Virtual EE LabPrivacy Policy
Virtual EE Lab · Sierra Technologies · Last updated: [DATE OF PUBLICATION]
Virtual EE Lab is a virtual electrical-engineering laboratory for university students. This policy explains what the app stores, what leaves your phone, and the choices you have.
1. What the app stores on your phone
To put your details on lab reports, the app asks for your full name, registration number, year and, if you work in a group, the group name and members. It also keeps your experiment progress, the readings you record, your safety-quiz result and your settings.
All of this stays on your phone. The app has no accounts and no servers of its own, and the developer never receives this information. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data, deletes it.
2. Reports you share
When you export a report, the app makes a PDF on your phone and opens your phone's share sheet. The PDF contains the details above. It goes only where you choose to send it (for example email, WhatsApp or Google Drive), and that service's own privacy policy then applies.
3. Advertising (Google AdMob)
The app is free and shows ads from Google AdMob on some menu screens. Ads never appear on the lab bench, theory, results or quiz screens. To show and measure ads, the Google Mobile Ads SDK collects information from your device, including:
| Data | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Advertising ID | Ad delivery, frequency capping, measurement and, if you allow it, personalised ads |
| Approximate location (from IP address) | Showing ads relevant to your region and measuring ad performance |
| App interactions with ads, diagnostics and device information | Ad delivery, fraud prevention and measurement |
This information is collected and processed by Google, not by the developer. See How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.
Your choices: where the law requires it, the app asks for your consent before showing personalised ads, and shows non-personalised ads if you decline. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in your phone's settings (Android: Settings → Google → Ads, or Settings → Privacy → Ads).
4. Datasheets
In the IC pinout library you can open or save official component datasheets. They are downloaded directly from the manufacturer's website (Texas Instruments), whose privacy policy applies to that download. Saved datasheets are kept only on your phone.
5. What the app does not do
- No analytics or tracking SDK other than Google AdMob's own.
- No access to your contacts, camera, microphone, photos or precise location.
- No sale of personal information.
6. Children
Virtual EE Lab is made for university students and is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country). The app does not knowingly collect information from children.
7. Security and retention
Your details are stored in the app's private storage on your phone, which other apps cannot read. They are kept until you edit them, clear the app's data or uninstall the app.
8. Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date.
9. Contact
Questions about this policy: [CONTACT EMAIL], Sierra Technologies, [ADDRESS / CITY, COUNTRY].