Privacy

Mud Hands · Updated 26 October 2026

Your pottery log stays on your phone. There are no accounts and no ads, and nothing is sold. Nothing you write or photograph leaves your phone. Three things can: a voice note, only long enough to turn it into text; anonymous counts of how much the app is used, which you can turn off; and your email address, only if you choose to sign up for updates.

Mud Hands is made by Nextpath Innovations Inc., Calgary, Alberta. Questions about this policy go to hello@nextpathinnovations.ca.

What stays on your phone

Everything you log: pieces, stages, photos, measurements, notes, clays, glazes, locations and to-dos. It is stored in the app's storage on your device. We have no copy and cannot see it.

That also means we cannot recover it. Uninstalling the app, clearing its data or losing the phone deletes the log. Export in Settings saves a backup file that you keep wherever you like.

Voice notes

When you dictate a note, the recording is sent through our server to OpenAI, which turns it into text. The text comes back to your phone and is saved there with the rest of your log.

• We do not keep the recording or the text on our server.
• OpenAI does not use it to train its models. It may keep it for up to 30 days to check for abuse, under its API data policy.
• Recordings are limited to about a minute and a half.

If you would rather nothing left your phone, type instead. Everything else in the app works without voice.

Email updates

Signing up for updates is optional. The app asks at most twice, and the option is always in Settings → Updates. If you sign up:

• Your email address is sent to Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France), which keeps our mailing list. Nothing else goes with it: no name and nothing from your log.
• We use it only to tell you about Mud Hands: new features, fixes and news about the app. We do not sell it or give it to anyone else.
• Every email has an unsubscribe link. To have your address deleted entirely, write to hello@nextpathinnovations.ca.
• The app also keeps the address on your phone, so Settings can show where updates go.

What our server keeps

Only what is needed to stop the voice feature being abused, and to know whether people use the app:

• Your IP address and how many voice notes or sign-ups came from it that day, to enforce a daily limit. Deleted after 24 hours.
• A daily count of voice notes, and an estimate of how many devices sent them. The estimate is made from a scrambled form of your IP address and browser that cannot be turned back into either. Kept for about 13 months.
• Anonymous usage counts: each day, whether the app was opened (once a day at most), and how many pots and stages were logged, with an estimate of how many devices did so, made the same scrambled way. Only the fact that it happened is sent, never a name, note, measurement or photo. It tells us whether people use the app. Kept for about 13 months. Turn it off in Settings → Privacy.
• The country the app is opened from, as part of those counts: once a day, our host works out the country from your connection, and we keep only the two-letter country code with the same scrambled device estimate, never your IP address or anything finer than the country. It tells us where the app is used. Kept for about 13 months, and switched off with the usage counts.

Nothing else about how you use the app reaches us, and none of it can tell us who you are. The one exception is an email address you choose to give for updates, described above.

Other services

• The app is hosted on Netlify, which keeps standard server logs, such as IP addresses and pages requested, as any website host does.
• The app's fonts load from Google Fonts, so Google sees your IP address when they download.
• The daily limits and counts above are stored with Upstash.
• The updates mailing list is kept with Brevo, if you sign up.

Deleting your data

Mud Hands has no accounts, so there is nothing to sign in to and close. What there is to delete, and how:

• Your log (pieces, photos, notes and everything else) is only on your phone. Delete it by uninstalling the app or clearing its data. We have no copy to delete.
• Your email address, if you signed up for updates: use the unsubscribe link in any email, or write to hello@nextpathinnovations.ca from that address and we will delete it from our mailing list within 30 days.
• Your IP address is deleted automatically after 24 hours. The daily counts are anonymous and cannot be traced to you, so there is nothing of yours in them to delete.

Permissions

• Camera, for photos of your pieces. Photos stay on your phone.
• Microphone, only while you are recording a voice note.
• Motion, to notice a shake that starts a recording. Handled on your phone.
• Notifications, for your to-do reminders. Scheduled on your phone; we do not send them.

Children

Mud Hands is not made for children and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.