Easy BACnet · BACnet IP Controls made Easy

Privacy Policy for Easy BACnet

Last updated: 16 September 2026

The short version: The Easy BACnet app does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data. It has no user accounts, no analytics, and no servers — everything the app does happens on your device and on the local network you point it at. This website (easybacnet.com) uses Google Analytics, but only after you accept the cookie banner; see Website analytics below.

What the app does

Easy BACnet is a diagnostic tool for building-automation technicians. It broadcasts a standard BACnet Who-Is message on the local network, lists the BACnet/IP devices that respond, reads their points, and can bundle the results into a CSV file.

Information the app does not collect

No name, email address, phone number, or account of any kind.
No location data. The app never requests location permission.
No analytics, crash reporting, telemetry, or usage statistics inside the app. (The website uses Google Analytics with consent — see Website analytics.)
No contacts, photos, files, or other content from your device.

Easy BACnet receives nothing from your use of the app and has no way to see what you scan or what your network contains.

Website analytics

This website, easybacnet.com, uses Google Analytics (GA4) to understand which guides are useful and how visitors arrive. It runs with Google Consent Mode: no analytics cookie is set and no data is sent until you choose Accept on the cookie banner. If you decline, or ignore the banner, Analytics stays off. Your choice is remembered in your browser and you can clear it any time by clearing this site's data. IP addresses are anonymised, and no advertising or cross-site tracking signals are collected on the website. Google's handling of Analytics data is described in the Google Privacy Policy. This is entirely separate from the app, which contains no analytics.

Advertising

The free version shows occasional rewarded video ads, supplied by Google AdMob, in exchange for exporting a report or opening a saved custom remote. To serve these, Google's advertising SDK may collect a device advertising identifier and standard ad-delivery information, as described in Google's own privacy policy. In regions that require it you are asked for consent before any personalised ad is shown, and you may choose non-personalised ads instead.

The one-time in-app purchase removes all advertising. The developer of Easy BACnet receives only aggregate, anonymous earnings reports from AdMob and never sees your personal data.

Information the app reads on your network

While you are actively using it, Easy BACnet reads technical information from BACnet devices on the network you are connected to: device names and ID numbers, IP addresses, point names, present values, engineering units, status flags, and descriptions.

This information is held in the phone's memory only for as long as the app is running, and is not sent anywhere. Closing the app discards it.

The CSV export

When you tap Export BACnet Results, the app writes a CSV file into its own private cache folder on your device and attaches it to a new message in whichever email app you choose. Two things are worth being clear about:

You control where it goes. The app does not fill in a recipient, does not send anything by itself, and has no email account of its own. Nothing leaves your phone unless you address the message and press send.
Once you send it, your email provider handles it. From that point the file is governed by the privacy policy of your email provider and by whatever the recipient does with it, neither of which Easy BACnet controls.

Cached export files are stored in the app's private storage, are not readable by other apps, and are removed when you clear the app's cache or uninstall the app.

The one-time purchase

Easy BACnet is free to use. On the free version you can keep one custom remote, and exporting a report or opening a saved remote plays a short rewarded video ad. A single one-time purchase removes the ads and lets you build as many remotes as you like. That purchase is handled entirely by Google Play. The app never sees or stores a card number, a billing address, or a name — it receives only a yes-or-no answer from Google about whether the unlock has been bought, and records that answer on the device.

Google's handling of the transaction is covered by the Google Privacy Policy, not this one.

Permissions and why they are needed

INTERNET — opens the local UDP socket used to speak the BACnet/IP protocol. Despite the name, this permission is what Android requires for any network socket, including local-only ones.
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE — checks whether the phone is on a network before starting a scan.
ACCESS_WIFI_STATE — reads the Wi-Fi network's broadcast address so the Who-Is message reaches the right subnet.
CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE — allows the phone to receive the broadcast replies that BACnet devices send back. Android filters these out by default.

The app requests no runtime permissions, so there are no permission prompts to accept.

Children

Easy BACnet is a professional tool for building-automation work. It is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted on this page with an updated date at the top. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes on Google Play.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about the app can go to [email protected].