Privacy policy

The phone’s Recordings/JemRec folder, or a folder you choose. Yours to play, share, move or delete like any other file. One deleted in JemRec waits 30 days in Recently deleted, then is removed: in the standard folder, Android’s own trash does that; in a folder you chose, it waits as a hidden file that JemRec removes. Delete all for good removes them all at once, when you ask. Messages the answering machine took are recordings too; which ones are messages, and which you marked to keep, is kept by file name in the app’s private storage, and written inside each recording as well, with which way the call went where JemRec knows it, so that a reinstall still knows.

Only once you use the Multitrack look: which of its six colours each caller has, so a caller keeps theirs, also after you change the look. Kept by a one-way code worked out from the name, not the name itself, in the app’s private storage, and in no backup. Uninstalling deletes it.

Only if you record one for the answering machine: in the app’s private storage, and a copy the recorder plays from. Deleting it in the app deletes both, and so does uninstalling.

Only on phones that stop apps in the background: whether setup has asked you to let JemRec keep running, and the time of the last warning that the phone stopped it, so one stop is told once. To notice a stop, JemRec reads Android’s own records of when and why JemRec’s process ended and how it started, and whether Android has marked JemRec stopped, which hold no names and no numbers. In the app’s private storage; uninstalling deletes it.

How the recorder recorded the last call: which way, how loud each side came out, and which apps were playing or capturing sound then. No numbers, no names, no sound. Kept by the recorder until the next call replaces it, and deleted with it when you uninstall. Copy a report in Diagnostics puts it on the clipboard, only when you tap it.

What its checks found about the phone, and the result of each test call by call type (2G, VoLTE, Wi-Fi Calling). No numbers, no names. In the app’s private storage; uninstalling deletes it. Copy a report puts them on the clipboard, only when you tap it.

Read from the phone’s own call log and contacts, only if you allow it, to label a recording, to show the Calls tab, to keep or leave out a call by who it was with, and to notice a call that was not recorded. Names and numbers are not copied or stored; the lookup happens each time it is needed. Two choices change that, and only when you make them: a file name with the caller or their number in it puts their name or number in the recording’s file name, and so in the app’s private storage, where JemRec keeps what it knows of a recording by its file name (which ones are marked to keep, say); and the contacts you pick under Whose calls to keep are stored there as your contacts app’s own links to them. Exact call tracking, below, keeps numbers too.

While Exact call tracking is on, which it is unless you turn it off: for the last 40 phone calls, when each began, was answered and ended, which way it went, and how far apart the phone’s two clocks were during it — and its number, only if you allowed JemRec to read the call log, which has it anyway. In the app’s private storage, to cut each recording to its call and name it. Turning tracking off deletes it.

Only if you turn on Show who called for messenger calls: from the call notifications of the apps whose calls you record — the messengers and Google Meet — the caller’s name, the time, and whether the call rang first, for the last 30 calls, in the app’s private storage. A recording named by date alone, or with the phone number — a messenger call has none — keeps its caller’s name there too, by file name; one named with the caller has it in the file name. Either way the name is also written inside the recording, where no music app shows it, so that a reinstall still knows who it was — and a recording you share carries it.

When each recorded call started, which way it went and how long it lasted, the time of any call the app told you was not recorded, of any call your choice of whose calls to keep left out, and of any call whose caller hung up during your greeting, and of the answering machine’s test calls. No names, no numbers. Kept in the app’s private storage for seven days, so the missed-call check never reports a call twice or takes a recording you deleted for a call that was missed. Also when you last called an emergency number — noted with the answering machine on or off — and when you last chose to answer again before a day had passed, so the answering machine stands down for a day after such a call: the latest time of each, no number, until the next. Also when recording was switched on or off or changed mode, so the Calls tab can say why a call was not recorded: times and the setting only, the last 300 changes.

Only if you ask JemRec to hide Android’s debugging notification, or turn on Show who called for messenger calls. It then has notification access. For the first it looks only at notifications from Android itself, to find that one, and keeps the IDs of the ones it hid, so it can bring them back. For the second it looks only at the call notifications of the messengers you switched on (see Messenger callers). Nothing else is read or kept.

For each recording, its loudness: 800 numbers, no sound, worked out from the file to draw its waveform - when a call is saved, or while the app is open. In the app’s cache, under a code made from the file’s name rather than the name itself, until the recording is deleted; Android may clear it sooner.

The app’s own private storage: whether recording is on, whether to ask before each call, whether to show each call when it ends, where to save, how to name files, whose calls to keep, which messengers’ calls to record, the auto-delete rules, the answering machine’s, what turning JemRec off switches off besides, whether Start without Wi-Fi is on, which recordings you marked to keep (by file name), and random tokens the app uses to talk to its own recorder and to its own notifications. And a few notes for the phone’s current boot and Wi-Fi: whether JemRec opened debugging port 5555, or could not open or close it, and whether Android refused Wireless debugging on the Wi-Fi the phone is on - kept as the number Android gives that connection, never the network’s name.