Effective date: September 3, 2026

The Ring App: Explore Wagner ("the app") is developed by Greg Langmead, operating as Luminous Designs. This policy describes what information the app accesses and how it is handled. The app does not collect, store, or transmit personal information about you. From version 1.3 onward, before you have bought anything, Settings shows one advertisement, which uses no information about you either — only the fact that it is The Ring App asking.

Data the app does not collect

Nothing about you. The app does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. There are no user accounts, no analytics, no user or device tracking, and no telemetry of any kind. The app does not use cookies or fingerprinting.

From version 1.3 onward the free tier does show one advertisement, described under Advertising below. It is chosen for the app, not for you, and there is no profile of you behind it.

Apple Music

The app uses Apple's MusicKit framework to play audio from your Apple Music subscription. MusicKit communicates directly between your device and Apple's servers. The app never sees or stores your Apple Music credentials or listening history.

In-app purchases

Purchases are processed entirely by Apple through StoreKit. The app verifies purchase status on-device only. No purchase information is sent to any external server.

Advertising (free tier, 1.3 and later)

Everything in this section applies to The Ring App 1.3 and later. Version 1.2 and everything before it contained no advertising software of any kind, and sent nothing to any advertising service.

From version 1.3, the app shows a single advertisement for another independent app, in Settings beneath the Purchases section. It is served by Kickstart Exchange, a cross-promotion exchange through which small developers show each other's apps. Any purchase removes it permanently — a single opera does that just as well as the full cycle.

Kickstart Exchange matches apps, not users. To fetch an advertisement, the app sends its own details: The Ring App's Kickstart Exchange key, bundle identifier, platform, app version, build version, the version of the Kickstart Exchange software, and whether this is a test build, along with a signed token from Apple that proves the request came from a genuine copy of the app. Kickstart Exchange states that it checks that token and then discards it without keeping it. The country of your App Store storefront may be included, so that you are only shown apps that are actually available where you are, and for country-level totals.

The app sends no name, email address, contacts, location, advertising identifier, or device identifier to Kickstart Exchange, and it does not read the advertising identifier at all. That is why the app never asks for permission to track you: there is nothing here that follows you between apps or builds a profile of you. Kickstart Exchange states that it does not track users or devices, does not build behavioral profiles, and does not sell information.

So that developers can be credited for the promotion they give one another, Kickstart Exchange records that an advertisement was shown and whether it was tapped. Those records count against the app rather than against a person or a device; Kickstart Exchange states that it keeps them for about 30 days, and keeps daily totals as statistics.

Tapping an advertisement opens its page in the App Store. The small information button on the advertisement explains where the advertisement came from and lets you report it; reporting sends only that advertisement's identifier and the reason you choose from a list, with nothing you type and nothing about you. For the full details, see the Kickstart Exchange privacy notice.

Wikipedia content

The app loads synopses and background articles from Wikipedia when you request them. These requests go directly from your device to Wikipedia's servers. The app does not proxy, cache on a server, or otherwise intermediate these requests.

On-device storage

The app stores your preferences (selected recording, playback position, and purchase state) locally on your device. This data is not transmitted anywhere.

Children's privacy

The app does not knowingly collect information from children. It does not collect information from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL. The effective date at the top will be revised.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to help_luminous@luminousdesigns.tech.