Radio Companion: Privacy Policy
Radio Companion ("the app") is made by Juan Toledo, Chile. Contact: hello@radiocompanion.app.
In short: I collect nothing.
- The app has no accounts, no analytics, no ads, no tracking and no crash reporting of its own, and I run no servers that receive anything from it.
- What you put in the app stays on your phone unless you send it somewhere yourself.
What stays on your phone
- Your location. It is used only to estimate what can reach you.
- It is taken only when you tap "Use my location", at low accuracy and rounded, or typed in by you.
- It is saved on the phone.
- Your log:
- your catches (frequency, time, the station identified, notes, signal report, NOAA's solar conditions at the time),
- your station details (receiver, antenna, your name for reception reports),
- QSL status.
- Clips. These are short recordings from the microphone of what your radio is playing.
- Recorded only when you ask, or with every catch if you choose that in Settings.
- Saved in the app's own storage.
- Your settings.
None of this is sent to me or to anyone else by the app.
Your phone's own backups (iCloud, Google) may include the app's data. They are handled by Apple and Google under their own privacy policies.
What the app sends over the internet
Only requests for public space-weather data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA SWPC):
- solar data and alerts,
- the absorption, ionosphere and aurora maps.
These requests:
- carry nothing about you: no location, no identifier, no log data;
- are made only while the app is open;
- can be turned off in Settings → Reception estimates. With estimates off, the app makes no network calls at all.
Like any web request, they reveal your device's IP address to NOAA. NOAA handles that under its own privacy policy.
What leaves your phone only when you choose
- Share and export: CSV or ADIF files of your log, or a clip, through your phone's share sheet, to wherever you pick.
- Reception reports: an email you send to a station from your own mail app. It includes what you choose to report:
- the catch,
- your receiver and antenna,
- your approximate location (to about 10 km),
- your name if you entered one,
- the clip.
- Problems and ideas (Settings → Help): an email you write to me from your own mail app. Besides your words, it includes the app's version, your phone's system and version, the app's language, the schedules' seasons and whether reception estimates are on. Never your location or your log. You see all of it and can change it before sending.
What happens to it after that is up to you and whoever receives it.
Permissions
- Location (while using the app): only to fill in your location. You can refuse and type coordinates instead.
- Microphone: only to record clips. You can refuse and still log catches without clips.
You can change both at any time in your phone's settings.
Deleting your data
- Delete catches and clips in the Log.
- Deleting the app removes everything it stored.
I have nothing to delete on my side, because I hold nothing.
This website
radiocompanion.app is a plain website: no cookies, no analytics, nothing loaded from anyone else. Its one small script remembers the light or dark theme you pick, in your browser's storage on your device; it never sends it anywhere. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, sees your IP address and the pages you ask for in order to serve them, under its own privacy policy. I don't use that to identify or follow anyone.
Children
The app is not aimed at children, and it collects no personal data from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at radiocompanion.app/privacy with a new date. If the app ever starts sending anything new off your phone, this policy will say so before the update ships.
Contact
This policy is also available in Spanish and Portuguese. If the versions differ, the English one controls.