Auto Brightness Clock
Privacy Policy
The camera measures brightness and nothing else. No images are recorded, stored or transmitted — ever.
- Last updated
- Applies to
- Auto Brightness Clock for iOS
This policy covers Auto Brightness Clock. It sits alongside our general Privacy Policy. Where the two differ for this app, this policy applies.
Who is responsible
The data controller for Auto Brightness Clock is the developer behind Leap Studio, named on the entity details page.
Contact: contact@leapstudio.dev. We respond within 30 days.
Summary
The camera measures brightness and nothing else. No images are recorded, stored or transmitted — ever.
There is no account, no sign-up and no login. What does leave your device is listed below.
What leaves your device
This is the complete list. Anything not in this table is not transmitted.
| What | Who receives it | Where | Why | Trigger |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your approximate location, reduced to roughly city level | Apple WeatherKit | Apple infrastructure | Showing the current temperature and forecast on the weather face | You choose |
Notes
- Deny the camera permission and the clock still works — it simply stops adapting and you set the brightness yourself.
- Deny location and every face except the weather face works normally.
- The app has no backend of its own. Apart from Apple's weather service it makes no network requests at all.
What stays on your device
Your chosen clock face is stored on the device. That is the only thing the app remembers, and there is nothing else to store.
This content does not reach us and we hold no copy of it. Uninstalling the app or erasing your device destroys your content permanently. Use your own device backup if you want it kept.
All model inference happens on your device. Prompts and documents are not transmitted.
Permissions this app asks for
Each can be refused or revoked in Settings. Refusing a permission disables only the feature that requires it.
- Camera
- Measuring how bright the room is. Each frame is reduced to a single brightness number and discarded immediately. No image is ever saved, shown or sent.
- Location (approximate)
- Fetching local weather. Requested at reduced accuracy, so Apple receives roughly your city, not your address.
Analytics, advertising and tracking
None. This app collects no usage statistics, no crash reports and no telemetry of any kind.
There is no advertising, no advertising identifier, no data broker, no cross-app or cross-site tracking, and no App Tracking Transparency prompt. We do not sell or share personal information, including as those terms are defined by California and other US state privacy laws.
Children
This app is not directed to children and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. See our Children's Privacy notice.
Legal bases (EU and UK)
- Contract — processing a purchase or subscription.
- Consent — optional features you switch on that send data off the device. Withdraw by switching the feature off.
- Legitimate interests — keeping the app working and secure. You may object at any time.
- Legal obligation — tax and consumer-law records.
International transfers
We are in Australia. The service providers named above are in the United States. Transfers of personal data from the EEA are made under the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, and from the UK under the International Data Transfer Addendum. Under Australian Privacy Principle 8 we take reasonable steps to ensure overseas recipients handle personal information consistently with the Australian Privacy Principles. The full list is on our Subprocessors page.
Retention
Content you create in the app is held on your device until you delete it or remove the app. We do not hold it. Purchase records are retained for seven years as required by Australian tax law. Analytics events, where collected, are retained by the provider on a rolling basis and are not linked to an account.
Your rights
You may have some or all of the following rights depending on where you live. We honour them for everyone.
- Access
- Ask what personal information we hold about you and get a copy of it.
- Correction
- Ask us to fix anything inaccurate, out of date or incomplete.
- Erasure
- Ask us to delete personal information we hold. In this app, uninstalling it deletes your content directly, because we never had a copy.
- Restriction and objection
- Ask us to stop or limit a particular use, including any use based on our legitimate interests.
- Portability
- Receive the personal information you gave us in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Withdraw consent
- Where we rely on consent, withdraw it at any time. This does not affect anything done before you withdrew it.
- Complain
- Take the matter to a privacy regulator without going through us first.
Requests are free of charge and we will not discriminate against you for making one. Write to contact@leapstudio.dev.
We hold no directly identifying information about app users and are often unable to locate records relating to a specific individual.
Data breaches
Where a breach is likely to result in serious harm we will notify you and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. Where the GDPR applies we will notify the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware.
Report a security problem to contact@leapstudio.dev. See our Security overview.
Complaints
Contact us at contact@leapstudio.dev. We respond within 30 days. You may also complain to a regulator at any time:
- Australia — Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)
- European Union — Your national data protection authority
- United Kingdom — Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Changes to this policy
Updates are published here with a new date. Material changes are notified in the app before they take effect.