Tokoshie is published by Nodera LLC, in Tokyo,
Japan.
It collects no personal data. It has no network code, so there is nothing for it to send
anywhere, and no server on the other end to receive it.
What is stored
Two things, both set by you: the pace you set with the slider, and the key, a word you may
write under About. They are saved in the app's own preferences on your device, so the next launch
begins at the same pace and on the same piece. The key is kept as you wrote it, without spaces at
either end; leave the field empty and nothing is kept for it. Neither is a record of you, of when
you listened, or of what played. Tokoshie has no account and asks for no name, email, or
sign-in.
Deleting the app deletes both with it. On iPhone and iPad, whether they are included in your
device backup follows your own iCloud and backup settings; on Android, Tokoshie turns off backup to
Google Drive, though on some devices the system may still copy app data directly to a new phone.
Tokoshie does not upload them itself.
Keeping and deleting
There is nothing to keep and nothing to request. The pace and the key never reach us, so there is
nothing on our side to erase — a request to delete your data would have nothing to act on. To remove
the key, empty the Key field under About; to remove both, delete the app.
What is not collected
No analytics. No advertising and no advertising identifier. No crash or performance reporting
of its own. No third-party SDKs other than Google's standard Android libraries (Jetpack) in the Android version. No location, no microphone, no contacts: the app asks
the system for nothing but the audio output. On Android, sound that keeps playing in the background comes with a
notification, showing the app's name and subtitle and a pause button; on Android 13 and later the app
asks for permission to show it when it starts. The notification carries nothing about you.
One thing does not come from Tokoshie: if you have turned on iOS's own Share
with App Developers setting, Apple may pass us crash logs from the apps you use, this one
included. That is Apple's mechanism and your setting — Tokoshie neither collects them nor can
switch it on.
On Android, if you have chosen to share usage and diagnostics data with Google,
Google Play may give us crash and app-not-responding reports and performance statistics for the app.
That is Google's mechanism and your setting; the app does not send these itself.
In App Store terms, this is Data Not Collected; in Google Play's Data safety section,
No data collected.
This website
Tokoshie itself never contacts a server. This website does, as every website does: our server
writes a line for each request it answers — the time, the page asked for, your IP address, the
page you came from, and what your browser reports about itself, such as its name and language.
From the IP address we look up the country, region, and network it belongs to.
We use these lines to count how many people find this website and where they come from, and to
find the cause when something goes wrong. They are kept on our own servers, with a backup copy in
cloud storage, until we delete them. We do not sell or share them, and we do not join them with
anything else.
The pages set no cookies, store nothing in your browser, and load nothing from anyone else. The
piece on the front page is made in your browser from your device's clock; no sound is sent to
you.
Links out
The About screen holds one link, to this page. Following it opens your browser and leaves
Tokoshie.
Children
The app collects nothing from anyone, of any age.
Governing law
This policy is governed by the laws of Japan.
Changes
If a future version of Tokoshie ever collects anything, this page will say so before that
version ships, and the date below will change.
Contact