Last updated August 19, 2026
This is the time clock Bay Area Installers uses to record its crew's hours, running on CrewQR. It is not a consumer product: there is no sign-up, and it is only usable by someone this company has issued an employee number and PIN to.
The short version. The app records when you are working, which job you are on, and — if you allow it — where you are while you are clocked in. That information goes to your employer and nobody else. It is never sold, never shared with advertisers, and never used to track you across other apps or websites. Recording stops the moment you clock out.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your name, employee number, job title and role | To know whose timesheet is whose, and what you are allowed to see. |
| Your punches — clock in and out, meal breaks, which job and cost code | This is the timesheet. It is what you are paid from, and what shows meal breaks were taken on time. |
| Location, if you allow it — at each punch, and periodically while you are clocked in | To confirm which job site the work was done from. See below. |
| Photos you choose to take in the app | Job-site progress, damage, receipts. Only photos you deliberately take or pick. |
| Which phone you signed in on — a label and platform, e.g. "iPhone, iOS" | So a lost phone can be signed out remotely. |
| Your IP address, on sign-in and on changes to time records | Security: to throttle password guessing, and to keep an audit trail of who changed a timesheet. |
The app is not sent pay information — not even your own hourly rate. It has no screen that shows money. Your pay is handled in the office system and in your paycheck.
If you grant location permission, the app records where you are between clocking in and clocking out, and at no other time. Recording starts when you go on the clock and stops when you come off it. It does not run in the evening, at the weekend, or on your way home. If the app is closed or the phone restarts mid-shift, it checks again and only continues if you are still on the clock.
Location is never required. A punch is never refused for having no location. You can decline the permission, or grant it only while using the app, and still clock in, take breaks, switch jobs and be paid exactly as normal. Nothing about your time changes.
Where a job has coordinates set, the app compares your position against them so the office can see whether a punch was made at the site. That comparison is widened by however accurate your phone says it is, so a poor reading is not treated as evidence you were somewhere else.
That is the whole list. The app contains no analytics, no advertising, no tracking SDKs and no third-party services of any kind. Information is sent only to Bay Area Installers's own server. It may be disclosed outside the company only where the law requires it — for example a payroll audit, or a legal demand.
A foreman or the office can correct your punches — for instance if you forgot to clock out. Every such change is recorded with who made it, when, and what the times were before and after. If your timesheet looks wrong, ask, and that history can be produced.
Time records are kept for at least four years, which is what California requires of payroll records. Location readings and photos are kept alongside the shift they belong to. When a device is signed out, anything still waiting to send on that phone is deleted from it.
You can ask to see the information held about you, ask for a correction, and ask how it was used. California employees have these rights under state law, and this policy does not narrow them. Ask Bay Area Installers — the office that runs your payroll holds these records and is who to make the request to.
Asking for it to be deleted is different, and it is worth knowing why before you ask. Your hours, breaks, pay rates and the corrections made to your timesheets cannot be deleted on request. California requires your employer to keep records of the hours you worked and what you were paid for at least four years, and that duty does not go away because you ask — it exists to protect you. Deleting them would leave nobody able to prove what you were owed, including you.
What can be removed is everything held to run the app rather than to prove anything: your email address and phone number, your PIN and password, and any phone still signed in. Your job-site photographs and the locations recorded at your punches can be removed too if your employer agrees — they are not records the law requires, though they may be evidence in a dispute. Whoever services the request is shown exactly what was removed and what had to stay, so they can tell you.
This is a workplace tool issued to employees. It is not directed at children and no account is created for anyone who is not employed here.
If what the app records changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top is updated.