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Privacy policy
No account, no profile, no data resale. This page states what the app processes, why, and what you can require of it.
1Data used
DefibFrance creates no account and sends the developer no personal data. Location, requested only while you use the app, is used to show nearby defibrillators, calculate walking distance and open directions, including in Emergency mode; the last known position is kept on the device. Favorites, hidden places, filters, metronome settings and preferences stay on the device. The call to 15 goes through the iPhone Phone app, after your confirmation: DefibFrance sends nothing to emergency services. During Emergency mode and just after, no full-screen or app-open ad is shown. DefibFrance asks for neither contacts, photos, camera nor microphone.
2Advertising and purchases
The app is free and funded by Google AdMob advertising. On first launch in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, a Google form (UMP) asks for your consent, which you can change later in Settings › Ad choices; Apple’s tracking permission (App Tracking Transparency) is requested next and can be declined, in the iOS prompt or later in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. Without it, the device’s advertising identifier (IDFA) is not shared; with it, the IDFA is used for advertising tracking, and it is the only data the app declares to Apple as used for tracking. Ads shown: a banner at the bottom of the screen, an ad when you return to the app after a pause of at least one minute, sometimes an ad within a detail page and, at most once every three detail pages viewed, a full-screen ad when leaving a page, at least two minutes apart. An “Ad-Free” subscription removes every ad while it is active; a rewarded video also gives 6 hours ad-free. The subscription is handled by StoreKit and your Apple account, renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and is managed in your Apple Account settings. The app never receives payment card data.
The Google Mobile Ads and User Messaging Platform kits send directly to Google, without going through the developer: the device advertising identifier (only if you allow tracking), the IP address and an approximate location derived from it, the device model and system, performance and diagnostic data, and your interactions with ads. Google uses them to show, measure and cap ads, personalize them if you consent and fight fraud, under its own privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy).
3Contributions to OpenStreetMap
Suggesting a place or a correction is optional. The text you write and the position you pick on the map are then published as a public note on OpenStreetMap (api.openstreetmap.org), signed “Proposé via l’app DefibFrance”, without your name or any identifier. Do not include personal information: the note is visible to everyone and follows the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy. To show nearby notes already published, the chosen position (an area of about 60 m) is also sent to api.openstreetmap.org.
4Writing to support
The Settings › Report a bug form prepares an e-mail in your mail app. It contains what you write, your contact address if you give one and, if you leave the technical information checked, the DefibFrance version, system, device model and language. Nothing is sent until you send the e-mail yourself; it is used only to reply to you and is never passed on to a third party.
5Children
On the App Store, DefibFrance is rated 12+. DefibFrance is not aimed specifically at children, asks them for no personal information and offers no messaging, no exchange between users and no sharing to social networks. In France, a minor under 15 cannot consent alone to personalized advertising: a parent can decline tracking in the iOS prompt or in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking, and block tracking requests with Screen Time.
6Changes to this policy
This policy follows the app: it is revised whenever a processing changes, and the date at the top of the page shows its latest update. A significant change is also noted in the App Store release notes.
7Data sources
Defibrillators come from the national GéoDAE database published on data.gouv.fr, completed by OpenStreetMap (Overpass servers, which receive the map area searched: overpass-api.de, overpass.openstreetmap.fr and the maps.mail.ru mirror run by VK in Russia, used as fallbacks for one another). A place’s address is looked up by the national address database (data.geopf.fr/geocodage) from its coordinates, and place photos come from Panoramax and Wikimedia Commons. The App Store is queried for the latest app version. These requests contain no personal data; each service sees your IP address like any website.
8Retention
Local data remains on your device until you delete the app or reset settings. Advertising data follows Google AdMob rules and purchases follow Apple rules when they exist.
9Your rights
Under the GDPR, you may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability or objection regarding your personal data. You may also contact your data protection authority.
10Contact
DefibFrance is published by BodyCorp, an independent developer and the data controller, who personally answers any question about your data.