Privacy Policy

This policy covers the Opens Audio Player mobile app on Android and iOS. It is operated by Opens App, and you can reach a human at contact@opensapp.net. The website that hosts this page has its own short policy at opensapp.net/privacy.

It describes exactly what the app does and does not send anywhere. It is deliberately specific rather than generic, because most of the answer is “nothing leaves your device”, and a vague policy would hide that.

The short version

Your audio files never leave your device. The files you import, the library built from their tags, your playlists, your queue and your playback position all live in the app’s own private storage. There is no account, no sign-in, and no server of ours that holds any of it.

Two things go anywhere at all:

1. The feedback form, when you choose to fill it in and send it.
2. Track titles, artists and albums, to your own device’s search index — on by default, and switchable off.

The app contains no advertising, no analytics, and no crash-reporting service. Everything below is detail.

1. Your audio files and your library

You choose files with your system’s own file picker, or share them into the app from another app. The app copies what you choose into its private storage and reads the tags — title, artist, album, track number, duration and embedded cover art — to build the library you browse.

On Android the app requests no media or storage permission at all. Imports go through the system picker, which hands the app only the files you selected, so there is nothing to grant. The app does not scan your device for audio and cannot see files you did not choose.

Everything the app learns from those files stays on the device. We have no way to see your library, and no profile is built from it.

2. Data you send us: the feedback form

The app has a feedback form in Settings → Feedback. Nothing is sent unless you fill it in and tap Send. If you never open it, this section does not apply to you.

When you send it, the following goes to mdashboard.opensapp.net over HTTPS:

The app version, device and operating system are attached so a bug report is actionable — the same report is often reproducible on one device and not another. They identify a model, not a person or a handset: no advertising ID, no device serial number, no installation identifier and no location are included.

Your library is not attached to feedback. No titles, artists, file names or audio are sent with it. If you want us to see something about your library, you have to type it yourself.

The email address, if you provide one, is used to reply to you and for nothing else. It is not added to a mailing list and is not shared.

The form states what it sends before it sends anything, which matters more here than it would in most apps: everything else about this app is offline, so this is the one moment that is not.

3. Device search

Settings → Find tracks in device search publishes your track titles, artists and albums — and your playlist names, with their track counts — to your own device’s system search index, where they can also appear in Siri Suggestions on iOS. It is on by default.

This is the one feature that moves anything out of the app’s private storage. Two things are worth being precise about:

• It goes to your device, not to us. The index is maintained by your operating system on the device. Nothing is uploaded, and we never receive it.
• The audio files themselves stay inside the app. Only the text metadata is published.

Turning the switch off withdraws everything the app has published and stops it publishing more. That takes effect immediately.

4. What we do not do

Worth stating the absences plainly, because many apps in this category do all of these:

• No accounts and no sign-in. We never learn who you are.
• No advertising, and no advertising or tracking SDK of any kind.
• No analytics or telemetry. The app does not report screen views, taps, sessions, feature usage or crashes to anyone.
• No crash-reporting service.
• No cloud accounts and no sync. The app does not connect to Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud Drive or any other remote storage, and asks for no access to them.
• No selling or sharing of personal information. We have nothing to sell, and we share nothing.
• No location collection.
• No access to your contacts, photos, microphone or camera.

5. Permissions the app declares

The whole list, and why each one is there:

There is deliberately no media or storage permission in that list. If a future version needs one, this page will say so before that version ships.

6. Playback, the lock screen, and rating

The media notification and lock-screen controls are drawn by your operating system from what the app tells it about the current track — title, artist and cover art. That stays on the device.

Rating the app uses the review sheet your app store provides. The app asks the store to show it; the store decides whether to, and we are told neither whether it appeared nor what you chose.

7. Where your data lives, and deleting it

Your imported audio, the library database, extracted cover art, your playlists and your playback position are all in the app’s private storage — not in a user-visible Documents folder, so nothing can be renamed or deleted behind the app’s back.

To delete everything, uninstall the app. That removes the imported audio and the database with it, and withdraws anything published to the device search index.

Note that your device’s own backup system (iCloud Backup, or Android’s automatic backup) may include app data according to your device settings. That backup is between you and Apple or Google; we neither create nor have access to it.

Feedback you have already sent is held by us so we can act on it. To have a submission deleted, contact us using the details below and describe it.

8. Children

Opens Audio Player is a general-purpose media player and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us information through the feedback form, email us and we will delete it.

9. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights over personal information — to access it, correct it, delete it, or object to its processing.

For Opens Audio Player this is unusually simple: the only personal information we ever hold is what you typed into the feedback form, plus the email address if you chose to give one. Everything else stays on your device, outside our reach. Contact us and we will act on any of those rights for what we do hold. We honour such requests regardless of where you are.

10. Changes to this policy

If the app starts doing something new with data, this page will be updated before that change ships, and the date above will change. We will not quietly broaden what is collected.

An earlier version of this page described an optional Google Drive integration, including a read-only Drive scope and a stored Google sign-in token. That feature is not in the released app: there is no cloud import, and nothing to sign in to. It also described an Android media-read permission the app does not request. Both descriptions have been removed rather than left to imply access the app does not have. If cloud imports are added later, this page will describe them, and the Google disclosures they require, before that version ships.

11. Contact

Questions about this policy, or a request about your data:

• In the app: Settings → Feedback
• This policy: opensapp.net/opens-audio/privacy
• Web: opensapp.net
• Email: contact@opensapp.net

Opens Audio Player is published by Opens App. This document describes the app’s actual behaviour, verified against its source code, and is provided for transparency — it is not legal advice, and it has not been reviewed by a lawyer.