Ear2Ear Privacy Policy
Ear2Ear lets you talk with friends through your headphones, phone to phone. It has no servers, no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. We, the developer, do not collect, receive, store or sell any information about you.
What stays on your iPhone or iPad
- The name you choose and, if you add one, your profile photo.
- The encryption keys the app creates for you.
- The friends you pair with: the name each one chose, their public key and their profile photo.
- Your settings.
Keys and your list of friends are kept in your device's Keychain and are never synced to iCloud.
What goes to other people
Your name and profile photo are sent only to friends you have paired with face to face, and to people on a call with you. Your voice goes only to the people on the call, while the call lasts. All of this travels directly between devices, end-to-end encrypted, and never passes through any server. Calls are never recorded.
So that your friends can find you, your device broadcasts short codes over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi that change every 15 minutes. Only friends you have paired with can recognise them; to anyone else they look random.
Permissions
- Microphone: to send your voice to the people on a call.
- Bluetooth and local network: to find paired friends nearby and connect to them directly.
- Camera: only to scan a friend's pairing QR code. No image is saved.
- Notifications: to tell you when a friend wants to talk. These come from the app on your device, not from a server.
- Photos: Ear2Ear doesn't ask for access to your library. When you choose a profile photo in the system picker, only that photo is shared with the app. It is cropped to 256 pixels, and its location and other metadata are removed.
Removing your data
Removing a friend in the app deletes their key and photo from your device, and your device stops recognising them. Deleting the app deletes everything it stored on your device. What you already shared with a friend, such as your name and photo, stays on their device until they remove you or delete the app.
Apple
If you choose to share analytics with app developers in your device's settings, Apple may provide us with crash reports and usage statistics that do not identify you. Apple's handling of that data, of TestFlight feedback and of App Store purchases is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
Children
Ear2Ear collects no information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.
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