Inno Time — What It Records About an Employee

The transparency notice for the PC work-time tool.

The transparency notice for the PC work-time tool.

Why this notice exists

Inno Time runs on an employee's own work PC and measures working time. That makes it the most privacy-sensitive tool we publish.

A notice that has to be hunted for is not a notice. This one is written to be read by the person being measured, not only by the employer who installed it, and it says what the tool does NOT do as plainly as what it does.

If you are an employee reading this: the decisions described here were made by your employer, not by us. Where you want something changed, that is who to ask.

What it measures

Active minutes, idle minutes and unmeasured minutes, for the working day.

The active/idle distinction is derived from the operating system's own last-input counter — that is, how long it has been since the keyboard or mouse was touched. It is a measure of whether the machine was in use, not of what was done on it.

Check-in and check-out, recorded against the machine name. The tool records no location and requests no location permission.

"Unmeasured" is a real third state and is reported separately, because a minute we could not measure is not the same as a minute you were idle, and folding one into the other would misreport the day.

What it deliberately does not do

It does not log keystrokes. There is no keystroke-logging code in the tool at all.

It does not capture the screen. There is no screenshot code path in the tool at all.

It does not read files, email or browser history.

It does not record the microphone or the camera.

It does not record your location.

These are stated as explicit absences rather than left unmentioned, because these are exactly the fears a tool of this kind raises, and the honest answer to each of them happens to be good.

Application names are opt-in

The tool CAN report the names of the applications in use, with the minutes spent in each.

Whether it does is a decision made on the server by the employer, not on the device by the tool. The tool asks the server first and obeys the answer.

Where the employer has that setting off, application names are removed on the server, not merely hidden in the interface — so a name sent by an older or tampered client is discarded rather than stored.

The panel on the employee's own machine states which decision is in force, so the person being measured can see it without asking.

Background and after hours

The tool measures a minute as ACTIVE only while it is running and the machine was actually in use within the idle threshold.

When the tool is not running, nothing is measured — the minutes are unmeasured, not idle.

The tool reports absolute totals for the day rather than increments, so a restart or a replayed report cannot inflate a day beyond what was really measured.

It does not distinguish work from non-work. It measures whether the machine was in use. Reading a total as a judgement about a person is a use the measurement does not support.

The employee can see their own record

The panel on the machine and the "My Profile" screen in the system show the employee the same figures the employer sees.

A monitoring tool that the monitored person cannot read is the one that ends up in a dispute, and the one a regulator treats least kindly. So the record is not one-way.

Where you believe a figure is wrong, raise it with your employer; the system has a correction-request process for attendance records.

Who is responsible for consent

The employer is the data controller. The employer is responsible for notifying employees that this tool is in use, for stating the purpose, and for obtaining any consent required under Egyptian Personal Data Protection Law 151 of 2018.

We supply the tool and process the measurements on the employer's instructions. We do not decide who it is installed on.

Installing a measurement tool on an employee's machine without telling them is unlawful. This notice exists so that telling them is easy, and there is no good reason not to.

Retention and switching it off

Measurements are kept as part of the employer's working-time records, for as long as the employer keeps them and subject to the retention described in our general privacy policy.

The feature is a switch resolved per branch, and can be turned off entirely. Where it is off for a branch, the tool sends nothing and the server accepts nothing from it — turning it off stops the collection, it does not merely hide it.

Uninstalling the tool from a machine stops all measurement from that machine immediately.

Language and the governing text

These terms were drafted in Arabic. The Arabic text is the authentic and governing version. The English version is provided as a convenience translation, and where the two differ in meaning the Arabic text alone applies.