Glimpse Calming Sounds: Privacy policy

Last updated: 14 November 2026

Glimpse Calming Sounds is an Android app, made by Glimpse Media, that plays calming sounds and music for relaxation and sleep. It was designed with people who have tinnitus in mind; it is a general wellbeing app, not a medical device. This page explains what it does with your information. In short: everything stays on your phone, and nothing is sent anywhere.

What the app stores

Everything is kept only on your phone, in the app's own private storage:

• Your settings: levels and highest levels, timers, and your answers to the welcome questions (for example whether everyday sounds often feel too loud).
• Your mixes and playlists.
• The Tone finder: your two answers (where you hear the ringing, and whether it is more like a whistle or a hiss), and each try you finish (the pitch you chose and when). These only set up a sound you like; the app does not give medical advice.
• A listening log: when each session started and ended, which mix or track played, whether it played through headphones or the speaker, the phone's volume setting, the app's average sound level, and why it stopped. The app uses it on the phone, for example to show your recent mixes on the Home screen.

None of this leaves your phone. It is not copied by Android's backup to any online account. Uninstalling the app removes it.

Music for meditation

Music for meditation is an optional one-time purchase. The purchase is made through Google Play, which handles the payment; the app only learns whether the music has been bought, and remembers that on the phone so it works offline. Google Play also downloads the music to your phone. These steps are covered by Google's own privacy policy. Glimpse Media does not receive your payment details or any other information about you.

What the app does not do

• It has no internet permission, so it cannot send or receive anything over the internet itself.
• It has no advertisements, no analytics, no tracking and no accounts.
• It does not use the microphone, your contacts, your location, your photos or files.
• It does not share anything with anyone.

Permissions

• Run in the foreground to play media: so sounds and music keep playing when you leave the app or the screen turns off, with the usual media notification.
• Notifications: to show that notification, with Pause, Play and Stop.
• Keep the phone awake: only while sound is playing, so it does not stop when the screen goes off.
• Google Play billing: for the optional Music for meditation purchase.
• Run in the foreground to download: used by Google Play while it downloads the music to your phone.

Children

Glimpse Calming Sounds is not aimed at children and collects no information from anyone.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions: [email protected]