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Privacy policy

Translation. Only the German version is legally binding.

Last updated: 9 November 2026

In short

Rodwatch works entirely on your smartphone. The app does not connect to the internet and has no account, no analytics, no tracking and no advertising. We do not receive any images, sound or other data from you.

This text applies to Rodwatch on iPhone and on Android. Where the two differ, it says so.

Controller

Sprtized Holding UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Hartenbergstraße 62A, 53639 Königswinter, Germany
Email: hello@sprtized.com · Phone: +49 171 7589877

This website

The website rodwatch.com is delivered on our behalf by Google via Firebase Hosting (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). When you visit it, Google processes the details that are technically necessary for this: your IP address, the date and time, the address requested and your browser’s identifier. They are used to deliver the site and to protect it against misuse. In the process, data may be transferred to the USA. Google is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

We do not keep or analyse any access logs ourselves. The website sets no cookies, uses no analytics and no tracking, and loads no content from other servers. Fonts, images and videos come from this website.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in providing the website securely and reliably (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Links to the App Store, Google Play, Instagram and YouTube lead to other providers. Their privacy policies only apply once you follow a link.

Camera and microphone

Rodwatch needs the camera to film your rods and the microphone to recognise the beep of your bite alarm. While monitoring is running, the app keeps the last few seconds of video and sound in memory only. Only when a bite alarm beeps or you tap “Save now” does it save a clip on your smartphone. Beep recognition also runs only on your smartphone.

On Android, Rodwatch shows a notification with the recording status while monitoring is running, including on the lock screen. It contains no images and no sound.

What is stored on your smartphone

  • clips with video and sound, plus a thumbnail and details such as time, duration and the bite alarm that triggered it
  • bite alarms you have taught, with the sound recordings from teaching
  • a log for each monitoring session with technical events such as triggers, battery level, temperature and free storage, on Android also the device model and Android version, without images or sound; the last 30 are kept
  • only if you turn on detection diagnostics: 2 seconds of sound for each near miss, at most 200 per night
  • your settings

Everything stays until you delete it in the app or remove Rodwatch from your smartphone. Clips, logs and diagnostics are excluded from backups: on iPhone from iCloud Backup, on Android from Android backup and from transfers to a new device. Taught bite alarms and settings are part of your smartphone’s backup if you have turned it on.

Photos and gallery

When you save a clip or turn on automatic export, Rodwatch puts it in Photos on iPhone and in the gallery in the “Movies/Rodwatch” folder on Android. On iPhone, Rodwatch asks for permission to add photos; Android does not require a permission for this. The app can never read your other pictures and videos. For clips in Photos or the gallery, your settings there apply, such as iCloud Photos or Google Photos.

Sharing

Clips, recordings, diagnostics and logs only leave your smartphone if you pass them on yourself via the share menu. You decide where they go.

Apple, App Store and TestFlight

On iPhone, Rodwatch comes from Apple via the App Store or TestFlight. What Apple processes in doing so is governed by Apple’s privacy policy. If you have allowed iOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple provides us with crash reports and aggregated usage statistics. Apple collects this data, not Rodwatch. If you test Rodwatch via TestFlight, we can see the name and email address you were invited with.

Android

On Android, Rodwatch is currently only available as a test version that we install on the device ourselves, not via Google Play. We do not receive any data from you in the process. When Rodwatch comes to Google Play, we will add here what Google processes.

Your rights

You have the rights granted by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), such as access, rectification and erasure. Because we do not receive any data from you through the app, we usually hold no data about you. You can lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen (State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia).

Questions about data protection: hello@sprtized.com