Norvela Music — Privacy Policy

What the app stores, and where

Everything the app records lives in its own storage area on your device, in plain files that no other app can read:

• Your practice log — when you practiced, for how long, which piece, at what tempo, and how accurately you played it.
• Your set lists — the tunes you entered, their keys, tempos, running order and who sings them.
• Tunes you captured — when you play something to the click and the app writes it down, the resulting notation is saved here.
• Recordings — audio files you chose to record on the Recordings screen, and anything the app worked out from them when you asked it to listen: a key, a tempo, chords, a written melody.
• Your settings — reference pitch, tuning, metronome preferences.

That is the complete list. There is no account, no profile, no contact list, no location, no photo access, and no identifier of any kind. The app never asks who you are because it has nowhere to put the answer.

What the app sends

Nothing. Norvela Music makes no network requests — nothing in it opens a connection.

This is not a promise that could quietly change in a background update — it is how the app is built. Nothing in it talks to the internet: no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, nothing from another company that phones home. The one piece of outside code it carries is Basic Pitch, a note-recognition model that Spotify published for anyone to use (Apache 2.0 license). It runs on the phone when you ask the app to listen to a recording, and it has no way to send anything anywhere. The notes the ear trainer plays are recordings of a real violin from the Versilian Studios community library, released into the public domain; they are files inside the app, not streams. It has no server to talk to. If you put the phone in airplane mode, every feature works exactly as it did before.

The two links in the app's More screen — this policy and the support page — open in your browser, which is the only time anything reaches the internet, and it is your browser doing it rather than the app.

The microphone

The tuner, the trainers, the reading follower, capture and the Recordings screen all need to hear you play. iOS asks your permission the first time, and the app does nothing with the microphone until you grant it.

There are two different things the app does with sound, and the difference matters. Listening — the tuner, the note trainer, ear training, the reading follower and capture — takes sound a fraction of a second at a time, reads the pitch, and throws that fraction away before the next one arrives. Nothing is written down and nothing builds up.

Recording is the one feature that keeps what it hears, and it only runs while you are holding the Recordings screen and have pressed record. It writes an audio file into the app's own storage on your device. Nothing uploads it: the app makes no network requests, so a recording can only leave the device if you share it yourself with the share button, and then it goes wherever you send it. Asking the app to listen to a recording — for its key, tempo, chords and melody — also happens entirely on the phone.

Recordings stay until you delete them. Deleting one from the Recordings screen moves it to the bin, where it waits 30 days in case you change your mind — Restore brings it back, Delete forever removes the audio for good and asks first. Deleting the app removes all of them at once. When you leave a screen that listens, the app releases the microphone.

You can revoke the permission at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone, or in Settings → Norvela Music. The listening features will then say so plainly rather than appearing broken.

Tracking and advertising

There is none. The app does no tracking as Apple defines it, contains no advertising, and never presents an App Tracking Transparency prompt because there is nothing to ask about. Its privacy manifest declares no collected data types, and the form Apple requires developers to file about data use says the same: nothing collected, nothing tracked.

Crash reports and diagnostics

The app collects no diagnostics of its own and sends none.

Separately, iOS itself can send crash reports to developers if you have turned that on in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements → Share With App Developers. That channel belongs to Apple, not to us: Apple decides what it contains, Apple removes identifying information, and we see only aggregated, anonymized reports through Apple's developer tools. If that setting is off, we receive nothing at all. Nothing in this app influences it either way.

Children

Norvela Music is a practice tool and is suitable for players of any age. Because it collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children. There are no accounts, no messaging, no social features, no advertising, no purchases and no links to anything except this policy and our support page.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and could not do so without rewriting the app, because there is no mechanism in it that transmits anything.

Purchases

There are none. The app has no in-app purchases, no subscription and no paywall. If that ever changes, purchases would be handled entirely by Apple, we would never see your payment details, and this policy would be updated before that version shipped.

Deleting everything

Delete the app. Everything it stored goes with it, because everything it stored was inside it. There is no copy on a server for us to delete, no account to close, and nothing to email us about.

To remove individual items instead, delete a set list by swiping it in the Set Lists screen, or a captured tune from the library.

If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your device backup may include the app's files, in the same way it includes every other app's. That backup is between you and Apple; we have no access to it.

Your rights

Privacy laws including the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export and delete the personal data a company holds about you, and to know whether it is sold or shared.

We hold none. Norvela LLC has no database containing you, receives nothing from this app, and sells and shares nothing because there is nothing to sell or share. Your data is already entirely in your possession, on your device, under your control. You are welcome to write to us to confirm that, and the answer will be this paragraph.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of the app ever collects or transmits anything, this policy will be updated and the date at the top will change before that version is submitted to the App Store — not after. The app's App Store privacy label and its bundled privacy manifest would change in the same release.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does with your data: support@norvela.app.

Norvela LLC, United States. See also the Norvela Music support page.