Privacy

Last updated October 19, 2026.

What is stored, and where

A copy of your journal (sessions, ratings and settings, never your recordings) is also kept in your own iCloud, under your Apple Account, where only you can reach it. You can turn that off in Settings, which deletes the copy. Otherwise JamLand keeps your practice sessions, notes, ratings, recordings and settings in the app's own storage on your device. None of it is sent anywhere, and the developer has no way to see it.

The microphone

JamLand asks for microphone access so the tuner and chord recognition can hear your instrument, and so you can record voice memos during a session.

• Audio for the tuner and chord recognition is analyzed on the device, moment to moment, and is never written down or transmitted.
• Voice memos are saved to the app's storage on your device. They are deleted when you delete the recording, or when you discard the session they belong to.
• The microphone is only used while a screen that needs it is open.

Notifications

If you set a daily reminder, it is scheduled locally by your device. No reminder passes through a server, and none is sent unless you set one. The same is true of a reminder for a plan with a practice circle: you ask for it, your device schedules it, and it is removed if the plan is canceled or you say you can't make it.

Backups

You can export your journal to a file. That file is created only when you ask for it, and it goes wherever you choose to send it: your Files app, iCloud Drive, an email to yourself. JamLand does not upload it anywhere. Once the file leaves the app, it is covered by the privacy policy of whatever you saved it to.

Backups contain your sessions, notes and settings. They do not contain your recordings.

If your teacher uses JamLand

Nothing here happens unless you enter a code your teacher gave you. Until you do, no practice leaves your phone except the iCloud copy above.

Once you are connected, each session you log is sent to your teacher's roster: when it started, how long it lasted, what you called it, the rating you gave it, and the goal you had set, plus any note you have chosen to share from it. That is the whole list.

Your written notes are not sent unless you choose to send one. Each session has its own switch, off until you turn it on, and turning it back off removes that note from your teacher's roster. Nothing you write is shared by default, and there is no setting that shares everything at once. A practice journal that somebody reads over your shoulder stops being honest, and that would cost you the thing the app is for. So handing a page over has to be a decision you make about that page.

If your teacher sets you a plan, how each step went is sent with the session: the time spent on it, and whether you marked it done or skipped it. If you tap "Got stuck here?" on a step, your teacher sees that you asked for help with it, and anything you write in that box. That box exists only to reach your teacher, and the app says so before you send it. You can take a flag back, and it is removed from their roster.

Your voice recordings are never sent, in any circumstances. There is no switch for them. They stay on your phone.

Only your own teacher, and the people who run their studio, can see it. You can disconnect at any time in Settings: your teacher stops receiving new sessions, and everything on your phone stays where it is.

If the player is under 13, a parent or guardian sets the connection up and agrees to it. We record their email address and the moment they agreed, and nothing else about them.

Practice circles

A practice circle is a small private group of people who practice "together", each on their own phone, in the same virtual room. Nothing here happens unless you start a circle or accept an invitation to one. There is no public profile, no search, no chat, and no way to find a circle without being invited.

An account. To know who is who, joining or starting a circle makes an account on your phone. It has no email or password unless you add one. Your practice journal still lives on your phone, as above.

What members of a circle see. The name you give yourself in that circle, your musician, and that you are a member. Everything else is off until you turn it on, for each circle separately:

• Show me in the room. While you are in the circle's room, members see that you are there, the instrument your musician holds (guitar, keyboard or voice, for example), and whether you are practicing, paused or looking around, and for how long. Never what you are working on, such as songs, exercises or plans. While you are shown, you and the others there can send each other a cheer from a short list, such as "Keep going!", which everyone in the room sees for a moment. There is no typing, so nothing else can be sent. This is all live only: none of it is stored.
• Share finished sessions. After practice in the circle's room, the circle's board shows that you practiced, for how long, on which instrument and when, with a box you can uncheck each time. A short note appears only if you write one for the circle. Your journal notes, next-time notes, recordings, plans and anything from your teacher are never shared. Nothing you practiced before you turned this on is shared. The board shows the last three days. Entries more than a month old are deleted the next time anyone in the circle shares, and you can remove your own at any time.

Plans. If someone plans a time to practice, the people asked see the time, the organizer's time zone, an optional title and length, and who said yes. Plans more than a month old are deleted the next time anyone in the circle makes one. Reminders for a plan are scheduled on your own phone, only if you ask for one.

Invitations. An invitation is a link and a code. Only a scrambled form of each is stored, so nobody, including the developer, can read one back. Wrong codes are counted for an hour to stop guessing.

Leaving. If you leave a circle, or are removed from it, you can no longer see it, and what you shared in it and plans you made in it are deleted. Reactions you left go too.

Reports. You can report a circle, a member, an invitation or something shared. A report records what was reported and, if you write one, your reason. The person reported is not told who reported them. Reports are read by the developer.

Joining a circle never connects you to a teacher, and starting one never gives anybody access to your practice journal or to a teacher's roster.

Friends

Friends let you add the people you practice with inside the app, and ask them into a circle without sending a link. Nothing here happens unless you pick a JamLand name.

Your JamLand name. To be added, you pick a short name, such as @ana_plays, along with the name friends see and your musician. These are stored on the server with your circles account. Anybody who types your exact name sees the name you chose to show and your musician, and nothing else. There is no directory, no browsing and no partial matches, and look-ups are limited each hour, so names cannot be guessed at speed. You can change your name, or take it away so nobody can add you.

Requests and invitations. Adding someone sends them a request, and nothing changes until they accept. The server keeps who you are friends with, requests still waiting, and invitations from a friend to a circle or a shared folder until they are answered. Friends see your chosen name and musician, never your practice, unless you share it in a circle you are both in.

Removing and blocking. Either friend can end a friendship. Blocking someone also cancels every request and invitation between you, and hides each of you from the other's look-ups. They are not told.

Friends are not available on an account a parent set up for a player under 13.

People playing right now

The village shows how many people are practicing at the moment. To count you, while your practice timer is running the app tells our server, about once a minute, that a timer is running. It sends a random number made up when the timer starts, so you are counted once, and nothing else: no account, no name, no device identifier, and nothing about what you are playing. The random number is forgotten by the app when you pause or stop, and a new one is made next time, so it cannot be linked to you or to your other sessions.

All anyone can see is the total. The server forgets a timer when you pause or stop, and after three minutes if it stops hearing from it.

Usage statistics

To learn which parts of the app help people practice, JamLand sends anonymous usage statistics through Google Analytics for Firebase. These record things that happen in the app: setup was started or finished, a practice session was started or saved and how many minutes it lasted, a daily goal was reached, the subscription screen was opened, a plan was bought, a code to join a teacher was entered. They also note your instrument, whether you have Pro, and whether you joined through a teacher.

They never include your name, your notes, session titles, recordings, email address, your teacher's or studio's name, or anything else you type. They are counted against a random identifier that Firebase creates for this installation of the app. That identifier is not linked to you, is not your Apple advertising identifier (which JamLand never reads), and is not used for advertising or to track you across other apps and websites.

You can turn this off in Settings, under Privacy, with "Share usage statistics." When it is off, nothing is sent. Deleting the app also deletes the identifier.

Data collected by the developer

Only the anonymous usage statistics described above. No crash reporting, no contact details. Apple may share aggregate download and crash figures that cannot identify you; that is Apple's reporting, not something the app sends.

Third parties

JamLand has no advertising. Three companies are involved, and only these three: Apple, which stores your iCloud copy and handles any subscription; Supabase, which hosts the database behind the teacher dashboard for students who have connected to a teacher, and behind practice circles for people who use them, and which counts the people practicing right now; and Google, whose Firebase service receives the anonymous usage statistics above, with advertising features switched off. None is given anything beyond what is described here. Nothing about you is sold.

Children

JamLand is suitable for all ages. On its own it collects no personal information from anyone, including children; the anonymous usage statistics above contain none, and a parent can switch them off in Settings. The one exception is connecting to a teacher: that is set up by a parent or guardian for a player under 13, and records their email address and their agreement. A parent can undo it at any time by disconnecting in Settings. Practice circles are not available on an account a parent set up for a player under 13. Otherwise it collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Deleting your data

Deleting individual sessions and recordings, or clearing everything at once from Settings, removes them from the device. Deleting the app removes all of it.

If you have an account (for a teacher or for practice circles), "Delete my account" in Settings deletes it and everything sent from this phone: the sessions your teacher can see, your place on their roster, your circle memberships, what you shared in circles, and your JamLand name and friends. A circle you run passes to whoever has been in it longest, or closes if nobody else is in it.

Changes

If this policy ever changes (for instance, if a future version adds an optional account or a purchase), the date at the top will change and the new terms will be described here before the feature ships.

Contact

Questions about privacy: intervalpractice@gmail.com