Privacy Policy
CelloPad is a music app for iPhone and iPad. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it.
In short: CelloPad doesn’t collect, store or share any personal data. It has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. Everything you do in the app stays on your device.
Information CelloPad collects
None. CelloPad doesn’t send any information about you or how you use the app to its developer or to anyone else. It contains no analytics, crash-reporting, advertising or tracking code from any third party.
What stays on your device
- Your settings, such as the key, the instruments and whether you’ve seen the walk-through, are saved on your device so they’re there next time. They’re removed when you delete the app.
- Motion: CelloPad reads your device’s motion sensors while you hold a play button, to turn tilting into bowing. This happens moment to moment on your device and is never recorded or sent anywhere.
- Sound: the cello sounds are generated on your device. CelloPad doesn’t use the microphone and doesn’t record anything.
Purchases
CelloPad Pro is bought through Apple’s App Store. Apple handles the payment and your Apple Account; CelloPad never sees your name, email address or payment details. The app only asks Apple whether Pro has been bought on your Apple Account, so it can unlock it. Apple’s handling of purchases is covered by Apple’s Privacy Policy.
MIDI
If you turn on MIDI, CelloPad sends and receives notes with other music apps on your device, or with a Mac over your local network. That connection is directly between your devices; nothing passes through any server, and the developer receives nothing.
Ratings and links
CelloPad may occasionally ask you to rate it, using Apple’s standard rating prompt, which Apple handles. The Website link in Settings opens cellopad.com in your browser, where the website’s own practices apply.
Children
CelloPad is suitable for all ages. Because it collects no personal data from anyone, it collects none from children.
Your rights
As CelloPad holds no personal data about you, there’s nothing to access, correct, export or delete. If you have questions about your privacy, including under data protection laws such as the GDPR, please get in touch.
Changes to this policy
If CelloPad’s handling of information ever changes, this page will be updated before the change reaches the app, with a new date below.
Contact
CelloPad is made by Tim Halloran in Berlin, Germany. For any questions about this policy, email cellopad@theelliscourt.com.
Last updated: 5 October 2026