Bramble privacy policy
Effective November 10, 2026
Bramble is a music app for Android made by Jared Vargason. This policy says what Bramble does with information about you. In short: Bramble itself sends nothing anywhere, and the only thing that talks to the internet is Google Play's billing, when you buy or restore Bramble Pro.
What Bramble collects
Nothing. Bramble has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no crash reporting of its own, and it never sends your songs or anything about how you use it to its developer.
What stays on your phone
- Your songs are saved in Bramble's own storage on your phone. Uninstalling Bramble deletes them.
- Your kits: the sounds you import or record for them are kept the same way, with the song files, and are deleted with them.
- A few settings, such as whether you've taken the tour and which tips you've seen, are saved the same way.
- Android backup. If backup is turned on in your phone's settings, Android may include Bramble's songs and settings in your device backup, as it does for most apps. That backup is made and stored by Google under your Google account and Google's privacy policy; Bramble's developer can't see it. Your kits' sounds are left out of it, since they can be large; export a kit to keep a copy.
Files you export or import
When you export a song, audio, a MIDI file, or a kit, or import a song, a kit, or sounds for a kit, you choose where it goes or where it comes from with Android's own file picker. Bramble reads or writes only that file. Sounds you add to a kit are copied into Bramble's own storage on your phone. What happens to an exported file after that (sharing it, uploading it) is up to you and the app you use.
MIDI devices
If you connect a MIDI device or app, Bramble sends it notes and clock so it can play along. This happens on your phone, over the cable, or over Bluetooth to the device you pick; nothing is sent to Bramble's developer.
To find Bluetooth MIDI devices, Bramble looks only for devices offering Bluetooth MIDI, and only while you ask it to. It doesn't use your location, and it remembers only the device you choose, on your phone, so it can reconnect.
Purchases
Bramble Pro is bought through Google Play, using Google's Play Billing Library inside the app. Google Play handles the payment, and your payment details stay with Google. Bramble asks Play only whether your Google account owns Pro, so it can turn it on, and remembers the answer on your phone so Pro keeps working offline.
The Play Billing Library also sends Google information about your purchases and diagnostic information about how billing is working, under Google's privacy policy. Bramble's developer sees what Google Play Console shows any developer about sales (such as orders and refunds), not anything else about you.
Ratings
Once or twice (after an export, say, or just after buying Pro), Bramble asks Google Play to show its rating prompt, using Google's in-app review library. Google Play decides whether to show it, and a rating or review you leave there goes to Google Play like any other, under Google's privacy policy. Bramble never learns whether you rated it, or what you said. To decide when to ask, it counts on your phone how long you've played music, which goes nowhere.
Permissions
- Run a foreground service (media playback): so music keeps playing with the screen off, with controls in the notification and on the lock screen.
- Google Play billing, internet, and network state: used only by the Play Billing Library, for buying and restoring Bramble Pro.
- Microphone: to record a sound for one of your own kits, asked for only when you first record one. Bramble listens only while you're recording, and keeps the recording on your phone, in the kit; it's never sent anywhere.
- Nearby devices (Bluetooth): to find and connect to Bluetooth MIDI devices, asked for only when you look for one. On Android 10 and 11, Android files Bluetooth scanning under location, so Bramble asks for that instead; it never reads your location.
Children
Bramble isn't directed at children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect anything from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions: bramblesequencer@gmail.com.