Fiber Bench privacy policy
The short version
Fiber Bench does not collect, store, share or sell any personal information. Everything you make stays on your device.
What the app stores
Your patterns, your progress through them, your settings and how many free uses of each Pro feature you have left are saved in the app's own storage on your phone. They are not sent to us or to anyone else. If you uninstall the app, they are deleted with it. If your phone backs up app data to your Google account, Android may include this data in that backup; that is handled by Google under your Google account settings, not by Fiber Bench.
Photos
When you turn a photo into a pattern, you choose the picture yourself. The app reads it on your phone to work out the colors and does not upload it or keep a copy. Only the resulting pattern is saved. How many of your own photos you have turned into patterns is kept in the app's storage on your phone, like your patterns.
Buying Pro and pattern packs
Fiber Bench Pro and the pattern packs are bought through Google Play. Google handles the payment and keeps the record of each purchase under your Google account, as described in Google's own privacy policy. The app asks Google Play on your device which of them your account owns, and keeps a copy of that answer so they work offline. The patterns in every pack are already inside the app, so nothing is downloaded when you buy one. The app never sees your payment details, your name or your email address.
Reading steps aloud
In hands-free mode the app can read each step aloud. It does this with the text-to-speech service built into your phone: the words of the step, such as "Turn all cards forward", are passed to that service on your device. Fiber Bench does not send them anywhere itself. You can turn reading aloud off in Settings.
Sharing
When you tap a share button, the app hands a picture, text or file to Android's share menu. Where it goes from there is your choice, and is covered by the privacy terms of the app you share to.
Printing
When you print a pattern, the app makes a PDF on your phone and hands it to Android's print screen. It goes to the printer, or the PDF file, that you choose there, and is covered by that print service's own terms. Fiber Bench does not send it anywhere itself.
Feedback and error reports
Settings has a Send feedback button, and if the app ever stops with an error it offers to email the details. The first time a free use of a Pro feature runs out, the app also asks, once, what would make Pro worth it, with a button to write an email. Each of these opens your own email app with a message already started; nothing is sent unless you send it. The message includes the app version, the phone model (when Android makes it available to the app), the Android version and the screen size, and an error report adds the error and which screen it happened on. It does not include your patterns. If you send it, we use it only to answer you and fix the app.
No accounts, ads or tracking
There is no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics and no crash-reporting service. Apart from asking Google Play about the Pro purchase, the app makes no network connections and works without an internet connection.
Children
The app is not directed at children under 13 and collects no information from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: jdcapone@gmail.com