Privacy Policy

Who I am

Andreas Melcher
... an enthusiastic software developer from vienna/austria with a love for acoustics. For years I have used my spare time to learn new development technologies by creating tools that help the acoustics, music loving and audio engineering community. The purpose of this site is to finally give back to the awesome world wide web of givers. That being said I don’t find any purpose in earning money by collecting and selling your private data somehow. If I collect data then there is some (technical) reason for that (see below). I will also collect as little data as easily possible because less data means less responsibility. And I want to focus on building great tools.

What personal data I collect and why

I use the service mailchimp.com to provide the newsletter service. Users can subscribe to get informed when I have updated the website with something worth mentioning like a new acoustics calculator. The only required field you have to fill out is the email address. This is technically necessary to send an email newsletter. Besides the email address you can add your “acoustical interest” and your country (have a look). I added those to be able to decide whether a specific update is interesting for you or not.

User Account

If you register a user, the data given during registration is saved on my own servers and will not be passed on to any other party.

Saving

Some tools provide the possibilty to save your data for the purpose of loading it later. Such data is either saved solely in your browser (amroc) or on my server (amroc pro, only available for logged in paying users). I have no access to the data that is only saved in your browser. What is saved on the server is solely there for you to retrieve.

Cookies

About Cookies and why I use them

I and different third party services that I use (see below) save so called cookies to remember data. Cookies are little text files that are stored in your browser. Those little files belong to the website they are saved for. So whenever you come back to this website, the data is available for the website code to read. Thats how my website can for example remember your last settings in amroc.

But cookies are also a way for companies like google to track your journey through the world wide web. Third party services can be of great help while building or operating a website and so a lot of websites use such services in the background. The "tracking" happens, because those third parties remember when you visit a website that uses their services. One way is by saving such little text files called cookies. Note: You can delete those cookies at any time.

Third party cookies

Google Analytics

I use Google Analytics to understand how many people use my tools and read my articles. It allows me to learn which content is particularly relevant for my users, from what country they come from and if they use a desktop or a mobile device. But google analytics can do much more things and it is difficult or not possible to prevent them from tracking you. I have setup google analytics to process data anonymously and data sharing is disabled as well but I am also working on alternative analytics approaches that take privacy more seriously.

Imagine you invest thousands of hours in building tools. Sure they are starting to feel like your little kids. You want a kid to prosper. Google Analytics is simply the easiest way to see how my cute little babies do.

Google Ads

I use Google Ads as a way to earn some money while keeping most of the content of my website free for everyone.

Why Google Ads:

Google Ads is a simple way for website owners to monetize their website without having to speak with all the advertising companies directly. I would prefer to have more direct, long-term ad contracts with companies that really are of great value to my users. Unfortunately it is very time-consuming to find and communicate with such companies. I look forward to any information about interesting and interested companies.

Privacy Policy for amscan (iOS App)

This app is co-developed by me, Andreas Melcher, already known from above and Darius Majidi.

Darius has contacted me after being a long-term user of my site and offered his great skills as iOS developer to develop an app for amcoustics.com. We agreed on the initial plans to build a room scanner app for lidar enabled iOS devices. This app is now known as amscan.

Information We Collect

Space Data: Includes 3D LiDAR scans done using Apple’s RoomPlan and ARKit frameworks. We process and save this data for the purpose of acoustic modeling, product improvement and acoustics research. We may also share anonymous room scans with universities for the purpose of acoustic research. Note that the scans are based on color less point clouds. We can not read any text or see any pictures that exist in your scanned rooms!
In-App Purchase Transactions: We process transactions via Apple’s StoreKit API. We don't get your email or any other personal data during this process.

Why We Collect This Data

To generate digital geometries for your scanned rooms and perform acoustic calculations for them.
To improve the accuracy of our room mode prediction and acoustic modeling.
To develop future features and improve overall product performance.