Privacy Policy

Summary

EavesJam stores recognized song metadata and listening-session records locally on the user's device. EavesJam does not store raw microphone audio and does not operate a separate song-recognition server.

Data EavesJam Stores On Device

• Recognized song metadata, such as title, artist, artwork URL, Shazam or Apple Music links when provided, genres, match timing, and confidence when available.
• Listening-window records, including listening, no-match, unavailable, and interrupted periods.
• User-created folders, favorites, and notes.
• Listening settings, including selected listening choice and Quick Checks timing.
• Recent diagnostic events, including audio route, app background/foreground transitions, mic input level classification, interruptions, audio graph setup, matches, and no-match details.
• Battery measurement rows for listening sessions, including start/end battery level, charging state, listening choice, and duration.

This data is intended to stay on the user's device unless a future export, backup, or sync feature is explicitly added and enabled by the user.

Microphone Use

EavesJam asks for microphone permission so it can recognize songs physically reaching the iPhone microphone. Listening starts only after the user starts a session, and the app shows active listening state and a Stop control while listening is active.

While listening is active, the microphone stream is used for song recognition through ShazamKit and for local input-level diagnostics such as whether the signal was strong, usable, quiet, or very quiet. To identify a song, EavesJam converts short windows of microphone audio into a compact acoustic signature and sends that signature to Apple's ShazamKit service over the network for matching. EavesJam does not retain raw microphone audio. Acoustic signatures are used transiently for matching and are not saved by EavesJam.

ShazamKit And Apple Services

EavesJam uses Apple's ShazamKit framework to match music. ShazamKit and related Apple services are provided by Apple. EavesJam does not control Apple's processing of ShazamKit requests or Apple's privacy practices.

If ShazamKit returns Apple Music or Shazam metadata, EavesJam may display that metadata and links in the app.

Data EavesJam Does Not Collect

• No EavesJam account is required.
• The user's local EavesJam library is not uploaded to an EavesJam server.
• Personal data is not sold.
• Users are not tracked across apps or websites.
• Raw microphone audio is not stored by EavesJam.
• Recognized music data is not used for advertising.

Permissions

EavesJam may request microphone permission, which is required for song recognition. Future versions may request additional permissions only if a user-facing feature needs them, such as export, backup, sync, location-based session labels, or companion-device listening.

Deleting Data

The Settings screen includes a local delete action that removes saved songs, folders, listening-window records, diagnostics, and battery measurements from the device. Deleting the app from the device also removes the locally stored EavesJam library.

Sharing

EavesJam can render a song or session image ("share card") when the user taps Share. The image contains only the song metadata the user chose to share and is handed to the iOS share sheet; EavesJam itself never uploads it anywhere.

Children's Privacy

EavesJam is not designed for children and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes

This policy should be updated whenever EavesJam changes its data practices, including adding accounts, sync, backup, export, analytics, crash reporting, cloud storage, location, Apple Music library access, or third-party SDKs.

Contact

Owner: INITIATOR LLC

Contact: support@initiatorworks.com