Earmark sends us nothing, because it can't.

This policy covers the Earmark Android app (com.naskait.earmark) published by Naska-IT. Last updated 6 November 2026.

The app has no internet permission. Not restricted, not unused — absent. You can check this yourself on the Google Play listing, under Permissions. An app that cannot open a network connection cannot send your data anywhere, and this whole policy rests on that mechanism rather than on a promise about how we behave.

Who we are

Naska-IT — DRAGAN JOVANOVIĆ PR RAČUNARSKO PROGRAMIRANJE NASKA-IT GORNJI STRIŽEVAC, Ćirinci 60, Gornji Striževac, 18330 Babušnica, Serbia. Contact: [email protected]. Full company details are on our imprint page.

What we collect: nothing

We receive no personal data from this app. No account, no sign-in, no email address, no analytics, no advertising identifier, no ads, no crash-reporting library, no telemetry of any kind. There is no server of ours for it to talk to.

Two things can reach us that the app does not send. If you have allowed your phone to share usage and diagnostics with Google, Google Play may show us that the app crashed and on what model of phone — in aggregate, never who you are. And if you email us, we receive what any email brings: your address and what you wrote.

What Earmark reads on your phone

To do its job the app reads the following on your phone. It reads it there, shows it to you there, and — having no way to use a network — sends it nowhere.

Your paired Bluetooth devices: The devices your phone has already paired: each one's name, Bluetooth address and kind, whether it is connected, and which one media is playing through. Where the phone tells it, also the codec a device is using, its sample rate and bit depth, which codecs it supports, and its battery level. Earmark never scans for devices that are not paired.
Your phone's audio: Which outputs exist (speaker, cable, USB), the media volume, and the audio sessions of the apps playing, so the equalizer can be attached to them.
What is playing — only if you turn on notification access: Android shows the playing track and its controls only to apps you have given notification access. With it, Earmark reads the track's title, artist and artwork, whether it is playing, and which app is playing it, and offers play, pause and skip. It reads no notifications: the part of the app Android sends notifications to does nothing with them, and the app never asks Android for the notifications on your phone. None of the track information is saved.
Which apps can be opened: Android lets Earmark see the apps that have an icon in your launcher — not every app on the phone — so it can show the name of the app that is playing and open it when you tap. Nothing about them is saved.

What stays on your phone

Stored in the app's own private storage, which no other app can read:

Your device list. For each device Earmark has added: its name, Bluetooth address, kind, the codec and battery it last showed, the media volume it last played at, when it was added and last seen, the colour you gave it, whether it may take the audio when it connects, and any note you wrote about it.
Equalizer presets you saved, and the current curve.
Your settings: the low-battery alert and its level, and how the list is sorted.

To delete all of it: Settings → Apps → Earmark → Storage → Clear data, or uninstall the app. A single device can be removed from the list inside the app. Because none of it reaches us, there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf.

Backups

Android's own backup: Earmark lets Android include it in your phone's backup, so your device list and settings can follow you to a new phone. If backup is turned on for your phone, Android may copy Earmark's stored data, as listed above, into your phone's backup in your Google account and restore it later. That happens between your phone and Google, under Google's privacy policy; we never receive it. You can turn backup off in your phone's settings.
A file you export: Backup and restore in the app saves your device list (names, Bluetooth addresses, colours, rules and notes) and your equalizer presets to a file, in the place you choose. The file is not encrypted; it goes wherever you put it or send it, like any other file. Restoring it reads it back on this phone or another.

Devices you let Earmark manage

On a device's screen you can turn on Managed by Earmark. Android then asks you, in its own dialog, to approve that one device for Earmark (Android calls it a companion device). Earmark never asks for this on its own — only when you ask, on that device's screen.

Earmark uses the approval for two things: to read that device's codec, which many phones tell only an approved app, and to be woken by Android when that device connects or disconnects, so the device's rules work while Earmark is closed. Android's dialog is written for every kind of companion app and may mention things such as syncing the name of someone calling; Earmark receives and syncs no such information. Turning the switch off, or removing the device from Earmark's list, releases the approval.

Permissions, and why each one exists

Nearby devices (Bluetooth connect): To see your paired devices, connect and disconnect them, move the audio between them, and read their codec and battery. On Android 11 and older Android grants the same as Bluetooth and Bluetooth admin at install.
Change your audio settings: For the equalizer and the media volume.
Companion device presence: So Android can wake Earmark when a device you let it manage connects. See above.
Notifications: Only for the low-battery alert, and only if you turn it on.
Notification access: Special access you turn on in Android's settings, for what is playing. See above.
Internet, location, Bluetooth scanning: Not requested. The app cannot use a network, find your position or discover new devices.

Children

Earmark is meant for people aged 13 and over. It is not directed to children and is not designed for or marketed to them. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone, of any age, because we do not collect data.

Your rights

Under the GDPR and similar laws you have rights of access, correction, erasure, restriction, objection and portability over personal data a company holds about you. The app sends us none, so there is nothing for us to produce or erase — the data described above lives on your own phone and under your own control. The exception is an email you send us yourself; to see it or have it erased, write to the same address. For anything else about this policy, write to [email protected] and we will answer.

Our website privacy policy covers naska-it.com itself, which is a separate matter from the app.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version appears at this address with a new date above. A change that meant the app started collecting something would need a new app release and a new permission, both of which are visible on the Play listing before you install them.