Privacy Policy — Mega Stopwatch for iOS
Mega Stopwatch collects nothing about you. It has no analytics, no advertising, no accounts, and no third-party services. It contains no networking code of any kind, so there is nothing in it that could send your information anywhere.
Information the app collects
None. The app has no server, no account system, and no way to identify you or your device. Nothing you do in the app is recorded or reported to the developer or to anyone else.
The microphone
Mega Stopwatch has an optional Voice stop feature that stops the running stopwatch when it hears you, so you do not have to touch the phone. It is off by default. If you switch it on, iOS asks for microphone permission, and you can refuse or revoke it at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone.
- The microphone is opened only while the stopwatch is actually counting, and on the Voice stop setup screen where recording is the point. It is never open while the app is paused, idle, counting down before a start, or in the background.
- All listening and matching happens on your device, in the app's own process. No audio is streamed, uploaded, or sent anywhere.
- Audio is analysed as it arrives and then discarded. The app never writes a recording to storage — there is no audio file to play back, share, or recover.
- If you use the Say your word method, the app keeps a mathematical summary of the three enrolment captures (MFCC feature frames) so it can recognise the word later. This is not audio and cannot be turned back into audio or speech. You can erase it at any time with Clear on the Voice stop screen.
iOS shows an orange indicator in the status bar whenever any app is using the microphone, so you can always see for yourself when it is on.
Information stored on your device
The app saves your settings — theme, delay durations, read-out choices, voice stop options — and, if you enrolled one, the voice feature data described above. Settings live in the app's own preferences; the voice data is a single file in the app's Application Support directory. Both sit inside the app's sandbox, which other apps cannot read. Deleting Mega Stopwatch removes all of it.
iCloud and device backups
Your settings are part of the app's sandbox, so iOS may include them in an iCloud backup or an encrypted computer backup if you have backups switched on. That is handled entirely by iOS, not by the app; the developer has no access to it, and it is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy. You can control it in Settings → [your name] → iCloud.
Your enrolled voice data is deliberately excluded from backup and from device-to-device transfer — the file is flagged so that iOS skips it. It never leaves your device by any route. The trade-off is that if you reinstall the app or move to a new phone, you will need to record your stop word again.
Spoken read-outs
If you switch on the countdown or elapsed-time read-outs, the app asks iOS's built-in speech synthesiser to say them. The only thing handed over is the phrase to be spoken — a number or a duration such as "one minute fifteen seconds". Nothing about you is included.
Permissions
- Microphone — only for Voice stop, as described above. Requested when you turn the feature on, never before. It is the only permission the app asks for.
Haptic feedback for the countdown read-out and the hold-to-reset confirmation needs no permission on iOS. The app requests no access to your location, contacts, photos, calendars, health data, notifications, or anything else.
Network access
Mega Stopwatch contains no networking code. It links no HTTP client, no analytics or crash-reporting SDK, and no advertising framework, and there is no URL anywhere in it. Nothing in the app opens a connection, because there is nothing in it that can.
Analytics, advertising and third parties
There are none. Mega Stopwatch ships no analytics or crash-reporting SDK, shows no ads, contains no tracking identifiers, does not use Apple's advertising identifier, and does not sell or share information with anyone — because it has none to share. It performs no tracking as the App Store defines it.
Children
The app is suitable for all ages. Since it collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children.
The App Store
The App Store collects its own statistics about downloads, deletions, crashes and ratings for every app on it. That happens through the App Store itself rather than through anything in Mega Stopwatch, and the developer sees only anonymous, aggregated figures. See Apple's Privacy Policy.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of the app changes what it does with your information, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the effective date above will change.
Contact
Questions about this policy: chonlasith@gmail.com