Privacy Policy — Lotus Bloom

Last updated: 1 June 2026 · Applies to Lotus Bloom v1.0.0 and later.

This policy applies to the Lotus Bloom Garmin Connect IQ watch face. Other apps published by BIKINTULIS have their own policies — see the directory.

1. Who we are

BIKINTULIS is an independent developer of Garmin Connect IQ apps and watch faces. For questions about this policy, use the contact form.

2. Summary in plain language

• Lotus Bloom runs entirely on your watch. It makes no network or web requests and talks to no server — there is no BIKINTULIS server involved.
• To draw the lotus at the right point in the day, it reads your watch's cached location fix and computes your local sunrise/sunset on the device. With no fix available it simply falls back to a fixed 06:00–18:00 schedule. Your location is used only on the watch and is never transmitted.
• If you choose to show a data field (date, steps, calories, battery or heart rate), that value is read on the device and shown locally — never sent anywhere.
• It asks for no name, email or account, and contains no advertising or analytics.

3. Permissions this watch face requests

The watch face does not request internet/communications or any other permission.

4. Data stored locally on the watch

The watch face stores only your display settings (chosen colours, time format, butterfly count, which data field to show, theme) in Garmin's per-app storage sandbox, accessible only to this watch face. It keeps no history and is removed when you uninstall the face.

5. Data sent to a server

None. Lotus Bloom does not send any data off the watch to BIKINTULIS or to any third party — it has no networking code and contacts no server. Your location and your activity stats never leave the device.

6. What this watch face does NOT collect or send

• No name, email address, phone number, postal address, or account credential.
• No transmission of your location — the cached fix is used only on the watch.
• No data sent to BIKINTULIS — there is no server contact whatsoever.
• No advertising or analytics SDKs of any kind.

7. Garmin Connect & your Garmin account

The watch face runs inside Garmin's Connect IQ platform. Garmin's own collection and use of data is governed by Garmin's policy at garmin.com/privacy. BIKINTULIS has no access to your Garmin account, your activities, or anything synced to Garmin Connect.

8. The bikintulis.de website

Separate from the watch face, when you use the bikintulis.de website itself:

• If you leave a comment or review, your name, email, rating and comment text are stored. Your name, rating and comment are published publicly after moderation; your email is never published.
• If you use the contact form, your name, email, subject and message are stored privately and used to reply to you. If you attach a photo or video (optional, up to 20 MB), it is stored on the BIKINTULIS server alongside the message and only viewable by the site owner via an authenticated admin panel. The attachment is deleted when the message is deleted.
• Your IP address is stored only as a salted SHA-256 hash (rate-limiting / spam prevention). The raw IP is not retained.
• Standard web-server access logs are kept up to 30 days.
• No cookies, no third-party analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels.

9. Legal basis (GDPR)

Because the watch face collects and sends nothing to BIKINTULIS, the only personal data we process relates to the website: your consent (when you submit a comment or contact message) and legitimate interest (IP hashes and server logs, used solely to keep the site secure and operational).

10. Data retention

• On the watch: your settings are kept until you uninstall the face. No server copy exists.
• Website comments: retained while Lotus Bloom is listed on this site.
• Contact messages: retained as long as needed to handle your enquiry, then deleted.
• Server access logs: up to 30 days.

11. Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask to access, correct, or delete data we hold (this only ever concerns website comments/contact messages — the watch face holds nothing on our side), withdraw consent, object to processing, or lodge a complaint with your data-protection authority. To exercise any right, use the contact form — requests are answered within 30 days.

12. Security

• The watch face makes no network connections, so there is no app-to-server traffic to secure.
• Any traffic to the bikintulis.de website is over HTTPS.
• No payment data is ever handled by BIKINTULIS.

13. Children

Lotus Bloom is a general-purpose watch face, is not directed at children under 13, and does not knowingly collect any data from them (indeed, it collects no personal data from anyone).

14. Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated to reflect new features or legal requirements. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the latest change. Continued use after a change indicates acceptance of the updated policy.

15. Contact

Questions, requests or complaints about this policy: please use the contact form.