Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 4, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how StormTech Apps (“we”, “us”, or “our”) handles information in connection with the Baby Monitor Camera: Cry Alert mobile application (the “App”, package name com.stormtech.babymonitor). By installing or using the App, you agree to the practices described here.

1. Video and audio

• In Camera Mode, the camera phone streams video and audio directly to your parent phone over your local Wi-Fi. The stream is encrypted end to end (WebRTC DTLS-SRTP) and does not pass through any server, ours or anyone else's.
• Nothing is recorded or stored by the App — not on the phones and not anywhere else.
• Cry detection runs entirely on the camera phone. Only a “cry detected” signal is sent to the parent phone.
• Push-to-talk audio from the parent phone goes directly to the camera phone in the same way and is not recorded.

2. Finding the camera on your network

The camera phone announces itself on your local network (using mDNS / DNS-SD) with the phone's device name and a random identifier, so your parent phone can find it automatically. This announcement stays on your local network and is never sent to us. Other devices on the same Wi-Fi can see it and could connect to the camera, so only use Camera Mode on networks you trust, such as your home Wi-Fi.

While Camera Mode is on, the camera phone also serves a small viewer page on your local network (at an address like http://192.168.1.23:47812, shown on the camera screen), so a phone or computer without the App can watch in its web browser. The page comes from the camera phone itself, not from our website or any other server; it loads nothing from the internet, and the video and audio go directly from the camera phone to that browser over your Wi-Fi, encrypted in the same way and never recorded. Like the App, the page is reachable by any device on the same Wi-Fi while Camera Mode is on, and up to three phones or browsers can watch at a time. The page remembers its own alert sound and vibration choices in that browser's local storage; they are not sent anywhere.

3. Crash reports and usage statistics

The App uses two Google services, Firebase Crashlytics and Google Analytics for Firebase, to find and fix bugs and to understand which features are used.

• Crash reports (Crashlytics) contain technical information only: the error and stack trace, device model, Android version, app version, and a random installation identifier. Crash reports are kept for up to 90 days.
• Usage statistics (Google Analytics for Firebase) are app usage events, such as starting Camera Mode or Monitor Mode, whether a connection to the camera succeeded or failed (and the general reason), and when a cry alert was shown. They come with the device model, Android version, app version, country-level region, and a random app-instance identifier. Google Analytics keeps this event-level data for 14 months; after that only aggregated, anonymous reports remain.

Neither contains video, audio, device or camera names, network addresses, your name, contacts, or precise location. The App does not collect the advertising identifier, and this data is not used for advertising. See Firebase Privacy & Security and the Google Privacy Policy.

4. Feedback you send

Settings → Send feedback lets you write to us from inside the App. Sending feedback is always optional.

• In-app form: we store the category you pick, the message you write, and, only if you enter it, your email address so we can reply. The App adds the app version, Android version, device model, and language so we can reproduce problems. This is stored in Cloud Firestore (Google Firebase, in the EU). To protect the form from abuse, the App signs in to Firebase Authentication anonymously: a random identifier is created that isn't linked to your name, email, or device name, and is used only to allow the submission. Feedback contains no video, audio, device or camera names, or network addresses. Please don't include other personal information in your message.
• Email: if you choose “Email us instead”, your email app opens a message to us with the same app and device details filled in, which you can edit before sending. We receive your email address and whatever you include.

We use feedback only to answer you and to improve the App. Feedback is kept only as long as it is useful for that, and you can ask us to delete it at any time by emailing us (see below); include the approximate date you sent it or the email address you entered.

5. What we don't collect

The App has no account and no sign-up. It shows no advertising and does not collect the advertising ID or any other advertising identifier. It does not collect your name, contacts, photos, or precise location, and it collects your email address only if you enter it in the feedback form. We do not sell any data.

6. Permissions

• Camera and microphone — to capture your baby's video and sound in Camera Mode, and your voice for push-to-talk in Monitor Mode. They are used only while you are monitoring.
• Notifications — to show cry alerts, connection alerts, and the ongoing monitoring notification.
• Network access — to find and connect to the camera on your Wi-Fi, to serve the browser viewer page on your Wi-Fi, and to send crash reports, usage statistics, and feedback you choose to send.

7. Children

The App is a tool for parents and caregivers and is meant to be installed and used by adults. It is not directed to children, and it does not collect personal information from children.

8. Security

The video and audio stream is encrypted between your two phones. No method of transmission is completely secure, and we can't guarantee absolute security, but because nothing is sent to a server there is nothing for us to store or lose.

9. Your choices and deleting your data

You can stop all data processing at any time by uninstalling the App. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to access or delete information about you.

To delete data related to Baby Monitor Camera: Cry Alert (by StormTech Apps):

1. Email stormtechapps@gmail.com with the subject “Delete my Baby Monitor data”.
2. To help us find feedback you sent, include roughly when you sent it and, if you gave one, the reply email address you used.
3. We delete the matching feedback (message, category, reply email and device details) within 30 days and confirm by email.

Crash reports are deleted automatically after 90 days and usage statistics after 14 months. Because they aren't linked to your name or email, we can't look them up individually; uninstalling the App stops any further collection. Video and audio are never stored, so there is nothing to delete.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and will revise the “Last updated” date above when we do. Future versions that let you watch from outside your home network will update this policy before they are released.

11. Contact us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at stormtechapps@gmail.com.