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Summary
- SpokeTune has no internet permission, so Android does not let it connect to any network.
- We do not receive your measurements, your recordings or any usage data. The app's usage counts stay in a database on your phone.
- The microphone is used only while the app is listening for a spoke. The release app analyzes the sound as it arrives and does not save it.
What the app collects
SpokeTune measures the pitch of a plucked or tapped wheel spoke and estimates its tension. To work, it uses and stores:
- Microphone sound, while listening. The app reads the microphone only while the tuner is listening. It measures the pitch of each pluck and keeps the number, not the sound.
- Your wheel setup, such as the spoke type, spoke lengths, target tension and your calibration value.
- A log of wheel passes. For each pass: the date and time, the label you typed (or a default such as "32-spoke pass"), the spoke type, the target, and for each spoke its pitch, its estimated tension and the advice given.
- Usage counts. The app records a short event name and time when you use certain features, such as "listen started" or "help opened", with a random session number that changes each time the app starts. Some events add a measured value (a pitch, a tension or a spoke count) or the label you typed for a pass. These records stay on your phone.
Where it goes
On your phone
- Everything the app stores stays in its private storage on your phone.
- Your wheel setup is included in Android's own backup and phone-to-phone transfer, so a new phone can keep it. The pass log and the usage counts are excluded from both.
- The app does not add its own encryption to its databases or settings. They are protected by Android's normal app sandbox and your phone's own storage encryption, if your phone uses it.
Your own server
- None. The app has no internet permission and does not connect to any server.
A third-party service you choose
- None. If your phone's Android backup is turned on, Android may copy your wheel setup to the backup service your phone uses (for most phones, the Google account on the phone). That copy is made by Android, not by this app.
Permissions and why
- Microphone (record audio)
- Why the app asks: To hear the spoke you pluck and measure its pitch
- When: When you start listening or start a wheel pass
Analytics
We do not run analytics on this app, and the app does not send usage data to us or to anyone else. It keeps simple usage counts in its own database on your phone, as described above. They are deleted when you uninstall the app.
The app has no crash-reporting service of its own.
Sharing with other Curtilage apps
None. SpokeTune does not exchange data with any other app. The "Share" button sends a short text invitation to the app you pick. It contains no measurements.
Your choices
- Export: The app has no export feature.
- Delete: The app has no button to delete the pass log. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in Android's settings, removes its databases and settings from your phone. A copy of your wheel setup in an Android backup is managed by your backup service.
- Turn off: You can revoke the microphone permission in Android's settings. The tuner cannot measure without it.
Children
SpokeTune is not designed for or directed at children. It does not ask for anyone's age, and we do not receive any information from it.
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