We collect no data
Air FM does not collect any information about you or your device. Not anonymously, not in aggregate, not for our own use. In particular, it does not collect:
- Your IP address
- Your operating system, device type, or any device identifier
- Which screens you open, what you tap, or how long you use the app
- Crash logs or diagnostic data
- Your location, contacts, photos, calendar, or microphone input
- Your name, email address, or any other personal detail
There is no analytics SDK, no tracking, no advertising, and no crash reporting in Air FM. There are no accounts, no sign-in, and no servers of ours that receive your information, so there is nothing for us to store, sell, share, or lose.
Streaming and the station directory
Air FM cannot play radio without reaching the internet, and two kinds of servers see that connection. Neither is ours, and neither reports anything back to us.
- The station directory. Station listings come from Radio Browser, a free community-run open directory. When you search or browse, your search terms and your device's IP address reach whichever community mirror answers, along with a user-agent string that identifies the app but not you. When you start playing a station, the app also pings the directory so that station's public play count goes up by one; that ping carries the station's ID, nothing about you.
- The station itself. Audio is streamed directly from the broadcaster to your device. That broadcaster and its CDN see your IP address and that someone is listening — exactly as they would if you opened the same stream in a browser.
How those parties handle a connection is governed by their own policies, not this one. Air FM has no other third-party services, and no advertising or analytics SDK of any kind.
Separately, Apple may provide us with its own anonymised, aggregate App Store statistics — download counts and the like — if you have opted in to sharing them with developers in your device settings. That is data Apple collects under Apple's privacy policy, not something Air FM collects, and it never identifies you.
What stays on your device
Anything you create in Air FM — settings, progress, saved entries — is stored on your device only. If you use iCloud backup or device sync, a copy may live in your own iCloud account, which is under your control and Apple's privacy policy, not ours. We cannot see any of it.
Deleting the app removes the data it kept on your device. Because we hold nothing, there is nothing to request from us, and no data-deletion request to make.
Permissions
If Air FM needs a system permission to do its job — notifications, for example — iOS asks you first, and you can withdraw it at any time in Settings. Anything accessed under such a permission is used on your device, for that feature, and is never transmitted to us.
If you email us
Support is the one place where we do end up with your information: if you write to us, we have your email address and whatever you put in the message. We use it only to answer you, we do not add you to any mailing list, and you can ask us to delete the correspondence at any time.
Children
Air FM is not directed to children under 13. Since we collect no personal information from anyone, we collect none from children either.
Security
The strongest privacy protection is not holding data in the first place, which is the approach we have taken. For the support email we do receive, we apply reasonable safeguards to keep it protected.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date at the top of this page. If Air FM ever needed to collect something, we would say so here and in the app before it happened.
Contact
If you have any questions about this policy, write to us at au.ocunecu@gmail.com.