Privacy in the app

Controller

Alessandro Gerola

Ablachstraße 7, 88605 Meßkirch, Germany

Email: info@buildframe.de

For privacy questions, an email to the same address is enough.

What stays on the device

Finds, photos, comparables and settings live in a database file inside this app's private folder.

There is no account and no sign-in. Your finds, photos and comparisons are not uploaded anywhere — we do not see them.

Camera and photos

The app opens the camera or your photo library only when you trigger it. Without your tap, no picture is taken and none is read.

The picture is scaled down to 1600 pixels and stays on the device. It is not sent anywhere.

Text recognition

Text recognition runs on your device. The picture is not transmitted for it and is not sent to any recognition service.

In the browser it needs an offline package. The app loads it only when you tap a package — and only from the same address the app itself runs on. On iPhone, recognition is part of the system; there is nothing to download.

If recognition is not possible on your device, the app says so and asks you to type the details in. It does not invent a result.

Searching the web

For the card search, only the locally recognised card name is transmitted to TCGdex. The photo, account data and device identifiers are not transmitted.

The recognised name is what text recognition read on the item — for example “Glutschweif”. A list of your finds never goes with it.

If the item carries a barcode, only the printed number is transmitted to the open product catalogue Open Food Facts instead. There, too, neither the photo nor account data nor device identifiers go with it.

That catalogue requires every request to say which app is asking. What is sent along is therefore the name of this app — not your device identifier, not your name, and no identification number.

Each scan causes at most one request, and only if something was actually read in the image. A photo with no readable text and no barcode causes no request at all.

The request goes over your own internet connection directly to those databases. There is no server of ours in between, and we do not learn what you search for.

Without a connection the app does not search. Your saved finds, your own comparisons, text recognition, and export and import keep working offline.

Where the details come from

Card data comes from TCGdex. Product data comes from Open Food Facts and the connected open catalogues; it is published under the Open Database License (ODbL).

Every find states which source named it. A name without its origin would be a claim.

This build shows no market prices. The value range comes exclusively from your own comparison entries.

Export and import

Export writes a file into this app's folder on your device. What happens to it afterwards is your decision.

An import reads a file, shows a summary first, and creates nothing until you confirm.

What this app does not do

No analytics, no audience measurement, no advertising, no tracking, no cookies.

No sync with other devices, and no sharing of your finds, photos or comparisons with third parties. When searching, only the recognised name or the printed barcode number goes to the relevant database — see “Searching the web”.

Deleting

“Delete all data” in the settings removes the database, the photos and any intermediate state from this device.

The deletion takes effect immediately and survives a restart — there is no second copy anything could come back from.

Legal basis

The app processes your input exclusively on your device and only for the task you trigger yourself. Nothing is transmitted to us in the process.

Insofar as processing within the meaning of the GDPR does occur, it is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Your rights

Access (Art. 15), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and objection (Art. 21 GDPR).

An email to info@buildframe.de is enough. No particular form is required.

Complaints: Landesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg, Lautenschlagerstraße 20, 70173 Stuttgart.