The short version: The Decaud app has no account, analytics, advertising, or tracking. Your music and your library stay on your devices. When you request a Decaud installer from this website, our CDN keeps a limited access record for aggregate download counting and security. Raw records are deleted after 90 days.
Nothing. Decaud has no analytics or telemetry of any kind. We cannot see what you play, what you own, or how you use the app. The app works fully offline.
When you request a Decaud DMG, a DSD sample file, or a review video from this website,
or when the Direct edition's updater checks the update feed, our CloudFront edge records
the date and time, the requested filename, IP address, browser, download client or
updater version, approximate edge location, any byte-range request used to resume a
download, the referring page if your browser sends one, and, only when present, five
campaign parameters (utm_source, utm_medium,
utm_campaign, utm_content and the host of the page you arrived
from). Nothing else on the address is kept. We use these records only to estimate download
counts and client mix, to see which publication or campaign a download followed, and to
diagnose abuse or delivery problems.
If you arrive from another site or with campaign parameters, this website keeps those parameters in your own browser for 30 days and attaches them to the download link. It sets no cookie and no identifier, and it never contacts a third party.
We do not log cookies, other query strings, or activity inside the app. Raw download-request records are automatically deleted from our CDN after 90 days; the developer keeps a copy on his own Mac for longer, used for the same counting and shown only as pseudonyms. Records are not linked to a name, email address, account, payment, or music library. Aggregate counts may be retained. We do not sell or use this information for advertising.
The Direct edition uses Sparkle to request a signed update feed from decaud.io. The request may identify the installed Decaud version and basic Mac compatibility information so Sparkle can select a suitable update. It carries no Decaud account, device identifier, music-library data, or playback history.
Like a DMG request, the appcast request reaches CloudFront, which records the same fields described above: time, IP address, the updater's user agent (which names the installed Decaud version), and edge location. We use these records only to estimate how many Direct installations are checking for updates and which versions they run. The same 90-day raw-log retention described above applies. App Store editions update through Apple and do not contain Sparkle.
Your music files stay in your folders, on your disks and network shares, unless you explicitly move them (the two ways audio can reach iCloud are listed below, and both are actions you take, never defaults). Decaud's library database (titles, tags, ratings, play counts, artwork) is a local file on your device. Folders added from an external drive are indexed and played in place; nothing is copied off the drive. Deleting the app's local data deletes that device's database. If you enabled iCloud sync, the separately synced catalog remains in your iCloud account until you explicitly remove it.
Two different things can involve iCloud, and only the first ever happens by a setting:
When you use these features, Decaud sends the lookup information described below to the relevant third-party service. These lookups do not upload your audio files. Ordinary network request information is described below.
Artist photos are off by default. After you enable them, opening an artist page may trigger these lookups automatically. Turning the setting off hides cached artist information and prevents new artist-photo lookups; it does not delete the on-device cache or recall requests already sent.
Results are cached on your device. Each service receives ordinary network request information, including your IP address, requested URL, and user agent. Wikipedia API requests identify Decaud and its version. This information is governed by the service's own privacy policy; for Wikipedia and Wikimedia, see the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy.
SMB/NAS streaming, DLNA browsing and casting, AirPlay, and the iPhone remote all talk directly between your devices on your own network. Nothing is routed through us. The remote requires you to approve each new device on the Mac first.
The NativeDSD Starter Pack on Mac, iPhone and iPad downloads selected tracks directly from NativeDSD's servers. Those requests disclose ordinary network information such as your IP address and the requested file to NativeDSD. Downloads stay local unless you choose to upload them to iCloud. The Apple TV demo library is bundled with the app, works offline, and does not enter iCloud sync or LAN sharing.
The Mac and iPhone/iPad App Store editions offer optional tips through Apple's in-app purchase system; Apple processes those and shares no payment details with us. The direct edition contains no in-app purchases; support links (Buy Me a Coffee, Bitcoin) open in your browser and are governed by those services' policies.
This page is written from what the app actually does. If a future feature ever needs to send more than described here, it will be opt-in, documented on this page before release, and default-off. "Local-first" is the design, not a marketing phrase.
Questions about this policy: open the support contact form.
