Privacy

Ohmage has no account, no analytics or crash reporting built in, and no server of ours for it to talk to. What reaches us is only what Apple passes on, described below.

What stays on your Mac, iPhone and iPad

Everything the app knows stays on the Mac, iPhone or iPad running it: which units it has seen, which other systems you have paired it with, and a few preferences, such as which effects you had on and which pane was open. None of that leaves there except as described below, and none of it reaches us. The app holds nothing about you, so there is nothing to ask us to delete.

What Apple passes on

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers, Apple sends us crash reports and usage figures for Ohmage, as it does for every app on the App Store. Apple says these do not identify you. You can stop sharing in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements on iPhone and iPad, and in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements on the Mac.

While Ohmage is being tested through TestFlight, TestFlight also sends us crash reports, and any feedback you choose to send.

The two permissions it asks for

Bluetooth, on Mac, iPhone and iPad. On iPhone and iPad, the app makes itself visible over Bluetooth so your Sound Blaster can connect to it. On the Mac, it looks only at Sound Blasters already paired with the Mac, and talks to one once the Mac has connected to it. It does not search for anything else over Bluetooth, and it does not record what is nearby.

Local network, on Mac, iPhone and iPad. The app looks on your network for other Macs, iPhones and iPads running Ohmage, so that a Mac can share its unit with them, and it connects only to the systems you pair with. The connection is encrypted with a key that exists only on the two systems you paired, and the pairing is confirmed by you comparing six digits on both screens.

What a paired system can see

A Mac sharing a unit sends the unit's current settings to the systems you have paired with it, and accepts changes from them. It does not send anything else about the Mac or its user, and it offers only a unit plugged into it by USB. While it is sharing, it announces itself on your network by its name, as file sharing does, so that other copies of Ohmage can list it.

Shortcuts and Siri

The app's actions run on your Mac, iPhone or iPad through Apple's Shortcuts and Siri. Apple's own privacy terms govern what those services record; the app itself keeps nothing about how or when its actions are run.

Changes

If any of this changes, this page will say so, and the change will be in the app's release notes.