Sigma's Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important. After all, this app would be nothing without its users. We wish to be as transparent as possible with how your data is used with Sigma, the Spreadsheet Add-on.
Disclosure of how Sigma accesses, uses, stores, or shares Google user data
How information is accessed:
- Information is accessed from the Spreadsheet in order to create the Google Form. The script does not know what the information is, only how to used
that information i.e. column B contains the Form question name.
- Any folder or image ID/YouTube link provided will be used to relocate and customize the Google Form respectively
How information is used:
- The information that is provided will be used to enhance the user experience, whether that be the convience of creating Google Forms in a certain
folder or creating Google Forms based on the inputted questions.
What information is stored:
- The global setting variables are stored on the Spreadsheet
- Inputted questions are stored on the Spreadsheet
- The URL of the Google Form is also stored on the Spreadsheet
- None of the above is stored with the developer or third party. Everything is stored locally.
What information is shared:
- Short answer, nothing. The only information the developer can see is the error logs when a bug/error occurs (and this only says what line, what method
caused the issue).
- This means the frequency at which you create your Google Form is not shared. The questions inside the Spreadsheet is not shared. The Google Forms are
also not shared. Nothing is being shared besides error logs.
What Information is Collected?
Nothing. The script runs locally on the user’s machine and no information is ever saved throughout this process.
The information on the Spreadsheet is parsed through the script and regurgitated onto a Google Form. There is
no third-party that collects data during this process or sees what is on your Form.
Although some of the scopes seem questionable (i.e. “See, edit, create, and delete all of your
Google Drive files”), this is because there are no lower permission alternatives. The option for the developer is
essentially either "do you want a Google Form" or "do it all by hand," which kind of defeats the purpose of automation.
Elaborating on the given example, the script only
places the Google Forms in a specified folder if told specifically. The contents of your Google Drive are not analyzed or stored.
For the technically savvy people, you will find that
the only times the script ever references a "delete-something" method is when the script needs to delete extra rows/columns
when initializing the Spreadsheet.
tldr; the Spreadsheet only accesses the data given and nothing is collected during this process
How is the data used?
Information on the Spreadsheet is used to create Google Forms. By parsing the information on the Google Sheets,
the script can create the desired Google Form. As mentioned before, there is no keeping of user data throughout this process.
This means that the data is only used for creating Google Forms and nothing else.
tldr; the Spreadsheet can only use the given information because nothing is stored through the script
What information is shared?
Your data is safe from being shared as nothing is ever collected with the add-on.
tldr; data is not stored, which means no information can be shared
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding the Privacy Policy or the script, please email the main developer at michael.li.web@gmail.com