The short version
WIIFII measures your phone’s wifi signal and the networks around you. Everything it records stays on your phone. There are no accounts, ads, analytics or trackers, and WIIFII does not send your data to us or to anyone else.
What WIIFII reads on your phone
- Your wifi connection: signal strength, network name, band, channel, link speed, security type, and the addresses of your phone, router and DNS servers.
- Wifi networks in range: their names, signal strength, channels, security and access point hardware addresses.
- Whether your connection reaches the internet, needs a sign-in page, or is metered.
- How quickly your router answers, measured by contacting the router on your own network.
This is read on the phone, shown to you, and kept only as described below.
What WIIFII stores
- Saved spots: the place names you type, with the reading, band, channel, network name and router timing for each.
- Roaming log: when your phone changed band, channel, access point or network, with the signal before and after.
- Widget: the latest reading, so the home-screen widget can show it.
- Settings: whether you’ve seen the intro.
All of this is stored in WIIFII’s private storage on your phone.
Permissions, and why
- Location. Android only shows network names and the list of nearby networks to apps with location access. WIIFII uses it only for that. It does not read GPS and never records where you are. It does not use location in the background.
- Nearby devices (local network). Lets WIIFII time how quickly your router answers, by contacting it on your own wifi.
- Wifi and network state. To read your connection and the networks in range, and to check whether the internet is working.
- Internet. Android requires this for WIIFII to contact your router on your own network. WIIFII does not connect to the internet.
You can refuse any of these. The signal reading still works.
When data can leave your phone
WIIFII itself never sends anything off your phone. Data can only leave it in these ways, both under your control:
- Export saves a spreadsheet file to a place you choose. What happens to it afterwards is up to you.
- Android backup. If your phone backs up apps to your Google account, WIIFII’s stored data is included in that backup, as for other apps. You control this in your phone’s settings.
Sharing, selling and advertising
We don’t collect your data, so we have nothing to share or sell. WIIFII contains no advertising, analytics or third-party tracking code.
Deleting your data
Swipe a spot away to remove it, use Clear on the Roaming tab, or uninstall WIIFII to delete everything it stored.
Children
WIIFII is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Questions: greg@sharpcom.net.
WIIFII is made by [DEVELOPER NAME].