Choose what FlowChord measures

FlowChord uses PostHog, an analytics service, to learn how the app and the website are used, so it can make them better. Nothing is measured until you choose, or sign in to the app. Your answer is kept in your browser, for the website and the app alike, and you can change it at any time.

Steps

Change your answer in the app

1. Open the account menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under Privacy, turn Measure how I use FlowChord on or off. To allow screen recordings too, turn on Record my sessions.
3. Press Save.

Change your answer on the website

1. Scroll to the foot of any page of flowchord.studio and press Privacy choices.
2. Press Accept or Decline.

Options

The first question

The first time you visit, a bar at the bottom of the window asks for your choice, with Accept and Decline side by side. Accept is a yes to measuring only. Until you answer, and after a no, nothing is sent to PostHog: it isn’t even started.

Signing in

The sign-in form says that continuing agrees to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy. Signing in that way is also a yes to measuring and to screen recordings in the app — unless you answered no before, your browser sends Global Privacy Control, or you turned Record my sessions off in Preferences, which signing in again never changes.

What each switch does

Switch	What it does
Measure how I use FlowChord	Product events and page views go to PostHog. Off, no events are sent, and what PostHog had stored in your browser is removed
Record my sessions	Recordings of the app’s screens help FlowChord find what went wrong. On once you sign in, unless you said otherwise, and it needs measuring on

Features still being tried out

Some features reach a few accounts before everyone. While you’re signed in to the app, FlowChord’s server asks PostHog which of them your account may use, with your account’s ID and your email. This happens whatever you answered, so a feature you were given shows up even with Measure how I use FlowChord off. It records nothing of what you do.

What a screen recording hides

• Everything you type, your lyrics, the names of your projects and of the text and pictures you add, and your name.
• Your pictures and footage: videos, images and the editor’s stage show as blank boxes.
• The private part of every link.

Chord names are shown, because watching how a chord gets fixed is what recordings are for.

Global Privacy Control

If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, FlowChord takes it as a no and doesn’t ask. A yes you give in the app’s Preferences still counts, because then you said so yourself.

Tips

• Your answer belongs to the browser, not to your account: signing out keeps it, and another browser or device asks again.
• FlowChord asks again if what it measures changes.
• Training FlowChord’s chord and tab detection is a separate switch, Use my corrections to improve FlowChord — see Profile and preferences.
• The Privacy Policy explains what FlowChord keeps, for how long, and who processes it.
• For a copy of everything FlowChord holds about you, see Download your data.

Common problems

• The bar asks again on every visit. Your browser isn’t keeping cookies for flowchord.studio — a private window, or cookies being cleared or blocked. Your answer is kept in a cookie.
• Privacy choices doesn’t show the bar. Your browser sends Global Privacy Control, which is already a no. To say yes anyway, use the app’s Preferences.
• Record my sessions can’t be turned on. Turn on Measure how I use FlowChord first.