1. Personal data protection.
- 5CHORDS application for iOS does not require users to register an account to access the application.
- 5CHORDS application for iOS does not collect any personal data such as emails, phone numbers, user names, user device IDs, credit card numbers, or any other personal information.
2. Access to media.
2.1 Access to the device microphone.
- 5CHORDS application for iOS requires access to microphone in order to record voice or music to extract chords and lyrics which is the main functionality of the application.
- In case if you reject the request to access the microphone, the application won’t be able to perform recording and therefore will be unable to recognize chords and lyrics.
2.2 Access to media files on your iOS device.
- When you choose to upload a media file containing audio data that is not DRM-protected for further chords and lyrics recognition, 5Chords application for iOS will ask you to select a media file from your iOS device and will obtain one-time reading permission from the iOS operating system to read the selected media file.
- The application will create a copy of the selected file in the application’s sandbox space on your device.
- The access to the application’s sandbox space is protected by the iOS operating system which prevents any other application and/or user of your device from accessing content stored in the application’s sandbox space. The files stored in the application’s sandbox are only accessible via 5CHORDS application.
- Once the selected media file is copied to the application’s sandbox space, the permission to access the original media file will be revoked by the iOS operating system and the 5CHORDS application will not have access to it.
2.3. Uploading media files to 5CHORDS application server.
- In order to perform chords and lyrics recognition 5CHORDS application will upload the selected media file to the server. Immediately after the completion of extraction of chords and lyrics, the media file uploaded to the server will be deleted.
- 5CHORDS application server does not store media files or any other content uploaded by users of the application.
- Neither 5CHORDS application nor 5CHORDS application server shares or distributes user uploaded media and/or extracted chords and lyrics with any 3rd parties.
2.4. Recognizing chords and lyrics from YouTube™ videos.
- 5CHORDS application allows you to select videos for further chords and lyrics recognition from YouTube™ feed.
- 5CHORDS application does not require you to be logged in to your YouTube™ account.
- 5CHORDS application will present the YouTube™ feed “as is” by opening the https://www.youtube.com website in the web browser built-in into the iOS operating system.
- 5CHORDS application does not collect any of your content preferences. Suggestions you might see when you search the YouTube™ feed for videos are provided by the web browser built-in into the iOS operating system.
- Once you select the video, 5CHORDS application server will perform chords and lyrics recognition. The video and/or audio data of the selected video will never be stored either on your iOS device or on 5CHORDS application server.
- 5CHORDS application won’t be able to perform chords and lyrics recognition for the video and/or audio content which is not publicly accessible on YouTube™.
- 5CHORDS application uses YouTube™ API to obtain the selected video duration and title. Please see YouTube API Services Terms of Service for details for your region.
3. Anonymous authorization
- 5CHORDS application for iOS authenticates users anonymously, i.e. it creates a temporary unique identifier linked to the user’s iOS device but not linked to any user personal data such as email, user name, credit card number, or any other personal information.
- 5CHORDS uses the unique identifier to complete user-requested chords and lyrics recognition in case of internet connection disruption and to provide the requested chords and lyrics after the internet connection is restored.
- Unique user identifiers can not be translated or converted to user device ID and therefore can not be used for sending unwanted information or spam to users.
3. Payment transactions
- 5CHORDS application does not collect any identification information about you such as card numbers, user device ID, user name, age, e-mail address, or any other information.
- Payment transactions are processed by the Apple App Store.
- 5CHORDS application grants the access to the paid functionality by analyzing the subscription information provided by the Apple App Store.