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Privacy Policy for Beepcode

Introduction

Beepcode ("we," "our," or "us") turns words into Morse code and pictures into radio-style sound, and decodes such sounds back into words and pictures. This Privacy Policy explains how Beepcode handles your information. In short: Beepcode does not collect personal data. Everything you type, record, photograph or decode is processed on your device and is never sent to us.

Information We Do NOT Collect

Beepcode does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data to us. We have no servers that receive data from the app.

• No Personal Information: We do not collect your name, email, contacts, or any identifying information.
• No Accounts: Beepcode has no sign-up, login, or user accounts.
• No Analytics or Tracking: We do not use any analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs, and we do not collect usage or behavioral data.
• No Device Identifiers: We do not collect device identifiers or advertising IDs.
• No Content Uploads: We never receive your messages, recordings, photos, or decoded results.

Network Use

Beepcode works fully offline. Making, playing and decoding sounds never needs an internet connection, and the app sends nothing to us or to any third party. The only exceptions are actions you start yourself:

• Tips: Tipping the developer is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store (see below).
• Privacy Policy and website: Opening the Privacy Policy, or our website from About, loads that web page.
• rednote: Follow on rednote opens our profile in the rednote app, or on its website if the app is not installed. What rednote collects is governed by its own privacy policy.
• Feedback: Send Feedback opens your own email app (see below).

How Beepcode Uses Your Microphone, Camera and Photos

• Microphone: Only when you choose to listen, Beepcode analyzes the sound in real time on your device to decode Morse code or a picture signal. The microphone audio is not saved and never leaves your device.
• Camera: When you take a photo to turn into sound, the photo is used on your device and kept in your picture history.
• Photos: You pick photos with the system photo picker. Beepcode receives only the photos you choose and does not ask for access to your library.
• Files: When you open an audio file to decode, Beepcode reads only that file.

Apple asks for your permission before Beepcode can use the microphone or camera. You can change this at any time in your device Settings.

Data Stored on Your Device

To make the app work, Beepcode keeps the following data on your device only:

• Picture history: pictures you turned into sound, together with the sound.
• Telegraph favorites: messages you chose to keep, and the audio of messages you keyed by hand.
• Rating prompt: how many times the app has been opened and when it last asked for an App Store rating, so it asks rarely.

You can delete history items and favorites in the app. Uninstalling Beepcode removes all of its data from your device.

Sound files, text and pictures leave your device only when you share or export them yourself through the system share sheet.

Tips

Tips are optional and unlock no features. Payments are processed by Apple through the App Store under Apple's Privacy Policy. We do not receive your payment details or Apple Account information, and Beepcode does not keep a record of your tips.

Feedback by Email

If you choose Send Feedback, Beepcode opens a new message in your email app addressed to us, with the app version, iOS version and device model filled in. You can read and edit everything before sending. If you send it, we receive your email address and what you wrote. We use it only to reply to you, and we delete it on request.

Crash Reports

If you have agreed in your device settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may provide us with anonymous crash reports. We use them only to fix problems. You can turn this off at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.

Data Sharing and Third Parties

We have no data to share because we do not collect any data. Beepcode contains no third-party SDKs. It uses Apple system frameworks and bundles two data sets that are used locally: Chinese telegraph codes from the Unicode Unihan database, and a language model derived from Tatoeba example sentences.

Data Security

• No Servers: We do not maintain any servers, databases, or cloud storage for app data.
• Your Content Stays Yours: Your messages, recordings and pictures are stored only on your device.
• Security by Design: The most secure approach is not collecting data in the first place.

Your Privacy Rights

• Permissions: You can grant or revoke Beepcode's access to the microphone and camera at any time in your device Settings.
• Data Deletion: We hold no personal data about you, except an email you choose to send us, which we delete on request. Data on your device can be deleted in the app or by uninstalling it.

Children's Privacy

Beepcode does not collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13 years of age.

International Data Transfers

We do not transfer your data, because we do not collect it.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do:

• We will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy.
• We will notify users of significant changes through app updates.
• Continued use of the app after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Consent

By using Beepcode, you consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use the app.