Privacy Policy
Last updated: 22 September 2026
TinyStatus ("the app") is a Wear OS app, with a small phone companion, that shows the status of your 3D printers on your watch: TinyMaker resin printers and Bambu Lab printers. It is developed by TinyOwl, the developer name of Viktoras Šidlauskas, an individual developer. The app is not made, endorsed or supported by TinyMaker or Bambu Lab. "TinyMaker" and "Bambu Lab" are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to say which printers the app works with.
In short: the app has no server of its own, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. It only reads the status of your printers. Everything stays on your watch, except what has to go to your own printer or to your Bambu Lab account to read that status.
What the app handles
| Data | Why | Where it is kept | Where it is sent |
|---|---|---|---|
| TinyMaker printer name or local IP address | To read the printer on your home network | On the watch only | Only to your printer, on your own network |
| Bambu Lab account e-mail | To show which account is signed in | On the watch only | Only to Bambu Lab (api.bambulab.com) over HTTPS, when you sign in |
| Bambu Lab password and e-mail code | To sign in once | Not stored. Used only during sign-in | Only to Bambu Lab over HTTPS |
| Bambu Lab sign-in token, your printers' names, models, serial numbers and access codes | To read your printers without asking you to sign in again | On the watch only. The token and access codes are encrypted with a key held in the Android Keystore | Only to Bambu Lab's servers (MQTT over TLS) or to your printer on your own network |
| Printer status (state, progress, time left, layers, resin or filament information, errors) | To show it in the app, the tile, on the watch face and in notifications | Cached on the watch only | Not sent anywhere |
| App settings (printers shown, background interval, alerts, language) | To remember your choices | On the watch only | Not sent anywhere |
The phone app only checks which version of TinyStatus is on your watch and helps install or open it. It talks to the watch over the encrypted Wear OS connection between your own devices and does not handle any printer or account data.
What the app does not do
- It does not control your printers. It only reads their status.
- It does not collect or share personal data with the developer or any third party.
- It does not use analytics, crash reporting, advertising or tracking SDKs.
- It does not access your location, contacts, health data, microphone or camera.
- It does not sell data. There is no data to sell.
Permissions
- Internet, network state, change network state: to reach your printers on the home network or Bambu Lab's servers, and to ask for Wi-Fi only when needed.
- Notifications: to tell you when a print finishes, pauses or stops with an error. Alerts can be turned off in the app.
- Foreground service, wake lock, alarms: to keep checking a running print in the background, briefly waking the watch at the interval you choose. It stops by itself after the print ends.
- Run at startup: so a background check that was running continues after the watch restarts.
Your control over the data
- Signing out of Bambu Lab in the app deletes the token and the stored printer access codes.
- Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in the watch settings, removes everything it stored on the watch.
- Your Bambu Lab account is managed by Bambu Lab under their own privacy policy.
Children
The app is not directed at children and does not knowingly handle data from children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: hello@tinyowllabs.com