Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 10, 2026

Resonate Drum Tuner ("the App") is developed and operated by Sonique Digital Studios, a division of Sonique LLC, under the DrumOps brand. This policy applies to the App on both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, and explains what the App accesses, what leaves your device, why, and what rights you have over it.

In short: the App analyses your drum's sound on your device and never uploads your recordings. It keeps the recordings you make with Fingerprint, and your collections and drums, on your device. We do not have accounts, we never ask for your name or email, we run no advertising and no analytics, and we do not track you across apps or websites. The only information that reaches us is diagnostic: an anonymous crash report when the App fails, and a short session record each time it is opened, so we can tell how often it crashes.

Data Controller

The data controller responsible for the App and for this policy is Sonique LLC, the legal entity behind Sonique Digital Studios and the DrumOps brand. You can reach us at any time at admin@soniquedrums.com.

Microphone Access

The App uses your device's microphone to detect drum pitch and resonance in real time. All audio analysis happens entirely on your device. The App never transmits recordings or derived measurements off your device. Sound leaves it only in the rare case described under Crash Diagnostics, as fragments inside a crash report.

In the tuning workflows, incoming sound is analysed in memory and discarded. Nothing is recorded.

Fingerprint is the exception, and it is deliberate. When you capture a drum's sound, the App saves a short recording of each strike, roughly two seconds, to storage on your device, under the name you give it. That is the whole point of the feature: Clone plays the recording back and compares a new strike against it. The App never uploads those recordings. They are deleted from your device when you delete the fingerprint or uninstall the App.

A saved clone is the same kind of recording. When you save a clone to your Library, the App keeps the recording of your last strike on the new drum it adds, with the name of the fingerprint it was cloned from. The App never uploads it. It is deleted from your device when you delete the clone, the drum or its collection, or uninstall the App.

Your device will ask for microphone permission before the App can listen. You can withdraw that permission at any time in your device settings; the App's tuning features will stop working, but nothing else is affected.

Data Stored on Your Device

Your collections and drums, the fingerprint recordings described above with the names and notes you give them, and the tuning you currently have in progress are written to storage on your device. The App never uploads them, to us or to anyone else. We cannot see them, and we cannot recover them for you.

Your phone's own backup can hold a copy. If your phone backs up to iCloud, to your Google account or to a computer, or you move to a new phone with its transfer tool, that backup or transfer can include the App's data, fingerprint recordings among it, as it does for your other apps. That copy is held under your own account, by Apple, by Google or on your computer, and it never reaches us.

The tuning in progress is a single working record, holding the readings taken so far so you can close the App partway through a drum and come back to it. It is replaced by the next tuning and can be discarded from the home screen at any time.

If you use the export feature, the resulting CSV file of your collections and drums is created on your device and goes wherever you choose to send it. Once you share a file, it is outside our control and outside this policy.

Deleting the App deletes this data from your device. Please export anything you want to keep first.

Crash Diagnostics

The App uses Firebase Crashlytics, a service provided by Google, to report crashes so we can fix them. When the App crashes, a report may include:

device model, operating system version, and App version;
the state of the App at the moment of the crash, including the drum type, lug count and head type in use, so we can reproduce the fault;
a randomly generated installation identifier, so that repeated crashes from one installation can be recognised as related;
on Android, when the crash happens in the App's native code, which includes its audio engine, a snapshot of the memory the App was using at that moment. That snapshot can contain short fragments of whatever audio the App was working on, including a recording it was analysing. Firebase offers no way to leave it out.

Crash reports contain no name, email address, contact details, location or advertising identifier, and no audio beyond those fragments. The installation identifier is not linked to you and is reset if you reinstall the App. We use this data only to diagnose and fix defects.

Crashlytics also sends a short session record each time you open the App, whether or not it crashes, so we can see what share of sessions end in a crash. It holds a random session identifier and count, the time, a random installation identifier, and the device model, operating system and App version. It holds nothing about your drums, your tunings or your sound.

Under the GDPR, a device-linked identifier of this kind can still count as personal data, which is why it is described here in full.

Purchases

Resonate is a paid app, bought once from the store. There is no free tier, no subscription, and no in-app purchase, so the App contains no billing code and makes no purchase or entitlement requests of any kind.

Buying the App is handled entirely by the store you bought it from by the Apple App Store on iOS, or by Google Play on Android. We never receive, store, or have access to your payment card, billing address, or store account details. Apple and Google act as independent controllers for the purchase data they hold, under their own privacy policies.

Legal Bases for Processing (EEA and UK)

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we rely on the following legal bases:

Microphone access: your consent, given through your device's permission prompt (Art. 6(1)(a)). No personal data reaches us from listening itself, as the App never sends recordings off your device.
Crash diagnostics: our legitimate interest in keeping the App stable and secure (Art. 6(1)(f)). We have weighed this against your interests and consider it minimal in impact, since the data is anonymous to us and used only to fix defects.

Who Receives Data

The App uses a single third-party service, governed by its own privacy policy:

Firebase Crashlytics (Google): anonymous crash reports and session records. Firebase privacy

We do not sell or share personal data, and we do not disclose it to anyone else except where we are legally required to.

No advertising SDKs, no analytics platforms, and no tracking. The App does not use the advertising identifier, does not request App Tracking Transparency permission, and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

International Transfers

Google and Apple process data in the United States and in other countries. Where data is transferred out of the EEA or the UK, that transfer is made under the safeguards those providers maintain: the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its UK extension, and/or Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission. We hold no servers or databases of our own containing your personal data.

How Long Data Is Kept

Data stored on your device stays there until you delete it or uninstall the App. Crash reports are retained by Firebase Crashlytics for a limited diagnostic period, currently up to 90 days, after which they are deleted by Google. Records of your app purchase are kept by Apple or Google under their own retention policies, not ours.

Your Rights

If you are in the EEA or the UK, you have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, and the right to data portability. Where processing relies on consent, such as microphone access, you may withdraw it at any time in your device settings, without affecting processing carried out beforehand.

To exercise any of these rights, email admin@soniquedrums.com. We respond within one month, as the GDPR requires.

Please note one honest limitation: because the App has no accounts and we hold no identifier that links a crash report to you, we usually cannot locate data as "yours". Where we cannot identify you from the data we hold, and you cannot supply information that lets us do so, Art. 11 GDPR means some rights may not be exercisable. Everything else, meaning your own tuning data, is already entirely in your hands on your own device.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection supervisory authority, or with the UK Information Commissioner's Office. A list of EEA authorities is published by the European Data Protection Board.

We do not carry out automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects.

Children's Privacy

The App is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 13, or under 16 in EEA countries that apply that higher age limit. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, contact us and we will delete it.

Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes materially, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a revised "Last updated" date. Where the change requires it, we will seek your consent again.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or a data protection request? Reach us at admin@soniquedrums.com.