Privacy Policy

Here's exactly what Ovation does with your data.

What we collect

Your email, name, and username, so other users can find you.
The ovations you send and receive: the clip choices, voice recordings, timestamps, sender, and recipient.
Voice recordings you make, stored on Firebase Storage and delivered only to the recipient you chose. They're temporary: a voice ovation is deleted automatically 24 hours after it's sent (and right away if you delete your account).
A profile photo, if you choose to set one. It's stored on Firebase Storage and shown to people you send ovations to.
Location, only while you're using the app: to pin a Radius drop to a place, and to play a drop a friend left for you when you reach that spot. Ovation does not track your location in the background.
Push notification tokens (Apple / Google) so we can deliver incoming ovation alerts.
If you report a person or an ovation, we keep that report so our team can review it and act on it.
We run Ovation on Google Firebase (sign-in, database, storage, and push delivery). We don't use a separate analytics or advertising SDK, and we don't track you across other apps or websites.

We don't sell your data. We don't share it with advertisers.

Notifications, to alert you when an ovation arrives.
Microphone, only while you're recording a voice ovation.
Location, only while you're using the app, for Radius drops. Never in the background.
Photos, only when you pick a profile picture.

You can deny any permission. The app keeps working. Features that need that permission stay off until you allow it.

When you play a YouTube ovation, the video is streamed from YouTube. Your use of that content is also subject to Google's Privacy Policy.

Settings → Delete Account permanently removes your profile, your ovations, and your Radius drops. There is no recovery, and that is intentional.

Last updated June 2026 · Ovation v1.0.0