Last Updated: October 2, 2026
Vortex Computation, LLC ("we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit our website or contact us, how we use it, and the choices you have. Our Wear OS apps work differently from this website: section 7 covers the Out Loud app and section 8 covers our watch faces.
Information you provide: When you submit our contact form, we collect the name, company, email address, phone number, service of interest, and project details you choose to share.
Quiz answers and your email, only if you choose "Start this": Some of our project pages have a short quiz you answer by tapping. Your answers stay in your browser tab until you choose "Start this" and send us your email address. Then we collect that email address and the answers you picked, and nothing else: no name and no phone number. We use them to write and send you a plan, to follow up and ask whether you would like our help with it, and to reply if you answer. Reply stop and the follow-ups end. They are stored in our own customer records and sent to our team's inbox as a notification. To write your plan, we look at public information about the business at your email address's domain, such as its own website, so the plan fits what the business is trying to do. We use AI tools to help with that research and with the first draft, and a person on our team reads, checks and sends every plan. Our notes, your plan and a short record of where it stands (sent, replied, follow-up due) are kept privately on our hardware and with our storage providers. When a plan is ready, our team gets a message in a private team chat; it carries a reference code, never your email address. We do not add you to a newsletter.
Information collected automatically: Like most websites, we collect standard analytics data (such as pages visited, referring source, approximate location, browser, and device type) through cookies and similar technologies. Our Cookie Policy names each service that does this and says what each one stores on your device, which for one of them is nothing at all.
Error reports: If a page of this site fails to render in your browser, we automatically send a report to our analytics provider, PostHog, so that we learn about the failure instead of waiting for someone to tell us. The report contains the error type, the error message, an internal reference code, and the address of the page it happened on. It does not contain anything you typed into a form, and it does not identify you.
Update notifications, only if you ask for them: If you install this site as an app and accept the offer of update notifications, your browser creates a push subscription and we store it so we can deliver them. That record is the address your browser gives us plus the keys needed to encrypt a message to it. It contains no name, email address, or browsing history. You can revoke it at any time in your browser's site settings for this domain.
Four third-party services run on every page of this site without asking you: Google Analytics 4, PostHog, Vercel Analytics, and Vercel Speed Insights. Our own server and application code set no cookies; the cookies on this site are set by those services. You can block them through your browser settings and through the opt-outs each service provides.
PostHog is the newest of the four and the one that leaves nothing behind. We start it with its storage set to memory only, so it writes no cookie and nothing to your browser's local storage; it records that a page was opened and little else. Automatic capture of clicks and form input is switched off, session recording is switched off in the page itself, and nothing on this site ever tells PostHog who you are. Because it sets no cookie, blocking cookies does not stop it; a content blocker does.
A fifth, the LinkedIn Insight Tag, is the only advertising tag here and it is the one we ask about. It does not load until you click Allow on the banner, and if you click Decline it does not load and we remember that. Your answer is stored in your browser and never sent to us. You can change it at any time on the Cookie Policy page. Our Cookie Policy names every one of these services, lists what this site does not run, and carries that switch.
Our Wrist Apps site, wrist.vortex.llc, points here for its privacy terms. It runs one of these services, Google Analytics 4, on every page without asking you, and none of the others. It has no forms, no banner, and no advertising tag, and its own code stores nothing in your browser.
The answers you tap in a quiz are sent to Google Analytics as anonymous choices (which answer, which question, which result), so we can see which questions people finish. Your email address is never sent to analytics.
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with service providers who help us operate the website and our business (such as analytics, hosting, email, file storage, team chat and AI providers), and only as necessary to provide their services, or where required by law. Our AI providers do not use what we send them to train their models.
We retain personal information only for as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, and we use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards to protect it. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
We keep quiz answers and the email address sent with them until you ask us to delete them. Email us and we will. If you ask us to delete your information, we delete our research notes, your plan and our tracking record, and tell you what we removed. If you replied stop, we keep only what we need to make sure we never email you again.
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information you have provided to us by contacting us at the address below. There is no self-service portal for that request; a person reads the email and answers it. For the LinkedIn advertising tag there is an on-page switch, on our Cookie Policy page, and it takes one click either way. For analytics there is no on-page control. The working options there are your browser settings and the per-service opt-outs listed on that same page, and that page also says which of them each service is and is not affected by, because they are not all stopped by the same thing.
Out Loud is a media player that runs on your watch by itself. Sections 1 through 6 describe this website; none of the analytics, cookies, error reports or forms they mention exist in the app.
What we collect: nothing. Out Loud has no account, no analytics, no crash reporting and no ads. It never sends us your listening history, your files, your searches, your settings, or anything that identifies you or your watch. The only thing it ever asks our website for is a small public file of Vortex news, and only while one of the two switches described below is on.
What stays on your watch: the audio files you add or download, the podcast feeds and streams you add, where you stopped in each episode, which episodes you finished, and your settings. The app opts out of Android backup, so none of this is copied to a cloud backup. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.
Network requests: Out Loud goes online only for the four things below. It uses secure (https) links only and refuses any other kind.
Podcast search: when you search for a podcast, Out Loud sends the words you searched for to Apple's iTunes Search API (itunes.apple.com), which sends back matching podcast feeds. It only does this when you tap Search. Nothing else about you is sent with your words; like any web request, Apple sees your connection's internet address and a label naming the app and its version. Apple's own privacy policy covers that request, not this one. If you never search, Out Loud never contacts Apple.
Feeds and streams you add: Out Loud fetches podcast feeds, streams and episode files straight from the addresses you chose, not through us. That publisher's server sees an ordinary request from your connection identified as "OutLoud" with the app version, the same way any podcast app appears. Some publishers send episode links through a measurement service of their choosing, which sees the request too. What those servers do with their own logs is covered by their own policies, not this one.
The "What's new from Vortex" card: this card lists new Vortex apps. It is on unless you switch it off, which you can do the first time you open the app and at any time in Settings. While it is on, Out Loud checks one small file on our website, https://www.vortex.llc/apps/outloud-announcements.json, at most once a day, when you open the app. If you tap an app it lists, that app's Google Play page opens.
Notifications about new Vortex apps: these are off unless you switch them on, the first time you open the app or in Settings. If you do, Out Loud checks that same file about once a week in the background and notifies you when it lists a Vortex app you have not been told about.
The check behind the card and the notifications carries no identifier, no account and no cookie, only a label naming the app and its version. It sends nothing about you, your watch, or what you listen to. Our web host sees it the way it sees any visit to our website, including your connection's internet address, and we do not use it to identify you. With both switches off, Out Loud never contacts us.
The intro clip: "How Out Loud works" is stored inside the app, so playing it sends nothing.
Voice entry: if you speak instead of typing, your watch's built-in voice input turns your speech into text and Out Loud receives only that text. That speech service belongs to your watch, not to us.
Permissions: internet access and network status (for the requests above and to wait for Wi-Fi before a download), notifications (for the playback controls, and for new-app notifications only if you switch them on), background playback (so audio keeps playing with the screen off), and keeping the watch awake while it plays. The Android task scheduler the app uses is also told when your watch restarts, so a download you queued, or the weekly check if you switched it on, is still scheduled afterwards. It asks for nothing else: no location, contacts, microphone access of its own, or health data.
Tile and complication: Out Loud offers a tile, and a complication you can place in a slot on any watch face that has one. Neither is added unless you add it. If you do, it shows the title of what is playing and whether it is paused. It never shows a web address or a file location.
Because we hold no data from the app, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete on your behalf; everything is on your watch and under your control. Questions about the app go to the contact address in section 11.
This section covers every watch face Vortex Computation publishes on Google Play.
What we collect: nothing. Our watch faces have no account, no analytics, no crash reporting and no ads, and they ask for no permissions. They are built in Google's Watch Face Format and contain no app code of their own, so they make no network requests. Settings you choose on the watch, such as a style or a color, stay on your watch.
Complications: the small slots on the face show information from the apps and services you pick for them. That information comes from those providers and is covered by their terms, not ours. The face only displays it.
Because we hold no data from our watch faces, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete on your behalf. Questions about them go to the contact address in section 11.
Our website and services are intended for businesses and are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last Updated" date above. Your continued use of the website after any change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact us at:
Vortex Computation, LLC
4651 Babcock St NE, STE 18-320
Palm Bay, FL 32905
Email: hello@vortex.llc
Phone: (321) 999-7483
