Privacy policy for “Der Einbürgerungstest App”

At a glance

• No user account: “Der Einbürgerungstest App” does not run an account system of its own.
• No ads, no tracking and no third-party analytics tools.
• Your content stays on your device only. We never receive a copy.
• As a rule, we only receive personal data when you send us an email.

This privacy policy applies to the app “Der Einbürgerungstest App.” Our general privacy policy applies when you visit our website. Below, we explain which data is processed and when, on which legal basis, and what rights you have. This is how we meet our information obligations under Art. 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Controller

The controller responsible for data processing in connection with the app “Der Einbürgerungstest App” within the meaning of the GDPR is:

We are not legally required to appoint a data protection officer. For any questions about privacy, you can reach us directly at info@aploapps.com.

What the app processes

The app works fully offline and requires no registration. We collect no personal data through the app, use no tracking and show no ads.

• Your learning progress, saved questions, incorrectly answered questions, test results and settings⁠—such as your federal state⁠—are stored only on your device.
• PDF exports of your results (Premium) are created on your device. Whether and with whom you share them is entirely up to you.
• The app contains no ads and no third-party analytics or tracking services.

Permissions on your device

For some features, “Der Einbürgerungstest App” asks for access to parts of your device:

• Notifications⁠—for reminders

These permissions are granted through the operating system’s standard prompt. You decide whether to allow them and can revoke them at any time in your device’s Settings. The app uses any access you grant only for the feature concerned.

Downloads and purchases

You download “Der Einbürgerungstest App” from Apple’s App Store. Apple is responsible for downloads, your Apple Account and payment. “Der Einbürgerungstest App” offers Premium, an optional subscription with additional features.

Purchase, payment, renewal, cancellation and refunds are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never receive payment details such as card or bank information, nor the names or contact details of buyers. The app merely checks through Apple’s purchase interface (StoreKit) whether a purchase is valid in order to unlock the relevant features. Apple provides us with aggregated sales reports that do not identify individuals.

Apple’s terms and Privacy Policy⁠(opens in a new tab) apply to processing by Apple.

Crash reports and statistics from the stores

If you have agreed on your device to share analytics with app developers (Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements), Apple provides us with crash reports and usage statistics for “Der Einbürgerungstest App”. This data is collected by Apple; we only receive it in anonymized or aggregated form and cannot link it to any individual. We use it solely to fix bugs and improve the stability of the app. You can change whether you share data with developers there at any time.

Support by email

When you email us at info@aploapps.com⁠—for example with a question about “Der Einbürgerungstest App” or a privacy request⁠—we process your email address, your name (if provided) and the content of your message, including any details you choose to share, such as your device model, system version or screenshots. We use this data only to handle your request and reply to you.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your request relates to the use of our apps or a purchase, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is answering inquiries. We handle requests concerning your data protection rights to meet our legal obligations (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR). We delete your message as soon as it is no longer needed for this purpose⁠—usually once your request has been resolved⁠—unless statutory retention obligations require otherwise.

Our mailbox

Emails to info@aploapps.com arrive in our Microsoft 365 mailbox. The provider is Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland (“Microsoft”). Microsoft stores and transmits your messages and our replies on our behalf (data processing under Art. 28 GDPR), under the Microsoft Customer Agreement and Microsoft’s Data Protection Addendum⁠(opens in a new tab). We buy the service through GoDaddy; under GoDaddy’s terms, it is subject to the Microsoft Customer Agreement, including its data protection terms. The legal bases are the same as for handling your request.

Microsoft stores the contents of our mailbox (messages and attachments) only in data centers in the EU. Even so, personal data may also be transferred to the United States and to other countries outside the EU and EEA in which Microsoft or its subprocessors operate. Under Microsoft’s Data Protection Addendum, such transfers are subject to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses between Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited and Microsoft Corporation (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR). In addition, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond (USA), is certified under the EU-⁠U.S. Data Privacy Framework⁠(opens in a new tab), so transfers to it are also covered by the European Commission’s adequacy decision (Art. 45 GDPR). For more information, see Microsoft’s privacy statement⁠(opens in a new tab).

Data security

Content in the app is protected by your device’s built-in encryption. We do not run a server of our own that stores app content.

We hold personal data ourselves only in the emails you send us. We access our mailbox only over encrypted connections.

How long data is kept

• Content in the app: stays on your device until you delete it in the app or delete the app.
• Emails: we delete them once your request has been resolved, unless statutory retention obligations require otherwise.
• App Store data: Apple decides how long it keeps data about downloads and purchases.

Deleting your data

We explain step by step how to delete “Der Einbürgerungstest App” data on your device, and how to ask us to delete any data we hold, on the page Delete your data: Einbürgerungstest.

Your rights

Where we process personal data about you, the GDPR gives you the right to:

• access the data we process about you (Art. 15 GDPR)
• rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data (Art. 16 GDPR)
• erasure of your data (Art. 17 GDPR)
• restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
• data portability⁠—receiving your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (Art. 20 GDPR)
• withdraw any consent you have given, with effect for the future (Art. 7(3) GDPR)

To exercise your rights, simply send an informal email to info@aploapps.com. Because most data in the app lives only on your device or in your private cloud storage, you can often view and delete it yourself⁠—the page Delete your data: Einbürgerungstest explains how.

Right to lodge a complaint

If you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR)⁠—in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. The authority responsible for us is:

Further information

No obligation to provide data

You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide us with personal data. Without your email address, however, we cannot reply to you.

No automated decision-making

We do not use automated decision-making, including profiling, within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR.

Changes to this privacy policy

We update this privacy policy whenever “Der Einbürgerungstest App”, the stores through which we offer the app or the legal requirements change. The version currently published on this website applies; you can see when it was last changed under “Last updated” at the top. If the English and German versions differ, the German version prevails.