Curious Air — Privacy Policy
Curious Air is a privacy-first Android signal explorer designed to reveal nearby signals and device-sensor readings without sending that information to Ulix.
What Curious Air accesses
When you choose to use the relevant features, Curious Air may access:
- nearby Wi-Fi network information, including network names, hardware addresses, signal strength, frequency, and security capabilities;
- nearby Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy device information, including advertised names, hardware addresses, signal strength, and broadcast data;
- precise location and GNSS information for satellite displays and because Android requires location access for certain Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scans;
- cellular network information, where supported by the device and Android version;
- NFC tag contents when you deliberately scan a tag;
- camera input for experimental camera-based signal tools;
- microphone amplitude for live sound-level and ultrasonic tools; and
- readings from built-in sensors such as the magnetometer, accelerometer, orientation sensors, barometer, and ambient-light sensor.
These readings are used to provide the feature you selected. Microphone input is analyzed on-device, and Curious Air does not save audio recordings.
What Curious Air does not do
- No ads
- No sale of personal data
- No account required
- No behavioral marketing or profiling
- No analytics or third-party tracking libraries
- No upload of sensor readings, location, nearby network identifiers, nearby device identifiers, NFC contents, camera input, or microphone input to Ulix
What Curious Air stores on your device
Live scans and sensor readings are processed on your device. Curious Air stores only limited app information in its private local storage:
- feature and appearance preferences, and
- a cached status indicating whether Curious Air Pro is unlocked, so paid features can remain available offline.
Permissions
Curious Air may request location, nearby-device/Bluetooth, camera, microphone, NFC, Wi-Fi-state, and, on older Android versions, storage permissions. These permissions support the features described above.
Runtime permissions are optional. Features that depend on a denied permission will be unavailable or limited, and you can revoke permissions at any time in Android settings.
When data may leave your device
Signal and sensor data stays on your device unless you take an action that causes it to leave, such as:
- exporting a CSV file to your device’s Downloads folder,
- sharing an exported file through another app or service, or
- making or restoring a Pro purchase through Google Play Billing.
Depending on the export, a CSV file may include timestamps, Wi-Fi names and hardware addresses, Bluetooth names and hardware addresses, cellular identifiers, or GNSS satellite information. Exporting and sharing are optional and controlled by you.
Premium features
Curious Air offers optional Pro features through a one-time in-app purchase. Purchases, purchase restoration, and entitlement checks are handled by Google Play Billing. Curious Air does not receive or store your full payment-card information.
When you buy or restore a purchase, Google Play confirms the purchase status to the app, and Curious Air stores that status locally so Pro features can be unlocked.
Backups
Android’s built-in backup or device-transfer system may back up local app preferences and the cached Pro status to your Google account, depending on your device and backup settings.
CSV files saved in Downloads are managed as user files rather than as Curious Air’s private app data.
Third-party services
Curious Air uses Google Play Billing for optional Pro purchases and purchase restoration. Google may receive standard technical request data and handles payment information and purchase history under its own privacy practices.
Curious Air does not use advertising, analytics, crash-reporting, or tracking services.
Your controls
You can revoke app permissions in Android settings, delete exported CSV files from your device, clear Curious Air’s app storage, or uninstall the app.
Because Curious Air has no account and Ulix does not receive your signal or sensor data, Ulix has no associated cloud profile or sensor-data record to delete.