Good Turn App and Website - Privacy

Privacy Summary

The data you upload is used solely for display on the Good Turn Website and within the phone-based application. It is not intentionally distributed to anyone for any other reason. I have no desire to have nor use your data for anything other than promoting people do good turns daily. I am a security and privacy aware person and value my own security and privacy as well as the data you entrust to this site, and thus me. As a Cub Scout would say, "I do my best." The website utilizes Google's App Engine and Google Firebase for data storage and thus you should also refer to their terms of service if you want more detailed information, specifically "3. Service Policies and Privacy".

If you are concerned about uploading the location and other information about your good turns, you can disable the upload good turns feature in the application settings.

Privacy Details

The phone application uploads information about your good turn, but not much about you. Specifically the app uploads the following data for each good turn:

uuid
a unique phone identifier, as returned by the phone's API to record turns by phone and identify them if needed. This is not shared with anyone.
description
a description of the good turn. Currently this is not editable on the phone application and is nil.
date
the date and time the good turn was recorded by you on your device.
category
a category to assign to the good turn (e.g. Scouting, service, volunteer, etc.). Currently not editable in the phone application and is nil.
location
where the good turn was done, latitude and longitude.
notes
any notes taken as part of the good turn. Currently this is not editable on the phone application and is nil.
coin used
the coin that was displayed when you did your good turn. If you have not purchased an add-on coin, then the default coin is recorded.

The following data about your uploaded good turns is sent out to other folks when they view the world map of good turns and on the website home and map pages:

date
the date and time the good turn was recorded by you on your device.
category
a category to assign to the good turn (e.g. Scouting, service, volunteer, etc.). Currently not editable in the phone application and is nil.
location
where the good turn was done, latitude and longitude. coin used: the coin you used when doing your good turn.