Privacy Policy

By downloading and using Campfire, these terms will automatically apply to you, therefore you should make sure that you read them carefully.

This application is provided to you by Péter Pandula at no cost and is intended for use as is.

Last updated: 29 September 2026. This version covers Campfire 4.0 and later; cover art and deleting the whole library from the settings arrived in Campfire 4.5.

General overview

This page is used to inform you regarding my policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information if anyone decided to use my service.

Campfire is an app for viewing and editing song lyrics and chords that works offline. Your songs and setlists are ordinary ChordPro text files kept in the app's own storage on your device, and on the web in your browser's private storage for the site. There is no Campfire account and there is no server of mine involved anywhere: I never receive your songs, your settings or anything else about how you use the app. The only times Campfire connects to the internet are for cloud sync and for cover art, both described below.

Campfire contains no advertising, no analytics and no tracking of any kind.

Information collection and use

Campfire does not have any data collection solution integrated, as a result, I am not collecting any personally identifiable information on purpose. However, keep in mind that some data collection mechanisms are beyond my control. For instance, just by downloading the application from the Google Play Store, you are automatically sharing some limited usage data and crash logs with me, the developer, as well as Google. You agreed to this when accepting the Play Services license agreement, over which I have no control whatsoever.

Cloud sync

Campfire can keep your library the same on several of your own devices by storing it in a cloud folder that belongs to you. This is switched off until you turn it on. Until you connect an account in the app's settings, sync makes no network requests at all, and if you never connect one, nothing in this section applies to you.

Sync currently supports Dropbox. When you connect it:

• Your files go to your own Dropbox, not to me. The songs and setlists are transferred directly between your device and Dropbox. I operate no server, and no copy of your library ever reaches me.
• Campfire can only see its own folder. The app requests Dropbox's "app folder" permission, which limits its access to a single folder called Apps/Campfire that is created for it. The rest of your Dropbox is invisible to the app.
• Only your library is synced. That means your song files and your setlist files. Your app settings, chosen theme and language, text size and transpositions are never uploaded by sync and stay on the device where you set them (your device's own backup can still carry them to a new device, see Device backup below).
• What Campfire reads about your account. After you connect, the app asks Dropbox for the display name and email address of the account, purely so that the settings screen can show you which account your library is going to, and it keeps the account's Dropbox ID, so that it still recognizes the account after you change its name or email address. These are kept on your device and are never sent anywhere else.
• How signing in works. Authorization uses the standard OAuth 2.0 flow with PKCE, on Dropbox's own consent page opened in your browser. Your Dropbox password is never typed into Campfire and never passes through it. The resulting access and refresh tokens are stored in the app's private storage on your device only (on Android encrypted with a key held by the system, on iPhone and iPad in the system Keychain), and are never sent anywhere except to Dropbox.
• Disconnecting. Choosing "Disconnect" in the settings asks Dropbox to revoke the token and deletes it from your device. Your files are left untouched, both on the device and in your Dropbox; you can also remove Campfire's access at any time from the connected applications page of your Dropbox account.

Anything stored in your Dropbox is subject to Dropbox's own privacy policy and terms, which are between you and Dropbox. Should Campfire gain support for another cloud service in the future, the same principles will apply to it and this page will be updated to name it.

Cover art

A song can name an album cover to show next to it, as the web address of an image written into the song's own file. The address is something you or whoever wrote the song chose, and Campfire has no say in which website it points to.

• Showing a cover. The first time a song with a cover is shown, the app downloads the image from that address and keeps a copy on your device, so it is not downloaded again. The website serving the image sees an ordinary request for it from your device's internet address, as it would from a browser. Copies no song names any more are deleted by the app, and they are never synced or included in your device's backup. You can delete all of them at any time by tapping Cover art cache under Library in the app's settings.
• Searching for a cover. Only when you open the cover search for a song, the artist, album and title in its search fields are sent to MusicBrainz and to Apple's iTunes Search API, and the thumbnails of the records they find are downloaded from the Cover Art Archive and from Apple. Nothing else about you or your library is sent, and there is no account with either. Those requests are subject to those services' own privacy policies.
• Typing an address. If you enter the address of an image yourself, it is downloaded from that address to show you a preview.
• Turning it off. The "Cover art" switch in the app's settings turns all of this off: no cover is downloaded or shown and the search is not offered.

Device backup

Android phones and tablets, iPhones and iPads can back up the data of the apps on them and move it to a new device. If you have this switched on, your Campfire library and your app settings are part of it: on Android in your Google backup or a direct transfer to a new phone, on iPhone and iPad in your iCloud backup or a transfer from your old device. That copy is made by the operating system according to your device's backup settings, and a backup is stored in your own Google or Apple account under Google's or Apple's privacy policy. Campfire makes no request for it, and I never receive or see it. You can switch it off in your device's settings.

If you use cloud sync, the Dropbox connection and the record of the last sync are left out of the backup on every device, so a restored or new phone or tablet starts disconnected and you sign in to Dropbox again.

On a computer, the library is kept in Campfire's folder among your user account's application data, and any backup you make of the computer, such as Time Machine or File History, may include it. On the web, the library lives in your browser's storage for the site. It is not part of any backup, and clearing the site's data removes it.

Deleting your data

I hold no copy of anything you keep in Campfire, so there is nothing for me to delete and no request to send: every copy is in a place you control, and you can remove it yourself at any time.

• Your whole library, from the app: open the settings, go to Library, tap the row that shows how many songs and setlists you have, type DELETE and confirm. Every song and setlist is deleted from the device. If Dropbox sync is connected, this also deletes them from your Apps/Campfire folder and from every other device synced with it; the dialog says so before you confirm. To delete them from this device only, choose "Disconnect" first. The copies of the cover images are deleted from the same screen, with Cover art cache.
• Everything on your device: uninstall the app, which removes the library, the settings, the cover images and the Dropbox connection from the device. On the web, clearing the site's data in your browser does the same.
• In your Dropbox, if you used sync: deleting your library while connected, as above, empties the Apps/Campfire folder. Otherwise choose "Disconnect" in the app's settings, then delete the Apps/Campfire folder in Dropbox. You can also remove Campfire's access from the connected applications page of your Dropbox account.
• In your device's backup: delete the backup, or switch off backup for the app, in your device's settings or your Google or iCloud account.

If anything is unclear, contact me and I will help.

Children’s privacy

These services do not address anyone under the age of 13. I do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided me with personal information, please contact me so that I will be able to do necessary actions.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

I may update my Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. I will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted.

Contact me

If you have any questions or suggestions about my Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact me.