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Privacy

Last updated: 3 November 2026.

This website

This site is a simple, static showcase. It uses no analytics, no tracking pixels and no advertising. Visiting it does not create an account or collect personal information. The only cookie is the one that remembers a beta download code once you have entered it.

Beta testers

If you sign up to test on the beta page, we keep what you type: your email, a name if you give one, the devices you picked, the Google or Amazon account emails the app stores need to send you test builds, what you would like to test, your answers about your experience and how often you can test, your library size and any note. We also note the country you signed up from. We use it only to run the beta: to invite you, send test builds and keep in touch while you test. To invite an Android or Fire TV device, we give the Google or Amazon account email you entered to Google or Amazon, and nothing else. We also give you a tester code. When you enter it in the Ampchor app, we link that computer, and the phone or TV paired to it, to your signup, so we can follow up on your reports and see who helps most; until then your reports stay anonymous. If you start the Ampchor Pro free trial with it, we note when the trial starts and ends. We never sell any of it. Ask to leave and we delete it, links included.

Waiting list

If you join the waitlist, we keep your email, and the computer you use and how you heard about Ampchor if you tell us. We also note the country you signed up from. We use it only to tell you when Ampchor is ready to download. We never sell it or share it. Ask us to take you off the waitlist and we delete it.

The software

Ampchor runs on your own computer and your files stay on your own machine. It is not a cloud service, the studio has no servers that store your library and your media is never uploaded to us.

Metadata (posters, cover art, credits) is fetched from public providers to enrich your library; those requests are made by your own machine. The first time you open Ampchor it asks if you want to share anonymous reports that help fix bugs. Nothing is sent unless you say yes, reports contain no personal information and are deleted after 30 days, and you can change your answer anytime in Settings → Privacy. If you say no, the Ampchor app on your computer still sends an anonymous count when it is installed, two weeks later and once a month after that. Each one says only that it comes from the computer app and which operating system it runs on: no identifier, nothing about you or your library, and we keep only the monthly totals, never the address it came from. The phone and TV apps send none. These counts are separate from the security check below, which every Ampchor app sends whatever you chose about reports.

The phone and TV apps

The Ampchor apps for iPhone, Android and TV show the library on a computer you have paired them with. They need no account and collect nothing about you. The same optional bug reports apply: the app asks once, sends nothing unless you say yes, and the reports (crash logs and performance figures, no names, no file names) are deleted after 30 days. You can change your answer any time in the app's Settings.

Away from home, Pro connects your phone to your computer through an encrypted connection set up by our service. That service helps the two devices find each other; what plays between them is encrypted end to end and never stored by us.

The apps use the camera only to scan the pairing code your computer shows, and the local network only to find your computer at home.

The security check

Whatever you chose about reports, each Ampchor app checks in with our service when it starts and about every 6 hours after that. This check is how we stop misuse of Ampchor, such as publishing a copy of the app or sharing a license or a download code and how we enforce our terms. It sends only:

  • the random id the app made for this install;
  • which kind of device it is and the app's version;
  • a scrambled id of the computer it runs on. The app makes it from the id your operating system gives the computer, with a one way function, so the same computer always gives the same scramble even after Ampchor is installed again. We never receive the computer's own id and cannot work it out from the scramble;
  • whether the app noticed signs that it is being tampered with: its own files were changed, developer tools were opened, a debugger was attached, it was started with debugging switches or it was driven by automation, each with a short note of at most 200 characters.

It never sends your files, your library, what you watch or play, your name or anything about how you use Ampchor. It does not put your computer on our diagnostics dashboard if you said no to reports.

Like every service on the internet, ours sees the address a device connects from. We do not store the address. For the security check, and for the regular check-ins the app sends when you share reports, we store a scrambled code made from the network the address belongs to (its first three parts for an older address, its first half for a newer one), using a secret key only our service holds. Devices in one home then share one code, so we can tell that they may belong together, without keeping the address itself. Many people can share one network (a university, a mobile carrier, an apartment building), so we never treat a shared network as proof on its own. These codes are deleted 90 days after the last time we saw them.

If we see misuse, a person at Ampchor (never a machine) looks at what links the devices involved: the same computer scramble, the same beta tester sign-up, email or download code, devices paired with each other and, as a weaker hint, the same home network. That person decides whether to watch for the devices coming back, or to turn them off. Nothing is ever turned off automatically. If we turn a copy off, the app shows "This copy of Ampchor has been turned off.", its download code stops working and our license server stops renewing its license (which also ends remote access through our relay). We keep a record of the decision, who made it and when, and can lift it at any time.

What the security check sends, and the scrambled network codes, are deleted 90 days after the last time we saw them. If a person at Ampchor has opened a misuse review, the device and computer ids it names are kept while the review is open or a ban stands, the record of each sighting for up to one year and the record of each decision until the review is closed.

You can ask us what the security check holds about your device and ask us to delete it. We may keep what an open misuse review or a ban still needs, and we will tell you if we do.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email riot@ampchor.com.