Privacy Policy for World Clock for Windows

This policy explains how the App handles information. The short version is: the App stores your settings on your device and, by default, sends anonymized usage and diagnostic data to help us improve the App. It does not collect information that identifies you personally, and you can turn the diagnostic data off at any time in Settings, "Help improve World Clock."

Information the App stores on your device

The App stores the following on your local device only, inside the per-user application data folder Windows allocates to it (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\mosbd.WorldClockforWindows_*\LocalState\):

• The list of cities / time zones you've added.
• Your display preferences (analog vs. digital clock style, compact mode, window size and position, meeting-planner column choices, etc.).
• A random installation identifier (a GUID) used only to group diagnostic data from the same installation. It is not tied to you, your device, or any account, and it is regenerated if you reset the App.

This data is written to a single JSON file (clocks_settings.json) inside that folder. It contains no personal identifiers, no contact information, and no location data.

Usage and diagnostic data

To understand which features are useful and to find and fix crashes, the App sends a small amount of anonymized telemetry to Microsoft Azure Application Insights, a diagnostics service operated by Microsoft. This is on by default and can be disabled at any time (see "Your choices" below). When it is disabled, the App sends nothing.

What is collected:

• App usage events: app starts, the features you use (for example, adding a clock, using the Meeting Planner or Time Difference, or switching to compact mode), and a periodic summary of your configuration (such as how many clocks you have and which clock styles), as aggregate counts only, never the names of the cities or time zones you choose.
• Basic technical context: the App version, your Windows version, device architecture, and display language / locale.
• Reliability data: crashes and unhandled errors, including the error type, message, and a code-level stack trace, so we can reproduce and fix bugs.
• Correlation identifiers: the random installation identifier above and a per-run session identifier. These let us group events from one installation or session without identifying you.

What is never collected:

• No personal identifiers. No name, email, phone number, address, account credentials, or similar information.
• No location. The App does not request or use the Windows location service, and time-zone offsets are computed from the IANA time zone you select, never from your physical location. The App also instructs Application Insights not to derive your approximate location from the network address used to send the data, so no city, region, or country is stored alongside the diagnostic data.
• No content you create, including the specific cities you add, the contents of clocks_settings.json, file contents, keystrokes, or screenshots.
• No advertising identifiers, cookies, or cross-site tracking. The data is never used for advertising and is never sold.

Information shared with third parties

The anonymized telemetry described above is transmitted to and stored in Microsoft Azure Application Insights. Microsoft processes this data on our behalf as a data processor, under the Microsoft Privacy Statement and the Azure data security documentation. We do not share the data with any other third party, and it is never sold. If you disable the diagnostic data setting, nothing is transmitted to anyone.

Information shared with Microsoft

The App is distributed through the Microsoft Store. Microsoft may collect information related to your acquisition, installation, and updates of the App (for example, store account, device type, install/uninstall events, and crash signatures from Windows Error Reporting). That collection is governed by the Microsoft Privacy Statement, not by this policy. The App publisher (mosbd) does not receive personally identifying information from these channels.

Your choices

You are in control of the usage and diagnostic data:

• Turn it off (or back on) at any time: open Settings, "Help improve World Clock" and toggle it off. The change takes effect immediately, and while it is off the App transmits nothing.
• Disabling it does not affect any feature; everything continues to work exactly the same.

Data retention and deletion

Your local settings file persists for as long as the App is installed. To delete it:

• From the App: open Settings, "Reset to defaults" (clears the settings file, including the random installation identifier).
• From Windows: Settings, Apps, Installed apps, World Clock for Windows, Uninstall. Windows removes the App's LocalState folder along with the App. After uninstall, no local data remains on your device.

Anonymized telemetry already sent to Azure Application Insights is retained for a limited period (no longer than 90 days) and is then automatically deleted. Because that data carries only a random identifier that is not linked to your identity, we cannot single out or return one person's records. The most effective control is to disable the setting, after which no further data is collected.

Children's privacy

The App is suitable for general audiences and does not knowingly collect data from anyone, including children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your jurisdiction).

Your rights (GDPR, CCPA, and similar laws)

Privacy laws such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) give you rights to access, correct, export, and delete personal data that a service holds about you.

The usage and diagnostic data the App sends is designed to be anonymized and is not intended to identify you. To the extent any of it is treated as personal data under laws such as GDPR or CCPA, it is pseudonymized using a random identifier that is not linked to your name, account, or device, and it carries no contact information through which we could locate and return an individual's records. We do not sell personal information. If you would prefer the App to collect nothing at all, turn off the "Help improve World Clock" setting as described under "Your choices"; you can also control your local data as described under "Data retention and deletion." Questions are welcome at the contact address above.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of the App adds a feature that handles data differently, for example optional cloud sync of your clock list, this policy will be updated before that feature ships, and the "Last updated" date at the top of this document will change.

Contact

Questions or concerns about this policy: open the app's Settings and use "Send feedback."