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Privacy Policy — Xeric Retroscope

Last updated: 5 September 2026 · Applies to Xeric Retroscope v1.0.0 and Xeric Retroscope Trial v1.0.0.

This policy applies to the Xeric Retroscope Garmin Connect IQ watch face and its separate free listing, Xeric Retroscope Trial. They are the same design for privacy purposes and neither collects anything. 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

  • Xeric Retroscope runs entirely on your watch. It makes no network or web requests and talks to no server — there is no BIKINTULIS server involved.
  • It requests no permissions at all — no location, no GPS, no external sensors.
  • It displays a few fitness values Garmin already makes available to watch faces — heart rate, step count, elevation and battery — purely to show them on screen. These values are never stored by us and never sent anywhere.
  • It asks for no name, email or account, and contains no advertising or analytics.
  • The Trial stores its first-launch and greatest trusted watch times locally to enforce its 24-hour message period while local state exists.

3. Permissions this watch face requests

None. Both Xeric Retroscope Trial and Xeric Retroscope ship with an empty permission set — the watch face does not request internet/communications, positioning, or any special sensor permission. The heart rate, steps, elevation and battery it shows are read through the standard information Garmin provides to every watch face on the device; reading them to display them needs no permission and moves no data off the watch.

4. Data stored locally on the watch

Xeric Retroscope stores only your display settings in Garmin's per-app storage sandbox, accessible only to this watch face:

  • Language (which of the 11 languages the message, header and date use)
  • Message source (the daily rotating message, or your own custom text)
  • Custom text — if you choose to type your own message, that text is stored on the watch so it can be shown
  • Time format (follow the system / 24-hour / 12-hour)
  • Typewriter animation on or off
  • Theme (Original, Neon, Green, Red or Yellow)
  • Trial timing state in Xeric Retroscope Trial (first launch, greatest trusted watch time and expired state)

These settings stay on the watch, keep no history, and are removed when you uninstall the face. The heart rate, steps, elevation and battery values shown on the face are read live and displayed only — they are not written to storage.

5. Data sent to a server

None. Xeric Retroscope has no networking code and contacts no server — nothing about you or your watch ever leaves the device, including any fitness value it displays.

6. What this watch face does NOT collect or send

  • No name, email address, phone number, postal address, or account credential.
  • No location or GPS data — Xeric Retroscope does not read or transmit your position.
  • No transmission of heart-rate, activity, or sensor data — it displays these values on the watch and sends none of them anywhere.
  • No custom message text sent anywhere — anything you type stays 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. If you set your custom message from the Garmin Connect app's settings for this face, that text is passed by Garmin to the watch and stored only on the watch.

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 in our database only as a salted SHA-256 hash (rate-limiting / spam prevention), never in raw form there. Raw IP addresses do appear in the standard web-server access log, as they do on any website; those logs are kept for up to 30 days and are used only for security and troubleshooting.
  • Standard web-server access logs are kept up to 30 days.
  • No third-party analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels. The site sets exactly one cookie in total, and only on the Hyrox workout-builder page if you choose to pair a watch there.

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 Xeric Retroscope 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

Xeric Retroscope 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.