Google AdMob

Google AdMob is used to serve advertisements in this app.

You may opt out of "personalized advertising" for all Google software by going to this official Google link and following the instructions in the two sections: Turn off personalized ads + Stop getting personalized ads on non-Google websites & apps

If you are in a known location, but it is not the European Economic Area (EEA), the default behavior of AdMob in this app is to serve personalized ads. If you want to get non-personalized ads instead, go to iOS Settings → Privacy → Advertising → Limit Ad Tracking → ON.

If you are in an unknown location, or in the EEA, you will be prompted with a Google-generated consent form each time you launch the app. From this consent form, choose whether you want personalized or non-personalized ads for the session.

For this app, AdMob has been configured server-side to never send your precise location to Google. This means this app does not take part in "location-based" advertising.

If you do not opt out of these "personalized ads" in some way, Google may use your device ID to generate interest and demographic categories about you (i.e. "sports enthusiast" or "inferred age: 18-34"). These interest and demographic categories will be used to serve targeted ads to you.

Storage of custom locations for earthquake notifications

When you choose to get a custom earthquake alert based on a location you search on in the app, the location is forwarded with transport-layer security to my private server. If you are concerned about your privacy, do not enter a complete address with house number. Instead, choose a nearby landmark, or uninhabited area by dragging the pin once the search is complete, but before you hit the checkmark button to confirm. The concept of "current location", such as GPS or Wi-Fi-based positioning, is not available in this app.

The locations you enter are used solely to calculate and deliver earthquake alerts and are never accessed for any other reason. Your locations are stored on the server in latitude,longitude form. No search phrase you enter is ever sent to my server, it is only sent to Apple for geocoding, or, in the case of search filtering in other parts of the app, is done local to the device.

Your custom locations are deleted from the system when either:

• you delete the custom alert from the app by swiping it to the left, then tapping Delete: In which case, the deletion is instant.
• you delete the app, without sliding each of your custom alerts away for deletion: In which case, the deletion will occur at some point in the future. The Apple Push Notification Service will notice your token as being inactive due to app deletion, and provide feedback to me to queue it for deletion.

Last Updated: 15 October 2019