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Dazzle Therapy privacy policy

How Dazzle Therapy handles your information.

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Summary

  • Dazzle Therapy is a Meta Quest headset app. The light, sound, pictures and spoken words all run on the headset.
  • The app sends usage analytics to our own analytics server: that a session started, paused or stopped, which preset or sound mode you picked, and similar control events, plus your headset model and system details. It does not send your photos, recordings, phrases or settings. There is no setting in the app to turn analytics off.
  • The app connects to one other place only if you set it up: a web address you enter for your own phrase list.

What the app collects

Dazzle Therapy shows flickering light and plays moving sound in the headset. To work, it reads and writes:

  • Your settings. A settings file and a menu-choices file in the app's own folder on the headset.
  • Your own pictures and recordings, if you add them. Image and sound files you copy into the app's "images" and "sounds" folders on the headset. The app reads them to show and play them. If you add none, it uses the pictures and music that come with the app.
  • Your own phrase list, if you add one. A text file of words or phrases to show (and optionally speak) during a session. It can be a file on the headset or a web address you enter in the settings file. A downloaded list is kept in a cache file on the headset.
  • Usage events. A short event name and category each time you start, pause, resume or stop a session, accept the warning, change a preset or sound, open the menu, or cut a plate in the welding scene. These are sent to our analytics server, as described under "Analytics".

The app does not ask for your name, email address, age or any account.

Where it goes

On your headset

  • Your settings, your pictures, recordings and phrase list, and the downloaded phrase cache stay in the app's folder on the headset. Android backup is turned off for this app.
  • The app does not add its own encryption to these files. They are protected by the headset's normal app storage.
  • Spoken phrases use a text-to-speech app installed on the headset. Dazzle Therapy only uses one of two offline speech apps, and only when its signing certificate matches the one we expect. With no match, phrases are shown and not spoken.

Our server

  • Usage analytics go to our analytics server. See "Analytics".

A server you choose

  • If you enter a web address for your phrase list, the app downloads that file from that address each time it starts. That server sees the headset's network address and a request that names the app and its version. Nothing else is sent to it.

Meta

  • The headset itself, its system software and Meta's own services are run by Meta and covered by Meta's privacy policy, not this one.

Permissions and why

  • Internet
    • Why the app asks: To send usage analytics, and to download your phrase list if you gave a web address for it
    • When: When the app starts, and during a session as events happen
  • OpenXR (headset runtime access)
    • Why the app asks: To draw in the headset and read head and controller tracking
    • When: While the app runs

The app does not ask for the microphone, camera, location, contacts or the headset's passthrough cameras.

Analytics

The version of Dazzle Therapy we build sends usage analytics to our own analytics server. It starts when you open the app.

What is sent:

  • That the app was opened, and the app version.
  • The headset's manufacturer and model, its Android version, its language setting, time zone, and number of processor cores.
  • Event names and categories, for example "session_start", "session_pause", "session_stop_panic", "session_stop_timeout", "session_calm_exit", "warning_accepted", "preset_change", "audio_mode_change", "audio_sound_change", "menu_open" and "plate_cut".

What is not sent: your pictures, recordings or phrase list, the web address of your phrase list, your settings file, or anything you type. No account or user ID is sent. Our server receives the network address your headset connects from, as any web server does.

There is currently no setting in the app to turn analytics off. A build made without our analytics key sends nothing.

The app has no crash-reporting service.

Sharing with other Curtilage apps

None. Dazzle Therapy does not exchange data with BrainTrust or any other Curtilage app, and it does not use an AI model.

Your choices

  • Export: Your settings, pictures, recordings and phrase list are ordinary files in the app's folder on the headset. You can copy them off with a computer.
  • Delete: Delete any of those files to remove them. Delete the menu-choices file to go back to your settings file. Uninstalling the app removes its folder and everything in it.
  • Turn off: Leave the phrase-list web address empty and the app downloads nothing. Analytics cannot be turned off in the app today.

Children

Dazzle Therapy is not designed for or directed at children. It shows fast flickering light. It asks you to accept a light-sensitivity warning before every session, and it should not be used by anyone with a history of seizures. It does not ask for anyone's age.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version on this page and update the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about this policy: https://curtilage.zone/contact