controller

Balane GmbH Balanstraße 84 81541 Munich Germany

Email: <contact@balane.tech> Managing Director: Jonas David Höttler

8. Legal Compliance

App Store Privacy Label / Google Play Data Safety: "Data not collected"

Justification:

• →All user data stays local on the device
• →The app transmits no user data; the content fetch (cookbooks) only downloads editorial content, without identifiers
• →No tracking, no ads, no analytics

9. Contact

For questions: <contact@balane.tech> Updated: 2026