Choral: privacy

Last updated 29 October 2026

Choral is a bird song quiz: real recordings of several birds singing at once, and you name every one. It is a small Android app I build on my own (com.growingpeas.birdsong on Google Play). This page says what it keeps, what leaves your phone, and why it asks for each permission. The controller is Lawrenza SRL, trading as Growing Peas; full details are on the legal notice.

What leaves your phone

• Purchases. Choral full is a one-time purchase handled by Google Play. Google processes the payment under its own privacy policy; I receive no card details, only the order record Google shares with every developer (order number, product, price and country).
• Rating. Once, after you earn your first seal, the app may show Google Play's own rating sheet. Whatever you write there goes to Google Play, not to me.
• What you choose to send. Sharing your daily chorus result, writing to me or sending the recordings you flagged as wrong all go through the app you pick, only when you tap it.

All recordings, plates and sheets are inside the app: playing needs no connection. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting and no server of mine. The app contains no third-party tracking code.

What stays on your phone

• Your progress: the species you met, found and mastered, your records and your settings.
• The recordings you flagged as wrong, until you send or reset them.

Android may copy this progress to your Google account with its own app backup, if you turned backup on for your phone, so that it comes back on a new phone.

Permissions

• Internet and network state: used only by Google Play, for the purchase and the rating sheet.
• Vibration: a short tap when a round is checked; you can turn it off in the settings.

The app never asks for your microphone, your location, your contacts or your files.

Recordings and plates

The bird recordings are field recordings shared under open licences (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA); the plates are old engravings, mostly in the public domain. Every author and licence is listed in the app under Settings, Credits.

Deleting your data

Everything is on your phone, so you delete it there: Settings, Reset in the app, or Settings, Apps, Choral, Storage, Clear storage, or by uninstalling. I hold no copy to delete.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13.

Changes and questions

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. Write to [email protected] about anything here.