Privacy Policy

Sealed — 9 June MMXXVI

The Pact, in Brief

What the Engine knows of the listener stays with the listener. There are no accounts, no telemetry, no analytics, no advertisements, no third-party SDKs. The Engine runs upon the listener's device and reports to nothing beyond it. The reliquary, the listening spine, the DAC interactions — all remain where they were made.

The Engine does keep a record of the listener's listening — the dates, the durations, the returns — for the sake of the Auguries, the shelves it composes from the listener's own habit. That record is the listener's alone, and it does not depart the device.

What the Engine Reads

The Engine reads the audio files within the listener's reliquary, drawn from the directories the listener has granted it access to. It conducts its census across what it finds — titles, artists, albums, durations, formats, sample rates, bit depths — and inscribes the truth of measure and the truth of identity into a library kept locally upon the device. None of it travels onward.

• The library: kept locally; never transmitted.
• The listening spine: kept locally; the arithmetic that composes the Auguries is drawn from it. Never transmitted.
• DAC communion: handled by Android's USB subsystem. The Engine does not log, store, or transmit DAC connection events.

What the Engine Writes

The Engine reads. The Engine does not write. It does not delete files. It does not edit tags. It does not modify audio data. The reliquary is the listener's jurisdiction, in all of its choices and its accidents.

The Outward Cadence

The listener may, by their own hand, dispatch the cadence of their listening to Last.fm or to ListenBrainz. This is configured under Settings → Scrobbling, with credentials the listener provides. It is the sole circumstance under which any record departs the device, and it does so only because the listener has so commanded.

The Outward Cadence is silent by default. The listener may revoke it at any moment from the same surface; once revoked, no further dispatch occurs.

What the Engine Asks of Android

• Storage / Media access: to read the reliquary.
• USB device access: to commune directly with the connected DAC.
• Foreground service: to keep the rite of playback active in the background.
• Internet: employed only for the Outward Cadence, should it be enabled, or when the listener taps an outbound link to the Forge or to its channels.

Of Children

The Engine is not directed to children under 13. It does not knowingly collect information from any listener — child or otherwise — because it does not collect information at all.

Of Revision

Should this pact be amended, the effective date above shall change. Material revisions are also named in the Engine's release notes upon the Play Store.

To Reach the Forge

For questions concerning this pact, address the Forge: privacy@voxmachina.audio.