Privacy Policy
- Luno has no servers and no accounts. We don't collect, sell or see your data.
- Your library, notes and watch progress stay on your phone. If you connect Google Drive, backups and sync go to your own Drive.
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no crash-reporting services.
- Voice notes are transcribed on your phone. Audio is never uploaded.
1. Who we are
Luno is a media player for your own videos and audio, Google Drive, YouTube and live TV, with timestamped notes. It is made by the independent developer behind adityaforge.in ("we", "us"). This policy explains what information the app handles, where it goes, and the choices you have.
2. Information that stays on your phone
To work, Luno keeps the following only on your device, in the app's private storage. We never receive it:
- Your media library: the names, folders, durations and thumbnails of video and audio files on your phone, so they can be listed and played. The files themselves are never copied or uploaded.
- Notes you write or dictate, with their timestamps, and notes you import from other people.
- Watch progress, Continue Watching, favourites, chips, playlists, sort choices and settings.
- Your YouTube library (links you add) and saved live streams.
- Secret Space: files you move there are encrypted on your phone. Your PIN and biometric unlock are handled by your phone; Luno never sees your fingerprint or face data.
- Voice-note models: speech-recognition models you choose to download.
3. Google Sign-In and Google Drive (optional)
You can connect one or more Google accounts. Luno asks only for what each feature needs, when you turn it on:
| Permission | What Luno does with it |
|---|---|
| Basic profile (name, email, photo) | Shows which account is connected and lets you switch accounts. |
| See your Google Drive files drive.readonly | Lists the video and audio files in your Drive (and files shared with you) and streams them to play in Luno. Luno never changes or deletes your Drive files. |
| Luno's own app folder drive.appdata | Stores your backup and cross-device sync in a hidden folder in your Drive that only Luno can read. It holds notes, watch progress, your YouTube library and chips, Drive chips and saved streams. It never holds your videos. |
| Files created by Luno drive.file | Only when you export something whose notes are too long for a link: Luno saves one file to a "Luno Exports" folder and makes it readable by anyone with the link (see Export links). Luno can only see files it created. |
Sign-in tokens are kept on your phone and sent only to Google. Your Drive content goes directly between your phone and Google. It never passes through any server of ours.
4. How we use Google user data
Luno's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Specifically:
- Google user data is used only to provide the features described above, which you can see and turn on in the app.
- It is not transferred to anyone, except as needed to provide those features (for example, Google itself), to comply with law, or with your consent (for example, when you export and share a link).
- It is never used for advertising, never sold, and never used to build profiles or to train AI or machine-learning models.
- No human reads it. We have no access to it, because it never leaves your phone or your Google account.
You can remove Luno's access at any time in Google Account › Third-party apps & services, or with Disconnect in the app.
5. YouTube
YouTube videos play in YouTube's own embedded player, which is a YouTube API Service. When you watch, YouTube and Google receive information as described in the Google Privacy Policy, and your use is subject to the YouTube Terms of Service. Luno also fetches video titles, channel names and thumbnails from YouTube's public endpoints. Luno does not sign you in to YouTube and has no access to your YouTube account. Your Luno notes and progress for YouTube videos stay on your phone and in your own Drive.
6. Other services Luno connects to
These services receive the normal technical information of a web request (such as your IP address) under their own privacy policies. Luno doesn't send them your notes or library.
- Hugging Face (huggingface.co): the voice-note model you choose to download.
- iptv-org public channel lists, and the TV channels or stream addresses you open. Streams come from their broadcasters, not from us.
- Google Cast: when you cast, the address of what's playing is sent to your Cast device on your network.
- Google Play delivers the app and its updates under Google's policies.
7. Export links
When you export a chip, video or playlist, Luno makes a link at luno.adityaforge.in/c. The videos, titles and your notes are packed into the part of the link after "#". Browsers never send that part to any server, so we never receive it. Anyone you give the link to can see what's in it. If the notes are too long for a link and you choose to save them to Drive, that file is readable by anyone with the link. Luno deletes it from your Drive 30 days after your last export of that item, and you can delete it sooner yourself. When you import someone else's link, their notes are stored on your phone under the name you give them.
8. Phone permissions
- Photos and videos / music and audio (storage): to find and play your media and save screenshots and recordings to your Gallery.
- Microphone: only while you record a voice note. The audio is transcribed on your phone and then discarded.
- Notifications and media playback: playback controls and background audio.
- Biometrics: to unlock Secret Space, if you turn it on.
- Internet: Drive, YouTube, live TV, voice models and update checks by Google Play.
You can turn permissions off in your phone's settings. The related features will stop working.
9. Keeping and deleting your data
- On your phone: kept until you delete it in the app, clear Luno's storage, or uninstall Luno.
- Backup and sync in your Drive: kept until you delete it. In Google Drive on the web, open Settings › Manage apps › Luno › Options › Delete hidden app data.
- Export files in "Luno Exports": deleted automatically after 30 days, or delete them yourself at any time.
- Because we hold no data about you on any server, there's nothing for us to delete on our side. We will gladly help if you contact us.
10. Security
Data in transit to Google uses encrypted connections (HTTPS). Your phone's own protections keep Luno's storage private to the app, and Secret Space files are encrypted on the device. No method of storage or transmission is perfectly secure, so please keep your phone and Google account protected.
11. Your rights
Depending on where you live, laws such as the EU/UK GDPR, India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 and US state privacy laws (such as the CCPA) give you rights to access, correct, delete and port your personal data, and to object to or withdraw consent for its use. Because Luno stores your data on your phone and in your own Google account, you can exercise these rights directly: view and edit everything in the app, export or delete it, and disconnect Google. We do not sell or share personal data for advertising. If you have a request or complaint, contact us. You may also complain to your local data-protection authority.
12. Children
Luno is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country) and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. Since Luno collects no personal data on any server, none is held about any user. YouTube content is subject to YouTube's own age rules.
13. Changes to this policy
If we change how Luno handles data, we will update this page and its effective date, and, for significant changes, tell you in the app or its store listing before they take effect.
14. Contact
Questions or requests about privacy: adityaforge.inn@gmail.com. Website: luno.adityaforge.in.