Privacy policy
Globe and the Globe watch face for Wear OS.
Version of 15 September 2026. It takes effect on the day Globe is first published on Google Play.
Who is responsible
Taeon GmbH
Hagelberger Str. 4
10965 Berlin
Germany
Represented by its managing directors, Christian Haese and Daniel Haese. The managing director responsible for Globe is Daniel Haese.
Email: contact@taeon.com
Telephone: +49 (0) 30 62 60 99 54
Register court: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 133356 B
Value added tax identification number: DE276603737
Taeon GmbH is the controller for this policy in the sense of Article 4(7) of the General Data Protection Regulation. The full imprint is at taeon.com/impressum.html.
No data protection officer is appointed. Under section 38 of the German Federal Data Protection Act one is needed where a company has at least twenty people regularly occupied with the automated processing of personal data, which is not the case here.
The short version
Globe collects no data. It has no account, no network connection, no analytics, no advertising and no permissions beyond waking the screen and buzzing the wrist. Nothing you do with it leaves the watch. Buying it is a purchase from Google, and the little that Google passes on to us is set out under “Buying Globe” below.
What the app does with your watch
Globe is a globe you turn and tap to read the time in another country. To do that it uses four things that are already on your watch, and it uses them only on the watch:
- The time and time zone your watch is set to, to draw the line between day and night where it is now, to show your own time on the dial, to open on your own part of the world, and to know where “home” is when you double tap. The app never asks for your location and has no permission to read it: your time zone is the only thing it knows about where you are, and it is read from the watch’s clock settings, not from any sensor.
- Two accessibility settings – whether you have turned animations off, and whether you have turned touch vibration off – so that it can respect them.
- Two preferences of its own: which of the two globes you last chose, the dark one or the light one, and which part of the world the watch face was showing when you last tapped it. Both are kept in the app’s private storage on the watch so that the app opens the way you left it. They are deleted with the app.
The watch face keeps its own settings – which globe, which view, and which complications – through the Wear OS watch face editor, in the system’s own storage, in the same way as every other watch face.
What the app does not do
- It does not connect to the internet. It has no network permission, and the map of the world it draws is built into the app.
- It does not collect, store or send any personal data, usage data, crash reports, identifiers or analytics.
- It does not show advertising.
- It does not require or offer an account.
- It does not read your location, contacts, health data, notifications or anything else on the watch beyond the items above.
- It does not share anything with anyone, because it has nothing to share.
Buying Globe
Globe is sold through Google Play, and the sale is Google’s, not ours.
- In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, Google is the merchant of record – your contract for the purchase is with Google Commerce Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google takes the payment, issues the receipt, handles the tax and handles refunds and withdrawal. What Google does with your data in doing so is governed by Google’s own privacy policy, not by this one. For these sales Taeon GmbH receives no information about the buyer at all: Google’s sales report to us leaves the buyer’s location fields empty wherever Google is the merchant.
- Outside the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, Taeon GmbH is the merchant of record, and Google’s sales report to us then carries, for each purchase, the buyer’s city, state or region, postcode and country, together with an order number, the product, the date and the amount. It carries no name, no email address, no account and no device identifier, and we make no attempt to connect it to a person. We use it only to keep the books and to account for tax, we keep it for as long as German tax and commercial law requires accounting records to be kept, and we delete it afterwards. In the language of the GDPR the legal bases are Article 6(1)(b), the contract you entered into, and Article 6(1)(c), our legal obligation to keep those records.
- We are never told which purchases are refunded to whom, only that a refund happened.
- Google may also record the installation and any review you leave, and may show us reviews and aggregate, anonymous statistics such as how many installations there were in a country. Globe itself receives none of it.
Your rights
Where we do hold personal data about you – which, as above, happens only for purchases made outside the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, and then only a postcode without a name – you have the rights the GDPR gives you: access (Article 15), rectification (16), erasure (17), restriction (18), portability (20) and objection (21). Write to the address at the top of this policy. In practice we will usually have to tell you that we cannot find you in our records, because there is no name in them to find.
You may also complain to a data protection authority. The one responsible for us is the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Alt-Moabit 59–61, 10555 Berlin, Germany.
For anything to do with the purchase itself – the receipt, a refund, the payment data – the controller is Google, and Google’s privacy policy says how to reach them.
Children
Globe is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.
Changes
If a future version of Globe ever collects any data, this page will say what, why, and how to opt out, before that version is published. The version date above is the date of the last change.
Contact
Questions about this policy, and requests under the GDPR: contact@taeon.com, or Taeon GmbH, Hagelberger Str. 4, 10965 Berlin, Germany.
Requests for the map database under the Open Database Licence go to the same address.