Privacy Policy

Effective: 30 September 2026 · Updated: 14 October 2026

SofaPilot is a remote control for smart TVs (Samsung, LG, Android TV / Google TV, Roku and others). It is made by NutVok Apps. This policy explains what the app does with data on Android and iPhone. In short: the app talks to your TV inside your home network, does not need an account and does not sell or share personal data.

1. What stays on your phone

• Your TVs: name, model, IP and MAC address, and the pairing keys the TV issues to SofaPilot. They are stored only on your phone (pairing keys in the system's secure storage) and are used only to connect to your TV.
• Settings (theme, language, haptics, voice options).
• The diagnostic log. It never contains text you type or say, passwords or pairing keys. It leaves the phone only if you send it yourself with “Report a problem” → “Share log”, through the share sheet you choose.

2. Your home network

To find and control the TV, SofaPilot sends and receives data on your local Wi-Fi network only (discovery, button presses, Wake-on-LAN). This traffic goes directly between your phone and your TV and does not pass through our servers. If Wi-Fi has no internet and the phone uses mobile data for the internet, SofaPilot still connects to the TV directly over Wi-Fi.

• iPhone: iOS asks for the “Local Network” permission. Without it the app cannot find or control the TV.
• Android 13 and later: “Nearby Wi-Fi devices” is requested with the “never for location” flag — it is used only to find devices on Wi-Fi.

3. Location (Android)

Android shows the Wi-Fi network name only to apps with the location permission. SofaPilot asks for it only when you tap “Show Wi-Fi name” in the Help sheet, to help you check that the phone and the TV are on the same network. The app does not read or store your coordinates and sends no location anywhere. You can refuse; everything else keeps working.

4. Microphone and voice search

The microphone is used only while you hold the voice button. Speech is turned into text by the speech service of your phone: on Android — the system speech recognition (usually Google); on iPhone — Apple Speech, which may process audio on Apple's servers under Apple's privacy policy. The resulting text is sent only to your TV. SofaPilot does not record, store or send audio itself.

5. Infrared (Android)

On phones with an IR blaster SofaPilot can control a TV with an infrared signal, like a regular remote. No data is collected for this.

6. Notifications and sleep timer

The only notification is the sleep timer countdown (“Sleep timer: 42 min” with a Cancel button) while the timer is running. On iPhone the app may show a local reminder to keep SofaPilot open. No push notifications or marketing messages are sent.

7. Purchases and subscriptions

SofaPilot Pro is offered as weekly, monthly and yearly subscriptions (the yearly plan may include a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, where the store offers it) and as a one-time “Lifetime” purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled.

• Payments are processed by Google Play (Android) or the Apple App Store (iPhone). We never see your card or payment details.
• Cancel: Google Play → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions; iPhone → Settings → your name (Apple ID) → Subscriptions.
• Refunds follow the rules of Google Play or the App Store.
• Purchase status is handled by RevenueCat: an anonymous app user ID, the subscription status and purchase details from the store (product, dates, country / currency of the purchase). No name, email or phone number. RevenueCat privacy policy.

8. Anonymous usage statistics

Release and beta builds may send anonymous product events to Google Firebase Analytics (for example “TV connected”, “feature used”, TV brand, time ranges). The events contain no IP or MAC addresses, TV names, Wi-Fi names, typed or spoken text or pairing keys. The advertising ID is not collected and ad personalisation is turned off. Firebase privacy.

9. What we do not do

• No account, no sign-in, no ads, no tracking across apps or websites.
• No sale or sharing of personal data.

10. Children

SofaPilot is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data.

11. Your choices

You can deny any permission in the system settings, delete saved TVs in the app, or uninstall the app — this removes all data stored on the phone. For questions or deletion requests write to nutvok.apps@gmail.com.

12. Changes

We will update this page when the app changes and show the new “Updated” date above.