Woodshed
Privacy Policy
Summary
Woodshed is an Android app that runs on your phone. It has no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and it does not sell or share your data. What you add and how you practice stay on your phone. Woodshed goes online for two things only, each when you ask: to play a video you tap, and to send a problem report you choose to send.
What stays on your phone
- The tunes, exercises, solos, playlists and links you add or edit.
- Your practice history: what you practiced, how it went, the keys you know each tune in, and your notes.
- Your settings, such as the instruments you play.
None of this is sent anywhere by Woodshed. Uninstalling the app deletes it, unless you have a backup.
Backups
You can save a backup file from Settings, to Google Drive, Dropbox, a folder on your phone or wherever the file picker offers, and restore from it later. The file goes only where you put it. Android may also back the app's data up to your Google account with the rest of the phone, when device backup is on; Google handles that under its own privacy policy, and you can turn it off in your phone's settings.
Videos
When you tap play on a YouTube or Vimeo link, the video loads from that service, which receives the request and, like any website, your IP address. YouTube videos use its privacy-enhanced mode. Nothing loads until you tap play. Links to other services, such as Spotify, open in their own app or your browser.
Problem reports
When you report a problem and tap Send, Woodshed sends the problem you picked, your note, the item's name and the details shown about it, and the app and Android versions. It goes to Woodshed's report service, which runs on Cloudflare, and becomes a public issue on GitHub, where anyone can read it. The report includes nothing about you, so don't put anything personal in the note. The service sees your IP address, as any website would, and uses it to limit how often reports can be sent; Cloudflare may keep short-lived request logs under its privacy policy. If you choose to open the report on GitHub instead, it is filed under your own GitHub account.
Permissions
- Microphone: used only by the tuner while it is listening, to find the pitch you play. Nothing is recorded or sent.
- Notifications: to show a running practice session and say when a block's time is up.
- Internet: for the videos and problem reports above.
Children
Woodshed is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their information.
Changes
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new date.