Your voice goes to
your computer. Full stop.

What the app does with your microphone

The phone captures your voice and sends it to one computer: the one you paired, either over your local network or over a USB cable. Over the network it is encrypted end to end (X25519 key exchange, ChaCha20-Poly1305), and the computer's identity is pinned the moment you scan its QR code, so nothing can sit in the middle later. The audio is never stored on the phone and never sent anywhere else. We never receive it: nothing on our side is built to.

On the computer, the companion turns that audio into a virtual microphone for your applications. It writes nothing to disk unless you start a recording.

What stays on your devices

• Settings and preferences — effect, mic mode, languages, the noise gate, your Pro status. On the phone only.
• The identity of your computer — its public key, pinned at pairing. On the phone only.
• Recordings — written on the computer, in a folder you can see (Documents\EZMic Recordings on Windows). If you choose to copy a take to the phone, it lands in Files › EZ Microphone (iPhone) or Music/EZMic (Android). Delete them like any file.
• Sound pads — the files you import for the soundboard, stored in the app's own folder.
• Text you dictate or type — recognised on the phone (Apple's Speech framework), optionally translated on the phone (Apple Translation on iOS, Google ML Kit on Android), then sent to your computer's clipboard or spoken into the virtual mic. It is not kept.
• Your computer's clipboard — read only when you ask for it, shown once on the phone, never watched in the background.
• The game chat — on Windows, when you turn it on, the companion reads the log file that the game writes on your own disk and forwards the chat lines to your phone, where they are translated on the phone. Nothing is read from the game itself, and nothing is sent to us.

Permissions, and why each one

Permission	Why
Microphone	To be a microphone. Captured on the phone, sent to your computer, nowhere else.
Camera	To scan the pairing QR code on your computer's screen. Frames are decoded live and never stored.
Local network	To find your computer and stream to it. Traffic never leaves the network you are on.
Speech recognition (iOS)	Dictation, processed on the device by Apple's framework, when you hold the dictation control.
Notifications (Android)	The always-on notification that keeps the microphone running while the screen is off, and the match-start alert if you turn it on.
Purchases	To sell Pro through the App Store or Google Play. The store handles payment; we only learn whether the purchase is valid.

Third parties

We do not share data with anyone — there is none to share. Two platforms are nonetheless involved, on their own terms:

• Apple — App Store purchases, and the on-device Speech and Translation frameworks. They run on the phone; Apple's privacy policy applies to them.
• Google — Google Play purchases and licence checks, and ML Kit translation on Android. ML Kit translates on the device; the first time you use a language it downloads a language pack from Google (about 30 MB, over Wi-Fi only). The text you translate does not leave the phone.

What ML Kit sends to Google. On Android only, the translation library, Google's ML Kit, sends Google technical data for diagnostics and usage statistics: the device model and Android version, the app's name and version, an identifier for this installation of the app (which Google states is not meant to identify you or your device), performance measures such as how long a translation took, and the languages set for translation or detected in a text. Nothing else: not the text, not your voice, not your name. This is Google's own library, and Google decides what it collects; its disclosure lists it, and the data safety section of our Google Play listing declares it. The iPhone app translates with Apple's framework and sends nothing of the kind.

Apart from these, nothing in the apps or the companion talks to any other party.

This website

ezmicrophone.com is a static site. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from third-party trackers. Like any website, it is served by a hosting provider (OVH, in France) that keeps standard server logs: IP address, time, page or file requested, browser. We read the aggregate statistics OVH derives from them, so we know how many people visit and how many download the companion, never who. OVH keeps those logs for a limited time under its own policy; we keep no copy.

Children

EZ Microphone is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect anything from anyone — including them.

Your rights

Under the GDPR and similar laws you can ask what we hold about you, and ask for it to be corrected or erased. Since we hold nothing, the honest answer is always the same, and we will give it in writing on request. Everything the app keeps is on your own devices: uninstalling the app removes it; recordings are ordinary files you delete yourself.

What leaves your devices for our server: proof of purchase

When you buy Pro, the app sends your store's proof of purchase to a small server of ours (ezmicrophone.com) so that it can ask Apple or Google whether the purchase is genuine, and hand back a signed, dated ticket that your computer can check. That request carries the store's receipt, a random identifier the app chose for itself, and nothing else: no name, no email, no account, no audio. The server keeps no database and keeps nothing it receives: its log holds only dates, the platform, the kind of ticket and, when it refuses one, the reason. No identifier of any sort. It is not contacted at any other time, and the app keeps working without it.

Changes

If this commitment ever changes, the new version will appear here with a new effective date, and the apps will point to it. We will not weaken it quietly.