Data Use Policy

The Aesop Player ("App") is offered as a free application in the hope that it will be useful. It does not collect personal information, and does not support any advertising.

If you have enabled the appropriate option, the App automatically collects certain usage and device data for the purpose of improving the App and its user experience. Such usage and device data do not contain any personal information.

During the application initialization, or later from the main Settings screen, you will have the option to either authorise such data collection or not. Assuming you have authorised it, the following data is collected when you use the App. If you have not authorised it, no data is collected or transmitted. That option has no other effect on the operation of the program.

Usage information

This collects information about how often the App is being used or which application features are used. This data contains no personally identifiable information. This data is processed by the third-party service provider Google using their Firebase Analytics tool. Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics share a unique identifier that is not traceable to your device and which can be reset at any time. Only Firebase Analytics retains any of this information; we occasionally inspect that data in aggregate to identify trends but keep no copies. User provided variable information (for example, book titles) is never uploaded.

Stability monitoring

This is data about application errors that cause the application to stop (so called "crashes"). Whenever such an error occurs data about the application state at that moment is collected, as well as data about whether certain features had been used prior to the crash. This data is processed by the third-party service provider Google using their Firebase Crashlytics tool. Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics share a unique identifier that is not traceable to your device and which can be reset at any time. Only Firebase Crashlytics retains any of this information; we inspect that data to understand failures, but keep no copies. User provided variable information (for example, book titles) is never uploaded.

Device data

Both usage and stability monitoring collects data about the device on which the application is running. The data consists of make and model of the device, technical specifications such as screen resolution, amount of memory and some state of the device, e.g. the current amount of free memory.

Data removal

All data that is saved as described above is anonymized by the Third Party Services used. Thus there is no way to uniquely identify, and thus remove, just your data (as a consequence of it being anonymous). To the extent permitted by those services, we can remove all data for all users if requested. Such removal will be in accordance with the policy and timeline of the Third Party services.

Third party services

The data described above is collected, stored and processed with the use the services whose privacy policies appear below:

Changes to this Privacy Policy

The policy may be modified at any time. Any changes will be posted to this page.

This policy was last modified on January 29, 2022. Added "Data removal".

Contact

You may contact me at AesopPlayer@gmail.com