Pixelcade Apps – Privacy Policy

Last updated November 7, 2026

Pixelcade publishes apps that control hardware you own, such as LED displays and wearable lights ("the apps"). This policy explains what they do with your information. The short version: no accounts, no ads, no tracking, and nothing the apps use ever leaves your own devices.

Apps this policy covers

• Arcade Jacket (iPhone, Apple Watch and Android): the remote control for a DIY LED jacket.

What an app may use, and why

Not every app uses all of these. Each is used only for the feature that needs it, usually only when you turn that feature on, and your phone asks your permission first.

• Bluetooth: to connect to your own device (for example, a jacket's LED controller) and send it the settings you choose, and, if you pick one, to receive your heart rate from a Bluetooth heart-rate sensor. It is not used to find your location or to identify other people's devices. (On Android 11 and older, the system calls Bluetooth scanning "location"; the app still doesn't use your location for it.)
• Microphone: to make your device react to the sound around you (for example, lights that move in time with music). The sound is turned into a few levels, such as bass, treble and the beat, on your phone as it plays, and only those levels are sent to your device. Audio is never recorded, stored or sent anywhere else.
• Location: for features that need your speed or movement (for example, an automatic bike brake light that turns on when you slow down). On Android, a notification shows while it's running with the screen off. Your location is used on your phone as it arrives; it is never stored or sent anywhere, and only the result (such as "brake on") reaches your device.
• Heart rate and Apple Health: for features that react to your heart rate (for example, lights that pulse with your heartbeat), from a Bluetooth heart-rate sensor you choose or from an Apple Watch app. A watch app reads your heart rate from Apple Health during a workout session you start; the workout is not saved and nothing is written to Health. Your heart rate is sent only to your own device, and is never stored, shared or sold, or used for advertising or any purpose other than the feature you turned on.

What stays where

Your choices in an app (the heart-rate sensor you picked, for example) are kept on your phone. Settings that belong to your device, such as how its lights are laid out or the last effect it showed, are kept on the device itself.

What the apps never do

No accounts, no email, no contacts, no photos, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking across apps or websites. The apps make no internet connections of their own and send nothing to Pixelcade or anyone else. Your information is not sold or shared with third parties. (Links in an app, such as a build guide, open in your web browser.)

Children

The apps are not directed at children under 13 and do not knowingly collect their information – or anyone's.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it. Questions? Contact support@pixelcade.org.