Privacy Policy

Irish Bouzouki Chords

Irish Bouzouki Chords asks you for nothing. There is no account to create and nothing to log in to, and every chord shape is worked out on your device. The one thing the iPhone app sends is anonymous usage statistics: which kinds of page are used, and for how long. They describe the app being used, never who is using it. The web app sends nothing at all.

At a glance

• Sent (iPhone app only): which kind of page is on screen and for how long (“home”, “chord”, “chords”, “key”, “finder”, “tuner” or “settings”), plus the standard app-usage details the analytics service records: first open, session start and length, app version, phone model, operating-system version and language.
• Sent with those: a random app-instance identifier issued by the analytics service, so one install’s sessions count as one. It is not your advertising identifier, and it is replaced if you reinstall.
• Worked out by Google from a masked IP address: an approximate location (country, sometimes region). Never precise, never from location services.
• Never sent: which chord or key you look at, anything you type into search, the frets you tap in the chord finder, your tuning or any other setting.
• Never collected at all: name, email, phone number, contacts, photos, files, precise location, advertising identifier, purchase history, crash reports.
• The tuner uses your microphone on your device only: sound is analysed as it arrives and is never recorded, stored or sent. The app asks before it listens, and only once you start the tuner.

Anonymous usage statistics

The iPhone app uses Google Analytics for Firebase. The list above is complete: the app tells it which kind of page is on screen, never which chord, key or tuning.

No advertising identifier, and no tracking. The app is built with the version of the analytics library that has the advertising-identifier code removed. Nothing links the statistics to your name, your email or an account (there is none), and nothing follows you to another app or website. That is why Irish Bouzouki Chords never shows an App Tracking Transparency prompt: there is nothing to ask permission for.

As with any request over the internet, your IP address is visible to Google’s servers while the app talks to them. The app never reads or stores it. Google masks it and derives a general location from it, and that approximate figure is all we ever see. The app never uses your phone’s location services.

Without a connection nothing is lost and nothing waits on it: the app works fully offline.

What is stored on your device

The app remembers your settings (bouzouki or mandolin, the tuning and any custom tuning you set, unison or octave strings for each course, left-handed, and sound on or off), the chords and keys you opened recently, the frets you last tapped in the chord finder and the key you last picked. The iPhone app also counts the days you have used it and the pages you have opened, so that it asks for an App Store rating only after real use, and at most every few months. These are kept in the app’s own storage on your device.

This information never leaves your device, and is not part of the usage statistics. It is not backed up to any server operated by us, and we have no way to read it. Deleting the app deletes it.

The web app

The web app at bendigogames.com/irish-bouzouki-chords/play/ is the same app, made for the web. Loading it is an ordinary visit to this website: your browser downloads the app’s files from our host, Cloudflare, which processes that request the way any web host does. After that, the app runs from your browser’s offline copy and sends nothing: the web app has no usage statistics and no rating prompt. Its settings, recent chords and keys and chord finder are kept in your browser’s storage for this site; clearing the site’s data in your browser deletes them.

Third parties

One: Google, which processes the iPhone app’s anonymous usage statistics as our service provider under its own privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy. That data is held on Google’s servers, which may be outside your country and outside Australia. Nothing is shared with anyone else (no advertisers, no data brokers) and nothing is sold. Irish Bouzouki Chords contains no advertising, no social media integrations and no crash reporting.

The Apple App Store may collect information about downloads under its own policy. We receive no personal information from it.

How long it is kept

Google Analytics keeps event-level statistics for a limited period set in the app’s analytics configuration, no longer than fourteen months, after which only aggregate totals remain. What is stored on your device lasts until you delete the app (or clear the site’s data, for the web app).

Security

Everything the app sends travels over HTTPS.

Children

Irish Bouzouki Chords has no advertising, no purchases, no chat and no way for people to contact each other. It asks nobody, of any age, for personal information. The anonymous usage statistics are the same for everyone and are not used to identify or contact anyone.

Your rights

Because the statistics are not linked to you, we cannot look up “your” statistics: there is no name, email or account to search by. What you can do yourself, at once: reinstall the app (the app-instance identifier is replaced, so new statistics cannot be connected to old ones), or use the web app, which sends nothing.

For anything else (access, erasure, objection, a question) email support@bendigogames.com. A person reads it.

• GDPR: the statistics are processed on the basis of legitimate interests (improving the app). You can object by email at the address above.
• California residents: Irish Bouzouki Chords does not sell or share personal information, and never has.
• Complaints: you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au, or to your own data-protection authority.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes — for example, if a future version of the app adds a feature that requires data — the revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated date, before that version is released.

Contact

Irish Bouzouki Chords is made by Bendigo Games. Questions about this policy, or about privacy in the app, can be sent to support@bendigogames.com.

Last updated: 6 November 2026