Privacy Policy
GlowPond controls your yard lights from your phone over Bluetooth. It is built so that your information stays with you.
What the app stores
- Your networks: their names, and the groups, themes, effects, and looks you set up, with the earlier versions kept in History.
- Your lights: their names, their Bluetooth addresses and software versions, and the results of tests you run on them.
- Each network's password, kept in the iOS Keychain.
- Notes you choose to enter, such as a place name, an address, or an owner's name, and a business name and contact if you use the app as a contractor.
- Your settings, such as appearance.
All of this is stored on your phone. It is included in your phone's own backup (iCloud or your computer) if you have one turned on.
What the app does not do
- It does not create accounts, and it never asks for an email address or password to sign in.
- It does not use analytics, advertising, or tracking of any kind.
- It does not send your networks, lights, passwords, or notes to us or to any third party.
- It does not read your location, contacts, calendar, photo library, camera, or microphone.
Bluetooth
GlowPond uses Bluetooth to find and control your lights. While it looks for lights it can also see the names of other lights nearby, such as a neighbor's. Those are shown to you so you can tell them apart from yours; they are not sent anywhere.
A network's name is public: the lights show it to any phone nearby. Its password is not. The lights themselves keep the name and password you give them, which is how they know to listen to you.
Face ID
The app asks for Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode before it shows or shares a network's password. iOS does the check and tells the app only whether it passed.
Sharing
When you export a network, share a password, or send a Network Report, it goes only where you send it, through the iOS share sheet. An exported network includes the password only if you turn on Include the Password. A Network Report never includes the password, the address, or the owner's name.
Purchases
If you buy a plan in the app, Apple handles the payment. We never see your payment details.
Your data is yours
- Export Network (Settings → your network → Export Network) makes one file with the whole network: names, groups, themes, and effects.
- Delete Network (Settings → your network → Delete Network) removes that network and its password from the phone.
- Delete All Data (Settings → Delete All Data) resets the lights that answer to factory settings, then erases every network, password, and setting from the phone.
- Deleting the app removes its data from the phone. iOS can keep saved passwords in the Keychain after an app is deleted, so use Delete All Data first if you want them gone.
Children
GlowPond is not directed at children under 13 and collects no information from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.