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Lumix Remote privacy policy

How Lumix Remote handles your information.

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Summary

  • Lumix Remote talks to one thing: the Panasonic Lumix camera you connect it to, over the camera's own Wi-Fi network. It does not connect to us or to any other server.
  • We do not receive your photos, your camera settings or any usage data. The app's usage counts stay in a database on your phone.
  • Photos you download from the camera are saved to your phone's Pictures folder, where your other apps can see them.
  • The app has no AI features and does not share anything with other Curtilage apps.
  • Lumix is a trademark of Panasonic. Lumix Remote is not made, endorsed or supported by Panasonic.

What the app collects

Lumix Remote is a remote control for Lumix cameras: live view, focus, exposure settings, shutter, video, and downloading the latest photo. To work, it handles:

  • The camera's address. The IP (Internet Protocol) address you type or the app finds on the camera's Wi-Fi, for example 192.168.54.1.
  • A pairing identity. The first time you connect, the app makes a random pairing ID and keeps it on your phone, so the camera recognizes the app on later connections. It is not tied to you, your phone's hardware or your accounts.
  • Live view and photos from the camera. Live view frames are shown on screen and not saved. A photo is saved to your phone only when you tap "Get latest photo" or turn on "Auto-download".
  • Usage counts. The app records a short event name and time when you open a screen or use a control, such as "connect" or "shutter". Some records also hold the camera's IP address or the file name of a photo you downloaded. These records stay on your phone.

The app does not ask for your location, does not add location to photos and does not send location to the camera.

Where it goes

On your phone

  • Downloaded photos are saved in Pictures/LumixRemote in your phone's shared photo storage. Your gallery and any photo backup app you use can see them, and they stay on your phone if you uninstall Lumix Remote.
  • The usage counts and the pairing ID are kept in the app's private storage. The app does not add its own encryption to them. They are protected by Android's normal app sandbox and your phone's own storage encryption, if your phone uses it.
  • Android backup is turned on for this app. If you use Android's backup to your Google account, or move to a new phone with Android's transfer tool, the usage counts and the pairing ID can be copied along with your other app data. Your photos are not part of the app's backup.

Your camera

  • When you connect, the app sends the camera its pairing ID and the name "LumixRemote", which the camera may show on its screen and remember. After that it sends the camera commands you choose, and receives live view and photos.
  • The camera's remote-control protocol is plain HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) with no encryption. Anyone else joined to the camera's Wi-Fi network could see this traffic, including photos as they download. The camera's Wi-Fi password is set on the camera.
  • The app does not lock its connection to the camera's Wi-Fi. If your phone decides that network has no internet and routes traffic over mobile data instead, the app's requests to the camera's address can go out over mobile data, where no camera answers. Those requests carry camera commands, the pairing ID and the name "LumixRemote". They do not carry photos.

Our server

  • None. The app does not connect to any server of ours.

A third-party service

  • None. The app has no analytics service, crash-reporting service, ads, maps or update check.

Permissions and why

  • Internet
    • Why the app asks: Android requires this permission for any network connection, including the local connection to the camera's Wi-Fi
    • When: Granted at install
  • Wi-Fi state (view)
    • Why the app asks: To hold the Wi-Fi network open for camera discovery
    • When: When you tap "Discover camera"
  • Wi-Fi multicast
    • Why the app asks: To find cameras on the Wi-Fi network
    • When: When you tap "Discover camera"

The app does not ask for location, camera, microphone, contacts or storage permissions. Saving photos to the Pictures folder does not need a permission on the Android versions the app supports (Android 10 and later).

Analytics

We do not run analytics on this app, and the app does not send usage data to us or to anyone else. It keeps simple usage counts in its own database on your phone, as described above. They are deleted when you uninstall the app or clear its storage in Android's settings.

The app has no crash-reporting service of its own.

Sharing with other Curtilage apps

None. Lumix Remote does not exchange data with other Curtilage apps.

Your choices

  • Photos: Downloaded photos are ordinary files in Pictures/LumixRemote. You can share, move or delete them with your gallery or file manager. Turn off "Auto-download" to save photos only when you ask.
  • Delete: Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in Android's settings, removes the usage counts and the pairing ID. Photos you downloaded stay until you delete them. The camera may keep "LumixRemote" in its own list of paired devices. Remove it there using the camera's menus.
  • Export: The app has no export feature. Your photos are already in shared storage.
  • Turn off: There is no setting for the usage counts. You can revoke the Wi-Fi permissions in Android's settings, but discovery will stop working; you can still type the camera's address.

Children

Lumix Remote is not designed for or directed at children. It does not ask for anyone's age, and we do not receive any information from it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version on this page and update the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about this policy: https://curtilage.zone/contact