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ClefSnap Privacy Policy

Last updated: 19 October 2026

ClefSnap (“the app”) is made by Francisco Pampulha (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what the app does with your information. If you have a question about it, write to theeargymapp@gmail.com.

The short version

• Your scores, photos and PDFs stay on your device. The app reads printed music on your device; we never receive your photos, scans or scores.
• There is no account and no sign-in.
• We do not sell your data and the app shows no ads.
• Apple or Google handles purchases. We only learn whether you have Premium.
• Anonymous usage statistics: in Europe (and wherever the app cannot tell the region) they are sent only if you say yes when the app asks. Elsewhere they are on unless you turn them off. You can change this in Settings at any time.

What stays on your device

• Scores you write or open, their versions and setlists, your settings and favourites.
• Photos and PDFs you scan, and the page images kept so you can check doubtful bars against the page. Reading them (finding the staves, reading the notes, and recognising titles, lyrics and chord symbols) happens on your device.
• Exports (PDF, MusicXML, MIDI, audio, images) are made on your device and go only where you send them with your device’s share sheet.

Deleting the app deletes all of this. We have no copy.

Permissions

• Camera: to photograph printed music, only when you choose to.
• Photos and files: only the photos and files you pick.
• Notifications (Android): to show the progress of a long scan.
• Running in the background / battery (Android): so a long scan can finish while you use other apps. You can refuse.

The app does not use your microphone, location or contacts, and does not track you across other apps or websites.

Information sent off your device

Text recognition on Android (Google ML Kit). On Android the app uses Google’s ML Kit to recognise printed words (titles, lyrics, chord symbols) on the device. ML Kit may send Google technical information about its use, such as the device model, app version and performance measurements. It does not send your images or the recognised text. See Google’s ML Kit terms: https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/terms

Purchases. Premium is bought through the App Store or Google Play, under their terms and privacy policies. The app learns the purchase status (which plan, whether it is active), never your payment details.

Usage statistics (Google Firebase Analytics). In Europe, and wherever the app cannot tell the region, the app asks once whether it may send anonymous usage statistics. Until you say yes, nothing is collected or sent. The app judges the region on the device, from its time zone, SIM and network country and language settings, without sending anything. Elsewhere statistics are on unless you turn them off in Settings.

When statistics are on, the app sends counts and choices from fixed lists so we can improve it:

• that a scan started, finished or failed (photo or PDF, number of pages and systems, how long it took, how many bars it flagged, whether it finished in the background);
• that a score was opened (new, scanned, from a file, the sample, the library or your own);
• that a file was exported (its format);
• that playback, stage mode or the score library was opened;
• that the Premium screen was shown (which feature led there) and which plan was bought.

Firebase adds an app-instance identifier and device information (model, operating system version, app version, country derived from the network, language). It never receives your scores, photos, PDFs, titles, file names or anything you write. No advertising identifier is collected and nothing is used for advertising. Google Analytics keeps this data for 2 months.

You can turn statistics off in Settings → Share usage statistics. Turning them off also deletes the statistics not yet sent and resets the app-instance identifier. See Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone.

Your rights

We keep no personal data about you on any server of ours: everything is on your device, so there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete. Usage statistics, if they are on, are pseudonymous and kept by Google Analytics for us. Turning them off in Settings stops them and resets the identifier they were sent under. For any request or question, write to theeargymapp@gmail.com.

Changes

We will update this page when the app’s handling of information changes, and change the date at the top.