Privacy Policy

This document explains the Fascinating Projects privacy policy and how we handle your personal information if you use our products.

Our business is making and selling mobile phone apps. We have three types of product: free mobile apps with advertising, paid mobile apps without advertising, and this website, which is used to support my apps and display our products.

The types of personal information we collect and how we use it

Fascinating Projects does not require customer personal data to deliver these products. We do not keep customer personal data ourselves.

We do not have a customer mailing list.
We do not have any customer payment data. Any payments or purchases made through our apps are made between the customer and Apple, and any refund requests must be made to Apple, as we don't have the transaction details. Please use the contact page if you want further details on how to apply for a refund from Apple.

Here are some further details on how my products work.

The Fascinating Projects website (fascinatingprojects.com.au)

The website does not store your personal information in cookies.

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits to the website, so we know which pages are useful. It is privacy-focused: it does not use cookies, does not fingerprint your device or browser, and does not track you across websites or over time. It reports only anonymous, aggregated figures - such as how many people viewed a page - and we cannot identify you from it. Cloudflare describes what it collects in its privacy policy.

If you submit a support request via the contact page, we will receive your name and email address. We use your email address to respond to your enquiry and your name to address you in the reply. Your enquiry may remain in our inbox as an email we have received, and in our sent items as a response we have sent.

Our apps

Your location

Many of our free and paid mobile apps collect your location for the purposes of running the app. They may request you to choose a location on a map, or use the location services on your device. Where the location is requested using the location services on your device, it will only request locations to within a 3 kilometre radius (1.86 miles). Locations are only saved on your actual device, by the apps, for the purpose of providing the functionality of the app and for easy reuse the next time the app is used.

Advertising

The current versions of my apps contain no advertising, and no third-party advertising or tracking technology of any kind. Advertising became a privacy issue, so it was removed and replaced by subscriptions.

This was not always the case, and one piece of history remains. A very small number of people still run versions of my apps that are seven or eight years old - or older - on older devices. Those versions were built when the apps did carry advertising, and they still display ads served by Google, personalised by default based on the apps on your device and the websites you have viewed. Once an app is installed on someone's device I have no way to change it or switch its advertising off. If this affects you, updating to the current version of the app from the App Store removes the advertising, and the third-party tracking that comes with it, entirely. Google describes the data it collects and how to withdraw consent at google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites.

Analytics

Apple - my apps collect usage data ("analytics") with your consent. Apple describes the data collected and how to withdraw consent at apple.com/privacy.

How to edit and correct your personal information

The Fascinating Projects website

If you have sent us a support enquiry in the past and wish to have your email removed from our inbox or sent items, please send us a further enquiry via the contact page. Your enquiry MUST clearly state both:

That you want your previous support emails to be deleted from our inbox and sent items.
The original email address and name you used in the past support email.

We will find and delete any personal emails that we have received with the exact name and email you have stated, and respond to you stating that we have done so.

Our apps

Your location

It is not possible for us - or you - to view the location data stored by the apps, but the data can be completely removed from your mobile device simply by deleting the app. Follow the instructions provided in the documentation for your device to delete an app.

Advertising and analytics partners

Apple - Apple provides a website that allows you to correct, edit and delete your data stored with them, and may allow you to download the data they possess: privacy.apple.com.
Google - this applies only if you are running one of the very old app versions described above. Google describes the data collected and how to withdraw consent at google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites. Updating the app from the App Store stops this collection at its source.