Privacy Policy

The Short Version

Your audio files, samples, and creative work never leave your Mac. We collect only anonymous timing data to help optimize performance—no audio, no personal information, no tracking of what you create. You can disable this telemetry if you prefer.

This website is separate from the app. It carries one marketing measurement tag, and we ask before switching it on. Until you say yes, it is not loaded at all. Change your choice at any time.

What Rings Does Locally

All of the following happens exclusively on your Mac:

• Audio analysis and similarity detection
• Sound generation using on-device models
• Pattern creation and arrangement
• Library indexing and organization
• Project files and preferences storage

What We Collect

From the Application: Performance Telemetry

Rings collects anonymous timing data to help us understand how long audio generation takes on different Mac configurations. This helps us optimize performance across the wide variety of Apple Silicon hardware.

What we collect:

• Timing measurements (how long operations take)
• A randomly generated ID (not linked to your identity)
• Basic system info (macOS version, processor type, number of cores)
• App version and locale

What we never collect:

• Your audio files, samples, or projects
• Your name, email, or any personal information
• What you create or how you use the creative tools
• File names, folder structures, or library contents

This telemetry is processed by Statsig, our analytics provider. You are notified about this when you first launch the app.

Disabling Telemetry

You can disable telemetry by removing the randomly generated user ID from the preferences file. The app will show you the file location when you first launch it. Once removed, no further data will be sent.

From This Website

Standard web server logs (IP address, browser type, pages visited) for security purposes.

We also use Google Tag Manager for marketing measurement — to see which of our marketing reaches people. This is the only data collection on the website, and it is the only reason we would place a cookie here.

We ask before we measure. On your first visit we ask a single question, with a yes and a no that are equally easy to click. There is no pre-ticked box, and closing the question without answering is never treated as a yes.

Until you answer yes, no tag is loaded, no request is made to Google, and no cookie is set. Answering no means the same thing, permanently: we record only the fact that you declined, so that we do not ask again.

If you agree, Google Tag Manager and the tags it manages may set cookies and receive your IP address, browser and device information, and the pages you visit on this site. This is measurement of our own marketing; it tells us nothing about what you do inside Rings, because the website and the app share no data.

Change your choice at any time. Withdrawing takes the same single click as agreeing did, and takes effect immediately. Your answer is stored in your browser, not on our servers, so clearing your browser data resets it and we will ask again.

Third-Party Services

Statsig: Processes anonymous performance telemetry as described above. See their security practices.

Google Tag Manager: Loads and manages our marketing measurement tags on this website. Google acts as a data processor for tag delivery and may process data outside the EEA under its standard contractual clauses. See Google's privacy policy. Nothing at all is sent to Google if you decline or have not yet answered.

Patreon: If you choose to support development, that transaction is handled entirely by Patreon under their privacy policy. We do not receive or store payment information.

Your Data, Your Control

Your audio files, projects, and creative work stay entirely on your Mac. We have no access to this data.

For the anonymous telemetry data: if you want historical timing data deleted, email [email protected] with the randomly generated ID shown when you first launched the app. We will request deletion from Statsig.

If You Are in the EU, EEA, or UK

The marketing measurement described above runs on the basis of your consent, and on nothing else. You are free to refuse, and free to change your mind later; neither costs you access to anything on this site.

You have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or erased, to object to or restrict how we use it, and to receive a copy of it. To exercise any of these, email [email protected]. You also have the right to complain to your national data protection authority.

Almost Realism Media is the data controller for this website and for the app telemetry described above.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, contact us at [email protected].