To implement the features offered by Mtalk service, the application needs the following security authorizations, some essential, others optional:
- Storage
- The authorization is required to select a file from your device to be set as a background image or avatar for your mtalk.net personal web page.
- The image file is sent to our systems using an encrypted connection.
- The authorization is optional and it is asked by app in the context of use; it can be subsequently revoked without preventing the correct application working.
- Microphone
- The authorization is required to record your voice during Mtalk calls.
- Recorded audio data is sent to our systems in real time and forwarded to remote speaker as encoded format.
- The authorization is needful for the correct application working and it is asked by app during installation step or if detected as not granted.
- Contacts
- The authorization is required to:
- access the device contact list for ordinary telephony functions
- access system features about synchronization accounts
- Contacts data is sent to our systems using an encrypted connection with the sole purpose of showing you which one you can reach for free using Mtalk.
- The authorization is optional and it is requested together with the needful ones for a better user experience only; it can be subsequently revoked without preventing the correct application working.
- The authorization is required to:
- Camera
- The authorization is required to capture an image to be set as a background or avatar for your mtalk.net personal web page.
- The image file is sent to our systems using an encrypted connection.
- The authorization is optional and it is asked by app in the context of use; it can be subsequently revoked without preventing the correct application working
- Phone
- The authorization is required to access the ordinary telephony functions of the device in order to do not collide with the VoIP features
- No data is sent to our systems.
- The authorization is needful for the correct application working and it is asked by app during installation step or if detected as not granted.