Privacy Policy

Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard (RFAD) · Last updated 31 July 2026

Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard is an always-on radio app that plays a curated stream through your own Apple Music subscription. This policy explains exactly what the app collects, why, and who it’s shared with. If anything here is unclear, email us (see Contact).

What we collect

1. Anonymous usage & reliability analytics

The app sends anonymous event data to Amplitude (Amplitude, Inc.), which we use as our analytics processor. These events tell us how the station is used and help us diagnose playback failures. They include:

• Playback interactions — when the app is opened, when play or pause is tapped, which track or programming block is playing, when a track is “hearted,” and how long a listening session lasted.
• Reliability & diagnostics — technical signals about whether playback stalled, reconnected, or was interrupted, and anonymous summaries of why iOS may have stopped the app in the background (for example, memory pressure). This is what lets us make the radio more dependable.

Each event is tagged with basic technical context: your device model and iOS version, the app version, and a random identifier the analytics tool generates. This is used to group a single device’s events together and to break reliability down by device type.

Events also carry an approximate, city-level location — typically a city, region, and country. Amplitude derives this from the IP address your device connects from; the app itself never asks for location permission and cannot read your device’s location. We use it only in aggregate, to understand roughly where the station is being listened to. Location derived from an IP address is an estimate rather than a fix: it describes a network, and it is often wrong by a considerable distance — particularly on a mobile network or a VPN.

What these analytics do not include: no name, email address, account, or Apple ID; no advertising identifier (IDFA); no precise or GPS location; and no contact, photo, or message data. We configure the analytics tool not to attach a persistent device identifier (IDFV) to your events. We do let it use your IP address to derive the coarse location described above, so Amplitude receives that address while processing each event on our behalf. Because the app has no accounts and never asks for or sends a name, email address, or Apple ID, we still have no way to connect these events back to you as an individual.

Note: RFAD plays a single shared station — the same programming for everyone — so track and artist names in these events describe what the station broadcast, not a personal library or listening history unique to you.

2. Diagnostic logs you choose to share

The app has a “Share logs” option. When — and only when — you tap it, the app gathers technical logs from your current session (app and iOS version, playback debug information, and recent playback log messages) into a text file and hands it to iOS’s standard share sheet. You then choose whether and where to send it (for example, emailing it to us so we can investigate a problem you reported). The app never uploads these logs on its own, and they contain no account information.

3. Apple Music

Playback uses your own Apple Music subscription through Apple’s MusicKit, which asks your permission the first time. Apple handles the streaming and your Apple Music activity. We never see your Apple ID, your password, or your payment details. Your use of Apple Music is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy.

What we don’t do

• No user accounts, sign-in, or personal profiles.
• No advertising, and no third-party advertising or tracking SDKs.
• No selling, renting, or sharing of your data with third parties for their own use.
• No cross-app or cross-site tracking.

Who processes your data

Analytics events are processed by Amplitude, Inc. on our behalf, under their terms. This includes the IP address an event arrives from, which they use to derive the approximate location described above. See Amplitude’s Privacy Policy. The station schedule itself is served by our own service running on Cloudflare, Inc.’s network; like any web service, it transiently processes your device’s IP address to answer requests — we don’t store those addresses or use them to identify anyone. From those requests our station server derives coarse, aggregate counts (how many devices are currently tuned in, and a city- and country-level breakdown, which we view on an internal dashboard). Those counts are held in memory only, covering roughly the last fifteen minutes at any moment; they are never written to disk, never published, and the underlying addresses are never stored. Apart from Amplitude, Apple (for Apple Music), and Cloudflare (which runs our station server), no other third party receives data from the app.

Retention

Anonymous analytics events — including the IP address they arrive from and the coarse location derived from it — are retained by Amplitude for as long as they’re useful for understanding usage and reliability. Because the app collects no name, email address, account, or persistent device identifier, we generally cannot locate or delete the events of a specific individual on request. If you have a question about this, contact us and we’ll do what we can.

Children

RFAD is not directed to children and does not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to this policy

If we change what the app collects, we’ll update this page and the “Last updated” date above.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email aquariumdrunkardsupport@gmail.com.