AGM Apps ("we," "our," or "us") operates the KG Charge mobile application (the "App"), a community-driven map of electric-vehicle charging stations in Kyrgyzstan. Users can browse chargers anonymously, and with an account they can add chargers, confirm them, report prices, and attach photos.
This Privacy Policy explains what information the App collects, why, and what your choices are. KG Charge is free and supported by advertising. You can remove ads for 24 hours by choosing to watch a short rewarded video, or permanently through an optional Ad-Free subscription where offered.
With your permission, the App uses your device location to show your position on the map and to verify you are within 150 meters of a charger when submitting or confirming it, or when reporting that it is incorrect or not working. That presence check is what stops chargers being edited or discredited remotely by people who have never been near them. We do not track, record, or store your movement history. Only the charger's location — never your own path — is saved when you submit a station. Location access is requested only when you use a feature that needs it, and the App works without it (with contribution features limited).
One consequence worth understanding before you submit a charger. When you add a station, the App offers your current position as the starting point for the map pin, because you are usually standing at the charger. If you accept that suggestion and submit, the published pin is a place you were physically present at, and it becomes public community content attributed to your account (Section 6). That is inherent to a crowdsourced map rather than something we do quietly — but you should know it, and you can always drag the pin before submitting.
If you allow notifications, the App registers with Firebase Cloud Messaging and subscribes you to a broadcast topic so we can tell you when a new charger is added in the area the App covers.
KG Charge shows ads via Google AdMob. Depending on your consent choices (App Tracking Transparency prompt and, where applicable, the Google consent form), AdMob may collect device identifiers (such as the IDFA), coarse location inferred from IP address, and ad-interaction data to serve personalized or non-personalized ads. See Google's advertising policy.
We do not sell your personal information.
The App relies on the following processors:
Data is stored on Google Cloud infrastructure (Firestore/Storage buckets located in the United States).
Charger submissions, confirmations, price reports, photos, and comments are shared community data — they are visible to all users of the App. Your email address is never shown to other users; comments display only your reputation tier. Community content may be removed by moderators if it is inaccurate, abusive, or violates our Terms. If you delete your account, your contributions remain on the map as community data but are no longer linked to a live account.
Account data is kept while your account is active. You can permanently delete your account at any time in the App (Profile → Delete Account). Deletion removes your profile, email association, reputation, and contribution history from our systems. Community map data you contributed (chargers, confirmations, photos) remains, de-linked from your identity, so the map keeps working for everyone.
One exception, and we would rather state it plainly than bury it. If your account was permanently banned for abuse, we retain your email address alone on a ban list after deletion. Without it, deleting the account and signing up again with the same address would clear the ban, which would make banning meaningless. The list holds nothing else — no name, no contributions, no history — it is never used for any other purpose, and you can ask us to review a ban at [email protected].
KG Charge is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us at [email protected] and we will delete it.
Data is transmitted over encrypted connections (TLS) and stored in Google Firebase with server-side security rules: only verified, signed-in users can write data, photo uploads are limited in size and type, and account data can only be deleted by its owner. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we follow industry-standard practices.
KG Charge is different from most of our apps in one respect that matters here: it has real accounts, so we do hold an email address for you, and a breach of our Firebase project could genuinely expose account and contribution data. We are not going to soften that.
If we become aware of a security incident affecting personal information under our control, we will investigate immediately and:
One honest caveat: if you browse without an account, we have no way to contact you — but we also hold nothing about you beyond an anonymous session ID, so there would be nothing about you in the incident to report.
AGM Apps, a software developer established in the State of Florida, United States, is the controller of the personal data described in this Policy. Contact details are in Section 16. We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer, as we are not required to under Article 37 GDPR. Google LLC acts as our processor for authentication, database, storage, and advertising.
If you are in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, the GDPR requires us to tell you the lawful basis for each thing we do:
| What we do | Lawful basis |
|---|---|
| Create and maintain your account; send the sign-up verification email | Performance of a contract — Art. 6(1)(b) |
| Publish the chargers, prices, photos, and comments you submit to the community map | Performance of a contract — Art. 6(1)(b); publication is the whole point of submitting |
| Use your device location for the 150 m proximity check | Your consent — Art. 6(1)(a), given through the iOS location permission prompt and withdrawable in iOS Settings at any time |
| Run the reputation and moderation system (points, flags, warnings, suspensions) | Legitimate interests — Art. 6(1)(f): keeping the map accurate and the community usable |
| Personalised advertising | Your consent — Art. 6(1)(a), collected through App Tracking Transparency and the Google consent form, changeable at any time |
| Non-personalised advertising that keeps a free app viable | Legitimate interests — Art. 6(1)(f): funding the App. You may object at any time, or remove ads with a subscription where offered |
| Retain records where law requires, and respond to lawful requests | Legal obligation — Art. 6(1)(c) |
Providing an email address is not a statutory requirement — but an account is needed to contribute, and an account needs an identifier. Browsing the map requires nothing. There is no automated decision-making producing legal or similarly significant effects; the reputation system affects only what you can do inside the App, and a moderator decision can always be appealed by writing to us.
AGM Apps is established in the United States, and as stated in Section 5 your account and community data is stored on Google Cloud infrastructure in the United States. If you use the App from the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, your personal data is therefore transferred to and processed in the United States by Google LLC as our processor, and by our advertising provider. Those transfers rely on the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its UK and Swiss extensions where the recipient is certified, and otherwise on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, as incorporated into Google's data processing terms. We operate no servers of our own.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. The fastest path for deletion is the in-app Delete Account button. For anything else, email us and we will respond within 30 days.
Spelled out against the GDPR articles, and available to you in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland:
Because you have an account, we can verify who you are and act on a request — which is not true of our other apps. We verify by requiring the request to come from, or be confirmed at, the email address on the account. One limit worth stating plainly: erasure removes your account and everything that identifies you, but it does not retract the charger data you contributed, which stays on the map de-linked from you so the map keeps working for everyone. If you believe a specific contribution should also be removed, tell us and we will consider it.
This section applies if you live in a U.S. state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law — including California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Minnesota, Maryland, Indiana, Kentucky, and Rhode Island, plus any other state whose law is in effect when you read this. Where a right below exists only under your state's law, we honor it for residents of that state.
Using the categories named in the California Consumer Privacy Act:
As stated in Section 3, we collect no payment or card details, no contacts, messages, or files, and we build no location profile. Your email address is never shown to other users.
Precise geolocation is treated as sensitive personal information under California law, and KG Charge does use it — so we want to be exact about how. When you submit or confirm a charger, the App reads your location on your device and compares it to the charger's location to check you are within 150 metres. The comparison is what gets used; your coordinates are not saved, not transmitted for advertising, and not used to infer anything about you. What ends up in the database is the charger's position, not yours.
We use sensitive personal information only for the purpose just described, which is within the permitted uses that do not trigger a right to limit under California law. You can withdraw it entirely at any time by revoking location access in iOS Settings — the App keeps working, and only the on-site contribution features become unavailable. We do not sell or share sensitive personal information.
We have never sold personal information for money and do not do so. But we are going to be straightforward about something a lot of apps word carefully: when personalized advertising is on, our ad partner receives your advertising identifier and IP address and may use them to target ads to you in other apps. Under California law that counts as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising, and under several other state laws it counts as "targeted advertising" or a "sale." Your email address, account, contributions, and location are not part of that — but the advertising identifier is, and we would rather say so than rely on a narrow reading of the word "sell."
You can stop it at any time, free:
We do not sell or share the personal information of anyone we know to be under 16.
Where these web pages are read in a browser that sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) or similar signal, we treat it as a valid opt-out of sale and sharing for that browser. iOS does not send GPC to apps, so inside the App the equivalent is App Tracking Transparency — and declining that prompt is treated as a valid opt-out signal by us and by every ad partner we use.
Email [email protected] with the request type in the subject line. We operate entirely online and deal with you directly, so email is our designated method. We will acknowledge within 10 business days and answer within 45 days, extendable once by another 45 with notice. Deletion is faster if you do it yourself in the App.
About verification: because KG Charge has accounts, we can verify you — we do it by requiring the request to come from, or be confirmed at, the email address on the account. If you have only ever browsed the map without an account, there is nothing tied to you for us to find, and we will tell you that rather than pretend to search.
Authorized agents may act for you with your signed permission or a valid power of attorney. We may contact you to confirm it.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, the "Last Updated" date above will be revised, and significant changes will be communicated through an App update or in-app notice. Continued use of the App after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
[email protected]Developer: AGM Apps · agmapps.net