Between you
and your TV.

This policy applies to the Armrest: TV Remote app for iPhone and iPad, provided by Aldo Leka, based in the Netherlands. Aldo is responsible for the information described here. Contact: [email protected].

How Armrest uses your Wi-Fi network

iOS asks your permission before Armrest can use the local network. With it, Armrest finds TVs by listening for the services TVs announce and by checking which devices on your network answer on the ports TVs use for remote control. It then connects straight to the TV you choose.

Armrest sends your TV the buttons you press, the text you type in its keyboard and the apps or inputs you open. It reads back what the TV offers: its name and model, its network hardware address (used to wake it), its list of apps and inputs, and its volume. Some TVs send app icons, which Armrest loads from the TV itself.

None of this goes over the internet or to us. Your TV’s maker handles what the TV itself does with remote commands under its own privacy terms.

What stays on your device

Armrest remembers the TVs you’ve paired: their name, brand, model, network address and hardware address, and the key or token each TV issued when you paired. For Android TV and Google TV, Armrest creates its own certificate, kept in your device’s keychain, so the TV recognizes it. Armrest also keeps your settings, such as haptics, and the days it last connected, which decide when it asks for an App Store rating.

This information is kept in Armrest’s storage on your device, which its Control Center controls share. It isn’t sent to us. Deleting Armrest deletes it; “Forget this TV” removes a single TV.

Typing and apps

Text you type on the Keyboard tab goes only to your TV, as you type or when you tap Send. Armrest doesn’t keep it. Opening an app sends the TV that app’s name or address; some TVs then open their app store if the app isn’t installed.

Siri, Control Center and the App Store

The TV controls you add to Control Center or the Lock Screen, and the Siri shortcuts, run on your device and send the same commands to your TV. Apple handles Siri requests, App Store ratings and the crash and usage statistics you choose to share with app developers, under Apple’s privacy policy. If you’ve agreed to share them, Apple gives us crash reports and anonymous, aggregated statistics. They don’t identify you.

Feedback

Settings › Send feedback opens an email draft in your mail app. It includes Armrest’s version, your iOS version, your device model and the brand and model of the TV you’re using, so we can help. You see all of it before sending and can remove anything. When you send it, we receive your email address and what you wrote, use them to answer and keep the correspondence only as long as needed for that and for legal obligations.

Your choices

• Turn off Armrest’s local network access in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Local Network. Armrest then can’t find or control TVs.
• Remove a TV with “Forget this TV”, or delete the app to remove everything Armrest stored.
• Stop sharing crash and usage statistics in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements.

Armrest is suitable for everyone and doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correction, erasure, portability, restriction of or objection to processing, and to complain to your local data-protection authority. In the Netherlands that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. Contact us to exercise these rights or ask how they apply.

Contact and policy updates

For privacy questions, email [email protected] with “Armrest privacy” in the subject. We update this page when practices change and show the effective date above.