Privacy policy

Qallos is a free podcast player for iPhone and iPad. This page explains what information the app and its servers handle. We keep it short because there is not much to say: we collect what we need to run the app, we do not sell it, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.

What we collect

• Account details. If you create an account: your email address and display name. If you stay a guest, we create an anonymous account with a random user ID instead.
• Listening activity. The shows you follow, your queue, bookmarks, playback positions, played episodes, and your searches. This is how the app remembers where you left off, fills your feed, and personalises suggestions.
• Device identifier and push token. Used to deliver new-episode notifications you have turned on, and to keep your session on your device.
• Basic technical data. App version and platform on each request, and error reports, so we can keep the service working.

What stays on your phone

If you use transcripts, Qallos turns an episode's audio into text on your device using Apple's speech recognition, and nothing is uploaded for that. Downloads and your cached library are stored on your device.

How we use it

• To run the app: sign-in, sync your library and playback position, send the notifications you ask for.
• To personalise: recommendations such as shows similar to ones you follow.
• To keep the service reliable and secure.

We do not use your data for advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not share it with data brokers.

Tracking

Qallos does not track you. It contains no advertising or cross-app tracking SDKs.

Third parties

Podcast audio, artwork and descriptions are loaded from the publishers' own servers, which may see your IP address when you stream or download, as with any podcast app. Show discovery uses the public Podcast Index directory. Sign-in with Face ID uses your device's biometric system; Qallos never receives your biometric data.

Your choices

• Share listening data. A switch in Settings controls whether your listening data is used.
• Delete listening data. Profile, then Settings, then delete your listening data.
• Delete your account. Profile, then Settings, then Delete Account. This removes your account and the data tied to it.
• Notifications. Turn them off in the app or in iOS Settings.

Retention

We keep account data while your account exists. When you delete it, the data tied to it is deleted from our servers, apart from short-lived backups and logs that expire on their own schedule.

Children

Qallos is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will update the date above and, for significant changes, tell you in the app.

Contact

Questions or requests: support@qallos.com.