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Privacy Notice

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This Privacy Notice explains how the Park’O Mall mobile application (“Park’O Mall”, “the app”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) handles information when you use it. Park’O Mall stores your parking sessions on your device. It also sends capture records without account or device identifiers to improve sign recognition, and collects separate analytics data as described below.

This notice explains our data practices; it does not replace any consent required by law. Our Terms of Service describe the conditions for using the app.

1. Overview

  • Park’O Mall has no user accounts and no sign-in.
  • Your saved parking spots, photos, and notes are kept on your device.
  • Your precise location never leaves your device.
  • To improve sign recognition for everyone, the app may upload an anonymous record of a scan (the sign’s text, colors, and photo, plus an approximate area and the facility name). It contains no account identifier, no device identifier, and no precise location. Analytics data is collected separately.
  • We use Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the app is used (screen views and actions) so we can improve it. We do not sell your data, show ads, or use advertising trackers.

2. Information stored only on your device

The following stays on your device and is never transmitted to us:

  • Your parking sessions — the slot/sign you saved, the photo you captured, any note you added, and the time.
  • Your precise location, if you grant location access. It is used on-device to label and recall where you parked and to derive a coarse area code (see below). The exact coordinates are never uploaded.

This data is removed when you delete the relevant parking spot in the app or uninstall the app.

3. Information collected anonymously

Park’O Mall’s purpose includes learning how different parking facilities label their spots so recognition keeps improving. To do this, when you capture a sign the app may upload a single anonymous capture record containing:

  • the recognized text of the sign (e.g. a slot identifier such as “B24”);
  • the sampled colors of the sign and its surroundings (raw and palette-matched);
  • a photo of the sign itself;
  • a coarse location — an approximate, block-level area code (a short geohash), not your precise coordinates;
  • the facility/place name (e.g. the mall name), where available;
  • the capture time and a label describing how the reading was produced (for data quality).

Capture identifiers

Each capture record is created-only and carries:

  • no user account (there are none);
  • no device identifier (not even an anonymous installation id is stored on the record);
  • no precise coordinates — only a coarse area code that covers a wide block, not a specific spot.

Capture records do not include an account or device identifier and are not linked to analytics records. We use them in aggregate to discover per-facility sign formats and improve recognition.

4. Permissions we request

  • Camera — required, and used only to read parking signs in real time as you point the camera. The live camera feed is processed on your device; frames are not streamed to us. A still photo of the sign is included in the anonymous capture record described above.
  • Location (optional) — used on your device to remember where you parked and to derive the coarse area code included in anonymous captures. If you decline, the app still works; captures simply omit the area code.

You can change these permissions at any time in your device Settings.

5. On-device processing

Sign recognition (reading the text) and color analysis run on your device using Apple’s on-device frameworks. This processing does not send your images or text to Apple or to us beyond the anonymous capture record you contribute.

6. Service providers

To store anonymous capture records, we use Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage, anonymous authentication, and App Check) as a data processor. Anonymous authentication is used only to satisfy the backend’s security rules; it does not create a profile of you and is not stored on the capture record. Data is processed on Google’s infrastructure, which may be located in the United States or other countries. See Google’s privacy information at https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy and https://policies.google.com/privacy.

We do not use third-party advertising networks.

7. Analytics and usage data

We use Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the app is used so we can improve it. This collects:

  • usage events — for example, which screens you view and actions you take (capturing a sign, saving a spot, deleting a record);
  • a Firebase app-instance identifier generated by the analytics SDK;
  • technical and approximate information such as device model, operating-system version, app version, language, and coarse region/country.

This analytics data:

  • is used only to measure and improve the app;
  • is not used for advertising and is not sold;
  • does not include the photos you capture, the recognized sign text, your notes, or your precise location;
  • is not linked to the anonymous parking-capture records described above.

Analytics is handled by Google as described at https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy and https://policies.google.com/privacy. Device permission and advertising settings do not necessarily disable analytics collection. Contact parkomall@gunes.io for questions about analytics or to exercise your privacy rights.

8. International transfers

Capture records and analytics data may be stored and processed on servers outside your country, including the United States. Capture records omit account and device identifiers; analytics data includes the app-instance identifier described above. Google’s privacy information explains its processing and transfer safeguards.

9. Data retention

  • On-device data persists until you delete it or uninstall the app.
  • Anonymous capture records are retained to maintain and improve the recognition dataset. As they are not linked to you, they are kept as part of the aggregate dataset.

10. Your choices and rights

  • Delete your local data at any time by deleting a parking spot in the app or by uninstalling the app.
  • Control permissions for camera and location in your device Settings.
  • Depending on your jurisdiction (for example, under the GDPR or similar laws), you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal data we hold about you. These rights can also apply to analytics data; they are not limited to the parking records saved on your device. Contact us using the details below. We will consider your request under applicable law and may need information to verify it and identify the relevant data.

11. Children’s privacy

Park’O Mall is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by the “Last updated” date above. Continued use of the app after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

13. Contact

Questions or requests regarding privacy can be sent to:

Email: parkomall@gunes.io

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