# Home Mobile SDK Google Play Data Safety Section

In May 2021, Google Play
[announced the new Data safety section](https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/05/new-safety-section-in-google-play-will.html),
a developer-provided disclosure of apps' user data collection, sharing, and
security practices.

This page can help you complete the requirements for this data disclosure with
respect to your usage of the Google Home Mobile SDK. On this page, you can
find information on whether and how our SDK handles end-user data, including
any applicable configurations or invocations you can control as the app
developer.

We aim to be as transparent as possible in supporting you. However, as the app
developer, you are solely responsible for deciding how to respond to Google
Play's Data safety section form regarding your app's end-user data collection,
sharing, and security practices.

## How to use the information on this page

This page lists the end-user data collected by only the latest version of
the SDK.

We provide information about data *collected automatically* versus data
*collected based on your usage*. Automatic collection means that the SDK
collects specific data without you invoking any specific method or class in
your app. However, in many cases, the data collected by the SDK depends on your
app's specific usage of the product, meaning your app's configuration and how
you invoke the SDK.

To complete the data disclosure for your app, you can use Android's
[data types guide](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/collect-share),
to help you determine which *data type* best describes the collected
data. In your data disclosure, make sure to also account for how your specific
app shares and uses the collected data.

> [!NOTE]
> **Important:** To help you ensure that your app's disclosures are accurate, we recommend the following:
>
> - Always use the latest SDK versions in your app. This page only lists the data collected by the latest version of each SDK.
> - Review this page whenever you update your app's SDK versions. Check that your data disclosures are accurate and up-to-date.

## home

    com.google.android.gms:play-services-home

### SDK data collection

The Google Home Mobile SDK provides Matter APIs built in Google Play services
to quickly build Matter apps compatible with billions of Android devices. The
SDK collects information about the SDK's interactions
[App Activity](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/collect-share#app-activity)
with Matter devices, and portions of that data are sent to a Google log
collection server. Information logged includes commissioning events and sharing
events, Matter device information, mobile device information, and client app
information.

The SDK metadata, and client app metadata are used to monitor the adoption rate
of different SDK releases by different apps, and to understand which SDK
features have been integrated into different mobile apps.

The SDK also collects non-user-specific data that allows Google to improve the
Google Home experience for users. This data is NOT used to model a specific
user's behavior. The analysis of the data results in product wide decisions and
changes to the overall system, not in changes to a specific user's experience.

The SDK collects all data anonymously. Logs do not contain any identifiers that
can be traced back to a specific user. The collected data is only retained for
a short period of time. Before deletion, the data is aggregated to obtain
high-level product performance metrics, which are used to improve the SDK.

For each data type listed:

- The SDK transmits encrypted analytics data off the device through a Google
  log collection server to Google's data analytics pipeline.

- The collected data is used in aggregate form to improve the SDK: to monitor
  overall SDK usage and performance, and to detect software defects in the
  product.

- The SDK enabled third party usage sharing with App developers that use the
  SDK. Data collected by Google that can be used to monitor your Matter
  project's reliability made available to developers through [Google Cloud Analytics for Matter](https://developers.home.google.com/matter/analytics)

- The SDK does NOT share data with other apps on the user's device.

### App-level notes

- All data transmitted from the SDK is encrypted in transit.
- Neither the app developer nor the users of the app utilizing this SDK can opt out of data collection or delete their data.