Zashi is a privacy-first pockets, and we take that significantly. Meaning accessing as little information as potential, and being clear concerning the information we’ve got entry to, why it issues, and how one can management it. Right here’s what you must know:
What Information We Gather
Zashi doesn’t acquire any information. Like most software program apps, it makes use of crash experiences, enabled and generated on the working system degree, to assist our crew detect and repair bugs. However in contrast to most apps—even people who declare to prioritize privateness—Zashi doesn’t see or acquire another information. Crash experiences are the one information we are able to see, which is uncommon amongst app builders.
Crash experiences present restricted anonymized technical information the only objective of which is to observe the wholesome perform of the app. They assist make the pockets extra secure and usable, nothing extra.
Vital:
ECC and the Zashi builders don’t monitor, view, or acquire your pockets exercise. When a crash report is generated, it presents restricted information wanted to determine what triggered the crash. We don’t see or acquire names, emails, telephone numbers, contact lists, user-generated content material, or transaction particulars.
What Crash Report Instruments We Use
Crash experiences are saved and processed by Google (on Android) and Apple (on iOS), and like all apps on their platforms, we should comply with strict guidelines about what information is collected and the way it’s dealt with. Violating these guidelines would result in removing from their shops.
What Crash Studies Do Not Comprise
Crash experiences are anonymized and solely embody technical diagnostics like gadget sort, app model, time of the crash, stack hint (which a part of the code crashed), error logs, and working system model.
These experiences do not comprise:
Your transaction IDs or historical past
Pockets addresses
ZEC balances
Private data like identify, electronic mail, or telephone
Person IDs tied to Zashi
Something that would hyperlink a transaction to a particular person
Crash experiences inform us how and when the app broke, not who it occurred to.
Can You Decide Out?
Sure, in a number of methods:
iOS customers:
Apple permits customers to choose out of diagnostic information sharing throughout all apps. You are able to do this in your iPhone settings. iOS doesn’t enable customers to choose out for particular person apps.
Android customers:
Google doesn’t enable builders or customers to opt-out from the default Google Play Companies information assortment for Android Vitals.
To choose out, Android customers can obtain Zashi through F-Droid. The F-Droid model of Zashi is basically totally different from the Play Retailer model: it’s fully freed from proprietary analytics and crash reporting instruments.
Enhancements:
We already entry far much less information than most apps, however we’ve taken extra steps to restrict information assortment even additional:
For iOS, we’ve eliminated Firebase Crashlytics fully (Zashi iOS v1.5.2).
We’ve carried out a chance to opt-out of Firebase Crashlytics for Android. Customers can choose out of sharing crash experiences in Zashi’s Superior Settings. (Zashi Android v1.5.2)
For Android, we’ve set Firebase Crashlytics to be “Off” by default. Customers can select to choose in via Zashi’s Superior Settings or the pockets’s standing widget. (Zashi Android v2.0)
We’ve up to date the F-Droid model, eradicating the wrong safety warning, which falsely implied that the F-droid model collects crash experiences. That was by no means the case.
F-Droid & GitHub: Full Transparency
Zashi is out there on F-Droid, an unbiased app retailer that prioritizes open-source, privacy-respecting software program. In contrast to conventional app shops, F-Droid doesn’t monitor or profile customers, and it permits for fully nameless downloads. The F-Droid model of Zashi is absolutely open-source and contains no crash reporting instruments in any respect.
The F-Droid Zashi construct is totally reproducible, and we encourage our neighborhood to construct it and confirm our work. This helps establish and mitigate potential threats to our infrastructure, processes, and the third-party providers we rely on.
You may as well construct the app your self from supply.
Zashi code is totally open supply and accessible on GitHub:
Learn extra about alternative routes to obtain Zashi pockets.
Philosophy: Privateness by Design
Many wallets declare to prioritize privateness, whereas quietly accumulating analytics and person habits. Zashi doesn’t simply declare it—we reside it.
We don’t see or acquire person and app information. We don’t profile customers. We don’t monitor their exercise. And we exit of our method to reduce metadata leakage. Zashi is constructed by the identical crew that created and maintains the Zcash protocol—essentially the most superior privateness tech within the blockchain business. We apply the identical requirements to app improvement that we do to protocol-level privateness.
We welcome scrutiny—particularly in privateness tech. However conversations about privateness and person security should be grounded in information, not concern or hypothesis. We encourage customers to use the identical excessive requirements to all of the apps and wallets they use, and to demand transparency and alter when these instruments fall brief.
Our dedication to Zashi customers is unwavering.
Shields up.
