Fox Bygg, a building firm in Kristiansand, with a side project on Google Play
A letter about this page, or about anything Terra does, goes to a person at the address below rather than into a queue.
Fox Bygg
Owner: Andrew Joseph Fox
Setesdalsveien 47C, 4617 Kristiansand S
Norway
Mail: glasshus@foxbygg.pics
Under the Regulation, Fox Bygg is the controller — behandlingsansvarlig — for anything the app might process. There is no processor acting on instructions from us, no joint controller, and no representative appointed in any other country, because none of those relationships has anything to attach itself to. No data protection officer is in place and none is needed: the obligation lands on public authorities, and on businesses whose central work is watching people in bulk or dealing in bulk with the special categories; a decorating app that never opens a socket is some distance from either description.
På norsk: norsk går helt fint — vi svarer på norsk. Bruk e-postadressen ovenfor for alt som gjelder personvern.
Nothing about you is collected, because nothing in the app can send it
Terra has no account, no server and no outward connection. The terrariums you arrange sit in a folder the app keeps for itself on your handset, and they stay there until you remove them or remove the app.
That is the whole claim, and the rest of this page exists so it can be checked rather than believed. It is also why the page is short: a policy only grows long when there is a lot of collecting to account for.
A folder of your own compositions, and the settings around them
The app's private storage area holds the terrariums in your gallery, each kept with the vessel, the substrate and the backdrop that made it; any duplicate taken while trying a scene a second way; the position, size and layer of every piece in a composition; and whether the interface is set to English or Norwegian.
Android walls that area off around whichever app owns it, and no other piece of software on the phone is let past the wall. Fox Bygg cannot look in either, there being nothing in the build that would act on an instruction arriving from outside. Uninstall and the folder goes too. Use the "clear data" button in Android's app settings and the folder is emptied while the app stays installed.
One thing to be straight about, since it is the platform's work and not the app's: Android runs an automatic backup bound to a Google account. Where somebody has it enabled, the system can lift an app's files into that person's own Drive so a new handset is able to restore them. That is done by Android, under settings the account holder owns. We take no part, cannot read what moves, and cannot disable it for anybody — the switch is per app, in Android's settings.
Exporting a terrarium as a picture hands the file to the system picker. Once a destination has been chosen, the file is in the keeping of whatever was chosen — a photo app, a folder, a message — and this page has nothing further to say about it.
No advertising, no measurement, no identifiers
Look through what was compiled into this release and you will not find an ad network, a statistics library, an attribution kit, a fault reporter, a login provider or a payment component. That is a property of the package rather than an option inside it: nothing is there to be turned off, and no server stands anywhere with the power to reinstate it. Taken one at a time, the app at no moment reads, works out or sends:
- a detail by which somebody could contact you or work out where you live;
- the advertising identifier Android keeps, the Android ID, a handset serial or any hardware address;
- your whereabouts, arrived at by any method;
- your address book, your diary, your messages, your call log, the microphone or the camera;
- a log of the pieces you reached for, the time you spent, or the vessels you keep coming back to;
- the compositions themselves, or photographs already on the device.
Almost nothing is declared, and the store is a separate matter
A saved picture travels out through the system's own document and media pickers. They let the app write once, to the one location you point at, and hand it no view of your photo library before or after. The manifest asks for no camera, no microphone, no position, no address book and no telephone access, which is why the permission dialogue never puts in an appearance.
Plants, stones, vessels and backdrops come down with the installer rather than being fetched afterwards, which is why the app is complete as soon as installation ends and why turning every radio off changes nothing about it.
Google Play is a dealing between you and Google on Google's own terms, and none of the account or device data in it travels by way of Fox Bygg. What the developer console offers is aggregated — installs counted by country, crash rates, star ratings — with nothing in it that points at a person, and there is no second source.
Suitable, and nothing is taken from them either
Tucking pebbles into a jar is about as calm as an afternoon gets, and the app holds nothing a parent would rather it did not: no advertisements, no messaging, no way out to the web, no sight of other users, no till. Because the collecting is nil across the board, it is nil for a child too. Article 8 of the Regulation governs consent from children, and Norway drew its line at thirteen in the Personal Data Act — but consent is not the ground anything here stands on, so neither provision finds work to do. We will put that in a letter for any parent who asks.
Norwegian law, which here means the Regulation
Norway is not a member state of the Union, but it is a party to the EEA Agreement, and the General Data Protection Regulation travels along that agreement into Norwegian law. The instrument that carries it is the Personal Data Act passed in 2018 — personopplysningsloven — which also fills in the points the Regulation hands to national legislatures. Oversight belongs to Datatilsynet, whose site is datatilsynet.no.
Two things are worth saying without ornament. First, duties do not disappear merely because nothing is gathered: Article 13 asks that the controller be identified whether or not data is taken, which is why the first panel gives a company, an owner and a street instead of a brand, and Article 5(2) puts the work of demonstrating compliance on us rather than on you. Second, there is one reassurance this page is in no position to offer, and it happens to be the favourite of the industry: years of careful stewardship over your information. No such years exist here, because no stewardship is taking place. The claim is smaller and considerably harder to break.
The listing is worldwide, so people install Terra from inside the European Union and from the United Kingdom. Anyone living in an EU state may put a matter before the authority of their own country; anyone in the United Kingdom may go to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, which draws its powers from the Data Protection Act 2018 and the British version of the Regulation retained after exit. Writing here first usually saves time, but it has never been a precondition.
Everything Articles 15 to 21 give you, and a short answer
Between them those articles give you sight of what is held, correction of it, deletion, a freeze on its use, a copy in portable form, and the standing to object altogether. Article 77 adds the right to complain to a supervisory authority, and no wording on a page like this one can weaken it.
Write to glasshus@foxbygg.pics. A month is the limit Article 12(3) sets; the reply will arrive long before that and will not run to much, since nothing is filed under your name to show you, amend, delete, suspend or hand on. No identification is requested up front either. There is nothing in storage that an identity check could be defending, and asking a stranger to post a picture of their driving licence so that we can announce an empty shelf would put more data at risk than the whole rest of the correspondence.
An answer you find unconvincing is worth one more letter; it will be read properly and reconsidered. Past that point the proper venue is Datatilsynet, or whichever authority covers the country you live in. No sentence above asks anyone to give up anything, and none of them would have the power to.
This page is rewritten first, and the release follows it
Should a later build of Terra take on anything that touches personal data — storage that synchronises, a reporter for faults, vessels or plants offered for money, advertising of any description — then this text is reworked and goes up first, with the build following it rather than leading. The edition line under the title is updated in the same breath, and the gist is repeated in the Play release notes so that it reaches people who never come to this address at all.
This URL is fixed for as long as the app remains listed, and the edition line is the fastest check on whether anything here has moved since your last visit.