Effective 10 September 2026
CastHero is a set of receiver apps for televisions: a Roku channel, a Google Cast receiver, and an app for Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV. They all do the same thing, which is play the media you send to them from a device on your own network. This policy explains what they do with information. The short version: none of them has an account, none of them tracks you, and nothing about what you cast is sent to us.
A CastHero receiver receives only what you send it: a media address (URL), an optional title, artist and artwork address, album settings such as photo timing and transition, and playback commands such as pause or stop. It uses these solely to fetch and play the media on your TV.
The Roku channel and the Google Cast receiver store nothing at all between sessions.
The Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV app stores two things, both on the television itself and neither ever transmitted to us:
The app also keeps a short diagnostic log in memory, which is discarded when the app closes and is readable only from your own network.
Casting works entirely over your own network. The Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV app runs a small server on the television so that your phone can find it and send to it, and it announces itself on the local network with the television’s name, its address and the installation identifier described above. That announcement stays on your network.
The Roku channel is reached through Roku’s own network control, and the Google Cast receiver through Google’s Cast service.
In every case, any device on the same network can cast to a television running CastHero while it is installed, exactly as with any casting receiver. There is no pairing code, which is what makes it simple to use and also means you should treat it the way you treat the rest of your home network. On Roku you can switch network control off in the Roku settings; on the other platforms, closing the app or uninstalling it stops the receiver.
The television downloads the media directly from the address you send, in the same way a web browser would. Whoever operates that address, whether that is your own phone, a cloud storage service, a public website or a streaming playlist, may see the television’s network address and ordinary request information. That is governed by their privacy policy, not by this one.
The apps are suitable for all ages and do not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children under 13. They display whatever media is sent to them, so an adult should decide what is cast to a screen a child is watching.
Roku, Google and Amazon operate the stores and platforms these apps are distributed through, and may collect their own usage information according to their own privacy policies. The developer of CastHero has no access to personal information from any of them.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with an updated effective date.
Questions about privacy: castheroapp@gmail.com.