Privacy Policy

Short version

Pink Beat records up to 30 seconds of ambient sound once a day, saved as an AAC audio file. The audio file lives on your device and never leaves it. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs that contact a server. The only network calls the app makes are to Apple's StoreKit when you choose to subscribe or unlock the Lifetime tier.

Who we are

Pink Beat is published by Danielius Studio LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company at 30 N Gould St, Suite #5280, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA (“we”, “us”).

Data we do NOT collect

• No account, no email, no password — the app has no signup.
• No analytics, no telemetry, no event tracking.
• No advertising identifiers (no IDFA, no fingerprinting).
• No usage data sent off the device.
• No speech recognition, no transcription, no Sound Analysis (SNClassifier) classification, no cloud upload of the audio. The recording is captured and stored, not interpreted.
• No camera, no Photos library access.
• No location, no contacts, no calendar.
• No HealthKit, no Health data.

Microphone permission

Pink Beat requests microphone access (the NSMicrophoneUsageDescription permission) so that the AVAudioSession capture pipeline can record ambient sound. The permission is used only during an active recording session of up to 30 seconds that you start by tapping the record button.

The recording is saved as AAC audio in a local .m4a file inside the app's private container.

Pink Beat does NOT keep the microphone open in the background, does NOT listen between sessions, does NOT run any voice activity detection, and does NOT process the audio with any on-device or remote speech model.

Playback

Pink Beat plays a soundscape back as ordinary audio through whatever speaker or headphones you are using. Pink Beat does not read motion data from AirPods, does not access the CMHeadphoneMotionManager stream, and does not collect any data about your AirPods or your head position.

What stays on your device

• Your soundscape entries (the audio file, an optional one-line note you type, the duration in seconds, the capture format label, and the created-at timestamp). Stored in on-device SwiftData with the audio bytes held as external storage in the app's private container.
• The date the app was first launched (used to time the three-day no-strings free window). Stored in UserDefaults.

All of the above lives on your device and never leaves it. Uninstalling the app deletes everything Pink Beat has stored.

Year archive and sound report

The year archive and the sound report are built on-device from your saved soundscapes. Pink Beat has no export, and nothing is uploaded to any server we operate.

Lock Screen widget

Pink Beat includes a Lock Screen and Home Screen widget that opens the app to record. It shows no soundscape data and reads nothing from your recordings. No audio is played on the Lock Screen and nothing is sent off the device for the widget to function.

In-app purchases

If you choose to subscribe (Monthly, Annual) or buy the Lifetime unlock, that transaction is handled by Apple's StoreKit. Apple processes the payment and shares only the receipt with the app so we can verify your entitlement. We never see your card number, billing address, or any personal information beyond Apple's opaque transaction identifier.

Subscription receipts are stored on-device by iOS and used to validate your entitlement when you re-open the app. They are not sent to any server we operate.

Family Sharing

Pink Beat Pro purchases (Monthly, Annual, Lifetime) are Family-Shareable through Apple's standard Family Sharing mechanism. Apple handles eligibility checks; we do not see who is in your family group.

Children

Pink Beat is rated 4+ in the App Store. Because the app collects no data at all, it complies with COPPA and similar children's-privacy regulations by design.

Your rights

Because Pink Beat does not collect data, there is nothing for us to export, correct, or delete on your behalf. To revoke microphone permission, use iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone. To remove all on-device state, delete the app.

For questions, write to dchalikovasss@gmail.com.

Changes

If we ever introduce a feature that involves any data leaving the device (for example, cloud sync or sharing), this page will be updated and the “Last updated” date at the top will change. For v1.0, no such feature exists.