Privacy

What stays on your computer

Everything the desktop app knows lives on your own disk:

• Settings: the folder you sort, your library folders, the folders on each number key, your preferences, and the email you gave when you started the free month. ~/Library/Application Support/Soundboy/config.json
• Session log: a line for each filing, recording what was moved and where, so the app can show your pace and rank the folders you use most. ~/Library/Application Support/Soundboy/sessions/
• What you kept in Purge mode, and what was added to your DJ software's playlists, in the same folder.

None of it is sent to us. The phone app keeps its own settings on the phone in the same way.

Your music files

The app reads the audio files in the folder you point it at, in order to play them and read their tags. It moves or copies them into folders you choose. If you turn on tag writing, it also writes the destination folder name into each filed track's Grouping tag, and changes nothing else in the file. If you turn on playlists, it writes playlist files for Serato, rekordbox, Traktor or M3U on your computer.

Dropbox

If you connect a Dropbox, the app talks to Dropbox directly from your computer or phone, using your sign-in, to list, play and move the files you choose. You sign in on Dropbox's own page; the app never sees your password. The sign-in is kept in your system keychain and can be revoked at any time at dropbox.com under Connected apps. Nothing passes through us. Dropbox's own privacy policy covers what Dropbox does.

Linking a DJ Buddy account

This is optional and off until you switch it on in Settings ▸ Playlists. If you connect your DJ Buddy account, so your crates follow you to your other computers, the desktop app sends your crates to that account each time they change, and reads them back when it starts. What is sent: each crate's name, and for each track in it the title, artist, BPM, key, genre, energy, length and the file's path on your computer, plus your computer's name so the app can say where a crate came from. No audio, no other settings, no licence key and no record of your filing.

It is stored in DJ Buddy's database (hosted by Supabase), where only your signed-in account can read or change it, and DJ Buddy for Mac uses it to show your crates and rank tracks on your other Macs. You sign in with Google through your browser; the app never sees your password, and keeps the sign-in in your system keychain. Disconnect in Settings signs this computer out and stops sending; the copy in your account stays for your other computers until you delete your DJ Buddy account, which removes it, or ask us to delete it (see Contact).

Voice mode

Voice mode uses the microphone, and only while it is switched on. What you say is turned into text by Apple's speech recognition: on your device where it can be, otherwise by Apple, under Apple's privacy policy. Soundboy looks for commands in that text and keeps no recordings. The last few things it heard are shown on screen, held in memory only and never saved. Nothing is sent to us.

The phone remote and the iPhone app

When you switch the remote on, the desktop app opens a small web server on your local network only. Your phone, or the Soundboy iPhone app in Remote mode, talks directly to your computer over your own wifi. There is no service of ours in the middle. In Cloud mode the iPhone app talks to Dropbox, as above. The Apple Watch app talks to your computer or your phone the same way.

Access requires the pairing code in the URL. Anyone on your network who has that code can control the app and file your tracks, so treat it as you would a password. There is a button in Settings to issue a new one, which disconnects every device currently paired. On an untrusted network, turn the remote off.

What the apps connect to

• Updates: the desktop app checks GitHub, where new versions are published, and downloads them from there. GitHub sees that request as it would any web request.
• Dropbox, only if you connect one.
• DJ Buddy (djbuddy.io, through Supabase), only if you link your account, and only for your crates.
• Apple's speech recognition, only while voice mode is on, and only when your device can't do it itself.
• Your own devices on your own network, for the remote.

Nothing else. There is no analytics, no crash reporting, no telemetry and no advertising identifier in any of them.

Problem reports

If you choose Report a problem, the app writes a plain text file you can read before deciding to send it. It holds the app version, your system version, your settings without folder paths, pairing code or licence key, and the most recent filings. It is sent only if you attach it to an email yourself.

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Payment

Purchases are handled by Paddle.com, our online reseller and the Merchant of Record for every order. Paddle receives your billing details in order to process the sale and to meet its tax obligations, under its own privacy policy. We will receive your email address and the fact you bought a licence. We will never receive your card details.

Children

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Contact

Questions about any of this: hello@soundboyselecta.com