The short version
Sound never leaves your phone. There is no account, no tracking, no advertising and no profiling. Nothing at all is sent anywhere unless you turn on Snork +, and then only numbers.
Terms of use
1. Who provides Snork
Snork is made and run by one person in Norway, as a private project. There is no company behind it. Contact: admin@vagnby.no — the full name and postal address behind the app are given to anyone who asks at that address.
These terms are the agreement between you and me about the app. Using Snork means you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use it.
Snork is for adults and older teenagers. Do not use it if you are under 16.
2. What Snork is, and what it is not
Snork listens through the night, measures how much of it you snore, and shows the numbers back to you. It is a measuring tool for your own use and interest — a general wellness and self-tracking app, in the words the rules use.
It is not a medical device, and it is not approved, cleared or certified as one anywhere: not under EU Regulation 2017/745 on medical devices, not under United Kingdom or Swiss rules, not by the US Food and Drug Administration, and not by any other authority. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, relieve or prevent any illness, and it does not replace a doctor.
Sleep apnoea in particular cannot be established from sound. The app can count quiet stretches between snores, but a quiet stretch is not the same as a pause in your breathing — only a sleep study can tell you that. If you have many pauses, wake up gasping, or are tired in the daytime no matter how much you sleep, see a doctor.
Never put off medical advice, and never disregard it, because of something this app showed you. Do not use it in an emergency: call your local emergency number.
3. You use Snork at your own risk
You use the app entirely at your own risk, and you alone are responsible for what you do with what it shows you.
Measurements can be wrong, and whole nights can be missing. A phone call or another app can take the microphone away; the operating system can silence the recording without telling the app; the phone can run flat or be switched off; a fan, a road or another person in the room can be measured as you; where the phone lies changes the numbers from night to night. The app tries to notice the worst of these and say so, but it cannot promise to catch them all.
Nothing the app shows or writes is advice — medical or otherwise.
4. Recording sound, and other people
You are responsible for having the right to record sound where you use Snork. The rules differ between countries and, in the United States, between states: in many places everyone who can be heard has to know about it and agree.
If someone else sleeps in the room, tell them the phone is recording. Recording a person who has not agreed to it is your responsibility alone.
5. The app is mine, the nights are yours
The app itself, its name and everything in it stays mine. You get a personal licence to use it on your own devices, which cannot be transferred, and which ends if you stop respecting these terms.
What the app measures is yours. I claim no rights over your nights, your notes or your recordings, and I do not use them for anything.
Everything the app measures is stored on your phone. I cannot see it, reach it or restore it. If the phone is lost, broken or reset, or you uninstall the app, the nights go with it. Export what matters to you under Settings and Data, or use Snork + to keep a copy on the server.
6. Snork +
Snork + is a paid extra that keeps a copy of the numbers from your nights on the server, so they survive a lost phone. It is not on sale yet.
When it is, it will be sold through the app store the app came from, or another channel stated at the time, and that channel’s rules for payment, refunds and cancellation apply alongside these terms.
I do not promise that Snork + is available or that it keeps working, and I can change it or stop it — with notice in the app where that is reasonably possible. Nights already on your phone stay there whatever happens to Snork +.
7. Snork Beta
Snork Beta is the features that are still being tried out. They are off unless you switch them on, they can be changed or removed without notice, and the numbers that come out of them are less to be relied on than the rest.
8. Updates and app stores
The app can tell you that a newer version exists and, in the version that is not distributed through an app store, offer to install it. You decide whether to install anything; nothing is installed behind your back.
If you got Snork from an app store, that store is not a party to this agreement and is not responsible for the app. The store’s own terms apply to the store.
9. What you must not do
Do not use Snork to break the law, including recording people who have not agreed to it.
Do not use it where trade sanctions or export rules that apply to you forbid it.
Do not present what it shows as a medical result, a diagnosis, or evidence about another person.
Do not attack, overload or try to break into the server behind Snork +, and do not resell the app.
10. No warranty
Snork is provided as it is, and as available, with all faults. To the fullest extent the law allows, I give no warranty of any kind, express or implied, and specifically disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement.
I do not warrant that the app or the server will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure or free of error, that the measurements are correct, or that any fault will be corrected.
Snork rests on software I do not control: Android itself, Health Connect, the app store, the phone’s microphone and its maker’s own layer on top. I am not responsible for those, for what they do to a recording, or for changes in them that stop the app from working.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, I am not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damage, nor for lost profit, lost or damaged data, lost nights, lost sleep, a missed or mistaken diagnosis, any decision you made about your health, or the cost of anything you buy in place of the app — even where I knew such damage was possible.
To the fullest extent the law allows, my total liability for everything taken together is limited to the greater of two amounts: what you have paid me for Snork in the twelve months before the claim arose, and EUR 50 or the same value in your own currency.
These limits apply whatever the claim is built on — agreement, negligence, strict liability, statute or anything else — and they apply even if a remedy in these terms turns out to fail its purpose.
12. Claims that come out of your use
If someone brings a claim against me because of the way you used Snork — recording them without their agreement, for instance — you will cover the reasonable cost of dealing with it, so far as the law allows.
13. Where the law gives you more than this
Some countries do not allow some of the exclusions above, and none of them are meant to take away what the law gives you.
Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by my negligence, for fraud, or for gross negligence or intent. Nothing here sets aside the mandatory rights you have as a consumer where you live — in the EEA, the United Kingdom, Norway, Australia and many other places those rights hold whatever an agreement says. Where a limit above reaches further than your law allows, it is reduced to what your law allows, and the rest of these terms still stands.
14. Changes, and ending the agreement
I can change these terms. When a change matters, the app puts the new version in front of you and asks you to accept it before you carry on; smaller corrections take effect when they are published.
You can end the agreement whenever you like by uninstalling the app. I can stop providing the app or Snork +. Points 10 to 13 keep applying to whatever happened while you used it.
15. Law, disputes and the rest
Norwegian law applies, and Oslo District Court is the venue. If you are a consumer, that does not take away the protection of mandatory law where you live, and you may also go to court there.
So far as the law allows, claims are to be brought individually and not as part of a class action.
If one point turns out to be invalid, the rest still applies. If I do not enforce something at once, I have not given it up. These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between us and replace anything said earlier. I may transfer this agreement if the app changes hands; you may not.
If you send me an idea for the app, I may use it without owing you anything for it — and you keep the right to use your own idea yourself.
The terms exist in English and Norwegian. If the two disagree, the English text decides, unless mandatory law where you live says otherwise.
Version 3, 15 August 2026. Written for Snork, following the plain-language approach of openly licensed policy texts: Basecamp’s policies (CC BY 4.0) and GitHub’s site policies (CC0).
Privacy policy
1. Who is responsible
Snork is run by a private individual in Norway, who is the data controller for the little that reaches the server. Contact: admin@vagnby.no. Full name and postal address are given to anyone who asks at that address.
2. The short version
Sound never leaves your phone. There is no account, no tracking, no advertising, no profiling, and nothing is sold or handed to anyone. Nothing is sent at all unless you turn on Snork +, and then only numbers.
3. What stays on the phone
Audio is analysed as it is recorded and thrown away continuously. What is stored are numbers: sound level per ten seconds, episodes, score, duration, breathing pauses, sleeping position — and the sound clips you have switched on yourself, in the app’s private folder. Clips are deleted automatically after the number of days you choose, and can be deleted by hand at any time.
All of it lies in the app’s own storage on your phone. I cannot reach it, and it is not sent anywhere by itself.
4. Health data from a watch
If you turn on Snork Beta and grant access in Health Connect, the app reads sleep, blood oxygen and pulse from there — only for the nights you have recorded yourself, and only to show them next to the snoring.
Health data from Health Connect stays on the phone. It is never written back to Health Connect, never used for advertising, sale, profiling or any purpose other than showing you your own night, never shared with anyone, and never sent to the server — not even when Snork + is on.
Access can be withdrawn in Health Connect at any time, and the app then stops reading. What has already been read can be deleted with one button under Settings and Smartwatch, and otherwise disappears together with the night it belongs to.
5. What is sent, and when
Nothing, unless Snork + is on. If it is, this is sent for each night: duration, score, time at each level, number of episodes, decibel levels, breathing pauses, weight, your own rating, your note, the names of the remedies you ticked, and a curve of the night with one point per minute.
Never audio. Never sleep stages, blood oxygen or pulse from a watch.
It is stored for one purpose only: so you can get your nights back on a new phone. It is not read, analysed, counted or used for anything else.
6. The check for Snork +
The app asks the server whether this phone has Snork +. The request carries a random device ID, a separate random proof that is never displayed or copied, and the app version. No name, no e-mail address, no advertising identifier and no location.
The device ID is a random number made on first launch. It is not tied to any system identifier, and it disappears when you uninstall the app.
7. What the app asks permission for
The microphone, which is the whole point: it is used while a recording runs, and released the moment it stops or is paused. Notifications, so the ongoing recording is visible and can be stopped from outside the app. Keeping the phone awake, so a night is not cut short. Vibration, for the anti-snore nudge and the alarm. Network access, for the Snork + check and, outside the app stores, for finding a newer version. Starting at boot, so a reminder survives a restart.
The movement sensor is read while a recording runs if you have switched sleeping position on. Android does not ask you for that one, so the app asks you instead, with a switch that is off unless you turn it on.
Health Connect is asked for separately, by Health Connect itself, and only if you turn on Snork Beta.
The app never asks for your location, your contacts, your photos, your files or your accounts, and cannot read them.
8. Ordinary server logs
The web server keeps the technical log every web server keeps: IP address, the time, what was asked for, the answer it gave, and the app or browser’s user agent. It is there to run the service and to see attacks, it is not used to build a picture of you, it is never joined up with the nights, and it is deleted by itself: the app’s own server keeps it at most 30 days.
9. Why this is allowed
For anyone covered by the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation: sending nights with Snork + rests on your consent, Article 6(1)(a) — and because numbers about snoring say something about health, on your explicit consent for special category data, Article 9(2)(a). You can withdraw it at any time by switching Snork + off, and that does not make what went before unlawful. Running and protecting the server rests on legitimate interests, Article 6(1)(f). If Snork + is ever bought, delivering it rests on the contract, Article 6(1)(b).
10. Who else sees it
Nobody. There are no advertising networks, no analytics, no crash reporting, no third-party kits that phone home, and no data brokers. Nothing is sold, rented, exchanged or shared for anyone else’s purposes.
The server is run by me, on my own hardware — there is no cloud provider in the middle. If Snork + is ever bought through an app store, that store handles the payment under its own privacy policy, and I never see your card details.
11. Where the data is
On your phone, wherever you are. What Snork + sends is stored in Norway, inside the European Economic Area, under the GDPR.
If you use Snork outside the EEA, that means your data is sent to Norway. It is not passed on anywhere else, to any other country or company.
12. How long it is kept, and how to delete it
On the phone: until you delete it or uninstall the app. Sound clips: the number of days you set yourself.
On the server: as long as Snork + is on, and until you ask for it to be deleted. Write to the address above with your device ID, and everything tied to it is deleted, normally within 30 days. Server logs rotate away by themselves.
13. Children
Snork is not made for children and is not aimed at them. Do not use it if you are under 16. Nothing is knowingly collected from a child, and if I learn that something was, I delete it.
14. Security
Traffic between app and server runs over HTTPS. The proof the phone identifies itself with is stored only as a hash, and is never shown in the app. Admin pages are behind a separate login. No system is perfectly secure and I do not claim mine is — which is the reason so little is stored on it in the first place.
15. Your rights, wherever you live
Write to the address above and you get the same answer whichever country you are in: what is stored, a copy of it, a correction, or deletion.
EEA, United Kingdom and Switzerland: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and the right to withdraw consent. You can complain to a supervisory authority — in Norway Datatilsynet, in the UK the ICO, in Switzerland the FDPIC, or the authority where you live.
United States: personal information is not sold or shared as those words are used in California and the other state privacy laws, and it is not used for targeted advertising or profiling. You can ask what is held, ask for it to be deleted or corrected, and you will not be treated differently for asking. If your state gives you a right of appeal, write again and mark it as an appeal.
Washington State: the consumer health data behind Snork + is the snoring numbers from your own nights. It is collected only from your own phone, only to show it back to you and keep it safe, and it is shared with nobody. Consent can be withdrawn, and deletion can be asked for, at the address above.
Canada, Australia, Brazil and elsewhere: the same rights apply in practice — access, correction, deletion — and you can complain to your own authority, such as the OPC, the OAIC or the ANPD.
No decision with legal effect is made about you automatically, and there is no profiling of any kind.
16. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a way that matters, the app puts it in front of you and asks you to accept it before you carry on. Version 3, 15 August 2026.
If Snork was downloaded from its own download page rather than from an app store, it also asks whether a newer version of the app itself exists, at most once a day. Same request, same contents: device ID, proof and app version. The version from Google Play does not do this — there the store updates the app.