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Ajapaik Android app Privacy Policy
The Ajapaik rephoto Android app is a free, open-source app developed to allow users to upload rephotographs (repeat photographs) of historic images to Ajapaik platform. This APPLICATION is provided by the Estonian Photographic Heritage Society and is intended for use as is. This Policy is used to inform users regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information. If you choose to use the Ajapaik Android app, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Application. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy, and we do not rent or sell your information to third parties.
While using our Application, in order to upload rephotographs to Ajapaik via the Ajapaik Android app we require you to authenticate yourself and thereby provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, location and device id. The name is used for the image attribution. Images (rephotos) that you upload to Ajapaik via our Application will be publicly viewable on Ajapaik along with your name and the date of the picture taken. Aside from that we save complementary information about the image, namely the location of the image making as well as the direction of the camera (in yaw, pitch and roll) provided by the device. The app uses third party services (Facebook, Google) that may collect information used to identify you.
Images uploaded to Ajapaik via this Application will NOT be stripped of EXIF metadata that may contain (but is not limited to) image location, date taken, device manufacturer and model, and camera settings. All of this metadata will be stored on Ajapaik.
We want to inform you that whenever you use our Application, in case of an error in the app we collect data and information (through third party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, configuration of the app when utilising our Application, the time and date of your use of the Application, and other statistics. This Data can only be viewed on the Google Play Developer console by developers with access to this console.
Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your devices’s internal memory. This Application does not uses these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collection information and to improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Application.
User's account deletion (the removal of login data including real name, email, links to the social accounts) can be requested by sending email to [email protected]. Deleting the account will not delete user's contributions (geotags, categorisations, comments) on Ajapaik platform so that dataset will stay intact but the contributions will be anonymized. User submitted rephotos will be reviewed case by case.
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
This Application contains links other sites (image sources). If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us by creating an issue here on GitHub or sending an email to [email protected]. The owner of Ajapaik platform and app is MTÜ Eesti Fotopärand (Estonian Photographic Heritage Society), project manager is Vahur Puik.