Privacy Policy
How CallReady handles camera, microphone, device, diagnostic, and network-test data.
Scope
This Privacy Policy explains how GagarinSoft handles information when you use CallReady for Windows and when you visit CallReady pages on gagarinsoft.com. The app and website have different data flows, which are described separately.
CallReady Website
The CallReady pages do not intentionally set CallReady cookies, run advertising pixels, or include a CallReady analytics script. As with any website, your browser sends standard request information such as your IP address, requested URL, user agent, and request time to the hosting and network providers that deliver the pages. GagarinSoft may receive limited server logs if the provider makes them available and use them only to operate, secure, and troubleshoot the website or comply with law.
Hosting providers, your browser, and websites reached through external links may process information under their own terms. GagarinSoft does not control their security, retention, international transfers, or privacy practices.
Camera, Face, and Lighting Checks
CallReady opens your selected camera only while the check window is open. Frames are held temporarily in memory to show the live preview, determine whether a face is visible, and evaluate lighting around the primary face.
- Camera frames are not written to disk automatically or uploaded.
- Face detection checks presence; it does not identify a person.
- No face template, signature, embedding, or biometric identity profile is created or stored.
- The camera is released when the check window closes.
If you explicitly choose Save camera image, CallReady writes one current frame as a PNG or JPEG only to the file and location you select. That ordinary file may contain you, other people, or your surroundings and remains outside CallReady's app-local storage. You are responsible for having permission to create, keep, share, or publish it and for protecting and deleting it. CallReady does not upload or keep a separate copy.
Microphone and Speaker Checks
CallReady opens your selected microphone only while the check window is open. Audio samples are converted locally into signal-level readings and immediately discarded. The app does not save recordings, upload audio, recognize speech, or create transcripts. The microphone is released when the check window closes.
The speaker check reads Windows audio-endpoint information and may play a test tone when you request it. CallReady does not listen to speaker output.
Connection-Quality Test
When a connection check runs, CallReady makes capped HTTP requests to Cloudflare's public speed-test endpoints to estimate connectivity, latency, jitter, and throughput. The upload measurement uses a generated zero-filled payload. Camera images, audio samples, files, and app settings are never included in those requests.
Like any Internet request, the test exposes your public IP address and request timing to Cloudflare. Cloudflare states that its Speed Test uses the IP address to estimate city, country, and network (ASN), truncates the address for measurement data, and may share anonymized measurement information—but not the IP address—with measurement partners. Cloudflare handles this information under its Speed Test disclosure and Privacy Policy. Cloudflare is an independent third-party service; GagarinSoft does not receive the test request or control Cloudflare's processing, retention, security, or transfers.
Information Stored on Your PC
CallReady stores the following files in its Windows app-local folder so it can remember your choices, identify device changes, and troubleshoot errors:
- settings.json: theme, language, start-with-Windows state, optional keyboard shortcut, Screen Light brightness, and the last folder selected for saving a camera image. A folder path can contain your Windows account name.
- devices.json: Windows device identifiers and friendly names for the camera, microphone, and speakers from the last successful check.
- Logs/callready.log: check activity, timing, device names, errors, and Windows error codes. The log is capped at 512 KB, with up to two older copies retained.
These files do not contain camera frames, recorded audio, speech transcripts, or content you type. They stay on your PC and are not sent to GagarinSoft. You can delete logs at any time; uninstalling or resetting the app removes app-local data subject to Windows behavior.
What the App Does Not Include
- No CallReady account, cloud backend, advertising, or ad identifier.
- No in-app analytics or crash-reporting SDK.
- No cloud AI, speech recognition, transcription, screen recording, or screen sharing.
- No analysis of identity, emotion, age, gender, ethnicity, attractiveness, or other personal attributes.
- No access to contacts, calendars, documents, browsing history, or file contents.
Permissions and Your Choices
Camera access supports preview, face-presence, and lighting checks; microphone access supports the local level meter; Internet client access supports the connection test. If you deny camera or microphone permission, CallReady continues to run but cannot complete that check. You can manage permissions in Windows, delete local logs, reset app data, or uninstall the app. CallReady does not require administrator rights.
Microsoft Store
Microsoft may process purchase, license, installation, update, device, crash, and Store-usage information under the Microsoft Privacy Statement. That processing is performed by Microsoft under its own terms. It does not give GagarinSoft access to your camera frames, audio samples, local settings, or CallReady diagnostic logs.
Retention and Security
App-local settings and device information remain on your PC until you change or remove them, reset the app, or uninstall it, subject to Windows behavior. Diagnostic logs rotate at the limits described above. A camera image that you explicitly save remains until you delete it or another process removes it. CallReady has no server copy.
Local files are subject to the security of your Windows account, device, backups, and any software with access to them. No storage or transmission method is guaranteed to be completely secure. Microsoft, Cloudflare, website-hosting providers, and linked services determine their own safeguards and retention periods under their policies; GagarinSoft cannot delete data held independently by them.
Your Rights and Requests
You control app-local information directly through Windows, CallReady settings, log deletion, app reset or uninstall, and deletion of any camera image you chose to save. Where applicable law gives you rights over personal information held by GagarinSoft, you may contact us to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or objection, and you may complain to your local data-protection authority. Because GagarinSoft ordinarily does not receive app-local information or Cloudflare speed-test requests, we generally cannot identify, retrieve, export, correct, or delete that information for you. Requests concerning Microsoft or Cloudflare data must be directed to the relevant provider.
No Warranty
This policy describes data practices; it does not create a warranty of uninterrupted operation, error-free results, absolute security, or continued availability. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, CallReady is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE,” with all faults and without warranties of any kind. Non-waivable statutory and consumer rights remain unaffected. See the Terms of Use for the complete warranty disclaimer and limitations.
Children
CallReady is a general-purpose meeting utility and is not directed to children. It does not create user accounts or profiles. If a child uses the connection test, Cloudflare processes the limited network information described above.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy when CallReady's data practices or legal requirements change. The current version and its effective date will remain available on this page. Materially different app data collection will be described here before or when the relevant version is made available.
Contact
Privacy questions or requests
Because GagarinSoft does not receive the app-local data described above, we generally cannot retrieve, correct, export, or delete it for you. For questions about this policy, contact:
gagarinsoft@gmail.comThat mailbox is operated by Google. When you write to us, Google processes the content of your message as our email provider, and a copy stays in the mailbox until we delete it. Google is based in the United States, so an email sent from another country is transferred internationally. See the Google Privacy Policy.