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Privacy Policy for Lynx Launcher

We take the protection of your personal data seriously. All personal information will be treated confidentially and according to the legal regulations. This Privacy Policy will inform you about the data that is used and why it needs to be used. You will also be informed about your rights according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Please read this policy carefully.

1. Data Controller and Contact

The data controller for the collected data is N116 Soft:

Nils Büscher
Ernst-Haeckel-Str. 21
18059 Rostock
Germany

For comments, questions and requests regarding this privacy policy please contact N116 Soft:
support@lynxlauncher.de

2. Used and Stored Data

Storage: Access to the storage is needed to save and restore your settings and create a blurred wallpaper effect.

Application Usage: This app collects and accesses your recent application usage. This data is needed to show your favorite applications on the favorites screen and sort the applications by usage.

Contacts: Access to the contacts is needed to show your favorite contacts on the favorites screen and allow you to search for your contacts from the search bar.

Microphone: The access for the microphone is needed to allow you to use the voice search option of the launcher

Notifications: The application needs access to the notifications to show if an application has unread messages.

Coarse Location: To switch between dark and light theme depending on daylight, this applications needs your coarse location to calculate the times of sunrise and sunset.

Details of your transactions: Details of your transactions through this application are accessed and stored for the fulfillment of your purchases in this app.

Your communication with us: When you contact us, your contact information is stored for the sole purpose of said communication.

All application related data is only stored locally on your device and is not shared with the developer, other applications or third parties. Data of your communication with us is stored at the servers of N116 Soft.

3. Processing and Security

The data processing is carried out and stored on your smartphone for all usage data.

When you contact N116 Soft for questions and/or for help your contact information and communication is stored for the purpose of communicating with you. The storage is done at the Data Controllers (N116 Soft) Office in Germany.

The security of your personal data is important. N116 takes appropriate security measures to prevent disclosure, unauthorized access, modification, or removal of your data.

Please note that data you have exported for usage in other applications can be accessed by third parties that are beyond the control of this application or its developers.

Third parties
  • For the voice search the speech recognition from Android is likely to stream your recorded voice to remote servers to perform speech recognition. Please refer to Google's Privacy Policy to see how this data is handled.
  • The search function allows to redirect a search query to Google, Bing, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Baidu or the Android Play Store. Please refer to the respective Privacy Policy of said services to see how they handle your data.

4. Disclosure of your data

In some cases N116 Soft disclosed data about your communication with us for the following reasons:
  • If we are under a duty to disclose your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use; or to protect the property, rights, or safety of N116 Soft, customers, or others.
  • If N116 Soft or this application is acquired by a third party.

5. Retention Time

The data stored by this application will be stored as long as this application is installed on your device and will be deleted when this applications is uninstalled.

Your communication with us is stored as long as it is needed to fulfill your request. Once your request is fully processed and no further communication regarding the request is to be expected, the data is deleted. The request is considered to be fulfilled or expired after 6 Months without a communication.

Details of your transactions are stored by Google LLC and will be stored as long as they are needed to fulfill your orders. Please refer to the Privacy Policy of the Android Play Store for more Information.

After the retention time is expired, your data will be deleted.

6. Your Rights

  • You have the right to request if there is any data stored about you at N116 Soft.
  • You have the right to access the information N116 Soft has stored about you and receive a copy of said information. You also have the right to request how this data is processed and used.
  • You have the right to request a correction of any inaccurate or incomplete data stored about you unless the correction is impossible or disproportionately difficult.
  • You have the right to object certain processing activities in relation to your personal data at any time for the future.
  • You have the right to obtain a copy of your personal data that can be used to move your data to another application.
  • You have the right to demand an erasure of the personal data that has been collected about you.
  • You have the right to complain to any responsible supervisory authority about any breaches of the GDPR or privacy policy regulations
You can manage and delete your private information from the Settings of this application. If you need further help or instructions, please contact us using the contact information given above. You can revoke most consented data access by disabling the features named in chapter 2. The collection of your recent application usage is essential for this application to work. To revoke this consent you have to cease using this application and uninstall it.

7. Changes of the Privacy Policy

N116 Soft reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time. An information that the privacy policy has changed will be displayed to you in the Lynx Launcher application. Please check the Play Store side of this application regularly to stay informed about upcoming changes.


Last Update: February 2021