CovePrivacy Policy
- Cove does not collect, sell or share any personal data.
- There are no accounts, ads, analytics, crash reporting or tracking.
- The app talks only to the pool adapter on your own home network. It does not connect to any server run by us or by anyone else.
- The few settings Cove saves stay on your phone and are deleted when you uninstall the app.
This policy explains how the Cove mobile app ("Cove", "the app", "we") handles information. It applies to the Cove app for Android and, when released, for iOS, and to this website, coveapp.app.
Information we collect
We do not collect any information about you. Cove has no sign‑up, no user accounts and no backend servers, so there is nowhere for your information to go. We never receive your name, email address, location, contacts, device identifiers or usage data.
How the app uses your network
Cove controls your pool by talking directly to your pool automation adapter (for example a Pentair ScreenLogic adapter) over your local Wi‑Fi network. To do that, the app:
- sends a discovery broadcast on your local network to find the adapter;
- if the broadcast gets no answer, checks addresses on your local network for a device that responds like a pool adapter;
- connects to the adapter to read status (such as temperatures, pump readings and which circuits are on) and to send the commands you choose (such as turning a light on).
This traffic stays on your home network. Cove does not send this information, or anything else, over the internet to us or to any third party. The app does not use Pentair's or any other cloud service.
Information stored on your device
So that it can open quickly and remember your choices, Cove saves a small amount of information in its private storage on your phone:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your pool adapter's local network address | To reconnect without searching every time |
| The last pool status and setup the app saw (circuit names, temperatures, on/off states) | To show your pool instantly when the app, widget or quick tile opens |
| Your favorite circuits and show/hide choices | To arrange the app, widget and quick settings tile the way you set them |
This information never leaves your device except through Android's own backup, described below. You can delete it at any time by clearing the app's storage in your phone's settings or by uninstalling Cove.
Device backups
If you have Android backup turned on, Android may include Cove's saved settings in your device backup to your Google account, so they can be restored if you set up a new phone. That backup is handled by Google under your Google account settings and Google's privacy policy. We cannot see or access it. You can turn backups off in your phone's settings.
Diagnostics you choose to share
Cove has "Copy details" and "Copy diagnostics" buttons to help troubleshoot connection problems. When you tap one, the app copies a text report to your phone's clipboard. The report can include your adapter's and phone's local network addresses, your circuit names, a connection log and raw data from the adapter. Nothing is sent automatically. If you choose to paste this report into an email or message to us, we use it only to help with your problem and do not share it.
Permissions
On Android, Cove uses only these permissions, which do not require a prompt:
INTERNET: required by Android for any network connection, including connections on your local network.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATEandACCESS_WIFI_STATE: to check that you are on Wi‑Fi and to find your local network's address range.CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE: to send the broadcast that finds your pool adapter.
Cove does not request location, camera, microphone, contacts, storage or notification permissions.
Third parties
Cove contains no advertising, analytics or crash‑reporting software, and we do not sell, rent or share data with anyone. When you download Cove from Google Play or the App Store, Google or Apple may collect information under their own privacy policies.
This website
coveapp.app is a static website with no cookies, analytics or tracking. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes standard technical information such as IP addresses to deliver the site and protect it from abuse.
Children
Cove is meant for pool owners and is not directed at children under 13. Because the app collects no personal information, it does not collect information from children.
Your rights
Because we do not hold any personal data about you, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete on our side. All of Cove's data lives on your device, where you control it. If you have questions about your privacy rights, please contact us.
Changes to this policy
If Cove's data practices change, for example if a future feature needs to send data off your network, we will update this policy before that version is released and change the effective date above.
Contact
Questions about this policy: [email protected]