Privacy Policy for DesiWave Radio

Last updated: September 16, 2026

DesiWave Radio does not require an account. Most of what the app remembers - your favorite stations, recently played stations, listening/song history, alarms and app settings - is stored only on your device and is never sent to us or linked to any identity. This page lists everything that does leave your device, and why.

What we collect

• On your device only (never sent to us): favorite stations, recently played stations, song/listening history, alarms, and app preferences (theme, language, layout).
• Submit a Stream: if you submit a station, we send the stream URL and basic technical details (detected format, content type, device model, app version) to our backend, which emails it to us for review. We do not collect your name, email address, or any other personal information as part of this.
• Feedback: if you submit feedback (a star rating and optional comment), we store the rating, comment, app version, and basic device details (Android version, manufacturer, model, language) you or your browser provides, plus a country code and a one-way hash of your IP address used only to spot abuse. We do not store your raw IP address, and nothing in this data is linked to your identity.
• Advertising: the app shows ads served by Google AdMob. AdMob may collect device identifiers (such as the advertising ID), general location, and other data to show and measure ads, under Google's own policies. See Google's Privacy Policy for details.
• Reliability counters: when a station's stream fails to play after retrying, a lyrics lookup finds nothing, or the station list cannot be downloaded, the app sends us a count of how often that happened, which station or service it was, and your app version. This is how we find and remove dead stations. It covers only stations that failed, never stations you listened to, and it contains no personal information.
• Crash and error reports: if the app crashes or hits an unexpected error, it sends us the type of error, a short technical description with web addresses and email addresses removed, the lines of code where it happened, your app version, and whether it is a phone, TV, watch or car build. This is how we find and fix bugs. It contains no personal information.
• Random identifier: reliability counters and crash reports are sent with a random identifier generated on your device. It is not linked to you, your device, your advertising ID or anything else. It is used only to cap how much one malfunctioning copy of the app can send each day, and it is not stored with the reports.
• Where these reports go: reliability counters, crash reports, feedback and station submissions are handled by our own small services hosted on Cloudflare. Like any server, Cloudflare sees the internet address your device connects from. Our services use it only to limit how many requests one connection can make; apart from the hashed form used for feedback (above), it is not stored.
• Google Firebase: the app uses these Google services to understand how it is used and to keep it working. Each works under Google's Firebase privacy terms.
  • Google Analytics for Firebase records how the app is used, such as which screens are opened and how long a session lasts, along with your device model, operating system version, app version and approximate location (country or region, worked out from your internet address). It uses an identifier created for this app only. We have turned off its use of your advertising ID and its ad personalisation signals.
  • Firebase Crashlytics sends crash reports (the error, where in the code it happened, device model, operating system version and free memory) with an identifier for this installation of the app.
  • Firebase Performance Monitoring (phone app only) measures how quickly the app starts, how smoothly screens draw, and how long network requests take, together with device and app details.
  • Firebase App Check asks Google Play whether the app talking to our services is a genuine copy, so others cannot misuse them. It sends Google the app and device details needed for that check, not anything you do in the app.
• Lyrics lookup: when you view or search for lyrics, the song title and artist name are sent to LRCLIB, a free third-party lyrics database, to find a match. No personal information is included.
• Casting: casting to a Chromecast or similar device uses Google's Cast SDK to discover and connect to devices on your local network.
• Radio streams: playing a station connects your device directly to that station's own streaming server, which is operated by the station, not by us.

What we don't collect

We do not require or collect your name, email address, phone number, or any account credentials - DesiWave Radio has no account system. We do not sell your data, and apart from the service providers named above we do not share it with anyone.

Data retention and deletion

Everything the app remembers is stored only on your device. Uninstalling the app permanently deletes it, including the random identifier; a reinstall makes a new one.

On our side, crash reports and feedback are kept for as long as they help us fix problems and improve the app. The day-by-day history of how often a crash happens is kept for 90 days, and reliability counters are deleted automatically after three months. Google keeps Firebase data under its own retention rules and our Firebase settings: Analytics event data for up to 14 months, and Crashlytics crash reports for 90 days.

None of this data is tied to you as an individual, so we cannot find or delete the records that came from your device. You can reset the identifier Google Analytics uses by clearing the app's data or reinstalling it. If you have a question about your data, contact us at the address below.

Children

DesiWave Radio is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted at this same URL, with the date at the top updated.

Contact

Questions about this policy: droidsmith.droider@gmail.com