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Privacy Policy

Effective October 28, 2026

Short version: Foot Ear doesn’t know who you are. It sends anonymous counts about how the app is used (like how many taps and locks happen in a session) to help make it better. No names, no email, no location, no ads, no tracking, nothing sold. You can turn it off in Settings.

Who makes Foot Ear

Foot Ear is an iPhone app made by Charles Planer, an independent developer in San Diego, California.

What the app collects

When “Share anonymous usage” is on (it is by default), Foot Ear sends anonymous usage data through TelemetryDeck, a privacy-focused analytics service:

A summary of each session: the date, how long the app was open, how many minutes you were tapping, the number of taps, how many tempos were found, confirmed (green) and locked, the average taps it took to confirm a tempo, how often the foot turned “ugly,” and the most common tempo (BPM).
A few one-time moments: finishing or skipping the tutorial, opening the help (?) screen, and the first time you confirm a tempo and lock two decks.
Basic technical details added by TelemetryDeck: app version, iOS version, device model, and your phone’s region and language settings.
A random anonymous ID so sessions from the same install can be counted together. It isn’t linked to your name, Apple ID, email or anything else about you, and it changes if you delete and reinstall the app.

What the app doesn’t collect

Your name, email, phone number or Apple ID. There are no accounts and no sign-in.
Your location. No GPS, no location permission.
Audio. Foot Ear never uses the microphone; you tap the tempo yourself.
Contacts, photos, files or anything else on your phone.
Advertising data. There are no ads, and nothing is used to track you across other apps or websites.

How the data is used

Only to understand how Foot Ear is used and to improve it: for example, whether new users get stuck, whether the tempo reading works well in real setups, and how many people use the app each week. Overall totals may be shared publicly (for example, “10,000 records locked this month”), never anything about an individual. The data is never sold, rented or used for advertising.

Turning it off

Open Foot Ear, tap the gear, and turn off Privacy › Share anonymous usage. From then on the app sends nothing, and everything else works exactly the same.

What stays on your phone

The app saves a few small settings on your device so it remembers your preferences: whether you’ve seen the tutorial, whether “Show taps” is on, and whether “Share anonymous usage” is on. Your individual taps and readings are never saved or sent. Deleting the app removes everything it stored.

Third parties

TelemetryDeck (TelemetryDeck GmbH, Germany) receives and stores the anonymous usage data. Their privacy policy: telemetrydeck.com/privacy.
Apple handles downloads and updates, and may give developers aggregated, anonymous statistics (such as download counts and crash reports) if you’ve chosen to share them in your iPhone’s settings, under Apple’s Privacy Policy.

Children

Foot Ear isn’t directed at children under 13 and doesn’t collect personal information from anyone.

Changes

If a future version changes any of this (for example, adding an optional tip jar through Apple’s In-App Purchase), this page will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email footeartool@gmail.com.