SpectraBox Privacy Policy

Effective September 30, 2026

SpectraBox is built so that we never see your data at all. This policy covers SpectraBox on iPhone and on Android, and it is short because there is almost nothing to disclose.

What we collect

Nothing about you personally. SpectraBox has no accounts, no sign-up, no analytics SDKs, and no advertising SDKs, on either platform. We do not operate any server that receives your data. A session itself needs no internet connection and works fully in airplane mode, on iPhone or Android. On Android, the app does contain Google's Play Billing library and Google's ML Kit pose detector, both described below under "Google Play services on Android": neither is an analytics or advertising SDK, and neither one reports what you say, record, or photograph back to us.

Where your data lives

Your sessions, transcripts, recordings, photos and videos are stored on your device. On iPhone, if iCloud is available, your data may also be stored in your personal, private iCloud database, encrypted by Apple. On Android, your data stays on the phone, and if Android backup is turned on it is included in your own Google account backup, encrypted by Google. We have no access to any of it, and no sign-in is required.

Sensors

SpectraBox reads your phone's magnetometer (the same sensor the compass uses) to show a live EMF-style readout, and its motion sensor to flag movement that could disturb a reading. Both readings are used only on your device and are never uploaded.

Camera, microphone and location

Some features ask for permission to use hardware. Every one of them is optional, each is used only while you are actively using that feature, and nothing any of them captures is ever sent off your device.

• Camera. Spirit Lens shows a live camera view with a figure-tracking overlay drawn on top, and the Overlay Evidence Camera records video with your session readings burned in. Pose detection runs entirely on your device: on Android that is Google ML Kit's bundled, on-device pose model (see "Google Play services on Android" below), and on iPhone it is Apple's on-device Vision framework. Your camera frames are never uploaded on either platform. Photos and videos you capture are saved to the app and are yours to delete or export.
• Microphone. The EVP Analysis Lab records the real sound of the room during a session so you can scrub, slow down, reverse and tag what you hear. Those recordings stay on your device.
• Location. If you add a location to a Case File, the app takes a single one-shot GPS reading (on Android, the fine-location permission) and stores the coordinates with that investigation. There is no background tracking, no location history, and no reverse geocoding lookup.
• Photos. To attach an existing photo to a Case File, the app opens your phone's own system photo picker. On Android this is Android's Photo Picker, which hands the app only the pictures you choose: SpectraBox never receives broad access to your photo library, and no storage permission is requested.
• Notifications (Android). A background-session notification lets a running session keep going while you leave the app; this needs the notification permission, and you can turn it off without affecting the session itself.

Every one of these is optional. You can refuse or later revoke any of them at any time: on Android in Settings > Apps > SpectraBox > Permissions, or on iPhone in Settings > SpectraBox. The rest of the app keeps working without them.

Google Play services on Android

Three pieces of Google software are part of the Android app. None of them is an analytics or advertising SDK, none of them is ours, and Google handles this data under Google's own privacy policy, never SpectraBox's.

• Google Play Billing. Required by Google Play for in-app purchases. It processes and restores your SpectraBox Pro purchase, and it also sends Google technical diagnostics about those purchase connections (for example, whether a request to Google Play succeeded), so Google can keep its billing service working. This happens for every user the moment the app checks its Pro status, not only for people who buy Pro.
• Google Play In-App Review. If SpectraBox asks you to rate it, the rating card itself is shown by the Play Store app, through Google's official API. We only ask Google to show it; we never see whether you rated the app or what you wrote.
• Google ML Kit (pose detection). Spirit Lens and the Overlay Evidence Camera use Google's on-device pose-detection model, bundled inside the app, to draw the figure-tracking overlay. Your camera frames are processed on your device and are never uploaded. The ML Kit software may send Google small, anonymous usage and diagnostic metrics about its own performance (such as how long detection took), never your images or video.

Words you add yourself in a Custom Word Bank are spoken by your phone's own on-device text-to-speech voice, offline: Android's built-in TextToSpeech engine on Android, or Apple's on-device voice on iPhone. Neither sends the words you typed anywhere.

Purchases

SpectraBox Pro is a single one-time purchase, the same on both platforms, with no subscription. On iPhone it is processed entirely by Apple through your App Store account, and refunds are requested through Apple. On Android, it is processed entirely by Google Play through your Google Play account, and refunds are handled by Google Play under its own policy (Play Store > Menu > Order history, or support.google.com/googleplay). We receive no payment details on either platform, and because it is a one-time purchase, there is no subscription to cancel. Full terms are in the Terms of Use.

Your control

You can export any session as a CSV or text transcript at any time, and erase everything by deleting the app: on iPhone, also remove SpectraBox data from iCloud in iOS Settings; on Android, uninstalling the app deletes its data immediately, unless you later reinstall and restore it from your own Google account backup. To ask a question about your data, email spectrabox@bdsalesinc.ca.

Children

SpectraBox is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions: spectrabox@bdsalesinc.ca