When adding an event to Google Calendar, you are initially asked to grant arbprosoftware.com permission to manage your calendar. This permission is the lowest tier Google Calendar has to offer and can be misleading when trying to understand which level of access Arb Pro has to your calendar (now and in the future).
First time using Arb Pro
Using Arb Pro for future Events
Requested Data- Arb Pro Software LTD, does not request any data from your Google Calendar when an API call is made.
The API call only requests to sync Arb Pro events to your Google calendar that include the following 3 event types.
- Work Events data related to booked dates and times
- Generic events – Data related to a generic event like a doctor’s appointment of training for example
- Surveyor Appointments- Data related to times and dates from your arb pro calendar when a surveyor is due to visit a specific site.
SPECIFIC DATA SYNCED-
- Field 1 Date – The date the event starts and ends
- Field 2 Time – The time the event starts and ends
- Field 3 Text – Text entered in Arb Pro to identify your clients name and address, is synced to the Google field “Add title & Time”
Data requested why?
You may use the API to sync data from Arb Pro to your Google Calendar. Events saved in your Google Calendar are NOT synced to your Arb Pro Calendar.
USING THE API ENABLES A ONE-WAY SYNC OF DATA FROM ARB PRO TO YOUR GOOGLE CALENDAR ONLY
Google Calendar (GC)- Many GC users gain great benefit retaining and continuing to use their GC to manage events outside of Arb Pro Calendar.
The reason will be specific to each GC user, for example their GC use may include personal events or other similar events they don’t want displayed on a global calendar shared with colleagues for example “Arb Pro Calendar” (APC).
Reasons may also include a wish to continue using their GC for historical and familiarity reasons, considering a GC users may have been using their GC for many years and wants to retain their GC calendar alongside their APC.
Considering the aforementioned, the ability to sync events from your APC to your GC is greatly beneficial. Integrating using the API and allowing your APC events to sync to your GC also considerably helps a user to avoid double bookings and time crossovers for specific events.
Once a user has synced all their events from APC to GC, they are in a better position to avoid double booking events and retain a single view from their GC for personal events they would rather work colleagues cannot see.
Using the API therefore is beneficial for all the reasons detailed above.
Requested Data- Arb Pro Software LTD, does not request any data from your Google Calendar when an API call is made.
The API call only requests to sync Arb Pro events to your Google calendar that include the following 3 event types.
- Work Events data related to booked dates and times
- Generic events – Data related to a generic event like a doctor’s appointment of training for example
- Surveyor Appointments- Data related to times and dates from your arb pro calendar when a surveyor is due to visit a specific site.
SPECIFIC DATA SYNCED-
- Field 1 Date – The date the event starts and ends
- Field 2 Time – The time the event starts and ends
- Field 3 Text – Text entered in Arb Pro to identify your clients name and address, is synced to the Google field “Add title & Time”
Data requested why?
You may use the API to sync data from Arb Pro to your Google Calendar. Events saved in your Google Calendar are NOT synced to your Arb Pro Calendar.
USING THE API ENABLES A ONE-WAY SYNC OF DATA FROM ARB PRO TO YOUR GOOGLE CALENDAR ONLY
Google Calendar (GC)- Many GC users gain great benefit retaining and continuing to use their GC to manage events outside of Arb Pro Calendar.
The reason will be specific to each GC user, for example their GC use may include personal events or other similar events they don’t want displayed on a global calendar shared with colleagues for example “Arb Pro Calendar” (APC).
Reasons may also include a wish to continue using their GC for historical and familiarity reasons, considering a GC users may have been using their GC for many years and wants to retain their GC calendar alongside their APC.
Considering the aforementioned, the ability to sync events from your APC to your GC is greatly beneficial. Integrating using the API and allowing your APC events to sync to your GC also considerably helps a user to avoid double bookings and time crossovers for specific events.
Once a user has synced all their events from APC to GC, they are in a better position to avoid double booking events and retain a single view from their GC for personal events they would rather work colleagues cannot see.
Using the API therefore is beneficial for all the reasons detailed above.
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Arb Pro, we have a few fundamental principles:
- We DO NOT extract or store any of your account or calendar information.
- We DO NOT ask you for personal information.
- We comply with the correct legislation, and we go to great lengths to protect your rights.
If you have any concerns or further questions, please feel free to contact info@arbprosoftware.com