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Privacy Policy for Audalu

Honestware makes small Android apps. Audalu does its work on your phone, and we never sell your data.

Last updated: October 16, 2026

The short version

1. Who we are and how to reach us

Audalu is made by Honestware ("we"), an independent app studio. If you have a privacy question, or want to use one of the rights in section 8, email honestware.apps@gmail.com. We read every message and aim to reply within 30 days. There are no accounts, so the only thing we can match a request to is the email address you write from.

2. Your videos and audio files

Audalu reads the video you choose, extracts the sound, and saves the audio file in your phone's Music folder (Music/Audalu). This all happens on your device. Your videos and audio are never sent to us or to anyone else. If you tap Share, or set an audio file as a ringtone, the file goes where you send it, and from that point the app you shared it with handles it.

Access to the videos on your phone. If you allow it, Audalu can list the videos on your phone in its own gallery, so you can find them by name and folder. Android's own dialog calls this access to "photos and videos", because that is one Android permission; the app only lists your videos and never reads your photos. You can choose all videos, only some videos, or don't allow, and you can change that later in the app's Settings or in Android's settings. If you don't allow it, you can still pick videos with Android's own photo picker at any time, and everything else in the app works. (Inside the app there is also a file browser for choosing videos by folder; that route works without the access above.)

3. What is stored, and where

On your phone. The app remembers a few things locally: your preferred format and settings, which tips you have already seen, and which videos you have already converted. Uninstalling the app deletes them. The audio files you have made are ordinary files: they stay in your Music folder until you delete them, also after an uninstall.

Backups. The app's own settings are excluded from Android's cloud backup and from phone-to-phone transfer, so they are not copied off your device. On a new phone the app starts fresh and tips may appear again.

With us. We run no accounts, no servers, and no analytics or crash reporting of our own, so the app sends us nothing. We do receive and keep the emails you send us (section 7). Like every developer, we can also see public reviews and aggregate statistics that Google Play shows us about installs, ratings and crashes; those come from Google, not from the app.

With Google. Google's ads software inside the app collects the data listed in section 4.

4. Advertising (Google AdMob)

The app is free and is paid for by ads from Google AdMob. Google's Mobile Ads SDK, which is built into the app, automatically collects and shares with Google:

Google uses this for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention, and sends it over an encrypted (TLS) connection. Google then handles it under its own rules: How Google uses information from apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy. Google may process this data in countries other than the one you live in, under its own terms.

Apart from the ads and Google's consent form, the app does not send anything to the internet by itself. Once, after your second saved file, the app asks Google Play to show its rating card; Google Play decides whether it appears and handles your answer. Some things you tap are handled by Google Play or by another app on your phone rather than by us: the "Get it on Google Play" and policy links, and sharing a file.

Your choices

5. Notifications

If you allow it, the app shows a notification while a long conversion runs and when it finishes. These notifications are created on your phone and contain no ads.

6. Children

Audalu is made for adults (18+) and is not directed to children. If you are under 18, please don't use the app. We don't ask anyone for personal details, but Google's ads software collects the device data in section 4 from whoever is using the phone, which is one reason for the age limit. If you think a child has written to us, email us and we will delete the message.

7. What we keep, and for how long

We keep the emails you send us for as long as we need them to answer you, and for about 12 months afterwards, and then delete them. If you want your message deleted sooner, ask us and we will do it. We hold nothing else that identifies you: no account, no profile, no server logs of our own.

The data collected by Google's ads software is held by Google, not by us, and we cannot look it up or delete it for you. Google's retention is described in the Google Privacy Policy, and the controls in section 4 are the fastest way to limit it.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example Israel, the EU/EEA, the UK or California), you may have the right to ask what personal data is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict certain uses, to receive a copy, and to withdraw consent you have given. To use any of these, email honestware.apps@gmail.com. What we hold is limited to your emails to us, so we can usually answer quickly, and we will never ask you for an ID document.

For the data that Google's ads software collects, Google is the one holding it: use the choices in section 4, or Google's own privacy tools, and write to us if you can't find the right one and we'll help.

If you think we have handled your data badly, you can complain to your local data-protection authority. In Israel that is the Privacy Protection Authority; in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland it is the authority of the country you live in.

9. Changes to this policy

If we change how the app handles data, for example a new feature that uses the internet or a new ad provider, we will update this page and the "Last updated" date above, and list the change here when the update is released.

10. Contact

Questions about anything on this page? Email honestware.apps@gmail.com.