Mando TV

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 23 August 2026

Short version

Mando TV does not collect, store or transmit any personal information. It talks only to your television, over your own local network. The one exception is entirely in your hands: if something breaks, you can choose to send a diagnostic report. You see the whole thing first and you pick where it goes. See Sending a diagnostic report.

What the app does with data

The app handles three kinds of information, all of it on your phone only:

• The names and local IP addresses of TVs it finds on your network. These are discovered over mDNS on your local network and are used to display the list of TVs and to connect to the one you pick.
• Pairing credentials. When you pair with a TV, the app creates a private key and stores it encrypted on the device, under a master key held in the Android Keystore. The TV's certificate fingerprint is stored alongside it so the app can recognise the same TV again.
• Your choice of paired TVs. Stored in encrypted app storage (EncryptedSharedPreferences), protected by a key held in the Android Keystore.

None of this leaves the device. There is no account, no cloud sync and no backup to our servers, because there are no servers.

Sending a diagnostic report

If something goes wrong, the app can produce a report to help fix it. This is the only way anything ever leaves your phone, and it happens only because you chose to send it.

• You start it. The app never produces or sends a report on its own.
• You see all of it first. The full text is shown on screen before any way of sending it is offered. What you read is exactly what gets sent.
• You choose where it goes. The app hands the text to Android's own mail or share sheet. You pick the app and the recipient, and you can edit or abandon it there. The app itself never opens a connection to anyone.

The report contains the app and Android version, your phone's model, and a log of what the app did — which includes the name of your TV and its address on your local network. Local addresses like 192.168.1.42 mean nothing outside your own network. The report never contains your pairing code, the secret derived from it, your TV's hardware address, or any part of the private key. The log it draws on is kept in memory only, is limited to the most recent few hundred lines, and is discarded when the app closes. It is never written to storage.

What the app does not do

• It does not collect analytics, usage statistics or crash reports.
• It does not contain advertising or advertising identifiers.
• It does not track you across apps or websites.
• It does not require an account or ask for an email address.
• It does not request your location, contacts, camera, microphone or storage.
• It does not send your TV's name, IP address or pairing credentials anywhere.

Network access

The app declares the INTERNET permission because Android requires it for any network socket, including one that only ever reaches your local network. The app does not connect to any host outside your local network. It also declares ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, so it can tell you when you are not on Wi-Fi rather than silently finding no TVs. Those are the only two permissions the app asks of you. A build also contains a permission React Native generates for its own internal use, named after this app's package and usable by nothing else; it grants no access to your device.

Data deletion

Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data from Android Settings, permanently destroys the private key and every stored pairing. Nothing is retained anywhere else, so there is nothing further to request the deletion of. If you sent a diagnostic report by email, ask at the address you sent it to and it will be deleted. You may also want to remove the pairing from the TV's own settings.

Children

The app collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

Any change to this policy will be recorded in this file and in the project's CHANGELOG.

Contact

Questions about this policy: write to felipesmsoto@gmail.com, or on WhatsApp at +56 9 6292 7020.