Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

At ItsMeMomo Developer Portfolio (itsmemomo.com), trust is the foundation of our software. This Privacy Policy explains how Serial Monitor handles your information. It covers Serial Monitor alone — every app we publish has a policy of its own, listed at itsmemomo.com/privacy.

Section 2 covers the anonymous usage statistics and crash reports that Serial Monitor collects, and says exactly what those are. Section 3 covers advertising, which applies to Serial Monitor 1.1+. In every case, the things you actually create stay on your device and are never sent to us.

2. Serial Monitor — Anonymous Usage Statistics

Serial Monitor includes Google Firebase Analytics, so we can see which features people actually use and where they get stuck. It also includes Firebase Crashlytics, so that when the app crashes we find out and can fix it. We have tried to keep this as narrow as it can reasonably be, and we would rather tell you exactly what it is than describe it vaguely.

What the app does send:

• A random app-instance ID. Generated on your device, not linked to your name, email or Google account, and reset if you reinstall the app.

• Which screens and features are used, and how long a session lasts. In Serial Monitor it is which screen was opened; for each connection, whether it was over USB, over Bluetooth or to the demo board built into the app, and for USB the family of the adapter’s chip (for example CH340 or CP2102) and the baud rate when it is one from the list; when a connection ends, whether it had connected and why it ended (for example you disconnected, the cable was unplugged or the Bluetooth device went out of range), roughly how many lines arrived and how long it lasted, how many lines you sent and how many of them were in hex or from a command button; that a log was saved or shared, the board was reset, the console was cleared or a command button was saved; and a change of a console, theme or keep-the-screen-on setting. Never a device’s name or Bluetooth address, a USB serial number, a line your board sent, a line or command you typed, or a command button’s text.

• Your device model, Android version and approximate country, worked out from your IP address. Not a precise location — we cannot see your street, your city or your GPS position.

• Crash reports. If the app crashes, Crashlytics sends the technical details of the failure: where in the code it happened, your device model and Android version, how long the app had been open, and which screen. It is what lets us fix the crash rather than wait for someone to describe it. It does not include what you were looking at.

What it never sends, and this is the part that matters:

• Your content. Serial Monitor never sends us what your board sends, what you type, your command buttons, your saved logs or the names and addresses of your devices — they stay on your phone, and a log leaves it only if you save or share it yourself. The app talks only to the USB device you plug in and allow, or to a Bluetooth device you paired yourself in Android’s settings; it never scans for nearby devices and never reads your location. That data is written to your device and stays there.

• The advertising ID — Serial Monitor 1.0. We switch this off explicitly. Serial Monitor 1.0 does not request the Android advertising ID permission, and we do not use it, so this data cannot be used to build an advertising profile of you. Serial Monitor 1.1+ is the exception, because it carries ads. It is set out in full in Section 3, including how to switch ad personalisation off (in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland also from the app’s own “Privacy choices” row in Settings). Serial Monitor 1.0 did not use the advertising ID — if you installed it before the version named here, that is the version that changed it, and we would rather say so than move the app quietly.

• Anything to anyone else. We do not sell, rent or share these statistics, and we do not participate in data brokerage. They exist so we can improve the app.

The “More apps” screen. Our apps can show a list of our other apps on a separate screen that you open from the app’s menu or settings. To fill it, the app downloads that list and the apps’ icons from this website (itsmemomo.com) and keeps the last copy on your phone so the screen also works offline. The request carries nothing about you or your use of the app — only what any visit to a web page carries, such as your IP address — and we do not use it to identify you. Nothing is downloaded until you open the screen.

The app does request internet permission, which is what makes the statistics above possible. There is currently no in-app switch to turn these statistics off; if you would prefer not to send them, uninstalling the app stops it completely. If we add such a switch, or change what is collected, we will update this policy and the app’s Play Store data-safety details before that version is released.

3. Advertising — Serial Monitor 1.1+

Serial Monitor is free, and from version 1.1 it carries ads from Google AdMob. That is how it pays for itself, and it is the whole reason this section exists. Serial Monitor 1.0 showed none. The advertising is a single small banner along the bottom edge of the home screen, Settings and the how-to page — there are no full-screen ads and no video ads. The banner never appears on the console or the plotter — never under the send box or the command buttons, where a stray tap could send something to your board. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google’s consent form asks first, and a “Privacy choices” row in Settings lets you change your answer at any time.

• Google AdMob is not us. It is Google’s advertising network, and it receives its own data directly from your device: your advertising ID, your device model and Android version, your approximate country from your IP address, and whether an ad was shown or tapped. What Google does with it is governed by Google’s own policy at policies.google.com/technologies/ads, not by this one. We are telling you because “we don’t collect it” would be a technically true sentence that leaves you worse informed.

• The advertising ID, and how to switch it off. The ads are personalised, which is what the advertising ID is for. It is your switch, not ours: on your phone, Settings → Privacy → Ads lets you delete the advertising ID or turn off ad personalisation. Do it and the app keeps working exactly as before — the ads simply stop being personalised. Nothing in the app is locked behind allowing them.

4. Children

• Serial Monitor is not aimed at children — it is declared on Google Play for users aged 13 and up. Version 1.0 does not touch the advertising ID; from version 1.1 it uses it for the ads in Section 3.

• No purchases, no chat, no accounts — so there is nothing for a child to spend money on and no way for a stranger to contact them through the app.

If you are a parent or guardian and have a question about what your child’s device sends us, please email us — the answer is exactly the list in Section 2.

5. Data Requests

For Serial Monitor, the usage statistics in Section 2 are anonymous and are not tied to your identity, so we have no way to find “your” records in order to return or delete them — there is no account and no name attached to them. Uninstalling the app stops any further collection. If you email us for support, we use your email address only to answer you.

We update this policy whenever what the app collects changes; the date above is the date of its latest revision.

6. Contact

Questions about this policy or your privacy? Reach us any time and we’ll help.

Email: itsmemomomohit@gmail.com
Official Portal: itsmemomo.com