Privacy Policy

1 Who we are

Parking Finder is published by Hello World Games & Apps ("we", "us"), based in the Republic of Türkiye. This policy covers the Parking Finder app for iPhone and the way it is built as of the effective date above. It does not cover Apple's own services, or the websites of any car park the app helps you find.

For data-protection purposes we are the data controller for anything the app sends to a third party on your behalf. For everything the app keeps on your device — which is nearly all of it — there is no controller at all, because that data is never transmitted to anyone.

2 What the app handles

One table, and it is the whole picture. "Stays" means the data is written to your device and read back by the app, and goes nowhere else.

There is no account, no sign-in, no email address collected, no contact list read, no advertising profile built by us, and no identifier of any kind stored alongside a parking spot.

3 Location

Parking Finder asks for precise location, and only precise. The entire product is "which parking space, exactly", and a coarse fix cannot answer that — a block-level approximation would put your car on the wrong side of the street.

While you are using the app

Your coordinate is read to centre the map, to save a spot when you tap Park, to point the radar's compass at the car and count down the metres, and to guide you back. All of that happens on the device.

In the background

If you turn on automatic parking detection in Settings, the app asks for "Always" location access and watches for the end of a drive so it can save the spot without you having to remember to. That is the only reason it runs in the background. When a drive ends, it writes a spot and sends you a notification with an Undo button.

This setting is off until you turn it on, and turning it off stops the background monitoring completely. You can also revoke location access at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Parking Finder; the app keeps working, you just save spots by tapping.

4 Motion & fitness

Automatic parking detection also reads iOS's motion activity — the system's own reading of whether you are in a vehicle, walking or still. It is what separates "stopped at a red light" from "parked and walking away".

Every sample is examined and thrown away in the same moment. Nothing is stored, nothing is written to your parking log, and nothing is sent anywhere. If you never turn on automatic detection, the app never asks for it.

5 Camera and photos

When you save a spot you can attach a photo — the pillar number, the row, the landmark you will actually recognise. The app opens the camera for this. On a device with no camera it falls back to your photo library, and in that case you choose the single image you want; the app never browses your library.

The photo is resized and stored inside the app's own container on your device, along with a small thumbnail for the list. It is never uploaded, never attached to anything, and is deleted with the spot.

6 Notifications

If you set a parking timer, the app schedules an alert for when the meter runs out, and a second one ahead of it if you have asked for an early warning — the lead time is yours to choose in Settings, and setting it to "None" means only the one alert is scheduled. Automatic parking detection sends a further notification when it saves a spot for you.

These are local notifications: iOS holds them on your device and delivers them itself. There is no push server, no device token registered with anyone, and no notification content that leaves the phone. Meter alerts are marked time-sensitive so a Focus mode does not hold back the one alert you set them for.

7 Maps, addresses and search

Four things in the app need Apple's map services, and each one sends a coordinate or a search term to Apple to answer:

• The map itself — tiles are fetched as you pan and zoom.
• The street address shown under a saved spot, which is your coordinate turned into words by Apple's geocoder.
• Find, which searches Apple Maps for car parks near you.
• Walking and driving directions, including the spoken turn-by-turn guidance.

Apple handles those requests under its own privacy policy, which states that Maps associates them with random identifiers rather than with your Apple Account. That is Apple's undertaking rather than something we can verify. What we can tell you is our side of it: we receive no copy of those requests and have no visibility into them. The app caches each address it gets back, so the same spot is never looked up twice.

If you open a spot in Apple Maps or tap a car park's phone number or website, you leave Parking Finder and that destination's own terms and privacy policy take over.

8 Advertising and tracking

The free version of Parking Finder shows advertising supplied by Google AdMob. There is exactly one placement: a full-screen ad that can appear after you end a parking session, and never while you are saving a spot, walking back to your car, following directions, or reading a meter alert. It is also capped — not on your first completed session, not for sessions under five minutes, at most three a day, and never twice within five minutes.

You are asked first

Before any ad is requested, the app shows Google's consent form where privacy law requires one — in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, this is the form that lists Google's advertising partners and asks what they may do. Until you answer it, no ad is requested and Google's SDK is not started.

The app also does not let Google's SDK measure anything at launch: that behaviour is switched off in the app's configuration, so nothing reaches Google before your answer, and a Premium subscriber — who never starts the SDK — is measured exactly as much as they are advertised to, which is not at all.

App Tracking Transparency

After the consent form, iOS may show you Apple's own tracking prompt. Saying yes lets Google use your device's advertising identifier to pick more relevant ads. Saying no means ads are chosen without it — you will still see the same number of ads, and nothing in the app is withheld or degraded because you declined. Your saved parking spots are never part of ad targeting in either case.

Changing your mind

• Where the consent form applies, Settings → Ad privacy choices inside the app reopens it.
• Apple's tracking permission lives in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
• Premium removes advertising entirely, including the consent machinery behind it.

What Google collects and why is governed by Google's own privacy terms. It typically includes a device advertising identifier, coarse location derived from your IP address, and information about the ad shown. We receive aggregate earnings figures from Google and nothing that identifies you.

9 Subscriptions

Premium is sold through Apple's App Store. Apple processes the payment, holds the billing relationship, and tells the app one thing: whether this Apple Account currently has an active subscription. That single yes-or-no is cached on your device so a subscriber does not watch the app start locked and then unlock.

We never see, receive or store your name, card details, billing address or Apple Account. Apple's handling of the purchase is covered by Apple's privacy policy.

10 Analytics and crash data

There is no analytics SDK in this app, no crash reporter of ours, and no event logging. We do not know how many spots you have saved, which screens you use, or whether you opened the app today. The only third-party code in the binary is Google's advertising SDK and the consent form that gates it.

Separately, if you have turned on Share With App Developers in iOS Settings, Apple may give us anonymised, aggregated crash and usage statistics through App Store Connect. That is Apple's mechanism, it is off unless you chose it, and it identifies no one.

11 Children

Parking Finder is made for drivers and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect anything from a child under 13 — and in practice we collect nothing from anyone, since the app has no account and sends us no data. If you believe a child has used the app in a way that concerns you, deleting the app removes everything it holds.

12 Keeping and deleting

Your parking log is kept until you delete it. Because it lives only on your device, you are the only one who can, and you have three ways:

• One trip — swipe it away in History, or delete it from the spot's own screen.
• Everything — delete the app. iOS removes the app's container, and the parking log, the photos and the settings go with it. Nothing is left behind and nothing is recoverable.
• Permissions — location, motion, camera and notification access can each be revoked in iOS Settings without deleting anything.

Data held by Google for advertising and by Apple for your purchase is retained under their own policies and retention schedules, not ours.

13 Your rights

Under the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK, Law No. 6698), the GDPR, the UK GDPR, and laws such as the CCPA, you have rights to access, correct, delete and export your personal data, to object to processing, and to withdraw consent.

The honest answer for this app is that those rights are already in your hands. We hold no database of users, so there is no record of yours for us to produce, correct or erase — the data is on your phone, you can read all of it in the app, and deleting it is immediate and complete. Consent for advertising is withdrawn through the two controls in section 8.

Where a right does fall to us — an explanation of what the app does, or a complaint about it — write to us and we will answer. Our lawful basis for the processing that does leave the device is your consent for advertising, and performance of our agreement with you (and our legitimate interest in the app working at all) for the map and routing requests that a feature cannot function without.

If you are in Türkiye you may also apply to the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK Kurumu); in the EEA or UK, to your local supervisory authority. We would rather you wrote to us first.

14 Security

Your parking log sits inside the app's sandboxed container, protected by iOS's own file protection and by your device passcode or biometric lock. No other app can read it. Because nothing is uploaded, there is no server of ours to breach and no transmission of your data for anyone to intercept.

Requests to Apple and Google travel over encrypted connections. The realistic risk to your parking history is physical: someone holding your unlocked phone. A passcode is the protection that matters.

15 Changes

If the app changes in a way that changes this policy, we will update this page and move the effective date at the top. A change that materially affects how your data is handled will also be announced in the app's release notes. Continuing to use the app after an update means you accept the revised policy.

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