Daran Privacy Policy

1. In Short

Your files and passwords stay between your phone and your drives. We never receive them. There are no accounts and no analytics.

Daran connects straight from your phone to the drives you add. Nothing passes through our servers. The only information that leaves your phone for anyone else is what Google's ad service collects to show ads (section 5). The ads never receive your files, folder names or drive details.

2. Your Drives and Passwords

For each drive you add, the App stores only on your phone: the name you give it, its address and port, your favourite folders, and its settings (for example whether you allowed changes to it). Your sign-in details (user name, password and domain) are:

• encrypted with a key kept in your phone's secure hardware storage (Android Keystore), which cannot be copied off the phone;
• never included in Android backups or in a transfer to a new phone, so you enter them again on a new phone;
• never written to logs, and never sent anywhere except to that drive when the App signs in.

If Android backup is turned on, Android may include your list of drives, favourites and settings (without the sign-in details) in your device's backup to your Google account, under Google's control. We cannot see that backup.

3. Your Files

• Browsing, viewing and playing: folder lists, pictures, videos and music are read directly from your drive. Videos and music stream without being saved on the phone.
• Thumbnails and opened files: to save time, the App keeps small preview pictures, and copies of files you open in another app, in its private cache on your phone. Android can clear this cache at any time.
• Downloads: files you download are saved where you choose: the Download/Daran folder or another place you pick.
• Uploads: the App can read only the photos and files you pick in Android's own pickers. It cannot browse the rest of your phone.
• Changes to your drives: every drive starts read-only. The App can upload, rename, move or delete files on a drive only after you turn on changes for that drive, and it always asks before deleting or replacing anything.
• Transfers: the list of uploads and downloads in progress is kept on your phone, so an interrupted transfer can continue. It is not backed up.

4. Finding Drives on Your Network

To help you add a drive, the App listens for drives that announce themselves on your local network. If you choose Scan my network, it also checks each address on your Wi-Fi network for file sharing, and asks your network for the names of the devices it finds. This stays on your local network: nothing about your network or its devices is sent to us or to anyone else.

5. Advertising

The App is free because it shows ads, provided by Google AdMob, a third-party advertising service: a small banner on the drive, share and folder lists only. There are no ads on sign-in or password screens, in the picture viewer, in the player, or on the transfers screen. We do not receive any personal information through the ads.

The ads never receive your files, file or folder names, drive names or addresses, or anything read from your drives. To show ads, measure them and prevent fraud, Google AdMob may collect and use information from your device, such as:

• your device's advertising ID;
• your IP address and an approximate location based on it;
• device and app information, such as the device model, operating system, and language;
• how you interact with the ads, such as views and taps.

This information is collected and handled by Google under its own policies: How Google uses information from apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.

Your choices:

• Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland), the App asks for your consent with Google's consent form, and lets you change your answer later in the App's settings.
• You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or turn off personalized ads, in your device's settings (on most Android devices: Settings → Google → Ads, or Settings → Privacy → Ads). You will still see ads, but they will not be based on your interests.

6. Permissions

• Local network access: to connect to the drives on your network and find them.
• Internet and network state: to reach your drives, to notice when you join or leave a Wi-Fi network, and to load ads.
• Notifications: to show the progress of uploads and downloads. Asked the first time you start one.
• Running transfers in the background: so an upload or download you started can finish while the App is closed.
• Advertising ID: used by Google AdMob as described in section 5.

The App does not ask for access to all the files on your phone, and does not use your location, camera, microphone or contacts.

7. Sharing and Sale of Information

We do not sell or rent any personal information. We never receive your files, drive details or passwords, so we have nothing of them to share. Ads are handled by Google AdMob, as described in section 5.

8. Keeping and Deleting Your Information

What the App stores is kept on your phone until you remove it. Removing a drive in the App deletes its details and sign-in. Uninstalling the App, or clearing its storage in Android's settings, deletes everything it stored, except files you downloaded, which stay where you saved them. Because we never receive your information, we cannot see, copy, or restore it for you. Information collected by Google AdMob is kept and deleted under Google's policies linked in section 5.

9. Children's Privacy

The App is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. We encourage you to review it periodically.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, email edgar@carefreecoding.ca or use our contact form.