Privacy Policy
Effective date: 2 September 2026 Last updated: 2 September 2026
This policy explains what happens to your information when you use RigShed, the guitar amp and effects app for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The short version: the RigShed app does not collect your personal data. There is no account, no sign-up, no analytics and no tracking. Your guitar signal, your voice, your presets and your recordings never leave your device.
Two things are exceptions, and both are things you choose to do: describing a tone in your own words sends those words — along with a random number that counts your monthly allowance — to be turned into a rig (section 7), and giving us your email address on this website puts it on a mailing list (section 3). Nothing else goes anywhere.
The one exception is this website. If you choose to give us your email address to hear about the beta, we process that address — and only that address. That is set out in full in section 3.
1. Who we are
RigShed is provided by David Bailey trading as RigShed, of 10 Watergate Row (North), Chester, CH1 2LD, United Kingdom ("we", "us").
For anything in this policy, contact [email protected].
Where we do process personal data, we are the "controller" of it for the purposes of the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
2. What the app collects
Nothing about you. The app has no account, no sign-up, no analytics and no tracking. It does not send us your name, email address, location, your device's own identifiers — the advertising identifier, the vendor identifier, the serial number — or any record of how you use the app, and it contains no analytics, advertising, attribution or crash-reporting software of any kind.
One feature does send something, and only when you use it. If you describe a tone in your own words, that description is sent to be turned into a rig, together with a random number that counts the tones you have built this month against your allowance — set out in full in section 7. That number identifies a copy of the app, not a person: it is not derived from you or your hardware, and we cannot connect it to a name, an address or anything else. It is the only thing in the app that leaves your device at your request, and the app asks you before the first time it does.
Giving us your email address on this website, described next, is a separate thing that you choose to do. It does not happen in the app and it is not linked to anything you do in the app — we have no way to connect an address to a device, and no wish to.
3. The beta mailing list
If you enter your email address on this website to hear about the beta, this section is what happens to it. If you have not done that, none of it applies to you.
What we hold. Your email address, the date you gave it, whether you confirmed it, and whether a TestFlight invitation has been sent to you. Nothing else — no name, no IP address, no browser or device information, no tracking of what you looked at. The form asks for an address and only an address.
Why we may hold it. Your consent, under Article 6(1)(a) UK GDPR. You give it by entering your address and then clicking the confirmation link in the email we send. Until you click that link we do not add you to anything.
What we do with it.
- Send you occasional email about the RigShed beta and its release. Not more than that, and never anything from anybody else.
- Send it to Apple, so that Apple can invite you to the TestFlight beta. This is the point of the list, and it is the part worth reading twice: your address is passed to Apple, who send you the invitation and who handle it under Apple's Privacy Policy. We do this only after you have confirmed your address.
Who else sees it. Two processors, and no one else:
| Who | What for | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Hosting this site, and the database holding the list | Stored in the EU (Western Europe) |
| Resend | Delivering the confirmation email | EU / US, under standard contractual clauses |
We do not sell it, rent it, or give it to anyone for their own purposes.
How long. Until you unsubscribe, or until the beta ends and the list has served its purpose — whichever comes first. If you never confirm your address, we delete the unconfirmed record within 30 days.
Getting out. Every email we send carries an unsubscribe link. One click removes you — there is no confirmation step and nothing to fill in. You can also email [email protected] and ask us to delete your record entirely rather than mark it as unsubscribed, and we will. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything done before you withdrew it.
Leaving the mailing list does not remove you from TestFlight — Apple runs that, and you leave a TestFlight beta in the TestFlight app itself.
4. What the app stores, and where
RigShed stores the following. None of it comes to us, and none of it is sent to any third party except as described under iCloud below:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your saved rigs (presets) | So your rigs are there next time |
| Your saved vocal sounds | So your vocal chain is there next time |
Amp captures (.nam) and cab impulse responses you import |
So you can play through them |
| Loop recordings from the looper | So your loops survive between sessions |
| Backing tracks you import | So you can practise along with them |
| MIDI controller mappings | So your footswitch keeps working |
| App settings and preferences | So the app remembers how you like it |
This data is held in the app's own storage area and is shared between the RigShed app and the RigShed audio plug-in, so both see the same library. Deleting the app removes the local copy.
iCloud. If you are signed in to iCloud and iCloud Drive is enabled for RigShed, your rigs, vocal sounds, captures and impulse responses are stored in a RigShed folder in your own iCloud Drive, so the same library appears on each of your devices. That is a transfer to Apple, acting as your iCloud provider under Apple's Privacy Policy — not to us. We have no access to your iCloud and never receive any of it.
Backing tracks are deliberately never synced. They are usually large and usually already in your own music library or iCloud Drive, and we are not going to upload your music collection in the background.
You can stop the syncing at any time by turning iCloud Drive off for RigShed in your device settings. The app falls back to storing everything locally and keeps working exactly as before.
5. Your guitar signal and your voice
RigShed needs access to audio input to work. It processes two kinds of sound, and both are treated the same way.
Your instrument. The guitar or bass signal RigShed turns into amp and cab tones. This is what the app is for and it is always in use.
Your voice. RigShed has a vocal channel: if you switch it on and connect a microphone, the app processes your singing through its own chain of effects at the same time as your guitar. It is off until you turn it on, and the app works without it.
For both of them, and without exception:
- Audio is processed live on your device and is not transmitted anywhere. There is no cloud processing. Nothing about your sound leaves the device.
- Audio is not recorded unless you record it yourself with the looper. Loop recordings are saved to your device and stay there. The looper records your instrument, not the vocal channel.
- We never receive your audio in any form, instrument or voice. We have no servers that could receive it.
Your device treats an instrument input and a microphone input as the same permission, so granting microphone access covers both. You can withdraw it at any time in your device settings, though RigShed cannot process any sound without it.
6. Purchases
RigShed offers two optional paid tiers, each sold as a monthly or an annual subscription. All purchases are handled by Apple.
- We do not see or receive your payment details, billing address or Apple Account information.
- Whether you are entitled to the paid features is determined on your device from Apple's own receipt. The one exception is Describe a tone: if you subscribe and use it, the app also sends Apple's signed record of your subscription to our tone server, which checks Apple's signature to see which plan you have (see section 7).
- Apple's handling of your purchase is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy.
Apple provides us with aggregated, anonymised sales and download reports. These do not identify individual customers.
7. The optional features that connect to another service
Two features reach outside your device. Both are optional, and neither runs unless you choose to use it.
Describing a tone
RigShed can build a rig from a sentence — you type the sound you are after and the app sets the amp and the pedals to match.
What is sent. These, and no more:
- The words you type.
- Which pickups you told us your guitar has, if you answered — single-coil or humbucker. It is skipped if you chose "not sure".
- A random identifier for your copy of the app. This is how the monthly allowance is counted. It is generated on your device the first time you use the feature, it is a random number and nothing more, and it is not derived from anything about you or your hardware. It is kept in the iOS Keychain, which means it survives deleting and reinstalling the app — that is deliberate, so that reinstalling does not hand out a fresh free allowance.
- If you subscribe, Apple's signed record of your subscription. It is issued and signed by Apple, and the server checks that signature to see which plan you are on. It carries no name, no email address and no Apple Account — see "What is kept" below. If you have no subscription, nothing of the sort is sent.
And when you ask for a change — more drive, darker — the exchange so far is sent back along with it. That is what lets a correction know what it is correcting, and it is a consequence of the server not keeping anything between requests: the conversation has to travel with you because it is not held anywhere else.
What is NOT sent. No name, no email address, no account, no Apple ID, and no audio — your playing is never recorded or transmitted. Nor is any identifier belonging to your device: not its advertising identifier, not its serial number, nothing iOS assigns to it. The random identifier above is RigShed's own, made up by the app on your device. In Apple's App Privacy questionnaire it is declared under Identifiers › Device ID, because that is the closest category Apple offers — it still identifies a copy of this app, not a device and not a person. Nor is the rig you are currently playing; the model is told what you want, not what you already have.
Where it goes. To RigShed's own tone server, and from there to Anthropic, whose Claude model works out the rig.
What Anthropic does with it. Their published position, not ours, and linked so you can check it rather than take our word for it:
- They do not train on it. Their Commercial Terms of Service say, in as many words, that "Anthropic may not train models on Customer Content from Services."
- They delete it within 30 days. Their privacy centre says they "automatically delete inputs and outputs on our backend within 30 days of receipt or generation."
- One exception, which is theirs and which we cannot switch off. If their automated systems flag something as breaching their usage policy, they retain it for up to two years, and the resulting classification score for up to seven. See how long Anthropic stores data.
We do not use what you type to train anything, and neither party uses it to build a profile of you. The reason we send no name, no account and nothing that identifies you is precisely so that none of the above can be tied back to a person.
What is kept. The tone server does not store what you type. If you subscribe, the app also sends Apple's signed record of your subscription, which the server checks against Apple's signature to see which plan you have. It keeps only Apple's ID for that subscription, beside the count of tones built, so your monthly allowance follows the subscription rather than one device. We cannot connect that ID to you or your Apple Account.
Without a subscription, the same count is kept against the random identifier above instead. Either way, that count and the identifier it is counted against are the only things kept. The rig you keep is saved on your own device like any other preset; what you typed is not saved with it.
Asked before anything is sent. The first time you open the feature, the app explains this and asks you to agree. Nothing is transmitted until you do — not even the check on how many tones you have left, because that sends the identifier too.
If you never use it, none of this happens. The feature is off until you open it and type something, and the rest of the app works exactly as described in section 2 — everything local, nothing transmitted.
Apple Music
If you use Apple Music as a backing track, RigShed uses Apple's MusicKit framework to search and play from your library. Apple asks for your permission first. Your Apple Music activity is handled by Apple under Apple's Privacy Policy. We do not receive it.
8. Crash reports and diagnostics
We do not operate any crash-reporting service.
If you have chosen in your device settings to share analytics and crash data with app developers, Apple may make anonymised crash logs and aggregate usage statistics available to us. That sharing is controlled by Apple and by your device settings, and you can turn it off at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.
9. Tracking and advertising
RigShed does not track you.
- No advertising. No ad networks.
- No tracking across other apps or websites.
- We do not use the Advertising Identifier (IDFA) and do not ask for App Tracking Transparency permission, because there is nothing to track.
- No third-party analytics, attribution or marketing software of any kind.
10. Children
RigShed is a music tool suitable for general audiences and is not directed at children specifically. Because we collect no personal data, we do not knowingly hold any information about anyone, including children.
11. Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have rights to access, correct, delete, and restrict the use of your personal data, and to complain to a regulator.
Because we hold no personal data about you, there is generally nothing for us to access, correct or delete — your RigShed data is on your device and under your control, and deleting the app removes it.
If you believe we hold information about you, write to [email protected] and we will respond within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk), the UK's data protection regulator.
12. Data transfers
The app collects no personal data, so it transfers none to us.
Where you have iCloud Drive enabled for RigShed, your own rigs, captures and impulse responses are stored in your iCloud Drive by Apple, in whichever region Apple operates your iCloud account — a transfer between you and Apple that we are not party to (section 4).
The beta mailing list (section 3) is a different matter. The list is stored in Cloudflare's Western Europe region and is held by us, not by a mailing platform. Resend processes an address in the EU and the United States, under standard contractual clauses, only to deliver the confirmation email. Apple receives confirmed addresses in order to send TestFlight invitations, under its own policy.
Where you describe a tone (section 7), the words you type reach Anthropic, which processes them in the United States under its own policy and under standard contractual clauses.
Where you use the optional Apple Music feature, that service may process data internationally under Apple's own policy.
13. Changes to this policy
If we change what RigShed does with data, we will update this policy and change the date at the top. If a change is significant — for example if we ever introduce accounts or collect an email address — we will make that clear in the app before it takes effect, and ask for your consent where the law requires it.
14. Contact
David Bailey trading as RigShed, 10 Watergate Row (North), Chester, CH1 2LD, United Kingdom.