Privacy policy

1. In short

There is no account and no server: calculations and data stay on your phone. Your location, if you allow it, is only used to compute the position of the sun and is neither sent to Clearforge Studio nor kept by us.

Third-party services communicate for what is strictly necessary: Google Play and RevenueCat for the Premium purchase and optional support, and Google AdMob for the free version's banner (after your consent where it is required).

No usage analytics tool.

2. Location (optional)

You can ask the app to use your current location to compute the recommended angle and orientation. The location permission is optional: you can also enter a place by hand (city, latitude and longitude). The calculation is done on your phone, without a connection.

The location is not sent to Clearforge Studio. It is only read when you ask to use your location, and the app does not track your movements. You can withdraw the permission at any time in Android's settings.

3. Phone sensors

For live guidance, the app reads the compass (magnetometer) and the accelerometer to measure the heading and tilt of the phone. These readings are used on the spot, on the phone, and are neither kept nor sent. The screen may stay on during guidance.

4. What the app keeps on your phone

Your places and panel profiles (name, place, settings), the last place chosen, your reminders, your preferences (theme, angle strategy) and a few local flags are stored on your device. We have no access to them.

This data is removed when you uninstall the app.

5. Reminders

With Premium, you can create reminders to readjust a panel. They are local notifications scheduled on your phone: no server is involved, and the app asks for permission to send notifications. You can withdraw it at any time in Android's settings.

6. Export and sharing

You can export a summary card as an image. This only happens when you ask for it, through Android's share menu: the image goes where you decide, and we do not receive it.

7. The Premium purchase and optional support

Premium is a one-time, lifetime purchase handled by Google Play and RevenueCat. There is no account: RevenueCat uses a pseudonymous ID generated by its SDK and the status of your purchases, to recognise the purchase and restore it (“Restore my purchases”). The app also offers three optional support payments, paid once, which remove ads.

We never receive your payment method or banking identity.

8. Advertising in the free version

The free version may show a banner ad provided by Google AdMob, on browsing screens only: never during live guidance, never at the first launch, and never with Premium or after a support payment. Where consent is required, it is collected through Google's form (UMP) before any ad.

To show and measure ads, Google AdMob may process, depending on your choices, an advertising ID (the app declares the matching permission), your IP address and information about your device and your interaction with the ad. Solar Angle sends AdMob neither your location, nor your places, nor your profiles. See Google's advertising policy.

You can reopen your choices at any time in the app's settings where this option is offered.

9. What we do not collect

We collect neither your name, nor your e-mail, nor your location, nor your contacts, and the app uses neither the microphone nor the camera. It uses no usage analytics tool.

10. An indicative tool

Angles and orientations are indicative recommendations, computed for a place and a date. The accuracy of the compass and tilt depends on the phone and its surroundings. The app does not replace an engineering study and does not guarantee a yield.

11. Why this processing takes place

To provide the service you ask for (calculation, guidance, profiles, reminders, Premium purchase and support) and, for advertising, on the basis of your consent where it is required. We do not sell your data.

12. How long we keep it

On your phone: your places, profiles, reminders and settings are kept until you delete them or uninstall the app. With us: we keep no personal data about you. Purchase and advertising: under the rules of Google Play, RevenueCat and Google AdMob.

13. Your rights

Your data stays on your phone: you control it directly. You can refuse or withdraw the location or notification permission, delete your profiles, withdraw your advertising consent (section 8) or uninstall the app.

For processing carried out by Google or RevenueCat, you can exercise your rights with them. For any question, write to us at [email protected]. You may also contact the data protection authority of your country.

14. Transfers outside the European Union

Google and RevenueCat may process data outside the European Union, in particular in the United States, with the safeguards provided by the GDPR (standard contractual clauses or an equivalent mechanism).

15. Children

The app is not directed to children under 13.

16. Changes

We will post any material change to this policy here, with its update date.