Privacy policy

This is also what the app declares to Apple: “Data Not Collected” on its App Store listing, and no tracking, no collected data types and no tracking domains in its privacy manifest.

A few settings and your own disks, on your device.

To pick up where you left off, the app writes the following to its own storage on your iPhone or iPad, and nowhere else:

• The disks you build. What you enter in Build a used disk and save to My disks: the name and sentence you gave the disk, and its recipe — hardware, format, system and software, period of use, habits and seed. The simulated volume itself is not stored; it is rebuilt from the recipe when you open it.
• The state of each disk. A short summary of the passes you have listened to — which disk, which tool or system, when it finished, how long it took, and the before-and-after figures of its report — so that a disk you tidied is still shown as tidied next time. The most recent 120 are kept.
• Your sound settings. The mix preset and the levels under Sound and haptics.
• Whether you have seen the welcome screens, so they are not shown again at every launch.

The disks and pass summaries are files in the app’s private container; the sound settings and the welcome flag are kept in the app’s preferences (UserDefaults). None of it describes you: it describes simulated disks and how you like them to sound. The twenty-four period disks are generated on the device from recipes that ship with the app.

Nowhere, unless you send it.

Sharing a report. Share the report hands the text of a pass report to the iOS share sheet. Where it goes next — Messages, Mail, Notes, another app — is your choice, and it is then covered by that destination’s own terms, not by this policy.

The system’s own features. While a pass plays, its title is shown on the lock screen and in Control Center, as for any audio app; that stays on the device. If your iPhone or iPad is backed up to iCloud or to a computer, the backup may include the app’s data, like any app’s, under the settings and terms of that backup.

The About links. Under Settings, About lists this website, its support and privacy pages, the source code on GitHub and the App Store. Each one opens in Safari or in the App Store; the app sends nothing along with it, and what happens there is covered by that site’s own terms.

Tips. Under Settings, Support Winchester opens Leave a Tip: three optional tips, sold as in-app purchases. They unlock nothing. Payment is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store: the developer receives no name, email address or payment detail, and the app keeps no record of the purchase. This sheet is the one place the app goes through the network, and only through Apple’s StoreKit, which asks the App Store for the tips’ names and prices and hands a tip to its own purchase sheet.

There is no other path. Apart from that exchange between StoreKit and the App Store, the app makes no network request of any kind.

You hold the only copy.

• One disk. A disk under My disks can be deleted from the Disks tab; its history goes with it, and the period disks are untouched.
• Sound settings. Back to the original mix resets them.
• Everything. Deleting the app deletes all of the above with it. There is no copy anywhere else to ask about, and no request to send anyone.

Nothing to request, because nothing is held.

Data-protection law gives you rights of access, rectification, erasure and portability against whoever holds your personal data. The developer holds none and has no technical means of obtaining any; what the app keeps is on your device, under your control, and erased with the app.

If you email a question or open an issue on the project’s public tracker, that message and anything you attach are held by the email or issue-tracker provider, and an issue is public. Leave out anything you would rather not share.

The app collects nothing, from anyone, at any age.

If a future version changes what is kept or where it can go, this page changes with it and the effective date at the top moves. The page lives in the app’s public repository, so any change to it can be read as a diff alongside the change in the app that caused it.

Questions about this policy

gabriel.landais@gmail.com

Policy history

github.com/glandais/winchester