Privacy Policy

Aircircle has no accounts and no server storing your content. Your favorites, listening history, recordings, searches and settings stay in storage on your own device. We can't read them, we don't back them up, and we never sell them. If you uninstall the app, they're gone.

The rest of this page explains the exceptions in plain terms — the station directory we query, the stations you stream from, anonymous usage signals you can switch off, and app updates. Aircircle shows no advertising.

Aircircle is built and owned by Kin Leon Zinzombe, who is responsible for this policy and for how the app handles data.

The following is written to your device's own storage and never transmitted to us or anyone else:

• Your saved stations (Favorites) and the order you put them in
• Your recently played stations and the last station you listened to
• Your recent searches
• Recordings you make, including the audio files themselves
• Onboarding answers: why you listen, and the genres and places you picked
• Settings such as language, haptics, sounds, the mobile data notice and your default sleep timer
• Any sleep timer that is currently running

There is no account to sign into and no sync. Nothing in this list leaves the device, which also means it does not move with you if you switch phones.

On Android, the app also keeps a small file of your Favorites and recent stations on the device so Android Auto can show them in your car. It is read by the app's own car screen and goes nowhere else.

Aircircle is a radio player, so it necessarily talks to the wider internet. Five things receive information. None of them receives your name, email address or phone number, because the app never asks for them.

The RadioBrowser directory

Station listings come from RadioBrowser, a free community-run database. When you search, browse a genre, country, city or language, or open a station, your device queries their servers directly. Those queries contain your search terms and filters, and — as with any web request — your IP address is visible to them. RadioBrowser is an independent service with its own privacy practices.

The radio stations themselves

Audio is streamed directly from each station's own servers to your device, and station logos are loaded from the addresses the station lists. We are not in the middle of those connections. This means the station operator, or whoever hosts its stream or logo, can see your IP address and the fact that an app identifying itself as Aircircle connected — exactly as they would if you opened the same address in a browser. Their handling of that is governed by their policies, not ours.

Song and show titles are read from the station's own stream in the same way. Recording a station saves that same stream to your device; it does not send anything extra to the station or to us.

TelemetryDeck (anonymous usage signals)

To learn which stations fail to play and whether playback holds up, the app sends anonymous signals to TelemetryDeck, a privacy-focused analytics service. A signal says that something happened — for example that playback started, failed, or was interrupted — along with:

• The public directory ID and country of the station involved, so broken stations can be spotted
• Whether you were on Wi-Fi or mobile data, and how long audio took to start
• Counts and durations, such as how many Favorites you have or the length of a sleep timer or recording
• Which onboarding steps were reached, and how many options were chosen (not which ones)
• Your platform (Android or iOS) and a random ID created on your device

That random ID is not derived from your device or from you. It is scrambled (hashed) on your phone before it is sent, hashed again by TelemetryDeck, and erased when you uninstall the app or clear its data. Signals never include your name, your search text, your location, song titles, or recordings.

You can turn this off at any time in Settings → Privacy → "Share anonymous usage data". When it is off, nothing is sent.

Expo Updates (over-the-air updates)

The app can download bug fixes without a full store update. To check whether an update applies to your device, it sends your app version and platform to Expo's servers.

Things you choose to send

When you share a station, the app hands a short text to the app you pick from your phone's share sheet. When you report a problem or request a station, it opens a draft in your own email app containing the station's name and the last playback error; nothing is sent unless you press send, and if you do, we receive your email address like any other email.

Payments and advertising

The current version of Aircircle is free, contains no in-app purchases and shows no ads, so no payment data and no advertising identifiers are collected at all. If that ever changes, this policy will be updated before it goes live.

Aircircle works without your location. If you choose "Stations near you" and grant permission, the app reads your approximate location once and your phone's operating system turns it into a country and city. Only that country and city are used — as filters in the station directory query described above. Your coordinates are never sent to us, never stored by the app, and never included in usage signals. You can decline and pick a place by hand instead, and you can withdraw the permission at any time in your phone's settings.

• We don't require an account, email address, or phone number
• We don't sell or rent personal information to anyone
• We don't show ads or share your listening with advertisers
• We don't track you across other apps or websites
• We don't access your contacts, camera, photos, or microphone
• We don't upload, analyse, or keep copies of your recordings

Approximate location. Optional, and asked for only when you choose to find stations near you. See "Location" above.

Background audio. On Android this appears as a foreground service permission for media playback, and on iOS as background audio. It exists so playback, the sleep timer and recordings continue when you lock your phone or switch apps, which is what a radio app is for. It gives us no access to anything else on your device.

Network access. Needed to reach the directory and the stations. The app also checks whether you are on Wi-Fi or mobile data so it can tell you when live radio starts using mobile data.

Recording does not use your microphone. It saves the station's stream, and the app never asks for microphone access.

Because everything lives on your device, you are always in full control. In Settings → Local data you can clear Favorites, Recents, recent searches, the last station and all recordings individually, or clear everything at once. Uninstalling Aircircle permanently removes all of it. There is no server-side copy for us to delete, and no account to close.

Usage signals already sent to TelemetryDeck are anonymous and cannot be traced back to you or your device, so there is nothing of yours for us to look up or remove there.

Aircircle plays live streams operated by thousands of independent broadcasters. We do not host, moderate, or endorse what any station broadcasts, and station listings come from a public directory we do not curate. If a station is broken, mislabelled, or objectionable, you can report it from the app or email us.

Aircircle is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. Note that the app plays live radio from an unmoderated public directory, and some stations broadcast content intended for adults.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal data is held about you, and to have it corrected or deleted. Because Aircircle has no accounts and keeps your content on your device, we hold nothing that identifies you — but you are welcome to ask, and we will answer.

If we ever start handling data differently, we'll update this page and change the effective date at the top. Material changes will also be noted in the app or its store listing.

Questions about privacy? Email kinzinzombe07@gmail.com.