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
• →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
• →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.

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 solely to open external links (e.g. automationshowroom.com, the contact mailto: address, the YouTube channel) via the system browser / Custom Tabs. The app itself does not make any API calls of its own.

4. Data Transmission

What the app does

• →PDF export: Sparring results can be generated locally as a PDF and shared via the system share sheet (email, messenger, Files app). You decide where it goes.
• →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 or inputs to external servers
• →No transmission of your bookmarks, progress or settings
• →No background traffic
• →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
• →No external data transmission by the app itself
• →No tracking, no ads, no analytics

9. Contact

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