Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 9, 2026

Aether is built around a simple idea: your media is yours. The app has no servers of its own, no accounts of its own, and no interest in your data.

What Aether collects

No personal information. Aether has no accounts of its own, no advertising, and no cross-app tracking, and we never sell any data. The one exception is optional, anonymous usage statistics (via TelemetryDeck) that help us see which features are used and fix problems — for example how often playback starts and which player engine handled it. It is fully anonymized and never includes your media titles, file names, servers or account details. You can turn it off any time in Settings ▸ About ▸ Anonymous Usage Statistics.

Where your data lives

• Server credentials — sign-in tokens for your Plex or Jellyfin servers are stored securely on your device and are used only to talk to the servers you connected. They never pass through us.
• Your media and watch history — stay between your device and your own servers. Playback progress and watched state are synced to your Plex/Jellyfin server, exactly as those servers are designed to do.
• Downloads and the local library — stored on your device, fully under your control.

Third-party services

When you import files into the Local Library, Aether matches them against TMDb (The Movie Database) to fetch titles, artwork and metadata. Only the parsed file name and year are sent for matching — never the file itself, your identity or your location. See the TMDb privacy policy.

Diagnostics

If something breaks, you can send a diagnostic report from Settings — it is delivered by email, only when you choose to send it, and contains no tokens, passwords or media titles. Apple may additionally share anonymized crash reports with us if you opted into that in your device settings.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be published at this address with an updated effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Write to support@aetherplayer.com.