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Privacy Policy for Morse Note

Introduction

Morse Note ("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 Morse Note handles your information. In short: Morse Note does not collect personal data. Everything you type, record, photograph or decode is processed on your device and is never sent to us. If iCloud Sync is on, your records are also kept in your own iCloud account, which we cannot access.

Information We Do NOT Collect

Morse Note 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: Morse Note 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

Making, playing and decoding sounds never needs an internet connection, and the app never sends your content to us. The app uses the network only for the following:

• iCloud Sync: If you are signed in to iCloud and iCloud Sync is on, your records sync through your own iCloud account (see below).
• Telegram links: A telegram you share as a link carries the message inside the link (see below).
• 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).

iCloud Sync

If you are signed in to iCloud, Morse Note keeps your records the same on all your devices that use the same Apple Account: telegraph favorites and hand-keyed recordings, picture history, and decoded history. iCloud Sync is on by default. You can turn it off at any time in the app under Settings → iCloud Sync.

• Your own iCloud: The records are stored in your private iCloud database through Apple's CloudKit and count toward your iCloud storage. They do not pass through any server of ours, and we cannot see or access them. Apple handles this data under Apple's Privacy Policy.
• Turning it off: Turning iCloud Sync off stops syncing. Your records stay on your device, and the copy in iCloud is kept.
• Deleting: While iCloud Sync is on, deleting a record in the app also deletes it from iCloud and your other devices. To delete everything Morse Note keeps in iCloud, go to your device's Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage.

Telegram Links and the App Clip

When you share a telegram as a link, the message is written into the link itself: the text, the code table, the speed, when it was sent and, for a telegram you keyed by hand, the rhythm of your keying. Anyone who has the link can read the message, so share it only with the people you mean it for.

• Not sent to our website: The message sits after the "#" in the link (https://sunapp24.com/morsenote/t#…). Browsers do not send that part to the web server. When the link is opened in a browser, our server only receives an ordinary request for the page, and the page plays and decodes the telegram inside the browser.
• App Clip: On iPhone, the link can open the Morse Note App Clip, which plays and decodes the telegram on the device without installing the app. The telegram is kept on the device so that it appears in your decoded history if you install Morse Note later. iOS may remove an App Clip and its data when it has not been used for a while.
• In the app: If Morse Note is installed, the link opens in the app and the telegram is added to your decoded history.

How Morse Note Uses Your Microphone, Camera and Photos

• Microphone: Only when you choose to listen, Morse Note 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. Morse Note receives only the photos you choose and does not ask for access to your library.
• Files: When you open an audio file to decode, or share a picture or sound into Morse Note from another app, Morse Note reads only that file.

Apple asks for your permission before Morse Note 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, Morse Note keeps the following data on your device and, if iCloud Sync is on, in your own iCloud account:

• 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.
• Decoded history: the words and pictures you decoded, and the telegrams you received.
• Rating prompt: how many times the app has been opened and when it last asked for an App Store rating, so it asks rarely. This stays on your device.

You can delete history items and favorites in the app. Uninstalling Morse Note removes all of its data from your device; a copy in iCloud stays until you delete it there.

Apart from iCloud Sync, sound files, text and pictures leave your device only when you share or export them yourself, for example through the system share sheet or as a telegram link.

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 Morse Note does not keep a record of your tips.

Feedback by Email

If you choose Send Feedback, Morse Note 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. Morse Note 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. Our website only serves static pages.
• Your Content Stays Yours: Your messages, recordings and pictures are stored only on your devices and, if iCloud Sync is on, in your own iCloud account.
• Security by Design: The most secure approach is not collecting data in the first place.

Your Privacy Rights

• Permissions: You can grant or revoke Morse Note'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, and data in your iCloud in your device's iCloud settings.

Children's Privacy

Morse Note 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. If you use iCloud Sync, Apple stores your records in your iCloud account under its own terms.

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 Morse Note, you consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use the app.