Privacy policy
Your videos stay yours.
- VIEW has no account and nothing to sign up for.
- VIEW sends anonymous usage statistics: which sections of the app are opened (for example “Music” or “Tools: Browser”), through Google’s Firebase Analytics. Never your files, file names, links, searches or anything you type. You can switch this off in Settings › Others › Share usage statistics.
- Apart from those statistics, the app sends nothing about you or your media to us. We only receive what you choose to email us.
- Your library, playback history, settings, bookmarks and browsing history are kept only on your phone.
- Some optional features connect directly to a third-party service, such as OpenSubtitles for subtitles or LRCLIB for lyrics. They do so only when you use them, and they send only what that feature needs. Each one is listed below.
- We never sell your data, and we don’t share it with anyone.
1. Who we are
VIEW Media Player (“VIEW”, “the app”) is an Android app published by the independent developer WargXP (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what information the app handles, where it goes, and the choices you have. It applies to the Android app and to this website.
If you have any question about this policy, write to [email protected].
2. What we collect
VIEW has no sign-up and no crash-reporting service. Nothing about your media is sent to us. We receive only two things:
Usage statistics. To learn which parts of VIEW people use, so we know what to improve, the app uses Google Analytics for Firebase. When you open a section of the app (such as Videos, Music, Stream, Player, Settings or Tools › Browser), VIEW records the name of that section. Firebase adds standard technical details: a random ID created for this installation of the app (not linked to your name, email or Google account), your phone model, Android version, VIEW version, language, approximate country or region (worked out from your IP address, which Google Analytics does not store), and when and how long the app is used.
- It never includes your videos, music, file or folder names, links, website addresses, searches, subtitles, or anything you type.
- We see these statistics only as totals and trends in the Firebase console. Google processes them for us as a service provider.
- Your choice: switch off Settings › Others › Share usage statistics at any time. VIEW then stops sending statistics and deletes the statistics data and ID kept on your phone.
Emails you send us, for example through Settings › Send feedback, which opens your own email app. See Feedback & support.
3. Data kept on your phone
To work as a media player, VIEW keeps some information in its private storage on your device. This information is not sent to us or to anyone else.
- Your media library: the list of videos and music on your phone, thumbnails, where you stopped each video, and your favourites and playlists.
- Per-video settings: the speed, audio track and subtitles you chose for each video.
- App settings: the colour, player layout, subtitle appearance, folders you allowed and similar choices.
- Browser data (Tools › Browser): open tabs, bookmarks, history, cookies and website data. History is kept for up to 30 days. VIEW also clears cookies, website data and cache automatically every 30 days, and you can clear everything at any time from the browser or Settings.
- Download and torrent history: the list of files you downloaded, kept for up to 30 days.
- Saved logins: the addresses, user names and passwords of network servers you add (Network), and your OpenSubtitles login if you connect an account. They are used only to connect to those services.
- Error details and diagnostic log: if the app crashes, the technical details are saved in the app so they can be shown to you the next time VIEW opens. The diagnostic log records only while you switch it on in Settings › Troubleshooting. It never starts by itself, and it switches itself off after 2 minutes of VIEW not being used. When it stops, it is saved as a text file in Download/VIEW/Logs on your phone. Only the last five logs are kept, and you can share or delete them in Settings. A log contains your phone’s model, Android version, memory, storage, battery and connection type, which permissions VIEW has, VIEW’s settings (passwords, keys, logins, tabs, bookmarks and server details are always left out), the sections of VIEW you opened and settings you changed, and technical messages from every part of VIEW (player, music, browser, downloads, torrents, Wi-Fi transfer and the engines behind them). While it was recording, these messages can include the names of files you played, downloaded or sent, and the names of websites you opened. Like anything in your Download folder, other apps you’ve given storage access to can read it. Nothing is ever sent automatically. You decide whether to share a log.
- Lyrics: lyrics found for your songs are saved so they don’t have to be looked up again.
Android backup. If backup is on for your Google account, Android may include VIEW’s settings and playlists in your device backup. That backup is handled by Google under your Google account. Saved logins, browser data, history and logs are excluded from backups and phone-to-phone transfers.
4. Features that go online
VIEW plays your files without an internet connection. The features below connect to the internet only when you use them. Each one talks directly from your phone to the service named, never through us. Like any internet connection, these services can see your device’s IP address. Their own privacy policies apply to what they receive.
| Feature | What is sent | Sent to |
|---|---|---|
| Subtitle search & download | Search words taken from the video’s file name (or what you type), season and episode numbers, chosen languages, and a “movie hash”. The hash is a short fingerprint calculated from the video file, used to find subtitles that match exactly. The video itself is never uploaded. If you connect an account, your OpenSubtitles user name and password are sent to OpenSubtitles to sign in. | OpenSubtitles.com |
| Song lyrics | The song’s title, artist, album and length, only when lyrics are shown for a song and aren’t already saved on your phone. A .lrc file next to the song is used first. | LRCLIB |
| Browser | Whatever any web browser sends to the websites you visit. VIEW adds nothing extra. | The websites you open |
| Address bar suggestions | The text you type in the browser’s address bar, to show search suggestions. Only the typed text is sent, with no cookies or other details. | The search engine you chose: Google, DuckDuckGo or Bing |
| Ad blocking lists | A normal download request for VIEW’s list of ad lists (a small file on this website, checked about once a day while you use the browser) and for the ad lists you switched on. Nothing about you or your browsing is included. | This website (hosted by Cloudflare Pages) and the list providers (such as EasyList, AdGuard, StevenBlack, OISD and HaGeZi, via GitHub and jsDelivr) |
| Website icons | A request for a site’s icon, to show next to your bookmarks and history. | That website |
| Stream & Downloader | A request for the link you entered, to play or save it. | The website of that link |
| Torrents | BitTorrent is peer-to-peer. While a torrent is active, your IP address and the parts of the file you have are visible to trackers and other people sharing the same torrent. You are responsible for what you download and share. | Trackers and peers of that torrent |
| Network folders | Your login for the server you added (SMB, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV or NFS), to list and play its files. | Only the server you added |
| Casting | A search for Chromecast and Android TV devices on your Wi-Fi, and the video you choose to cast. | Devices on your own network |
| Usage statistics | The names of the sections of VIEW you open, with the technical details listed in section 2. Can be switched off in Settings › Others. | Google (Firebase Analytics) |
| Wi-Fi transfer | While you have it switched on, VIEW runs a small web page on your Wi-Fi so your computer can send and receive videos and music. Each computer can use it only after you tap Allow on your phone (or after it scans the QR code shown on your phone), and it stays allowed only until Wi-Fi transfer stops. It stops by itself after 15 minutes without use, and is never reachable from the internet. | Devices on your own network |
| Phone to Phone | The files you choose, sent straight to another phone with VIEW that you connected to and that allowed the connection. The two phones find each other with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi through Google Play services’ Nearby Connections. Files never go through the internet or through us. | Only the phone you connect to |
5. YouTube
When you open a YouTube link in VIEW, the video plays in YouTube’s official embedded player (YouTube API Services). The video title is fetched from YouTube and the thumbnail from YouTube’s image servers. VIEW does not download YouTube videos, does not block YouTube’s ads, and does not collect anything from the YouTube player. YouTube and Google may collect information about how you watch, under their own terms:
- YouTube Terms of Service
- Google Privacy Policy
- You can revoke access to your data through the Google security settings page. VIEW never asks for access to your Google account.
6. Permissions
VIEW asks only for the permissions its features need, and many of them are optional.
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Videos and music (media / storage) | To find and play the videos and songs on your phone. On older Android versions, also to save screenshots and files you receive by Wi-Fi transfer. |
| Media management (optional) | To rename or delete videos without Android asking every time. |
| Notifications | Playback controls while you play in the background, and download progress. |
| Foreground service | So playback and downloads keep running when you leave the app. |
| Internet & network state | For the online features listed above, and for the “Seed only on Wi-Fi” option for torrents. |
| Wi-Fi state & multicast | To find casting devices and show the Wi-Fi transfer address. |
| Nearby devices (optional) | Only for Phone to Phone: to find and connect to the other phone. Asked the first time you open Phone to Phone. |
| Location (Android 8 to 12 only, optional) | Older Android versions require this permission to find nearby phones over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, so Phone to Phone asks for it there instead of Nearby devices. VIEW never reads where you are. |
VIEW does not use your location, contacts, camera, microphone, phone calls or SMS.
7. Feedback & support
Settings › Send feedback in VIEW doesn’t send anything by itself. It opens your own email app with a message to us already filled in, and nothing is sent until you tap Send there. That email contains:
- the topic you choose (Problem, Idea or Other) and your message;
- your VIEW version, Android version and phone model, added at the end of the message;
- a diagnostic log, only if you choose to attach one (see section 3 for what a log contains).
You can change or remove any of it in your email app before sending. When you send it, we receive your email address and everything in the email, delivered by your email provider and ours. You can also write to us directly at [email protected].
What we do with it. We use feedback only to answer you and to fix and improve VIEW. It stays in our private email inbox. We don’t add it to mailing lists, share it or sell it. We delete it when it’s no longer needed, or sooner if you ask.
8. This website
This website (view.wargxp.com) has no analytics and sets no cookies. Your browser only remembers the colour you pick on the home page and, on the Stream page, your volume, subtitle style and the audio and subtitle languages you picked. These choices never leave your device. A video you play on the Stream page comes straight from the link you entered to your browser, never through this website, and that link stays in the page address after the # sign, which browsers don’t send to this website. The tour video on the home page comes from YouTube in its privacy-enhanced mode, and it loads only if you press play. From then on, Google’s privacy policy applies to that video.
9. Selling & sharing
We do not sell, rent or trade any information. Usage statistics are processed for us by Google (Firebase) as a service provider, and are not shared with anyone else. Feedback you send us is not shared with anyone. Information you send to a third-party service through a feature in section 4 goes directly to that service, because you asked for it.
10. Security
Data VIEW keeps is stored in the app’s private storage, which other apps can’t read. The exception is saved diagnostic logs, which are in your Download folder so you can find and share them. Connections to OpenSubtitles, the lyrics services and Google use encrypted HTTPS. Connections you set up yourself, such as a network server or a website, use whatever that server supports. Where there’s a choice, prefer the secure options (HTTPS, SFTP, FTPS). No method of storage or transmission is 100% secure, but we have designed VIEW to keep as little as possible, and to keep it on your device.
11. Retention & deletion
- Browser history and download history are kept for up to 30 days. Cookies and website data are cleared automatically every 30 days.
- Usage statistics are kept by Firebase for 2 months, then deleted automatically. Switching off Share usage statistics stops them and deletes what is waiting on your phone.
- You can clear browsing data and history, remove network servers you added, disconnect your OpenSubtitles account, and delete saved diagnostic logs at any time in the app.
- Clearing VIEW’s storage (Android Settings › Apps › VIEW › Storage) or uninstalling the app deletes everything VIEW stored in its private storage. Files it saved to your phone’s shared folders stay until you delete them: downloads, screenshots, files received by Wi-Fi transfer, and saved logs in Download/VIEW/Logs.
- Feedback is deleted once it’s dealt with and no longer needed. To have your feedback or emails deleted sooner, write to [email protected].
12. Children
VIEW is a general-audience media app. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we will delete it.
13. Your rights
Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR, the UK GDPR, India’s DPDP Act or US state privacy laws may give you rights over your personal data. These can include the right to access, correct or delete it, and to object to how it is used. Almost all of VIEW’s data is under your direct control on your own phone. Usage statistics are linked only to a random installation ID, not to you, and you can stop them at any time in Settings › Others › Share usage statistics. For anything else we hold, which can only be feedback or emails you sent us, contact us and we will respond within 30 days.
14. Changes to this policy
If VIEW’s features change the way data is handled, we will update this page and the “Last updated” date above. Significant changes will also be mentioned in the app’s release notes on Google Play.
15. Contact
WargXP, developer of VIEW Media Player
Email: [email protected]
Website: view.wargxp.com