Application vs. Privacy Policy. Boingo Wi-Finder on 2016-4-23

privacymeteronline
26 апр. 2016 г.
4 мин. чтения

Since now we're going to present one more interesting approach to learn a bit more about your application. We call it 'Application vs. Privacy Policy'. We will examine a publicly available privacy policy to know what developers think about data protection.

So, our first app is Boingo Wi-Finder we recently examined. This app has its own PrivacyPolicy published here. We will cite most important statements to compare it with out results on data protection.

First of all, let's remind what data items and group were found in this application. Here we go:

-- Log Info Group: Geo Data, Credentials (IDs), Application Config

-- Location Group: Address Data, Geo Data

-- Personal Group: Personalization (search requests)

-- Analytics Group: Device Data, Credentials (Tokens), Credentials (Access IDs)

-- Media Group: Screenshots

-- Credentials Group: Credentials (IDs), Credentials (Access IDs)

Boingo Wireless®, Inc. Privacy Policy

Boingo Wireless, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Boingo,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) is concerned about the privacy and security of your information...This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) that we gather when you are accessing or using our website or Services...By visiting or using the Website or Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways...

As between you and Boingo, you own the information that you provide to Boingo under this Agreement, and may request its deletion at any time. Additionally, you grant Boingo a nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide, perpetual, assignable, sublicensable, fully paid up and royalty-free right to copy, prepare derivative works of, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, process, analyze, use and commercialize, in any way now known or in the future discovered, any information you provide, directly or indirectly to Boingo, including but not limited to, any user generated content, ideas, concepts, techniques and/or data that you submit to Boingo, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties.

Required Information

Boingo collects certain information that is necessary to fully service your Boingo account. As a customer, you will be asked to provide Information that is needed in order to create your Boingo account and fulfill our service commitment to you such as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and billing information. Boingo may use this Information for editorial and feedback purposes, marketing and promotional purposes, for statistical analysis, product development and in connection with our partners, publishers, advertisers or connected sites.

This information obviusly refers to registerting account and making payments. But perhaps may appear in mobile application in Boingo Networks. However, your email address id Credentials ID, so it's always part of mobile application data.

Optional Information

Like any business interested in attracting and offering the highest quality of service to customers, Boingo gathers voluntary demographic information about our customers.

At a minimum, required information includes name and e-mail address; in some cases, the customer must answer mandatory survey questions about other personal data or enter a program code.

Geographic Location Information

When you use Boingo’s services on a mobile device (such as your laptop or a smart phone), Boingo may collect and/or track certain geographic location information that is derived from your usage of the Boingo service such as usage patterns, travel patterns, Web site page views, traffic patterns and information about your geographic location.

Boingo also records the MAC (Media Access Controller) address, IDFA, ADID and device identifier numbers from the network card in or used with your computer or other device to enable Boingo to accurately perform our billing functions and in the ordinary course of business.

That's true. Application stored and transfer the following data items: Geo Data, Personal Group: Personalization (search requests) linked to 'Credentials (IDs)' (your userID)

Security Measures

Your account information is protected by a unique User Identification and password that is issued to you. Your User Identification and password should be kept confidential because it is the key to accessing the information held by Boingo about you. If your computer or other device is accessible to or by others, please log out of the Boingo site before you leave it. Security is also provided through your web browser, which supports 40, 56 or a 128-bit version of encryption with the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) security protocol.

That's also true. Your credentials are stored & transferred over SSL. However, if customers should put an effort to protect his data from third parties, why developer implemented the average protection techniques that don't prevent information from disclouse. Customers has its own data averagly protected but will they only have become guilty for everything in case of something happen? The problem is mobile application is a solid solution and implementing average protection means the end-users can't extened the protection techniques if it's not really good. They're limited in extending anything that wasn't implemented by developer.

While Boingo uses reasonable measures to protect the security of your information, no security measures are foolproof, and Boingo does not guarantee that your information will remain confidential.

Completely agreed >> no security measures are foolproof, and Boingo does not guarantee that your information will remain confidential. << Unfortunately, as wroted above, the average protection means there're other developers who implemented better security mechanisms to protect their customer data than Boingo. That's pretty simple.

Privacy Policy Changes

Boingo reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to revise, amend, or modify this privacy policy at any time, and in any manner without notice. You shall be responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with any such modifications. Your use of the Services following such notification constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions of this privacy policy as modified.