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Privacy Policy

Ether Radio is made by Apzin. This policy explains exactly what the app does with data. It is short because the app does very little.

Effective 31 August 2026

The short version. Ether Radio has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. Apzin runs no servers for this app and receives no data from it — not even anonymous usage statistics. Your favourites and settings stay on your own device.

The app does have to reach the internet to do its job, and that means three kinds of third party can see your IP address. Those are described below.

What stays on your device

The app saves the following in its own storage, inside the sandbox macOS gives it. None of it is transmitted anywhere:

  • Which stations you have favourited, and a copy of those stations' details (name, description, stream address, bitrate) so your favourites still work when you are offline
  • The list of popular stations last loaded for your country, cached so the app is not empty if it cannot reach the internet
  • Your chosen country
  • Your volume level and, on macOS, your chosen audio output device

Deleting the app removes all of it. There is nothing held anywhere else.

What leaves your device, and who sees it

The station directory (radio-browser.info)

Ether Radio does not ship a list of stations. It gets them from radio-browser.info, a free community-run directory. When you open the app or search, it asks that service for stations — sending your search terms and your country code. Because this is an ordinary internet request, radio-browser.info can see your IP address. The app identifies itself as "EtherRadio/1.0" and sends nothing else about you.

Play signals

When you start playing a station that came from that directory, Ether Radio notifies radio-browser.info that the station was played. This is how the directory keeps its popularity rankings useful, and it is what the service asks apps to do. The message says which station was started; it carries no identifier for you, but as with any request your IP address is visible to them. radio-browser.info is operated independently of Apzin and has its own privacy practices.

The station you listen to

Playing a station connects your device directly to that broadcaster's own streaming server, exactly as opening their stream in a browser would. That broadcaster can see your IP address and whatever their server logs. Apzin has no relationship with these broadcasters and no control over what they record. Their own privacy policies apply.

Station artwork

Some stations in the directory include a logo, hosted on a server chosen by whoever listed the station. When the app displays such a logo it loads that image directly, so that server can see your IP address. Stations without a logo are drawn locally by the app and involve no request at all.

How the app decides your country

From your device's own region setting, which the app simply reads. Ether Radio does not use location services, does not ask for your location, and does not look your location up from your IP address.

Now Playing

The app tells macOS what is currently playing so the station and track name can appear in Control Center and on media keys. This is a standard system feature and the information stays on your device.

What the app never does

  • No accounts, sign-in, or email collection
  • No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or usage measurement
  • No advertising, and no data shared with advertisers or data brokers
  • No access to your location, microphone, camera, contacts, or files
  • No selling or sharing of personal information, because none is collected

Children

Ether Radio is not directed at children and collects no information from anyone, including children.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have rights over personal data a company holds about you. Apzin holds none, so there is nothing to request, correct, export or erase. The data the app stores is on your own device and under your control; removing the app deletes it. Requests you would like to make to radio-browser.info or to a broadcaster need to go to them directly.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Apzin
Email: privacy@apzin.com