Privacy statement

This Privacy statement discloses what information is collected through the “GDPR in Your Pocket” Application (hereafter “the App”), by whom, how this information is used and what are your rights.

The app has been developed within the framework of the SMEDATA Project co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Union, Grant Agreement No. 814763. The partner in SMEDATA consortium responsible for the development of the app’s software and its technical maintenance is Apis Europe JSC who is acting as a joint controller.

1. What information do we collect and process?

The App collects the following information:

• The chosen language for the App
• List of the bookmarked content
• List of saved documents
• Text of saved documents.

This information is stored on your device and there is no option for it to be transferred to the App creators. Therefore, your data connected to the App usage is not processed by any of the partners in the SMEDATA Project.

If you decide to contact us, we will receive the data that you input into this communication. This may include your name, company/organisation, telephone number, e-mail address and any message.

Please note that this Privacy statement does not cover hyperlinks in the App that re-direct you to external sources (e.g. the hyperlinks in section Useful links).

2. What kind of permissions to access resources on your device do we require?

You need to grant the following permissions that enable the App to access:

• Your device’s Photos/Media/Files and Storage:
  • read the contents of your USB storage
  • modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
• Network information:
  • view network status and connections
  • have full network access.

These permissions are needed for downloading and accessing the content resources of the App that are stored online (e.g. the full texts of legal documents) as well as for using the Bookmarks and Saved documents features. This information is not send to anyone. Some of the data, such as IP address of your device, is communicated to our database server from which the download of the documents is performed. However, this information is not stored on our server since the logging option is switched off.

3. What are your rights?

We operate in accordance with the rules set out by the European Union in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR grants you a number of rights under data protection law. These include the right to access and, in some circumstances, to amend or delete your personal information. You also have the right to file a complaint against us with your supervisory authority.