Responsible in the sense of the law is

Christoph J. Tamussino
1180 Vienna, Herbeckstraße 27
Austria

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Using the bioGartler app

I provide you with a mobile app that you can download to your mobile device. You are entitled to the rights described here.

When downloading the app, the necessary information is transferred to the App Store or Google Play Store. This information includes, in particular, the user name and e-mail address of your account, the time of the download, the unique number of the end device (IMEI), the mobile phone number (MSISDN), the MAC address for WLAN use and the unique number of the network subscriber (IMSI). I have no influence on this data collection and am not responsible for it. I process this provided data as far as it is necessary for downloading the app to your smartphone. They will not be stored beyond this.

When using the App, the following additional personal data is collected to enable the App to function

• First and last name
• e-mail address
• Username
• Password

At the beginning of the App use, the App requires the following access rights and exclusively for the following purpose

• Photo camera: To take diary and other photos and upload them to the respective sections.
• Photos/Media/Files: To add already taken photos/media/files from your smartphone/tablet to an entry
• Device ID: Used in the App Store for statistics

If you refuse, the app will not use this data. You will not be able to use the corresponding functions of the app. You can grant or revoke this permission later in the settings. If you allow access to this data, the App will only access this data and transfer it to the server to the extent necessary to provide the functionality. This data will be treated confidentially and deleted if you revoke the rights to use it or if it is no longer necessary to provide the service.

Your data will only be transferred to a server in the system as part of the synchronisation process. Third parties are not involved in processes and are not given dedicated access. In general, the app is a tool for managing your garden.

Security

I have taken technical and administrative security measures to protect your personal data against loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorised access. All service providers working for me are bound by the applicable data protection laws.

Whenever I collect and process personal data, it is encrypted before it is transferred. This means that your data cannot be misused by third parties. The security measures are subject to a continuous improvement process and the privacy policy will be revised if necessary. Please make sure that you have the latest version.
Your information according to art. 13 DSGVO

What data is processed and from what sources does this data originate?

Only data for which you have given your consent will be processed.

Personal data includes Your master data/contact data, which for users of the app includes e.g. first and last name, e-mail address, user name and password.

For what purposes and on what legal basis is the data processed?

Christoph Tamussino, as the person responsible for the bioGartler app, does not process your data.

Processing of personal data for advertising purposes

Christoph Tamussino, as the person responsible for the bioGartler app, will not process your data.

Who receives my data?

Apart from your Apple user data, which is administered by Apple, your Google data, which is administered by Google, your entries in the App, which are not of a personal nature, are stored on a sync server (Firebase) to enable you to synchronise your content to different devices.

How long will my data be stored?

The data you enter will be stored until the end of your App subscription.
Is personal data transferred to a third country?

Christoph Tamussino is constantly striving to improve the App bioGartler and to optimize the possibilities of use. For this reason the App may use Google Analytics, an analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). The information generated by the App about the use of the App is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

What data protection rights do I have?

You have the right to information, correction, deletion or limitation of the processing of your stored data at any time.

Right to information

You can demand information from me as to whether and to what extent I process your data. But I do not process any of your personal data.

Right to deletion

You can demand the deletion of your data at any time.

Right of appeal

You are of course also entitled to contact the supervisory authority responsible for you, the respective state office for data protection supervision.

Changes to this privacy policy

I reserve the right to change this privacy policy if new technologies make this necessary. So please make sure that you have the latest version. If there are major changes to this privacy policy, we will announce them on the website.

All interested parties and visitors to this website can contact me regarding data protection issues at

Christoph J. Tamussino
1180 Wien, Herbeckstraße 27
Austria

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Translation by DeepL

In October 2012 I got my raised bed, built it up, filled it up and planted it for the first time in spring 2013. As a beginner, who has never been involved in growing vegetables before, I was really overwhelmed with the sowing, care and fertilization of the salads, carrots, fennel etc. Of course I read a lot in books, but who is supposed to remember all this?

There were already some apps with a lot of information, but in none of them you could put together the plants yourself, make additional notes, collect information yourself and manage different varieties of a genus. And not only for vegetables and herbs, but also for flowers, bushes, fruit trees and all other plants in the garden. In addition, I also wanted to write down tips and information from all possible channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Wikipedia and others somewhere. The gardener, the neighbor, a friend ... all give you useful tips and experiences that I wanted to collect.

So I looked for an app for all my memos and notes, one just for the garden todos, a diary app, several garden apps and Trello for bed management. So a lot of apps for the management of my garden. This seemed to me suboptimal.

So how else do you manage so much information sensibly?

Professionally I was and am self-employed and have always managed my projects with Filemaker. This is a database software for Mac, with which you can create databases "quite easily" yourself and design them as you like. So it was obvious that for my vegetable growing and gardening ambitions I would also create a kind of information collection and management database. The first thing I wanted to do was to create a timeline in which I could see at a glance what I have to do and when, from pulling forward to fertilizing and harvesting.

At that time this database only consisted of two screens, a list (with a timeline) and a detail view, in which I collected all kinds of information, but which was clearly arranged by topic.

Screenshots of the Filemaker file on iPad, 2013 (German)

Very soon, of course, I started to grow different varieties of one genus (for example tomatoes). Although the basic information was always the same, I still had to duplicate the whole data set for a new variety, but then only change the variety-specific details. So in the first extension I separated the "Plant" section into "Genus" and "Varieties" to avoid duplicating the information for a genus, which is also valid for all its varieties, for each of the varieties. So, if I was on the page of a variety, the most important information of the genus was taken from there and displayed.

Much later a diary was added to the database, which is now the most used tool with almost 2.000 (!) entries.

Screenshots of the Filemaker file on iPad, Diary, 2014 (German)

One of my first attempts to find out which data I want to collect in the diary and which fields I need for this.

Screenshots of the Filemaker file on iPad, 2016 (German)

First design attempts (well ;) towards app, first attempt of a start screen. The section "genus" was still called "info", "varieties" was called "plant" for different plants. Also the first attempts to assign different colors to the different areas. This version also with to-do list. Renamed from "Garden" (my garden administration") to "bioGartler" for a possible app (according to my blog).

Screenshots of the Filemaker file on the iPad, end of 2018 (German)

The individual areas have been given icons in the colors used before. The "i" stands for "info", later became "genus". There is still no bed or source management.

I implemented the bed and source management only in 2019.

Again and again I worked on the layout on the iPhone or mobile, which was very difficult, because there is simply not enough space on the screen for the wealth of information. But I have (hopefully) managed this as well over the years.

At some point I had the idea that other Gartler probably/probably would like to have such an app, too. But Filemaker as a tool was out of the question, you can download the app for free in the store, but it has two big disadvantages: first, as a single user it still can't synchronize (although Filemaker is an Apple subsidiary!) and second, you can only update with the desktop app on the original file. So I started to think of my own app, worked on the layout and spent the last two years developing a design that seemed "app-suitable" to me.

Screenshots of the Filemaker file on iPad, end of 2019

The version at the end of 2019 - with new icons and the ladybug that appears over and over again - comes quite close to the version of the app and was also the agency's target. While they were programming the app, I continued to refine the layout. For example, the background image was not added until early 2020, in my opinion a major plus in look and feel.

And for comparison the same screenshots of the app, July 2020

It was more difficult than expected to find a suitable agency, where the costs for this app are feasible but the "chemistry" to the employees/supporters is right. But even that was successful (after half a year), I found a very young, competent and likeable team.

But that is another story ...