Privacy Policy

1. Information we collect

To improve the app, Tysha collects a little anonymous data, and none of it is linked to you. We do not ask for your name, email, phone number, or any account credentials, because Tysha has no accounts and requires no sign-in to use. Tysha’s App Store privacy label lists four kinds of data, each marked “Data Not Linked to You” and used for analytics, not for tracking: Usage Data (how the app is used), Location (coarse location: your country and region), Purchases (the steps of a Pro purchase), and User Content (the sounds you ask us to add). Sections 2 and 3 explain each one.

Your saved Rooms and their names, your volume levels, your theme, and your count of calm nights (“Calm nights with Tysha” in Settings) stay on your device. That count never leaves your phone: the only thing sent about it is an event saying which milestone was shown, such as 7 calm nights. The analytics events in section 2 record what happened, with a few coarse values: for example, that a Room with three sounds was saved, that a 45-minute timer started, or that “Play the moment I open the app” was turned off.

2. Analytics & tracking

To understand which features actually help tired parents, Tysha uses Aptabase, an open-source, privacy-first analytics service. Each event has a name and a few coarse values: for example, which sound was added, a timer’s length in minutes, whether a listening session started at night (8 pm to 7 am) and whether it reached 20 minutes, roughly how many nights Tysha has been used (in ranges such as 4–7), or which screen led to the Pro page. Aptabase adds the same details to every event: a random session ID that isn’t tied to your device, the time, the app version and build, the iOS version, the device model (such as “iPhone17,1”), and your phone’s language.

When an event arrives, Aptabase works out your country and region from the connection’s IP address; the IP address itself isn’t stored. There’s no account, no device or advertising identifier, no cookies, and no tracking across apps or websites. Nothing is linked to you, and nothing is sold. There are no ads, no advertising frameworks, and no third-party tracking.

Aptabase processes these events only on Tysha’s behalf: as its privacy policy sets out, it acts as our data processor under Article 28 of the GDPR, and its Data Processing Agreement governs that processing. Tysha uses Aptabase’s US region, so events are stored on servers in the United States. They’re kept for up to five years and then deleted. To count daily users without a device or account identifier, Aptabase stores a one-way hash of the connection’s IP address and user agent (a short line naming the iOS version and language), made with a key it throws away every 24 hours. It doesn’t store the IP address itself. Aptabase is run by Technov Solutions SRL in Romania; transfers to the United States are covered by the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses and, where it applies, the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

Request a sound. In the app’s sound library you can suggest a sound for us to add next. If you choose to send it, the words you typed are sent anonymously, as one more event, so we know which sounds to add. Tysha won’t send text that contains an “@” or seven or more digits, so email addresses and phone numbers can’t be sent. Please type just the sound’s name.

3. Purchases

Tysha offers an optional one-time “Lifetime Pro” purchase. All payments are processed entirely by Apple through the App Store and the StoreKit framework. We never see or store your card or payment details, billing address, Apple Account details, or any financial information.

Tysha does send anonymous events about the purchase itself: when the Pro offer is opened, when a purchase starts, and whether it completed, was cancelled, is waiting for approval (Ask to Buy), or failed. It also sends the result of Restore Purchases and whether a listening session was on Pro. These events contain no payment details and aren’t linked to you.

Apple may handle your purchase data under its own privacy policy. Restoring purchases across your devices is handled by your Apple Account — not by us.

4. Network & offline use

Sounds play fully offline: Tysha doesn’t need an internet connection to play, and every sound plays entirely on your device. The only network activity is App Store communication handled by Apple (for example, to validate a purchase) and the anonymous analytics events described in sections 2 and 3, which are sent when your phone has a connection. Without one, sounds, mixes, and timers work just the same.

5. Children's privacy

Tysha is designed to be used by parents and caregivers. It doesn’t ask anyone for personal information, and the anonymous analytics described above aren’t linked to anyone, adult or child. Tysha contains no ads, no in-app messaging, and no external links presented to a child.

6. Your rights

Tysha’s analytics rely on our legitimate interest in understanding and improving the app (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR), which is why they’re on until you turn them off. You can stop Tysha’s analytics at any time: in the app, open Settings and turn off the “Share anonymous usage data” switch. From then on, Tysha records no events, sound requests included; if you try to send one, the app says “Usage data is off” and sends nothing. Events recorded before then may still be sent once, usually within a minute or as Tysha leaves the screen. Deleting the app stops analytics too. That switch is how you use your right to object to this processing (Article 21 of the GDPR).

Because nothing Tysha sends is linked to you, we have no way to find, correct, export, or delete your events: they carry no account or device identifier, so they can’t be looked up or attributed to you. If you wish to remove all locally stored data, simply delete the app from your device. Doing so removes every Room, mix, and preference you created.

If you live in the EU, the EEA or the UK and think your data has been handled wrongly, you can complain to your local data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office).

7. This website

Our website, tyshaapp.com, uses Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights to count page views and measure how quickly pages load. They record the page you visited, the site you came from, your browser, operating system and device type, and an approximate location worked out from your IP address. They don’t use cookies: to count visitors, Web Analytics uses a hash made from each request, and discards it after 24 hours. We use them on the basis of our legitimate interest in knowing how the site is used (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR). Vercel processes this data on our behalf in the United States and is certified under the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

Ads. We sometimes advertise Tysha, for example on Instagram. When you open the site from one of our ads, its App Store links carry the ad’s campaign name (such as “instagram-en-test”), so Apple’s App Analytics can show us how many downloads an ad brought: in total, never per person. Nothing is stored on your device, and the site has no advertising pixels, so nothing about your visit goes back to Meta or any other ad network. Seeing or tapping an ad on Instagram is covered by Meta’s privacy policy.

8. Changes to this policy

If we ever change how Tysha handles data, we will update this page and revise the “last updated” date above. Material changes will be reflected in a future app update and its release notes.

9. Contact

Tysha is made by Denys Ordynksyi, the controller (in GDPR terms) of the data described in this policy. Questions about privacy? Email us at gehucka@gmail.com and a real parent on our team will reply.