Privacy Policy
Effective 18 June 2026
Ampere is a South African energy instrument, made by Quantyx, that puts the load-shedding schedule, your local air quality and your own electricity use on one quiet instrument face. Unlike our fully on-device apps, Ampere does make network calls — to fetch load-shedding and air quality from public services — and this policy explains exactly what is sent, to whom and why.
The short version
There is no account and no sign-up, and there is no Quantyx server. Your meter readings, appliances and prepaid records stay on your device. To return your load-shedding schedule and air-quality reading, Ampere sends the approximate area or coordinate you choose to two third-party services — EskomSePush and the World Air Quality Index (WAQI) — over an encrypted connection. That is the only data that leaves your phone, and it is not linked to your identity.
What is sent, to whom, and why
When you ask Ampere for the load-shedding schedule, it sends your chosen approximate area to EskomSePush (developer.sepush.co.za) so it can return the schedule for that area. When you ask for air quality, it sends your chosen approximate coordinate to WAQI, the World Air Quality Index (api.waqi.info) so it can return the air-quality reading for that location. The area and coordinate you provide are approximate and user-entered — Ampere requests no location permission and never reads your device GPS. These requests are made only to return your local schedule and air reading, which is to say for app functionality, not for analytics, advertising or personalisation.
Encrypted in transit
All calls to EskomSePush and WAQI are made over encrypted HTTPS connections.
No Quantyx server, no identity
There is no Quantyx backend in between. Ampere talks directly to those two third-party services, and Quantyx neither receives nor stores any of this data. Because Ampere has no account, no sign-in and no user identifier, the approximate area or coordinate sent for a lookup is not linked to a personal identity.
Third-party services and their policies
The load-shedding and air-quality readings come from independent third parties, each with its own privacy policy that governs what it does with a request:
EskomSePush — esp.info/privacy. World Air Quality Index (WAQI / aqicn.org) — aqicn.org/privacy.
What stays on your device
Your meter readings, registered appliances, prepaid token records and any access keys you enter are stored only on your device, in a local database (Room). This data is never transmitted to Quantyx or to any third party — it is the private record Ampere uses to compute your consumption, prepaid runout projections and insights, all on the device.
What we do not do
We do not run a backend for Ampere, and we receive none of your data. We do not collect analytics or usage statistics. We do not use advertising or marketing trackers. We do not embed advertising SDKs. We do not sell, rent or share your data — the only data that leaves the device is the approximate area or coordinate sent to EskomSePush and WAQI to return your readings, as described above.
Not affiliated with Eskom
Ampere is an independent product. It reads a third-party EskomSePush API to surface load-shedding information; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official product of Eskom or any municipality.
Children
Ampere is a utility for South African homes, not directed at children, and it does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. There is no account and no identity attached to its requests.
Deleting your data
You are always in control of the data on your device. You can clear Ampere's data by clearing the app's storage in Android Settings, and deleting the app removes its local database, your chosen area and any keys you entered. Because there is no Quantyx server, there is no server-side data for us to delete.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes — for example, if a future version changes which services it calls — we will update this page and revise the effective date above.
Contact
Questions about privacy in Ampere can be sent to vuyo@quantyx.co.za.
Ampere is published by Quantyx, a South African AI development house. Support · quantyx.co.za