Privacy Policy

In short

Tabla Beats keeps your levels and your practice so they are safe and the same on each of your phones. It also counts, without names, how the app is used and when it crashes, so we can make it better. There are no ads and no tracking, and your data is never sold or shared for marketing.

What the app stores

• Your levels: their names and the exercises you write in them, their order, and how each is set to descend.
• Your practice: how many seconds you played on each day, and your daily target.
• Your account: you start as a guest, with an account identifier and nothing else. If you link Apple, the app doesn’t ask Apple for your name or email address; it keeps the identifier Apple gives it. If you link Google, Google gives the app your Google account’s email address, name and profile picture address, which are kept with your account and used only for signing in.

This is stored in Google Cloud Firestore (part of Google Firebase) in Mumbai, India, under your account, with a copy on your phone so the app works offline. Firebase sees your phone’s internet address when the app connects, as any server does, and uses it to protect sign-in from abuse. The tabla’s settings (Sa, tempo, volumes) and a small activity log stay on your phone and aren’t sent anywhere.

How the app is used, and crashes

With Google Analytics for Firebase, the app counts which screens are opened and for how long, Play and Stop (whether the tabla and the tanpura were on, the tempo and Sa, and how long it played), taps on the drums and the egg, levels and exercises added or deleted, daily targets reached, linking Apple or Google, and update messages shown. It also notes your streak, how many levels and exercises you have and your daily target. These counts carry an identifier for the app on your phone, not your name, email, level names or notes, and Google works out a rough location (such as your country and city) from your phone’s internet address, which it masks first. The app doesn’t use your phone’s advertising identifier, and nothing is used for advertising.

When the app crashes, Firebase Crashlytics sends a report: what the app was doing, your phone’s model and system version, and the app’s version and which fix (below) it runs.

Google processes this for us as our service provider, on its servers, which may be outside India. Analytics keeps its counts for 14 months after your last use of the app, and crash reports for 90 days.

Who can see it

Only your account can read or change your levels and practice; the database’s security rules enforce this. Google stores and processes the data for us as our service provider, and Apple or Google handles signing in if you link them. Beyond Belief Studios runs the database and doesn’t look at your levels, except to fix a problem you ask us to look into. The usage counts above are seen only together, never tied to you.

So that only the real app can reach the database, Firebase App Check asks Apple (App Attest) or Google (Play Integrity) to confirm that the app is the genuine Tabla Beats, unmodified, on a genuine phone. This sends details of the app and the phone, such as its model and system version, and a token Apple or Google makes for the check. It is used only for this check and doesn’t identify you.

Update check

To tell you when a new version is out, the app asks Firebase which versions are current. That request carries the app’s version and an identifier for the app on your phone, nothing about you or your levels.

Small fixes can also reach the app without a store update, through Shorebird. When the app opens, it asks Shorebird’s servers whether a fix is ready, sending the app’s version, whether it runs on iPhone or Android, and a random identifier made for this install of the app: no personal data, nothing about your account and no identifier of your phone.

Keeping and deleting your data

Your levels and practice are kept until you delete them. In the app, Settings > Account > Delete Account deletes your levels, your practice and your account from our database at once, and ends the app’s Sign in with Apple link. You can also ask us to delete it.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with its date. Questions or requests: contact@beyondbeliefstudios.com.