Privacy Policy

01Watch faces

Our watch faces run on your watch. They collect no data and send nothing to us or anyone else.

A face can show information such as the time, date, battery, steps, heart rate, weather, sunrise and sunset, your next calendar event or how many notifications you haven’t read. Most of this comes from complications, which your watch and the apps you choose supply. Some faces read your heart rate or steps from the watch’s sensors themselves, and your watch may ask you to allow that. Either way, the information is only shown on your watch. Our faces don’t store it or send it anywhere.

• Watch Face Format faces, which include all our newer Wear OS faces, contain no code: your watch draws them from a design file.
• Our older Wear OS faces were made with Samsung’s Watch Face Studio and include its standard software. With it you can customise the face from Samsung’s Galaxy Wearable app on your phone. Those settings pass only between your watch and your phone.

Your choices for a face, such as colours and complications, are saved on your watch.

02Departures and DB Compass

These apps collect no data and send nothing to us or anyone else. Neither has Android’s internet permission, so neither can connect to the internet by itself. They have no analytics, no advertising and no Firebase.

Departures phone app

It adds flip clock widgets, a bedside night clock and wallpapers. It uses this information on your phone only:

• your next alarm time and battery level, to show them on its board, widgets and night clock;
• which way your phone is tilted, read from the motion sensor only while its live wallpaper is on screen, to move the light on the metal. This is never saved;
• the name of your connected watch, to tell you which watch the Google Play page opened on;
• your settings, and a few counters (when you first opened the app, on how many days, whether you’ve added a widget or set a wallpaper, and when it last asked for a rating), so it asks for a rating only after a good moment and at most every 60 days.

It uses Google Play services to open the watch face’s Google Play page on your watch, and it shows Google Play’s own rating window now and then. It sends no notifications.

DB Compass

DB Compass runs on your watch. It reads the watch’s compass sensor to show your heading in a watch face complication, and it remembers which watch face slots use it. It doesn’t use your location.

03Companion apps: DB1208, DB1212, DB1213 and DB1221

These phone apps help you install a watch face on your watch, preview it and find our other designs. To do that, and to improve them, they use:

• Google Play services, to find your paired watch and open the watch face’s Google Play page on it.
• Google Analytics for Firebase, to count how the apps are used. It collects a random app-instance ID; the Android advertising ID; events such as the app opening, screens viewed and buttons tapped; how you found the app (the Google Play install referrer); the app version, phone model, Android version and language; and your general location (country, region or city), worked out from your IP address. Google Analytics doesn’t keep the IP address itself. We use this information only for statistics, to understand which features and designs people like, and not to identify you.
• Firebase Cloud Messaging, to send news about new watch faces and updates. It uses a Firebase installation ID and a messaging token, the app version and basic device information.
• Rating reminders. The app may schedule a notification on your phone asking you to rate it. The reminder is created on your phone, and nothing is sent anywhere for it.
• Google Play’s rating window and updates. The app can show Google Play’s own rating window, and Google Play can tell you when a new version is available.

04Ads in DB1208

Only one of our apps shows ads: the DB1208 companion app, which shows banner ads from Google AdMob. In addition to section 03, the Google Mobile Ads SDK collects the following and shares it with Google for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention:

• your phone’s IP address, which may be used to estimate its general location;
• your interactions with the app and its ads, such as app launches, taps and views;
• diagnostic information about how the app and the ads perform;
• device identifiers: the Android advertising ID, the app set ID and, where your phone has them, Android’s Privacy Sandbox ad features.

Ads may be personalised based on this information, where the law and your choices allow it.

Your choices about ads

• Anywhere: you can turn off ad personalisation, or reset or delete your advertising ID, in your phone’s settings (Settings › Google › Ads, or Settings › Privacy › Ads). Once you delete it, it can no longer be used to personalise ads.
• In US states with privacy laws (such as California), letting Google use this information for personalised ads may count as “selling” or “sharing” personal information. You can opt out by deleting your advertising ID as above, or ask us by email.

To learn how Google uses data from apps that use its services, see policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

05Older companion apps: DB1201, DB1203 and DB1205

These companion apps help you install the watch face on your watch and find our other designs. They use OneSignal to send notifications about new watch faces and updates. When you open one, it asks whether you want to allow notifications.

When the app starts, it registers your phone with OneSignal, even if you don’t allow notifications. OneSignal receives a OneSignal ID and a push token (delivered through Firebase Cloud Messaging), plus your phone model, Android version, language, time zone, mobile carrier and network type, whether the phone is rooted, the app version and when you last opened the app. Like any internet service, its servers also receive your IP address. OneSignal acts as our service provider; see the OneSignal privacy policy.

These apps also use Google Play services to open the watch face’s Google Play page on your watch, and they can show Google Play’s own rating window.

06Notifications

Notifications from our companion apps are optional. They bring news about new watch faces and updates, and sometimes a reminder to rate the app. You can turn them off for any app at any time in your phone’s settings (Settings › Apps › the app › Notifications). The Departures phone app sends no notifications.

07Google Play

• Buying. Google Play handles your purchase and payment. We don’t receive your payment details. Google gives us sales reports for accounting and tax, such as order numbers, dates, prices and the buyer’s country.
• Ratings and reviews. A rating or review you leave, including in Google Play’s rating window inside our apps, goes to Google Play, like any other review.

See the Google Privacy Policy.

08Permissions

09Who we share data with

We share data only with the companies below, and only as described in this policy:

• Google (Firebase), as our service provider, in DB1208, DB1212, DB1213 and DB1221. See Firebase privacy information.
• Google (AdMob), as an advertising partner, in DB1208 only.
• OneSignal, as our service provider, in DB1201, DB1203 and DB1205.

We don’t share data with anyone else, except where the law requires it.

10Security

Data collected by the services above is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS) and stored by those providers under their own security programmes. We don’t run servers of our own that store your personal data, and we have no user accounts. Information that our watch faces, Departures and DB Compass use stays on your devices, in storage that Android and Wear OS keep private to the app.

11Keeping and deleting data

• Watch faces, Departures and DB Compass: nothing is collected. Their settings stay on your device until you uninstall the app, which deletes them.
• Google Analytics for Firebase: event-level data is deleted automatically after the retention period set in our account, which is at most 14 months. Totals in reports, such as daily users, may be kept longer, and they don’t identify you.
• Firebase Cloud Messaging: the messaging token stops working when you uninstall the app, and Firebase deletes inactive installation data after a period of time.
• OneSignal: device records are kept until we delete them. Ask us and we’ll delete yours.
• AdMob: Google handles this data under its own retention policies.

To ask us to delete data linked to your app installation, email design6blues@gmail.com and tell us which app. Uninstalling an app stops all collection, and deleting or resetting your advertising ID breaks the link to past data.

12Children

Our apps are not directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent age in your country), and we don’t knowingly collect data from them. The ads in DB1208 are not directed at children. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we’ll delete it.

13Your rights

Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR (in the EU), the UK GDPR and US state laws such as the CCPA give you rights over your personal data. These include the right to access, correct or delete it, to object to or restrict its use, to withdraw consent and to opt out of targeted advertising. To use any of them, email design6blues@gmail.com. We’ll reply within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Where the GDPR applies, we rely on your consent for notifications (you choose whether to allow them), and on our legitimate interests to understand how our apps are used, keep them working and prevent fraud. Google and OneSignal may store and process data in other countries, including the United States, under safeguards such as standard contractual clauses.

14If you email us

If you write to design6blues@gmail.com, we receive your email address and what you put in your message. We use them only to answer you. We don’t add you to any mailing list and don’t share your email. Our email is provided by Google (Gmail). We delete your messages once we no longer need them to help you, or sooner if you ask.

15This page

This page uses no cookies, scripts, analytics or trackers, and it loads nothing from other websites. Like any website, its hosting provider may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses, for security and to keep the site running.

16Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, for example because an app starts handling information differently, we’ll update this page and the effective date at the top, and we’ll point out important changes here.

17Contact

Design Blues
Email: design6blues@gmail.com
Website: designblues.framer.website

18Our apps

Where a watch face and its companion phone app share a Google Play listing, they share a package name.