VenueSpy is a personal gig-management tool built for independent musicians and comedians, made by ASHA Technology LLC. Your privacy matters. This policy explains what data the app collects, where it stays, and what it never does.
What you enter stays on your device and, if you turn on sync or backup, in your own iCloud or Google Drive, where only you can reach it. VenueSpy has no accounts of its own, no analytics of ours, no ads, no tracking, and no servers of ours that ever see your data.
All information you enter — venue names, addresses, booking details, payment notes, bandmate names, income and expense records, receipt photos, setlists, and performance history — is stored locally on your device. It is never sent to us or sold or shared with any third party.
On iOS, if you are signed into iCloud and leave iCloud Sync on, your data syncs to your private iCloud database so it stays available across your devices. That covers venues and bookings, income and expenses, bandmates and bands, songs and setlists, invoice records, and your app settings. Receipt photos sync too unless you turn that off in Settings. This data is encrypted in transit and at rest, is tied to your Apple ID, and is accessible only to you — we cannot read it, and Apple hosts it under Apple's own privacy policy. You can turn iCloud Sync off in Settings, and erase the iCloud copy from there, at any time.
On Android, backup to Google Drive is optional and off until you turn it on. If you do, you sign in with your Google account and the app saves a backup file to a private app folder in your own Google Drive — a folder that is hidden from your normal Drive files, that no other app can read, and that the app uses for nothing else. A separate switch keeps copies of your receipt photos there as well. The app asks Google only for access to that one folder; it cannot see or touch the rest of your Drive. We never receive this data. Google hosts it under Google's own privacy policy, and you can remove it by turning the backup off and deleting the app's data from your Google account.
On iOS, maps and address autocomplete use Apple's MapKit. On Android, they use the Google Maps Platform: map imagery is loaded from Google, and when you type an address in the venue editor, the text you type is sent to Google's Places service to fetch suggestions. In both cases the queries are processed by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies; VenueSpy adds no identity to these requests beyond what the platform requires, and we never see or store them.
The app asks for your location for two things: to center the map on where you are, and to estimate the drive to a booked venue — the "leave by" time on the day of a gig. To work out that drive, your current position and the venue's position are sent to Apple's Maps service (iOS) or Google's Routes service (Android), which return a travel time. On Android this happens at most a few times a day. The app does not track your location in the background and does not keep a record of where you have been, and we never receive your location. Location access is optional — the app works without it.
If you set a Home Base address for mileage, the distance from that address to a venue is looked up the same way, using the address you typed rather than your location.
The forecast shown for a gig is looked up by the venue's location, never yours. On iOS it comes from Apple's WeatherKit; on Android it comes from OpenWeatherMap. Only the venue's coordinates are sent.
On Android, from version 1.8.2, VenueSpy has no access to your contacts at all. When you tap "Phone from Contacts" or "Email from Contacts" in the venue contact form, Android's own contact picker opens, and only the one name and phone number or email address you choose is handed to the app and saved with the venue. Earlier Android versions asked for contacts access and worked as described for iOS below.
On iOS, if you grant access, the app searches your contacts on-device to suggest names, phone numbers, and email addresses while you type in the venue contact form. Contact data is read only at that moment, and only the single entry you choose to save is stored with the venue.
On both platforms contact data is never uploaded anywhere, and using your contacts is optional — you can always type contact details manually.
If you allow notifications, the app can remind you of upcoming gigs and prompt outreach to venues you haven't contacted recently. These notifications are generated entirely on your device. No notification content is sent to any server.
If you choose to put a gig on your calendar, the app creates that event and, when the gig changes, updates or removes the same event. To do that it reads the list of calendars on your device, so you can choose which one to use, and looks up the events it created itself. It does not read your other events. Calendar data is never transmitted off your device by the app; a calendar you sync with iCloud or Google is synced by that service, as it would be for any event.
If you scan a receipt for an expense, the picture is taken with the system document scanner — Apple's on iOS, Google's on Android — and the vendor, amount and date are read from it on your device. The image is not sent anywhere to be read. The photo is stored with the expense on your device, is included in backups you make, and is copied to your iCloud or Google Drive only as described above.
The app can create backup files of your data and export your income records, invoices and summaries as CSV or PDF. You control where those files go. Apart from the iCloud sync and the optional Google Drive backup described above, the app does not automatically upload your data anywhere.
VenueSpy's one-time unlocks are processed entirely by Apple through the App Store (iOS) or by Google through Google Play (Android). We never see your payment details. Purchase records are managed by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies.
On iOS the app uses Apple's own services only: MapKit (maps, addresses and drive time), CloudKit and iCloud (private sync), WeatherKit (venue forecast), and the system document scanner and text recognition (receipts).
On Android the app uses the Google Maps Platform (map display, address suggestions, address-to-coordinates lookup, and drive time), Google Drive (the optional backup, in your own account), Google Play Billing (purchases), Google's ML Kit (the receipt scanner and on-device text recognition), and OpenWeatherMap (venue forecast). Google's components may send Google diagnostic and usage information about how those components perform; that does not include your receipts or the data you enter.
All of these are subject to their providers' privacy policies. No advertising or tracking SDKs, and no analytics of ours, are included on either platform.
This app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new "Last updated" date.
Questions? Email contact@ashatech.org.