Privacy Policy

1. The privacy model at a glance

Sleep audio, sound-event clips, sleep records, notes, alarms, settings, estimated sleep stages, scores, and reports are processed and stored in the App’s private storage on your device. The App does not provide an account, cloud synchronization, or a developer-operated backend, and we do not intentionally upload those sleep records or audio files to our servers.

The App is not entirely offline. It includes Google AdMob and Google’s User Messaging Platform (“UMP”). These services use a network connection to request and display app-open, banner, and rewarded ads, manage privacy choices, measure ad performance, and prevent abuse. Opening our privacy policy or starting an email to support also uses services outside the App.

2. Information kept locally on your device

Depending on the features you use, the App stores:

• microphone recordings and selected retained nighttime sound clips (the App may automatically prune lower-ranked clips);
• detected sound categories, such as snoring, speech, coughing, laughter, breathing, footsteps, animal sounds, and loud sounds;
• sound level and motion samples used for local sleep estimates;
• sleep-session times, estimated sleep stages, sleep scores, goals, reports, and report-unlock status;
• sleep-diary notes, alarm labels, schedules, snooze settings, and other preferences; and
• technical error information written into the local sleep record when a recording or analysis step is interrupted.

These items remain in the App’s private files, database, and preferences. Android cloud backup and device-to-device transfer are disabled for this App. You can delete an individual completed record in the App. Clearing the App’s data or uninstalling the App deletes its locally stored information, subject to the device operating system’s normal deletion behavior. The App has no cloud restore or export feature.

3. Information handled by Google advertising services

The App integrates Google Mobile Ads SDK and UMP. According to Google’s SDK disclosure, Google Mobile Ads may automatically collect and share IP address (which may estimate general location), device or account identifiers, ad and app interactions, and diagnostic information for advertising, analytics, and fraud prevention. Exact handling can depend on your region, consent choices, device settings, Google’s configuration, and SDK version.

Where required, UMP requests and records your advertising privacy choices. Watching a rewarded ad is voluntary. You may cancel and leave an eligible report locked. After the ad provider confirms that the reward was earned, the App stores that report’s unlock locally. If an ad is unavailable or the reward is not confirmed, the report remains locked and you may try again later. The current App has no paid purchase or subscription. Sleep audio, diary notes, and sleep reports are not sent to Google by our App as ad-request content.

Google acts under its own terms and privacy policy. See Google’s Privacy Policy, Google’s advertising controls, and Google Mobile Ads SDK disclosure.

4. Permissions and their purposes

• Microphone: records nighttime sound and supplies audio to on-device sound classification.
• Foreground service and wake lock: keeps an active monitoring session running and shows an ongoing system notification. Android or device-manufacturer restrictions can still interrupt monitoring.
• Notifications: shows active-monitoring and alarm notifications where Android requires permission.
• Internet and network state: used by AdMob/UMP and when you open external policy or support destinations. Sleep analysis itself does not require a developer server.
• Boot completed / app updated: restores saved alarm scheduling. It does not upload sleep records.

5. Support communications

The App can open your email application with our support address. Nothing is sent until you choose to send it. Your email provider and our email service process the address, message, attachments, and technical details you include. Do not attach a sleep recording unless you intend to share it. We retain support messages only as long as reasonably needed to respond, operate and secure support, prevent abuse, and meet legal obligations. Depending on applicable law, these purposes may rely on your request, consent, legal obligations, or legitimate interests. You may withdraw consent where consent applies, without affecting earlier lawful processing.

6. Other people and sensitive recordings

The microphone may capture a partner, family member, visitor, media playback, or other nearby sound. You are responsible for placing and using the device lawfully, informing people where required, and obtaining any consent required in your location. Do not use the App for covert or unlawful recording.

7. Children

The App is not directed to children below the minimum age required to consent to digital services in their country. We do not offer accounts or knowingly request a child’s name or contact information. A parent or guardian should supervise any use by a minor and should not use the App to record a child or another person without lawful authority.

8. Security and retention

Local app-private storage and disabled cloud backup reduce exposure, but no device or software can be guaranteed completely secure. Protect your device with a screen lock, install trusted system updates, and delete records you no longer need. Locally stored information remains until you delete a completed record, clear App data, or uninstall the App; selected clips may also be automatically pruned. Because we do not receive those local records, we cannot retrieve, restore, delete, or provide a server copy of them. Support messages are retained only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes above and legal obligations. Third-party advertising data is retained under Google’s policies and available privacy controls.

9. Your choices and rights

You can deny or revoke microphone and notification permissions in Android settings, stop monitoring, delete completed records, clear App data, uninstall the App, and use the in-App advertising privacy entry point when available. Denying microphone permission prevents sleep monitoring. Deleting local information cannot be undone.

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object, withdraw consent, or complain to a data-protection authority. Rights vary and may have lawful exceptions. Contact thesky24580@gmail.com with a verifiable request. We cannot retrieve or export sleep records that never leave your device. Requests about information controlled by Google should also use Google’s privacy controls.

10. Website and international processing

The Sleep & Snore Tracker website is a static informational site hosted on GitHub Pages. It has no account, contact form, advertising, or first-party analytics. This website does not use browser local storage or set analytics or advertising cookies. GitHub may process IP address, browser details, requested pages, timestamps, and security logs to deliver and protect the site under GitHub’s Privacy Statement. Website logs do not include your App’s local audio, notes, or sleep reports.

Google advertising services and email providers may process information in countries other than yours under their own arrangements and policies. Where applicable law gives you rights or requires safeguards, use the controls and contact routes in this policy and the provider’s policy.

11. Health and accuracy notice

Sleep & Snore Tracker provides general wellness estimates. It is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease. Sound labels, sleep stages, scores, and wake timing can be incomplete or wrong. “Speech” may include possible sleep talking, awake speech, another person, or media audio; it does not confirm sleep talking. Seek a qualified healthcare professional for medical concerns, persistent sleep problems, or breathing concerns.

12. Changes and contact

We may update this policy when the App, service providers, or legal requirements change. We will update the date above and provide any additional notice required by law. Questions or privacy requests: sky, thesky24580@gmail.com.