Privacy

Straton Advanced · October 23, 2026

Responsible

René Zuch
Bahnhofmatte 2
3232 Ins
Switzerland
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Full details in the legal notice.

What does not happen

• No transmission to me or to third parties. The app contains no analytics or crash-reporting library, does not check for updates and does not download fonts or images. Apart from your lights, it talks to no one.
• No account. You never sign in with me.
• No access to the camera, microphone, contacts or photos.

What goes to your lights

The app connects directly to your lights: over your own network (Wi-Fi or Ethernet) or, for the Straton X, over Bluetooth. It reads device information such as temperature and current brightness and writes your settings back — daily curves, color palettes, assignments and the time of day.

To sign in to a light, the app sends the user name and password you set on that light yourself. The lights do not support HTTPS, so the connection on your own network is unencrypted.

What is stored on your device

• The login for your light — only if you tick the option to remember it. It is kept in the system’s secure storage: the Keychain (iPhone, iPad, Mac), encrypted app storage (Android) or Credential Manager (Windows).
• Backup files — saving a backup writes exactly the file you pick in the dialog, and restoring reads exactly the file you pick. The app stores nothing on its own.

Nothing else. Demo mode shows built-in sample values and downloads nothing.

Permissions

• Local network (iPhone, iPad, Mac): to find and control your lights.
• Bluetooth: only for the Straton X.
• Android: the Bluetooth scan is declared with the statement that it is not used to derive your location. Up to Android 11 the system still requires location permission for any Bluetooth scan; from Android 12 on, the app no longer asks for it.
• Mac: the app runs in the macOS sandbox. It only accesses files you pick in a dialog.

What Apple and Google collect themselves

Independently of the app, Apple and Google may collect crash reports if you allowed this in your device settings. If you agreed to share analytics with app developers, I receive anonymized crash reports from them that do not identify you.

During testing through TestFlight, Apple’s terms apply: crash reports and feedback you send through TestFlight are visible to me in Apple’s developer account.

This website

This site sets no cookies and loads nothing from third-party servers — no fonts, no maps, no tracking pixels. As usual, the host logs server access.

Questions

Write to me: contact form