Privacy Policy — Fiber Color ID

The short version

Fiber Color ID does its work entirely on your device. It has no accounts, sponsored content, or usage tracking. The app does not send information about you or about what you look up to Practical Byte Apps. The one exception is your choice: the optional Open this cable on the web button opens that cable on the Fiber Color ID website in your browser, as described below.

The Fiber Color ID website is different: it is hosted by Cloudflare and uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies. See The Fiber Color ID website below. This website, practicalbyteapps.com, is covered at the end of this page.

What the app does

Fiber Color ID converts between fiber numbers and fiber colors for loose-tube and ribbon cable. Every calculation is arithmetic performed on your device against a color table built into the app. The app does not need an internet connection to do its job, and it does not send your work anywhere unless you choose to open a cable on the website (see below).

Information we do not collect

Unless you use the website (described below), Practical Byte Apps does not collect, receive, or store:

• The fiber numbers, cable counts, tube or ribbon sizes, or colors you enter
• Any identifier for you or your device
• Your location
• Usage or measurement data
• Identifiers used for marketing or promotional targeting

The app contains no marketing SDK and no usage-measurement SDK. It makes no network requests as part of its normal operation.

Information stored on your device

The app saves a small amount of information locally so it behaves sensibly between uses:

• Your last cable configuration — mode, cable count, tube or ribbon size, and how repeats are marked (dashes or binder threads), so the app opens where you left off.
• Color sequences you build, the names you give them or their colors, and your chosen color standard. If saved sequences ever can't be read, the app keeps a backup copy on the device instead of erasing them.
• Whether Pro has been purchased on that device, and, if the App Store reports a refund, the date of that report.
• A few counters for the rating prompt (how many lookups and launches, and when the upgrade screen was last shown), so it asks at a sensible moment and not too often.

This information stays on your device. It is not transmitted to Practical Byte Apps, and it is removed when you delete the app or clear its data.

Purchases

Fiber Color ID offers a single one-time purchase that unlocks ribbon mode, custom tube and ribbon sizes, cable counts above 144, the interactive cable chart, and building and sharing your own color sequences. The charge is not recurring. There is nothing to renew and nothing to cancel.

The purchase is processed by the Apple App Store on iOS and by Google Play on Android, according to the store you bought it from. Practical Byte Apps never receives or stores your payment card details.

The app asks the store whether this device owns the unlock, and stores that answer locally. Apple's and Google's handling of your purchase is governed by their own privacy policies and payment terms.

Because there are no accounts, a purchase made on one platform is not recognized on the other. An unlock bought on the App Store applies to your Apple ID; an unlock bought on Google Play applies to your Google account.

If the app cannot reach the store — for example when you are working with no signal — it continues to honor an unlock it has already recorded on that device. It will not lock paid features because a check failed. If the App Store reports that the purchase was refunded, Pro is turned off on that device.

Support communications

If you email support, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to include in your message. That correspondence is used only to answer you. It is not added to a mailing list and is not shared with anyone else, other than the email provider that stores our mail, or when the law requires.

The Fiber Color ID website

The Fiber Color ID website at fibercolorid.practicalbyteapps.com, including its cable chart, uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, from Cloudflare, the company that hosts the website, so we can see how the site is used: which pages are viewed, which website a visitor came from, the visitor's country, browser, operating system and device type, and how fast pages load. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser, so it gives you no identifier that carries from one visit to the next. Cloudflare says it does not fingerprint visitors by IP address or browser details for these analytics and does not track individual visitors across its customers' websites. The reports Cloudflare gives us show the page path only, not the cable settings or custom color order carried in a link. Cloudflare itself receives the full page address, including those settings and anything else in the address, both from the analytics script in the page and as the website's host, as described next. Until October 25, 2026 the website also used a separate analytics service from another company; it has been removed.

The website is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any website host, Cloudflare receives the technical details your browser sends, such as browser and device type, IP address and the page address you open, so it can deliver the pages and protect the site. We can see aggregate traffic counts from Cloudflare, such as how many times a page was requested. We have turned off the website's request logs (Cloudflare Workers Logs). Cloudflare still keeps short-term security records of some individual requests, a sample of traffic plus any request its security rules block, challenge or rate-limit, for up to 31 days. These can include your IP address, browser details and the page requested. We use them only to protect the site and fix problems. Cloudflare keeps detailed analytics data for 7 days and summaries for about six months. Cloudflare's handling of this information is described in its privacy policy. We do not use this information to identify you, we do not sell it or share it with anyone else, and we do not use it for advertising. The website does not respond to Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals.

One temporary cookie for visits from the app. If you tap Open this cable on the web in the Fiber Color ID app's chart, the website sets one temporary cookie (fcid_ctx) that records only that the visit came from the app, so the page can adjust what it shows. It contains no personal information or identifier and expires when your browser session ends. The website itself sets no other cookies.

The Fiber Color ID app contains no analytics. The app's cable chart is drawn on your device and does not use the internet. The Fiber Color ID website opens from the app only if you tap the optional Open this cable on the web button in the chart. That button opens the same cable in your device's browser. The link carries the cable settings you had open, and your custom color order (including any names you gave it) if one is active, so the website can draw the same chart. From then on, the website's analytics, its one temporary cookie and the hosting details described above apply.

Buying on the website. If you buy something on the Fiber Color ID website, the page where you buy it explains, before you pay, what is collected for that purchase, who handles it and how long it is kept. That explanation is part of this policy.

Children

Fiber Color ID is a professional tool for telecommunications work. It is not directed to children, and Practical Byte Apps does not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to this policy

If the app or the website changes in a way that affects this policy — for example if a future app version introduces a feature that requires a network connection — this page will be updated and the change listed in the dated note at the top: for the app, before the new version is released; for the websites, including practicalbyteapps.com, no later than the day the change goes live.

This website (practicalbyteapps.com)

practicalbyteapps.com is Practical Byte Apps' company website. It has no accounts, no forms and nothing to buy, and it sets no cookies of its own. It is hosted by Cloudflare and uses the same Cloudflare Web Analytics described above for the Fiber Color ID website: it records which pages are viewed, which website a visitor came from, the visitor's country, browser, operating system and device type, and how fast pages load, without cookies and without an identifier that carries from one visit to the next. As the host, Cloudflare also receives the technical details your browser sends, such as your IP address, to deliver the pages and protect the site. We do not use this information to identify you, sell it, or use it for advertising. This website does not respond to Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals.

Short links on this website (addresses that begin with /r/) show a brief page, which the analytics count, and then send you on to the page the link points to. Some short links pick the App Store or Google Play from the kind of device your browser reports; that choice is made as the page loads, and we do not keep a record of it. Pages we link to on other websites, such as app stores, Amazon or Facebook, are covered by those websites' own privacy policies.

If you email us from this website, the “Support communications” section above applies.

Contact

Practical Byte Apps LLC (Colorado, USA)
support@practicalbyteapps.com