Privacy Policy

RewindFM has no accounts and no server storing your content. Your presets, listening history, recorded mixtapes, onboarding answers 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, two anonymous app services, and the advertising that keeps the app free.

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

The app is published to the Apple App Store and Google Play through the developer account of Wyven Technologies (private) limited, so that name may appear as the seller or developer on the store listing. Wyven is the publisher of record only — it does not receive, store, or process any of your data, and it has no access to anything the app keeps on your device.

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

• Your saved stations and presets, including when you added each one
• Your recently played history — the last 50 stations, with timestamps
• Mixtapes you record, as audio files stored only on your device
• Onboarding answers: the era, genres and country you chose
• App preferences such as your theme, any active sleep timer, and nightstand or car mode settings

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.

RewindFM is a radio player and recorder, so it necessarily talks to the wider internet. Five things receive information. None of them receives an identity from us, because the app never creates one.

The RadioBrowser directory

Station listings come from RadioBrowser, a free community-run database. When you search, browse a genre or country, 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.

Two actions also send a small signal back to RadioBrowser so their public rankings stay useful: playing a station registers an anonymous play count, and saving a station to your presets registers an anonymous vote for it. Neither carries any identifier for you or your device. If you would rather not contribute these, don't play or save stations — there is currently no separate switch for it.

The radio stations themselves

Audio is streamed directly from each station's own servers to your device. We are not in the middle of that connection. This means the station operator can see your IP address and the fact that something connected to their stream, exactly as they would if you opened the same URL in a browser. Their handling of that is governed by their policies, not ours.

Recording a mixtape reads the live stream you are already connected to and writes it to your device's own storage. Recording adds no additional transmission — the audio is not uploaded anywhere.

Expo Insights (analytics)

We use Expo Insights to understand basic app health — how many people open the app, which app version they're on, and whether it's crashing. This is anonymous and aggregated. It includes technical details like device model, operating system version, and app version. It does not include your name, email, your presets, your mixtapes, or which stations you listen to.

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.

Google AdMob (advertising)

RewindFM is free to use and is funded by advertising. It shows a full-screen advert occasionally when you change station — never while you are simply listening, never on launch, and never during a recording. Playback pauses for the advert and resumes when it closes.

Adverts are served by Google AdMob, a separate company acting as its own data controller. To serve and measure an advert, AdMob receives your device's advertising identifier, IP address, general device and operating system information, and whether an advert was shown, viewed or clicked. It does not receive your presets, your mixtapes, your listening history, or anything else the app keeps on your device.

We request non-personalised adverts. That means AdMob is asked not to build or use an advertising profile about you to choose what to show — adverts are based on rough context rather than your interests. Google still uses the advertising identifier for purposes such as frequency capping, reporting and fraud prevention. Google explains its own handling in the Google privacy & terms.

You can reset or delete your advertising identifier at any time in your device settings — on Android under Settings, Privacy, Ads; on iOS by turning off "Allow Apps to Request to Track" under Settings, Privacy & Security, Tracking. Doing so limits no feature of RewindFM.

Payments

RewindFM contains no in-app purchases and no subscriptions, so no payment data is collected or processed at all. There is no paid tier — every feature is available to everyone at no cost.

• We don't require an account, email address, or phone number
• We don't sell or rent personal information to anyone
• We don't send your presets, mixtapes or listening history to advertisers, or to anyone else
• We don't request personalised adverts, and we build no profile of you ourselves
• We don't access your contacts, camera, photos, or location
• We don't listen in on your microphone — mixtapes are recorded from the live stream, not from a microphone
• We don't store or analyse the audio you listen to

Notifications. Used for one thing: telling you the sleep timer has finished when the app isn't open. The notification is scheduled on your device — there is no push server, and declining this permission doesn't limit any other feature.

Background audio. On Android this appears as a foreground service permission, and on iOS as background audio. It exists so playback and ongoing 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.

Microphone. The app requests microphone access on some Android devices because the audio framework it builds on declares the permission, but RewindFM never actually records from your microphone — mixtapes are created from the live stream you are listening to. No audio is ever captured from your surroundings.

Because everything lives on your device, you are always in full control. You can remove individual presets, delete mixtapes, clear your entire listening history from the Recently played screen, or simply uninstall RewindFM — uninstalling permanently removes your presets, history, mixtapes, onboarding answers and settings. There is no server-side copy for us to delete, and no account to close.

Since the app has no purchases, there are no billing records associated with you either. The one identifier outside our control is your device's advertising ID, which belongs to the operating system rather than to us — you can reset or delete it in your device settings at any time, as described above.

RewindFM 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 in the directory is broken, mislabelled, or objectionable, we encourage you to report it to RadioBrowser, and you can also email us.

RewindFM is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The app itself collects no personal information from anyone, though adverts are served by Google AdMob as described above, which is one reason it is not aimed at children. Note too that the app plays live radio from an unmoderated public directory, and some stations broadcast content intended for adults.

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, or want to know exactly what we hold on you? Email kinzinzombe07@gmail.com.